On 8/15/2012 1:25 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2012/8/14 Kent A. Reed <[email protected]>: >> In the meantime, I did discover that Google Books has scanned the NIST >> Special Publication No. 967, "Automating the Future", a history of the >> NIST Automated Manufacturing Research Facility from 1980 to 1995. I >> didn't try to download it but the complete text and imagery appears to >> be there. I think it is well written. >> >> Try: http://books.google.com/books?id=BwhRAAAAMAAJ >> >> Enjoy. Also don't forget to check the list of references. > Wow, thank You very much! > After a quick look it really seems to be well written. Except that I > was hoping also for at least some pieces of code that makes that stuff > to work. Do You have any idea, if that might be available somewhere? > Viesturs, I can't say with certainty, but I suspect the kinds of code you want to see are no longer available.
NIST has a well established three-tiered editorial review process that all papers and reports pass through before they can be published or presented. In my day, at least, the institution wasn't sure how (or even whether) it should publish software, so the order of the day was to prepare, submit, and receive approval for a technical report that described the software. Then the report and the software could be released together. Obviously that was done in signature cases, like RCS and the RCSlib. In many cases, however, software considered to be ephemeral was never formally documented, never released beyond the project participants, and slowly slipped into oblivion. I've poked around some of the ftp servers and don't see anything like you want. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist anywhere in the NIST-server farms. If you can identify specific people from the history, other reports, or from public NIST-webpages, you could try emailing them. Of course, many have retired in the intervening years. Somehow we all got old. Good luck. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
