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The Computational Quantified Self: A Q&A with Stephen Wolfram
Ernesto Ramirez
March 16, 2012
On March 8th, 2012 Stephen Wolfram opened the curtains and gave the world a glimpse of his own self-tracking and personal analytics practice. It was jaw-dropping. It was dense. It was beautiful. And, it might have shown us the future of what the Quantified Self could become. We were lucky enough to have Dr. Wolfram answer a few questions about his data, his personal insights, and the future of personal analytics.
First, some background. Stephen Wolfram is a no ordinary self-tracker. Reading through his biography has honestly given me a case of the envies. First published scientific paper by age 15. Five years later a PhD from CalTech in theoretical physics. He then went on to study and develop the field of scientific computing. This led him on a path towards trying to understand the underlying principles that drive the complex systems we often observe in nature. Of course he also had to invent his own computational engine to help discover those principles and in 1988 Wolfram Research released Mathematica. Not one to rest on his laurels he then set out to develop pioneering projects and in 2009 oversaw the release of Wolfram|Alpha, a new kind of computational knowledge engine.
During this time he also set up some really neat systems to store, process, and analyze different streams of data that make up his day-to-day life. I'll just go over a few here that I found particularly interesting.
Phone Calls. Throughout all the development of his groundbreaking work and running a successful company, he has managed to operate as a remote CEO. So this means a lot of time on the phone. A lot.
We can clearly see that when you examine the available data Stephen spends more than 4 hours per day on the phone. But suppose you need to speak to him. When is the time he's already most likely on the phone?
Probably best to call him between 11 AM and 6 PM. Although, maybe the weekend evenings would also be good. Personally I found this really interesting that his weekend and weekday evening phone use probabilities were so closely matched.
Steps. If you know me you know how much time I spend thinking about steps. I'm an avid Fitbit user and really believe in the power of subtle passive data tracking for physical activity. Stephen has been wearing a digital pedometer for a few years and has kept some amazing records of his daily activity:
And, I'll be completely honest here. I was a little beside myself to learn that Stephen and I are kindred spirits when it comes to our use of treadmill desks:
There's no mystery to this: years ago I decided I should take some exercise each day, so I set up a computer and phone to use while walking on a treadmill. (Yes, with the correct ergonomic arrangement one can type and use a mouse just fine while walking on a treadmill, at least up to—for me—a speed of about 2.5 mph.)
Those are just a few of the numbers and analyses he described in his fascinating blog post. Be sure to give it a read, but before you do read below for our interview with Stephen and a summary of thoughts on what a computational quantified self might become.
Q: There has been a lot of reaction around the internet regarding your post with many people astounded at how much data you've collected. In your estimation how much of that data is passively collected/recorded versus actively collected/recorded?
Stephen Wolfram: It's essentially all passive. I've had systems set up at different times, then I've just let the systems run. And after a decade or two they've accumulated a lot of data.
I should say that quite a few of the systems are set up to send me mail each day with a report on the previous day (how much I typed; how many steps I took; etc.). I find this a useful form of self-awareness and self-management. But it has the side effect that it checks that the systems are still running. Systems that aren't checked "on" have a nasty habit of decaying and failing.
About active data collection: I'm frankly too busy (and perhaps too lazy) for that. Last year I decided to record everything I ate. I kept it up for the whole year, but it was a pain. I decided I'd wait for that data until it could be more automated (which it will be soon).
Q: The main point of contention that many people are making after learning about your data collection and analysis is along the the line of "Who has the time for that?" How would you answer that question and where do you see the field of personal informatics and analysis going to meet the needs of people who just don't have the time?
SW: It has taken only a tiny amount of my time over the last 20 years or so! It did take time to set up the systems. But not to run them.
The analysis now has taken time too. And there's lots more that should be done as well.
Both the systems and the analysis were made vastly easier by the fact that we used Mathematica for all of them. I'm hoping that we can set up systems that let other people use what we've built to do their own personal analytics–with essentially no expenditure of time.
Q: You've obviously spent a lot of time with your personal data, and mention that you have even more in reserve that you didn't expand upon. What was the most surprising thing you've learned in so far in your exploration?
SW: I wish I'd had more time to spend with my data. The blog post and the data behind it are really only scratching the surface. Almost every plot we made, I said, "Hmmm … that's interesting." Often it was just confirming some impression about my life that I already had. But sometimes I learned things. An example that surprised me a bit was that so much of my email I end up processing late at night; I thought I was keeping up better during the day. I'd been thinking of going to sleep earlier … but I'd clearly have to find another scheme for my email then….
Q: Have there been or did you experience any negative effects from either tracking or analyzing your data? Where there any surprises about yourself that you weren't expecting that weren't positive?
SW: Not really. My children sometimes tease me about my obsessive data keeping, but that's about it. I had thought perhaps I might be able to see some kind of degradation in my performance over the past 20 years, which would have been sobering … but there's nothing that I've found so far. Quite to the contrary, in fact: it seems, for example, that I'm getting more done than I did 20 years ago.
Now, there are pieces of tracking that would be nice to do, but that I don't feel comfortable doing. An example is keeping an image stream. I have a camera to wear around my neck, but it would be too weird for me in social situations to have it be there, so I have essentially never used it.
Q: Now that you've looked at such a large portion of your longitudinal personal data I wonder if you've changed your behavior in any way. Was there any point during the analysis, or possibly during previous analyses of this or other data that helped you decide to change something in your life, and if yes, what was it?
SW: About 10 years ago I did some analysis of my email flow, and concluded that it was better to wait awhile before responding to internal emails, because they tended to be on threads that "resolved themselves", so I didn't need to spend time.
There are lots of details that I've changed. An example is making sure spelling mistakes, especially in people's names, get immediately resolved in e.g. calendar entries … because if they're not, it becomes hopeless to search for them later.
