libes@nbs-amrf.UUCP (12/11/83)
Name of site: nbs-amrf (National Bureau of Standards - Automated Manufacturing Research Facility) What the site is all about: We are studying and proposing (NBS does not enforce) standards, automated metrology and interfaces between robots, machine tools, fixtures, vision systems, CAD systems, process planning, distributed processing and databases, networking and just about everything else one might need in a factory of the future. Necessarily, we find ourselves doing research in many of these areas, since, for example, robot manufacturers are loath to explain their control system and how to interface directly to it. Thus, we designed our own. (Internally, our group concentrates on the research while standards becomes a secondary issue. Politically, however, our standards face is what shows through.) We have a fascinating little factory set up that has integrated a great deal of the aforementioned. Visitors are welcome. Name of contact person at site: Don Libes Electronic mail address of contact person: nbs-amrf!libes U.S. Mail address of contact person: Don Libes National Bureau of Standards Met. Bldg, A-127 Washington, DC 20234 Phone number of contact person: (301) 921-2461 Systems with whom news articles are exchanged: umcp-cs (what kind of link, who the neighbor(s) are): uucp (1200 baud) Systems with whom mail is exchanged. (what kind of link, who the neighbor(s) are, what frequency of connection, whether or not you'll pass outside mail along). umcp-cs polls once/day. Willingness (or lack thereof) to connect to new sites that want to join usenet. If you run uucp, tell if new sites can call you, if you will poll them, what your policy is. If on the arpanet, are you willing to forward news on to new sites by establishing an arpanet usenet connection? We are willing to connect to new (or old) sites. We cannot poll. Will be on milnet soon, but of what use that will be, I don't know. We run VMS (sorry, if you were eating) and Eunice. If anyone has interfaced the arpanet drivers through VMS to uucp, let me know. (It may be complicated by the fact that we are connected through an LH/DH modem. The imp is 3000' away.)