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...stations can go 10 years without a battery change. The impact has been dramatic. "Self-organizing mesh networking is one of the most exciting innovations to come along in the process industry in more than 30 years," says Steve Sonnenberg, a division president for Dust Networks' first major client, Emerson, a $20 billion manufacturing-services company. When BP put Dust Networks' system in place in a Washington State refinery, linking the site's sensors, BP immediately discovered a problem with one machine, saving $100,000 in productivity that would otherwise have been lost...
Appearing in front of a packed Emerson lecture hall in uniform dark suits and white shirts, Tom D. Hadfield...
...only real statue that matters is of B-k, but the school hid it behind Emerson Hall to ease the traffic of the thousands of pilgrims that visit daily. And the likeness is a double miracle. Not only is it one of those “weeping” statues, but it is the only one in the world that actually lactates from its pure bronze nipples. We suppose it’s ironic that such an ancient man is in possession of these two potent fountains of youth, which squirt an elixir so sweet that it can instantly defeat...
Eliot put this directly into practice when he abolished most of the requirements for undergraduates. Emerson, as usual, put it best when he praised Eliot for resisting the one-size-fits-all policy: “there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind…to expedite…to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one?...
...Emerson would have been thrilled to find a mind so conscious and passionate of its purpose. He would have hated the Core because it compromises genius while compensating mediocrity. Emerson had even made the very unorthodox argument that vocational training could count as a liberal arts education, simply because “education should be as broad...