A bigger thing some time ago from personal analytics is that I discovered that whenever I took a trip, my work was perturbed for quite awhile afterwards. That made me take fewer trips. Though recently my children have got me to take more trips … and I'm happy to find that technology has advanced to the point where I can avoid getting so behind as a result of them ….
Q: A majority of your post really gets into the correlational structure of multiple data sets. One would say that this is the epitome of post-hoc analysis. How do you think you could use the information you're collecting now to help you make real-time decisions about your life and your behavior? What kind of system or data would have to be in place to make that worthwhile?
SW: As I've mentioned, I do have daily email sent to me, with data on quite a few things. I find that somewhat useful in regulating my behavior ("I didn't get enough done yesterday; I'd better be more focused today", etc.). Also, I think it always puts me in a good mood when I see that the previous day was very productive, and it helps me be more productive then.
I've thought about having some real-time displays. An example I recently set up is a count-up timer (really it's just an iPad looking at a web page) that tells me how long I've been asleep. I also quite often look at my digital pedometer to see if I've walked enough steps yet in a day.
Q: Something that keeps popping up in my exploration of Quantified Self and people who use personal data tracking devices and services is the issue of "getting credit". You yourself express regret over not having more information from earlier in your life. Some might argue that this dependence borders on the obsessive or unhealthy. That we are offloading our human intuition to these data capture systems. How do you balance your intuition and instinct with what you learn and access through your personal data collection and analysis?
SW: I am spoiled by personally having a rather good memory, especially for facts, names, etc. So I've always had the issue of remembering a lot about what happened in the past. Of course, with actual data I continually learn how sparse my memory is.
I've been fortunate enough to have all sorts of experiences in my life, and I've learned a lot from them. And the more I can remember the experiences, the better I can make use of what I learned from them. And the more I am able to repeat my successes, and avoid repeating my mistakes.
I'm definitely a person who likes to do things, not just contemplate my past life. But I like to build on my past life to continually be able to do more things, and have more personal satisfaction.
Q: Lastly, this post has been a big inspiration to a lot of people and has been shared and passed around by many. Are there any last insights or thoughts you'ld like to share with our community?
SW: I think it's great that your community is working in these directions. There's a lot of "best practices" to figure out, that will probably affect our lives a lot in the future. I'm looking forward to seeing what your community figures out!
So there you have it. Some very insightful words from the man behind the numbers. Now that I've read through his wonderful answers to my overly wordy questions, spent some time watching his wonderful TED talk, and doing some late night thinking, I'm starting to wonder about how his process and systems might be a window into our quantified futures.
The reason this post is entitled, The Computational Quantified Self, is because I think that Stephen is onto to something brilliant here with his process of having Wolfram|Alpha Pro handle all of the processing for him. One of the things that I hear time and time again from individuals who are either interested in or just starting their own self-tracking practice is, "What next?" That is to say, there are a lot of people out there who either do not have the skills, knowledge, or time to handle the analysis needed to make sense of the large data sets they're creating. So what happens when there is a system to do that work for you? Maybe that system is something from Wolfram Research, or Google, or some new startup we don't even know about yet. But surely there will be people who embrace those systems to help them make decisions. Better decisions. Informed decisions. Personalized data driven decisions that enhance and improve their lives.
That sounds like a pretty amazing world to live in.
Special thanks to Stephen Wolfram for taking time out of his busy schedule to answer our questions and to his staff for making this possible. This was a special edition of our regular Numbers from Around the Web series. If you have data you'ld like to have featured in the series you can contact the author here.


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The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Modern Library Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (6)
This was an excruciating reading experience. An uninteresting story, badly written. Memo to the reading public: do not get on a plane to L.A. with only this book to read.
Grade: (F)
See also:William Faulkner (4 books reviewed)
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Amazon.com Top 100 Books of the Millenium
Library Journal: Top 150 of the Century
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Nobel Prize Winners
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-Yoknapatawpha County: William Faulkner on the Web
-William Faulkner: Life and Works (includes synopsis of Light in August)
William Faulkner on the Web
-William Faulkner Centennial Celebration (Vintage Books)
-The William Faulkner Society
-Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Faulkner Studies
-Faulkner's Page: Tour of Oxford
-William Faulkner: The Myth Of The South (from Let's Find Out)
-Faulkner and Racism (ARTHUR F. KINNEY, Connotations)
-Frederick Crews: The Strange Fate of William Faulkner (NY Review of Books)
-ESSAY : Mister Faulkner Goes to Stockholm : In six short years, William Faulkner went from salaried Hollywood script doctor to winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. How had this seeming miracle occurred? (October 2001, Smithsonian)
-ESSAY: Book of the Century : The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner (Books Online, UK Telegraph)
-REVIEW: of WILLIAM FAULKNER: AMERICAN WRITER A Biography. By Frederick R. Karl (John W. Aldridge, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW: of William Faulkner: American Writer A Biography By Frederick R. Karl )(Michiko Kakutani, NY Times)
-REVIEW: of WILLIAM FAULKNER The Man and the Artist. By Stephen B. Oates (Louis D. Rubin Jr, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW: of William Faulkner and the Tangible Past The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha. By Thomas S. Hines (Henry Taylor, NY Times Book Review)
-William H. Gass: Mr. Blotner, Mr. Feaster, and Mr. Faulkner Faulkner: A Biography by Joseph Blotner (NY Review of Books)
-Marvin Mudrick: The Over-Wrought Urn REVIEW of William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country by Cleanth Brooks (NY Review of Books)
-Terry Southern: Just Folks REVIEW: of Faulkner's People: A Complete Guide and Index to the Characters in Faulkner by Robert W. Kirk and Marvin Klotz (NY Review of Books)
-Personal Best (JOAN SMITH, Salon)
If you want to read some decent William Faulkner, try:
You actually thought that this book was boring? you gave it an F?!? Like joyce's ulysses you probably didnt even finish the book. you probably didn't even get past the first chapter which is suprising as it is narrated by a mentally handicapped person, something i figured you could relate to. I guess that the expansive nature of faulkners narrative style is a bit too broad for most people but then again most people dont hold themselves out to be literary critics. Get a day job, perhaps at a local comic book store.
