BTW - Professor Lee, Adam Cataldo, Ian Mitchell, Xiaojun Liu, Steve Neuendorffer, Iman Ahmadi, Zhongning Chen, Professor Shankar Sastry and others have been working on the Soft Walls project, which is studying ways to modify the avionics control system on the aircraft to limit the space into which an aircraft can fly and possibly prevent 9/11 style disasters.
The Soft Walls home page is at http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/projects/softwalls/ The Soft Walls project has recently been covered by several media outlets, including: Radio Interview: WTOP, Washington DC (Real Audio Format) (7/14) http://www.wtopradio.com/media/july/0714_lee.ram Radio Interview: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 'As it Happens' (7/9) http://www.cbc.ca/insite/AS_IT_HAPPENS_TORONTO/2003/7/9.html The interview begins around 15:35 in Part 2 of the As It Happens Real Audio stream: http://cbc.ca/asithappens/real/pt2-03-07-09-aih2.ram Slashdot (7/3) http://slashdot.org/articles/03/07/03/1639249.shtml?tid=126 The New Scientist (7/2) http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993893 This article was also carried by many news outlets, including: CNN, Toronto Globe and Mail, The Washington Times, The Orlando Sentinel, The Straits Times (Singapore), The Times of India, The Star (SouthAfrica), The Age (Australia) Adam has been using Ptolemy II to model the various control algorithms though none of those models are ready for release yet. -Christopher Christopher Hylands [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of California Programmer/Analyst Chess/Ptolemy/GSRC US Mail: 558 Cory Hall #1770 ph: 510.643.9841 fax:510.642.2739 Berkeley, CA 94720-1770 home: (F-Tu) 707.665.0131 (W-F) 510.655.5480 (office: 400A Cory) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted to the ptolemy-hackers mailing list. Please send administrative mail for this list to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]