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Standards Make the World web - Summer of Protocols

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. . . there is a popular fallacy about this business of setting standards. It is the belief that it is inherently a dull business. One of the reasons that I am glad to see the present history appear is that I believe it will help to dissipate this misunderstanding. Properly conceived the setting of standards can be, not only a challenging task, but an exciting one. —Vannevar Bush, 1966 from the prologue to Measures for Progress: A History of the National Bureau of Standards AS far as Eric Stackpole is concerned, marine robotics has stalled out amidst an unfinished revolution. He should know—he started it. A decade ago, Stackpole created a prototype of a small remotely operated vehicle (ROV), built using off-the-shelf components and an acrylic housing that could be made with a simple, laser-cut design file. I was with him in the garage. With little money and big dreams of a low-cost device, we shared the project online in the hopes we’d get help from others. We called it OpenROV, an ope

Standards Make the World web - Summer of Protocols Skip to content Standards Make the World web Josh Davis 2024-01-15T18:46:42+00:00 Standards Make the World David Lang . . . there is a popular fallacy about this business of setting standards. It is the belief that it is inherently a dull business. One of the reasons that I am glad to see the present history appear is that I believe it will help to dissipate this misunderstanding. Properly conceived the setting of standards can be, not only a challenging task, but an exciting one. —Vannevar Bush, 1966 from the prologue to Measures for Progress

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