- brothers dumb
- Dec-04-2006, 15:31
I'm not big on "The Sound And The Fury" here, but if you'd like to trash it you need to give more complex reasons why; otherwise, your target audiences (left wing foes and right wing fans alike) are just going to walk away thinking "oh, he didn't get it." Which you will probably respond to by claiming that that's the author's fault for not providing something you could handle rather than yours for not giving it a little more effort. Society could stand to have a few difficult books lying around; TSATF, while I am not in love with it, can be read with some effort, and is very rewarding. It is not some kind of big trick on the author's part like "Finnegans Wake."
- Soogless
- Aug-25-2006, 13:22
The novel is superbly written; particulary Faulkner's art of handling plot and maintaining all the threads of its events is great achivement. I haven't found any other novel more fascinating, however, it requires at least more than one reading to understand and then as many as you want to enjoy and appreciate the novel.
- Faraz Ali Bughio
- Sep-03-2005, 05:33
The navel is superb particulary Faulkner's art of handling plot and maintaining all the threads of events is great achivement. I haven't found any other novel more fascinating but it requires at least more than one reading to understand and then as many as you want to enjoy
- Faraz Ali Bughio
- Jul-23-2005, 09:25
William Faulkner must have been on drugs or crazy when he wrote the first part of "The Sound and the Fury". It is a very difficult read-so if you are hungering for pain-read this book.
- Barbara Wilson
- Jun-24-2005, 16:52
I agree. The book was boring and i could not understand one thing that was going on for the first part of the book. I don't see why this book is some big part of american literature.
- Josh
- Feb-19-2005, 20:35
Badly written? Uninteresting?
This is the greatest technical achievement in American literature up to now. I couldn't stop reading it once I got a grip on the opening section. I think there is an amazing story here, told in a way that has never really been equalled, but as usual you dismiss it because it requires a little more effort than James Clavell's semi-literate garbage.
Do you actually finish any of these books? Just curious...
- kristofer
- Aug-06-2004, 15:14
Wow---you really offended some folks with your review. I'm not entirely sure what it means to be a "digest of common interest," but if it means "engaging and capable of conveying any meaningful message," then I agree that "The Sound and the Fury" was not so intended. After subjecting myself to several unsuccessful attempts to read this book without hating it and two successful attempts to read it without stopping, I can only say one non-pejorative thing: the title and its Shakespearean signfication perfectly describe the book itself. This book is sound and fury---piss and wind, if you will---a tale told (scratched out, squeaked, vomited, choose your verb) by an idiot. That's you, WF.
- jrm
- Jul-30-2004, 14:25
certain unnamed reviewers need to be plucked from society and placed in little tiny hermetically sealed boxes where their blinding stupidity can't spread to their readers.
- Jun-01-2004, 05:36
i recognize that you're entitled to your own opinion, but some of your reviews are quite thoughtless. your review of The Sound and the Fury is one of them. it's a shame that you would dismiss a book because it was a challenging read. i, too, found the book difficult to read, but i still recognize that it's a wonderful piece of work. great works often require some effort on the reader's part!
- Apr-04-2004, 03:04
Yeah, Faulkner's a challenge. I suggest you punch your own weight, lest you keep getting the shit kicked out of yourself....
- Mike Tandrow
- Dec-16-2003, 10:25
An uninteresting review, badly written.
- arebomb
- May-28-2003, 04:09
oh.. pity that faulkner's defining work didn't tickle your fancy while you were riding in the airplane.
"the sound and the fury" was not intended to be a digest of common interest, nor should it ever be read as such.
- Mar-17-2003, 00:19
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A U.N. investigation on Monday accused both Israel and Hamas militants of committing possible war crimes in last summer's Gaza war, finding that Israeli airstrikes on residential buildings caused many civilian deaths and suggesting Israeli leaders knowingly endangered them.
The report, which Israel rejected as biased, further strained its already troubled relations with the world body and could provide new ammunition in a preliminary investigation of Israel at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Hamas, condemned for indiscriminately firing thousands of rockets at Israeli cities and its use of tunnels to infiltrate border towns, also rejected the report.


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Wednesday | March 20 2013 | 6:30 pm
View photos from this concert:
Longtime collaborators and recent Grammy winners Steven Mackey (composer/electric guitar) and Rinde Eckert (voice/accordion) present, for the first time, the complete set of songs from the forthcoming debut album by their band Big Farm, featuring So Percussion's Jason Treuting on drums and Lek Darger on electric bass. Eckert, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama, Obie Award winner and recently-named Doris Duke Artist, will also debut a new work commissioned by the Festival for himself plus JACK Quartet, who will also present a rare performance of String Theory, an acclaimed work by Steve Mackey. JACK, which has electrified audiences worldwide with its "explosive virtuosity" (Boston Globe) and "viscerally exciting performances" (New York Times), will also join Big Farm in songs during their expansive, theatrical set.
Go to the Ecstatic Music Festival home page.
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4. "Dog fawns over orphan
after boys rescue deer"
In South Africa, Rhodesian Ridgebacks hunt lions. In Nanaimo,
the breed - well at least two-year old Hogan - nurses orphan fawns back to
health. In late June, Hammond Bay area resident Jennifer Aftanas noticed two
youngsters walking on her street. One was cuddling a newborn fawn. "They
were coming up the street and they looked totally distraught" said Jennifer.
