"Nanotech, Black Holes, and Chocolate"
Daniel Webster College's Phi Beta Lambda Chapter Hosts
Renowned Inventor/Engineer Dick Morley
 on January 23, 2008 at 8:00 pm

The public, engineers, inventors, and others are invited to "Nanotech, Black Holes, and Chocolate," a presentation by the father of the programmable logic controller (and much more), Dick Morley, hosted by Daniel Webster College (DWC) Phi Beta Lambda Chapter's inaugural "Harvest Your Future Series."

The January 23, 2008, program begins at 8:00 pm, with doors opening at 7:45 pm, at DWC's Collings Auditorium. Seating is unreserved. For more information contact Sarah Hunt at hunt_sarah@dwc.edu or Annette Kurman, director of public relations at 603-577-6625.

Morley will discuss black holes, nanotech, chocolate, and the future of the Internet.

The physics of the black hole is a key to understanding our changing world, especially in the burgeoning international engineering environment. Crossing the gap from cosmology to nanotech can be done, and will wake us up. Black holes have information content related to the surface area, not the volume. The smaller the hole is, the better the information to volume relation.

This surface-to-volume ratio is critical to chemical actions and social interaction. Nanotech strategy allows significant optimization of this relationship. Batteries, food and paint are but a few of the direct applications for materials since the surface is the point of interaction.

What does this mean for software? The larger the software package, the less likely it is to be usable. Really? Maybe so! Modeling and simulation need to be aggregates of modules with high activity and small size. Smart and small work. New bandwidth compression methods are envisioned using this "small is beautiful" thinking.

Some analysis has been done on company size and profit. And these are related. Who knows where this session will lead?

And yes, these subjects are all related.

Some nano-chocolate will be available for the audience.

The mission of Phi Beta Lambda is to bring business and education together in a positive, working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs.

Who is this guy, Morley?

It is a challenge to briefly describe New Hampshire inventor, machinist, author, consultant, and engineer Richard E. (Dick) Morley's achievements, accolades, and accomplishments; there are so many.

Dick Morley is an internationally-recognized pioneer in the fields of computer design, artificial intelligence, automation and technology trend forecasting. As an inventor, author, consultant and engineer Dick Morley has provided the research and development community with world changing innovations

A high technology companies entrepreneur, Morley holds more than 20 US and foreign patents, including those for the parallel inference machine, the hand-held terminal, the programmable logic controller and magnetic thin film. He is a member of the Breakfast Club, a group of successful and experienced entrepreneurs who are active in making early-stage and seed investments in local companies, as well as Chairman of the Board of National Center of Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS), Director at Large for the Society Manufacturing Engineers (SME), a member of the Manufacturing Advisory Board for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), and a lecturer at Daniel Webster College.

An inventor, machinist, author, consultant, and engineer, his peers have acknowledged his contributions with numerous awards from such groups as Inc. magazine, the Franklin Institute, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. Morley is also a member of the Manufacturing Hall of Fame, (where).

Other accomplishments include being recognized as the Father of both the floppy disk (remember them?) and the ABS (anti-lock braking system), and founder of Andover Controls and Modicon, both of MA.

Morley works out of his (high tech) barn in New Hampshire, where he and his wife have been family to more than two dozen foster children.