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unusual facts about process control



Intel 80286

The 80286 was designed for multi-user systems with multitasking applications, including communications (such as automated PBXs) and real-time process control.

Parallel coordinates

Some important applications are in collision avoidance algorithms for air traffic control (1987—3 USA patents), data mining (USA patent), computer vision (USA patent), Optimization, process control, more recently in intrusion detection and elsewhere.

Work Flow Language

Work Flow Language, or WFL ("wiffle") is the process control language for the Burroughs large systems, including the Unisys ClearPath/MCP series, and their operating system Master Control Program.


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Bohdan Kulakowski

He held several management positions in Polish research institutions, including head of the Process Control Division in the Computer Centre for Building Industry and of the Division of Automatic Control research group, Institute of Glass and Ceramics, both in Warsaw.

Ferranti-Packard 6000

HARRIAC had much in common with the Ferranti Argus series of process control computers, which date from 1958.

Karl Johan Åström

In 1961 Åström joined the IBM Nordic Laboratory to work on computerized process control, with tours at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York (1962) and San Jose, California (1963).

Marcellus L. Joslyn

After becoming a supplier of aircraft lightning arresters, the company introduced products for electrical surge and transient protection for power, communications, transportation and industrial process control.

Sándor Kürti

Working for Honeywell, (Bracknell, UK) he simulated process control system of a catalytic crack plant.