She immediately approached the boys and told them they must return the fawn
to where they had found it. The tiny animal's mother was likely looking for
her baby she told them. "The youngsters told Ms. Aftanas that the mom had
been hit by a car and the fawn had been hiding under the front porch steps
of their home for three days. On the first two days it ran if anyone came
near it. By the third day said the boys the fawn couldn't get up. "The Fawn
was nearly dead" said Ms. Aftanas
Jennifer offered to take the fawn from the boys who
gratefully accepted. She then went to a neighbour's house nearby who has
young children, and borrowed a baby bottle. About two hours later, and after
much struggle, she enticed the young fawn, which she named Bella, to drink
goat's milk from the bottle. Finally something just clicked, she said When
she got a hold of that bottle she just hung on. Jennifer said she called a
number of animal recovery centres in the area however none were able to take
the fawn so she decided she would welcome the fragile animal into her home
and care for it until a safe haven could be found. Meantime Hogan, weighing
in at about 100 pounds, decided - to the amazement of his owners that he too
would lend a hand in helping young Bella recover. Originally bred in South
Africa to hunt lions, hence the breed's older name African Lion Hound. Hogan
began fussing over the youngster. He kept a watchful eye over Bella,
grooming her and even allowing her to cuddle up beside him in his bed. "You
can come on my bed and I'm going to clean your ears!" Aftanas said of
Hogan's affection for the fawn. He looked after Bella cleaning her and
helping out until she was well enough to go for recovery"
Today, Bella is thriving and has been moved to a
recovery location on North Vancouver Island where her progress will continue
to be monitored until she is old enough to set out on her own. Though she
does not know who the boys are that discovered the fawn, Jennifer was
touched by their concern for the orphaned animal. And while Bella's story
has a happy ending, she stressed that under usual circumstances, humans
should never interfere with wildlife.
The story and
pictures has brought us in touch with people from all over the world. From
Hogan's homeland of Australia to Sweden and Memphis, Tennessee. We welcome
anyone who would like to share their animal rescue story with us or those that
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Understanding REACH
Registration Evaluation Authorization and Restriction of Chemical Substances
It is certainly no secret to anyone that the past decade has placed a renewed focus on the environment and how all members of the world community, to include business organizations, affect it. Concerns about protecting the world in which we live have been the impetus behind such worldwide movements as recycling and renewable energy. From a manufacturing standpoint, RoHS (Reduction of Hazardous Substances) has impacted businesses as well as REACH, a more recent set of regulations that are becoming more significant to North American based manufacturing operations that are part of a supply chain that directly or indirectly supplies products into the European Union.
As with any new regulatory requirements, the initial exposure to the documentation can create a degree of uncertainty among those who will be asked to comply. From this perspective, REACH is no different from any of its predecessors. In an attempt to offer some understanding of the REACH regulations and some clarification of the requirements it places on manufacturers, C&M Corporation gathered Michael Karg, Director of Product Development, along with Randy Elliott, Regulatory Compliance Engineer, and Ariann Griffin, Regulatory Compliance Technician, to discuss some of the particulars of REACH and respond to some of the questions C&M has been discussing with members of its client base.
What is the purpose of REACH?12/13/2010
Explaining the Agency Approval Process for Wire and Cable Products
Some engineers think it is science. Others contend it is some type of black magic.
Many have no idea of exactly how the process works.
Regardless of what is known or unknown about the submission and evaluation process, there are few that will disagree with the premise that agency certifications, such as those offered by organizations like Underwriters Laboratories (UL), Canadian Standards Association (CSA), or Intertek, formerly known as Edison Testing Laboratories (ETL), to name only a few, are an important part of any product offering in the wire and cable industry. With todays focus on product safety, there has been an increased need for wire and cable products to carry either a listed or recognized mark signifying they have been independently evaluated and have met the appropriate safety guidelines that have been established based on their intended use.
In an attempt to help bring some clarity to the agency certification process for bulk cable, I have posed a series of related questions to Randy Elliott, C&M Corporations Regulatory Compliance Engineer. Randy has been a practicing engineer in the wire and cable industry for over 20 years. His background in R&D and design engineering has brought him into contact with regulatory agencies and their requirements on a regular basis throughout his career. For the past three years, his focus has been completely on regulatory issues for C&M.
Who is responsible for testing and what do their results mean?12/13/2010
Understanding NFPA 79
NFPA-79 is the electrical standard that has been developed by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and is "intended to minimize the potential hazard of electrical shock and electrical fire hazards of industrial metalworking machine tools, woodworking machinery, plastics machinery and mass produced equipment, not portable by hand."
The National Fire Protection Association is also responsible for the National Electric Code (NEC)/ (NFPA-70).
The scope of NFPA-79 is summarized as follows: "The standard shall apply to the electrical/electronic equipment, apparatus, or systems of industrial machines operating from a nominal voltage of 600 volts or less, and commencing at the point of connection of the supply to the electrical equipment to the machine."
One of the focuses of the latest edition is to improve product safety by ensuring that appropriate types of wire and cable are used in the application with regard to current carrying capacity, temperature rating, or flammability.
As such, the guidelines for NFPA-79 compliant products are more stringent than those cables allowed by past editions.
The NFPA-79 provisions make specific reference to only two types of cable.12/13/2010
Using Tofino to Control the Spread of Stuxnet Malware
This application note describes how to use the Tofino Industrial Security Solution to prevent the spread of the Stuxnet worm in both Siemens and non-Siemens network environments.
What is Stuxnet?
Stuxnet is a computer worm designed to target one or more industrial systems that use Siemens PLCs. The objective of this malware appears to be to destroy specific industrial processes.
Stuxnet will infect Windows-based computers on any control or SCADA system, regardless of whether or not it is a Siemens system. The worm only attempts to make modifications to controllers that are model S7-300 or S7-400 PLCs. However, it is aggressive on all networks and can negatively affect any control system. Infected computers may also be used as a launch point for future attacks.
How Stuxnet Spreads
Stuxnet is one of the most complex and carefully engineered worms ever seen. It takes advantage of at least four previously unknown vulnerabilities, has multiple propagation processes and shows considerable sophistication in its exploitation of Siemens control systems.
A key challenge in preventing Stuxnet infections is the large variety of techniques it uses for infecting other computers. It has three primary pathways for spreading to new victims:
- via infected removable USB drives;
- via Local Area Network communications
- via infected Siemens project files
Within these pathways, it takes advantage of seven independent mechanisms to spread to other computers.
Stuxnet also has a P2P (peer-to-peer) networking system that automatically updates all installations of the Stuxnet worm in the wild, even if they cannot connect back to the Internet. Finally, it has an Internet-based command and control mechanism that is currently disabled, but could be reactivated in the future.11/30/2010
ISA100 and Wireless Standards Convergence
ISA100 is one of three standards competing in industrial wireless sensing. What is distinctive about ISA100? What are the prospects for convergence of standards? What would convergence be worth to the industrial wireless market?
ISA100 is a major standards initiative managed by the International Society of Automation (ISA). In addition to standards development, a new organization, the ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI), is charged with delivering compliance certification services for the work of ISA100.
The ISA100 committee establishes standards, recommended practices, technical reports, and related information for implementing wireless systems in the automation and control environment, with an initial focus on the field level. Given the committee's broad scope, they have formed a number of working groups to pursue specific tasks. The primary deliverable from the Committee thus far is the standard ISA-100.11a, "Wireless Systems for Industrial Automation: Process Control and Related Applications". However a quick glance at the list of working groups shows that several other topics will be addressed by future ISA100 deliverables.
In 2006, at about the same time ISA100 was forming, the ISA also created the non-profit Automation Standards Compliance Institute (ASCI). This organization manages certification, conformance, and compliance assessment activities in the ISA's automation domain.
ASCI extends the standards work of ISA by facilitating the effective implementation and independent testing of ISA standards. It creates a vital link between the development of standards and industries' implementation of the standards. The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI) functions as an operational group within ASCI. Operating the ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute within ASCI allows it to leverage the infrastructure of ASCI, which in addition to WCI, is shared by several ASCI compliance programs.11/22/2010
Ensuring an Accurate Result in an Analytical Instrumentation System Part 1: Understanding and Measuring Time Delay
Process measurements are instantaneous, but analyzer responses never are. From the tap to the analyzer, there is always a delay. Unfortunately, this time delay is often underestimated or not accounted for or understood. Time delay in sample systems is the most common cause of inappropriate results from process analyzers.
In many cases, it is invisible to operators and technicians, who are focused on the necessity of making the sample suitable for the analyzer. It is not unusual for operators to assume that the analytical measurement is instantaneous. In fact, sample systems often fail to achieve the industry standard of a one minute response.
As a general rule, it's always best to minimize time delay, even for long cycle times, but delays extending beyond the industry standard are not necessarily a problem. The process engineer determines acceptable delay times based on process dynamics.
Delays become an issue when they exceed a system designer's expectations. A poor estimate or wrong assumption about time delay will necessarily result in inferior process control.
This article is intended to enhance understanding of the causes of time delay and to provide the tools required to calculate or approximate a delay within a reasonable margin of error. We will also provide some recommendations for reducing time delay. The potential for delay exists in the follow sections of an analytical instrumentation (AI) system: process line, tap and probe, field station, transport line, sample conditioning system, stream switching system, and analyzer.11/18/2010
Ensuring an Accurate Result in an Analytical Instrumentation System Part 2: Calibrating the Analyzer
In many analytical instrumentation systems, the analyzer does not provide an absolute measurement. Rather, it provides a relative response based on settings established during calibration, which is a critical process subject to significant error. To calibrate an analyzer, a calibration fluid of known contents and quantities is passed through the analyzer, producing measurements of component concentration. If these measurements are not consistent with the known quantities in the calibration fluid, the analyzer is adjusted accordingly. Later, when process samples are analyzed, the accuracy of the analyzer's reading will depend on the accuracy of the calibration process. It is therefore, imperative, that we understand how error or contamination can be introduced through calibration; when calibration can - and cannot - address a perceived performance issue with the analyzer; how atmospheric pressure or temperature fluctuations can undo the work of calibration; and when and when not to calibrate.11/18/2010
Ensuring an Accurate Result in an Analytical Instrumentation System Part 3: Maintaining a Representative Sample
The objective of an analytical instrumentation (AI) system is to provide a timely analytical result that is representative of the fluid in the process line at the time the sample was taken. If the AI system alters the sample so the analytical result is changed from what it would have been, then the sample is no longer representative and the outcome is no longer meaningful or useful. Assuming the sample is properly taken at the tap, it may still become unrepresentative under any of the following conditions:
- If deadlegs or dead spaces are introduced at inappropriate locations in the AI system, resulting in a "static leak," a bleeding or leaking of the old sample into the new sample;If the sample is altered through contamination, permeation, or adsorption;
- If the balance of chemicals is upset due to a partial change in phase; or
- If the sample undergoes a chemical reaction.
This article will review the major issues leading to an unrepresentative sample and provide recommendations on how to avoid a compromised sample. It will discuss deadlegs and dead spaces; component design and placement; adsorption and permeation; internal and external leaks; cross contamination in stream selection; and phase preservation.11/18/2010
Greenhouse Gas Flow Monitoring
Last year the EPA implemented new regulations entitled "Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases." The new regulations called for certain facilities emitting 25,000 metric tons or more per year of specified GHG's to provide an annual report of their actual GHG emissions.
It is estimated that more than 10,000 facilities in the US meet the criteria for mandated reporting of greenhouse gases. A full description of the EPA mandate can be found on the EPA's web site.
The EPA's reporting mandate comes in response to the goal of reducing warming gases in the atmosphere to address the consequences of global warming.
The EPA says the present objective of the mandate is simple reporting and is not about regulating the reduction of GHG at this time, although bloggers and industry pundits speculate this is likely the next step. It's doesn't require a stretch of logic to anticipate the data collected will frame new regulations to curb the release of GHG in response to domestic and international pressure to slow the rate of global warming.
The EPA's initial mandate in October of 2009 required 31 industry sectors that collectively equal 85 percent of US GHG emissions, to track and report their emissions. In addition to these original 31 industries, the agency in March of this year proposed to collect emissions data from the petroleum and natural gas sector, as well as from industries that emit fluorinated gases and from facilities that inject and store carbon dioxide underground for the purposes of geologic sequestration for enhanced oil and gas recovery.
Methane is the primary GHG emitted from oil and natural gas systems and is more than 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere, while fluorinated gases are even stronger and can stay in the atmosphere for thousands of years. The EPA says the data collected will allow businesses to track their own emissions, compare them to similar facilities, and identify cost effective ways to reduce their emissions in the future.10/28/2010
How A Biogas Processing System Manufacturer Identified the Best Flow Meter for Gas Measurement
Klargastechnik Deutschland GmbH's equipment and processes help customers address organic biomass fermentation and recovery while supporting electric power co-generation. The result is clean, green electric power that also reduces both solid waste and hazardous toxic gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, which pollute the environment and contribute to global warming.
In order to provide these benefits, the company's equipment and systems rely on highly precise and reliable flow measurement of process waste gases. Measuring biogas flow at several points in the system provides operators with critical information for optimal gas production, control, safety and reporting. However, Biogas applications present several challenges in selecting the proper flow meter.
Download this application note to learn how a biogas processinf system manufacturer can identify the best flow meter for gas measurements.10/28/2010
Real-Time Energy Management
1. Background
2. IOM Real-Time Energy Management
3. Real-Time Energy Management as Part of an Enterprise approach
4. Conclusion
Over the last several years energy costs have more than doubled! In the process manufacturing industries, with energy costs often comprising as much as 80% of the overall variable cost of operating a plant, this has created a crisis. Many manufacturers have responded to this crisis with programs aimed at reducing the overall energy consumption of an operation or looking to alternate, lower cost fuels. Although these initiatives may provide a good starting point in the battle to reduce energy costs, they are not adequate to meet the needs of today's real time business environment.
Historically, the price of energy could often be dealt with as a constant over a prolonged time period. Large energy users could develop contracts with energy suppliers for 6 months or even a year that would effectively set the price of energy over that time period. Today long-term energy contracts are the exception. In most parts of the world the price of energy changes in real time.
It is essential that industrial companies manage their business in the time frame at which the business variables change. Otherwise the business is completely out of control. When it comes to managing industrial energy, the time frame is real time and real time energy management is required.10/25/2010
Virtual Reality Training Program
A Comprehensive Plant Crew Training Solution Improving Process Reliability and Safety
One of the key challenges that capitalintensive industries will face over the next five years is replacing the gray-haired workforce with the computer-savvy/gaming generation. High-fidelity operator trainer simulators that represent the production process, control system and the control room interface have proved to be very effective for control room operations training. However, for the remaining 50% of the plant start-up procedures that are executed in the field, no fully interactive training environment has been available - until now.
Industries like oil and gas, refining and power companies need to institutionalize their workforce knowledge in more efficient and effective ways. Leveraging Virtual Reality (VR) models to improve time-to competency in critical areas like safety, environment protection systems, knowledge, performance training, and reliability provides a vehicle to rapidly train the new workforce in ways that align with their interests and skills.
With continuing advances in hardware and software techniques Virtual Reality (VR) is accessible today as the best aid to multimedia training, process design, maintenance, safety, etc. which are currently based around conventional 2-Dimensional (2-D) equipment views.
The real time rendering of equipment views puts demands on processor time and so the use of high fidelity simulators is becoming more and more of a standard in process understanding and training. Within many VR commercial projects in the past, the results have either been unrealistically slow or oversimplified to the detriment of the solution effectiveness. As the technology continues to develop, these issues have been eliminated, giving way to a new process simulation era that is based on commercially standard IT hardware.
IVRP (Immersive Virtual Reality Plant) now provides a large range of effective multimedia aids that are easily and economically accessible to support design, training, maintenance or safety in the process industry by linking the power of dynamic simulation - DYNSYM - to VR applications and tools.
Invensys has filed patents for the solution outlined in this paper.10/25/2010
A Blueprint for the Real Time Enterprise
Manufacturing and production processes have had to be controlled and managed in real time from inception because they change in real time frames. This has been a natural premise of industrial systems from the very beginning.
A major shift in the business of manufacturing has occurred over the past decade which is driving the dynamics of the business of production and manufacturing into the real time domain. Business variables, such as energy prices, feedstock prices and even product prices have rapidly transitioned from highly transactional time frames into real time frames. For example, a decade ago it was not unusual for an industrial plant to establish a contract with its energy supplier that essentially set the price over an extended time period, of often 6 months or even a year. Today, in most parts of the world, long term fixed price energy contracts are not being offered and the price of energy can change multiple times in a day. The implications of this transition are clear. Industrial business functions must operate in real time to be effective and efficient. Industrial companies that do not move to real time business operations will be at a severe disadvantage in their marketplace.10/25/2010
Real-Time Profit Optimization
Distributed Control Systems (DCS) have been successfully utilized to help control manufacturing and production processes since the late 1970s. The primary function of these DCS systems has been the automatic feedback control of the various process loops across the plants and the human interfacing with plant operators guiding the production from control rooms. Although these systems have proven to be very successful at improving the efficiency of industrial operations as compared with earlier control technologies, the state-of-the-art has not grown significantly since their inception. Most plants still operate exactly as they did 40 years ago.
Considerable research and development has been invested in expanding the functionality of DCS's in the areas of advanced controls and advanced manufacturing execution software. Numerous industrial plants have started to employ advanced controls in critical or high-value process operations, with some venturing into the use of advanced application software packages, each typically designed to address a specific issue or challenge within the industrial operations. Entrepreneurial software companies typically developed the software at this level of operation, essentially between the automation and business levels, often referred to as the manufacturing execution software (MES).
Although some industrial operations implemented advanced control and advanced MES software, the vast majority of processes are still controlled by simple automatic feedback control. The efficiency and effectiveness of most plants is a function of the installed feedback control systems. As a result, many industrial managers have expressed concerns that, in spite of the huge investments made in automation systems and software, plants do not appear to be operating better than they had been 30 years ago. In some cases, the plants actually appear to be operating less efficiently, possibly due to the reduced and inexperienced work forces and aging equipment.10/25/2010
Sustainable Profitability
Many industrial businesses and manufacturing operations were designed, implemented and operated around a set of basic assumptions that have served the industry well over the last century. For example, although it was expected that the values of process variables, such as flow, level, temperature and pressure, would naturally fluctuate in real time, business variables, such as production value, energy cost, and material cost were assumed to be fairly stable over long periods of time. It was also typically assumed that the production operations could effectively work independently from the business operations. Production operations would focus on making the products while business operations would focus on reporting results. This, in turn, led to a bottom-up business information flow perspective. Business information was used only for reporting results and only the required data from the operation had to be provided to the business reporting system. Often no business information flowed to the operations.
The traditional focus of industrial operations resulting from these assumptions has been on operational objectives, such as throughput and consumption of resources, as compared to business objectives. Typically, plants were designed to maximize production output, which proved to have the limited agility necessary to meet market demands during economic downturns.
Finally, the labor mindset of the industry resulting from the workforce dynamics of the early industrial revolution is, for the most part, still very much part of the standard operational philosophy utilized in today's industry. A huge separation continues to exist between the professional and management staffs from the operations and maintenance staffs that comprise today's labor force. This separation was necessary during the formative period of the industrial revolution when the available labor force was unskilled and almost completely uneducated. Although today's "labor force" is fairly well educated and highly skilled in comparison, the professional and management teams still tend to work under the traditional assumptions. For example, the operator interfaces of most industrial automation systems have been designed around a philosophy called operations by exception. Essentially this means that operators are to do nothing that impacts the plant unless an exception condition, an alarm or event occurs that requires human intervention. Once the event is addressed, operators can go back to doing nothing. This philosophy was developed to protect the plant from the uneducated and unskilled operators.
For the most part, these traditional industrial assumptions have served the industry quite well up to this point. However, there are current changes underway that are beginning to show that these traditional assumptions will not be effective going forward.10/25/2010
Operations Excellence
Invensys Operations Management division of Invensys was formed in May 2009 by combining Invensys Process Systems - Avantis, Foxboro, InFusion, SimSci-Esscor and Triconex - with Wonderware, Eurotherm and IMServ. The basis for this move was each of these four traditionally separate and excellent business units would provide more value for clients working together to solve difficult business problems that could not be solved by each unit separately. The Invensys leadership believes that the combined business would help to define and develop leadership in an emerging market space referred to as Operations Management. Invensys Operations Management will focus all of its resources to help customers drive Operations Excellence into their businesses.
Attaining Operations Excellence requires that industrial companies maximize the efficiency and profitability from their operations through excellent control, drive maximum business value from all their industrial assets, continually drive and increase productivity from all operations-focused personnel, all while reducing negative environmental impact and improving safety. Therefore, Invensys has defined Operations Excellence along four key themes: Control Excellence, Asset Excellence, Productivity Excellence and Environment and Safety Excellence.10/25/2010
Replacing Aging Process Automation Systems: Finding the Best Option
Today, for a variety of reasons, tremendous pressures are building that will require plant managers to update their aging automation systems during the next decade. Defining the need for and exploring alternative approaches to this modernization of manufacturing systems is the subject of this report.
Managers in today's process manufacturing plants must react to factors ranging from massive customization and growing demand for change orders in the middle of production runs to management expectations mandating ever-faster execution of production orders.
Such constant pressures are driving many manufacturers to reevaluate the role of their automation strategies while improving the overall effectiveness of their enterprises. They're finding that automation is playing an increasingly important role in the effectiveness and profitability of their entire enterprise, impacting everything from cost of operations to customer satisfaction.
Fortunately, many are also discovering that they can make significant improvements throughout their value chain - without being forced to abandon their entire existing automation investment.10/25/2010
Sustaining Performance
What's Inside:
1. Support - A Competitive Weapon?
2. Sustaining Performance - a Dream or a Goal?
3. The End Result - Less than Optimal Performance
4. Sustain and Improve Operational Performance
5. Outside the Box - An Opportunity for Synergy
6. Support is More than "Just Insurance"
7. Proactively Preventing Problems is Better than Just Fixing Them
8. Support Programs - a Cost or a Benefit?
9. The Business Case for Support
10. "Side-Effects" Consideration
11. Invensys Experience
12. Summary
Bringing a production facility online is the result of a huge investment. It typically takes years of planning, design, construction and finally, you move into operating the plant. Whether your operation has been running for 20 years or is about to start up, you face the ongoing challenge to achieve the highest returns possible on that investment. Once you have the initial bugs worked out and achieve the goals of targeted productivity, efficiency, quality and performance, how do you sustain high performance, or even improve it?
This goal of this paper is to present a perspective on Support Services as a tactical approach to not only sustain current Operations performance levels, but to continually improve them - and to be able to measure the ROI of an ongoing Support program.10/25/2010
Game Changer: Visibility, Enablement, and Process Innovation for a Mobile Workforce
A key aspect of the "Perfect Plant" is having the right information in the right place at the right time. In most manufacturing environments, instrumentation and monitoring is widespread. Pages and pages of graphs and reports describe every operational characteristic and are used by operators and management to steer the plant to optimal performance. However, in the modern plant, the right time to view this information is not when you are standing in front of an operator console. It is when you are in the field, in front of a failing piece of equipment or discussing a problem while on the move. More often than not, the right way to deliver information is by putting it in the hands of a mobile worker.
The right way to collect information also involves mobility. Remember that 40% to 60% of equipment in the plants and on the shop floors is not instrumented. Optimizing this critical aspect of plant performance depends on mobile field workers. Armed with the right tools, mobile workers can cost-effectively gather data from non-instrumented assets that can be readily analyzed and integrated into existing back-end decision support systems. Bidirectional flow of information to and from mobile workers is a key competitive imperative required to make fully informed decisions regarding the operation of the Perfect Plant.
Regrettably for most companies, when it comes to the mobile workforce in manufacturing, too often, vital decisions are made in the dark, in an information-poor environment and with little support or historical contextual information to make informed decisions proactively. Field workers - the people who are closest to the equipment and processes, who feel the heat, hear the noises, and see the changes that can be the first indicators of trouble - frequently do their jobs based on individual experiential knowledge acquired over many years.
This approach makes manufacturers vulnerable to high levels of variability based on individual talent, skills, and training. With the massive investments in automation over the past decades, management often lacks visibility into what these decision makers in the field do and finds it hard to provide guidance to ensure execution of best practices occur across the field worker roles, production shifts, and assets.10/25/2010


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> The "certain level of ...mental function" that I (& others) have suggested
> is anything above zero. I.e., I would be happy to say that once the brain,
> or any neural structure, begins to form, the embryo should be considered a
> person. It seems to me that with this criterion there is no question about
> the personhood of those with Alzheimers, the comatose, &c. Part of the
> rationale for this is the parallel with the criterion of brain death at the
> end of life - which means whole brain death, not coma, vegetative state, &c.
That is certainly a coherent and reasonably precise criterion
(determining exact line between zero and some is likely to be
difficult, and "any neural structure begins to form" would need to be
defined as to whether it includes the point at which a cell is
definitely destined to form neurons versus the point at which a cell
first shows any sign of neuronal features). However, "life begins
with neural activity" seems no less arbitrary than "life begins at
Some things that might be of interest philosophically, though not
directly applicable to human development, come from consideration of
other animals. Sponges do not have any neurons at any point, though
they have some capabilities for slow motion, internal communication,
etc. They easily reproduce asexually by fragmentation, so the concept
of an "individual" is somewhat blurry.
Looking at more advanced animals, the vast majority have cell fates
set from the start of embryonic development. There are no twins
formed the way human twins are (some can asexually multiply embryos,
though). From the very first cell division, the exact part of the
embryo that will become neurons is fixed. Thus, the scenario would be
somewhat different if arthropods or mollusks were considering the same
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Galveston Daily News: Trade Roy
Here are his three criteria for any trade:
• A starting pitcher at the Triple-A level who could move in the starting rotation by the end of the season.
• An MLB-ready third- or second baseman with power and a solid on-base percentage.
• Another pitcher in the Class A or Double-A level who throws at least in the mid-90s.
What say you?
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- Joe said...
More along the lines of a sure thing. I wouldn't mind having someone who has major league time even. As long as the player has shown he can get outs at the major league level. I know this sounds unrealistic, but this is coming from an Astros fan.
- April 22, 2010 at 7:10 AM
- Kelsey said...
The only team that comes to mind, off the top of my head, is the Rays who could meet those requirements. Hellickson,Brignac/Rodriguez, and someone else. Although I'm sure we would have to eat most of Roy's contract. More than likely they wouldn't want to pay that much for an aging pitcher with a bad back. I'm not saying, just saying.
- April 22, 2010 at 10:47 AM
PLEASE do NOT trade Roy. Please!! Michael.
- April 22, 2010 at 12:02 PM
Everything ultimately is for sale, and you should never say no without listening to what you might get in return, but this is just more Oswalt to the Mets b.s. from NY media outlets. Drayton will not deal him unless the Astros are dead and buried at the deadline, and my sunny-side is always up on the Astros. They'll keep themselves in it enough to make certain Roy stays in Houston.
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"The fact remains corn ethanol is here — and available today — to strengthen the U.S. economy, create new, U.S.-based jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Wind and solar power are good options for energy; however, these will take years to have the same impact that ethanol is having now."
The National Corn Growers and other farm and renewable fuel groups have been battling negative attacks on ethanol since corn prices began to rise to record levels during the winter of 2007-08.
Higher corn prices first attracted the ire of livestock producers, but members of the food processing industry soon followed suit, blaming corn producers and ethanol for rising food costs. Since then, corn, soybean and wheat prices have fallen by 50 percent or more, but grocery prices have remained at the price levels established last spring.
Corn prices initially rose because of the growing demand for ethanol and a shortfall in corn production in 2007. Since then, producers have planted more corn and increased the corn surplus to 1.8 billion bushels.
While the EWG and the Grocery Manufacturers extolled the virtues of solar and wind power, they failed to mention the soaring costs of those alternative energy systems. A single wind turbine can cost $3 million to install and solar panel costs have been on the rise because of the energy required to fabricate them.
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Dear Editor:
As a business and property owner in the White Center area for over 20 years, I exercised my legal right to send a letter to voters in unincorporated White Center, warning them about $16,000 worth of damage that the Burien city government created on my property. I encouraged them to vote no on Burien annexation. A recent mailer from a group called People for Burien, promoting White Center annexation to Burien, attacked me by name, and claimed that my letter was not true. In effect, they were calling me dishonest, based on a denial made at a public meeting by a Burien city manager. It is only fair that I respond.
This property includes housing at 11926 Ambaum SW, at the S curve. This property is part of Burien and has been part of Burien since Burien incorporation. King County, working at the direction of the city of Burien, parked their heavy equipment on my property, to complete Salmon Creek culvert repairs. As they dug the trench, King County and Burien removed clay from the ditch, took the top soil from my property, used it in the culvert, and then replaced the top soil with clay they had removed from their Salmon Creek trench. This happened in 2003. Then in 2005, Burien and King County, returned, asked for permission to use my property again. I refused, then built a fence to keep Burien officials off my property, based on the damage Burien and King County had done together previously.
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