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Mark Langdon

Mark Langdon

Mark Langdon is the Control editor.

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  • Forumla One cars mid-race

    More opera than soap

    Formula One has never been short on controversy, with reports down the years of spying, lying and sex scandals prompting some observers to compare it to the best soap operas and a new episode is being played out as this issue of E&T goes to press.

Latest articles

  • Alas poor Yorick – I think you’ve been upstaged

    E&T meets the designers of the RoboThespian, the all-singing, all-dancing humanoid robot, which is entertaining and informing audiences around the world.

  • Don’t panic!

    Mathematical models could predict how diseases and viruses will spread – and hopefully prevent them from doing so, explains E&T.

  • The future is seamless

    E&T explains that the European Union has been rolling along the path to rail harmonisation for 20 years, with the occasional delay en route.

  • Smart robots

    The next step in human evolution is to reverse engineer intelligence and to improve on it, explains E&T.

  • It's war, but not as we know it

    It is the stuff that science fiction thrives on. Just watch ‘I, Robot’, ‘Terminator’ or ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and you will see an anecdote of robots, built by man to fight wars that then turn against humanity.

Features

[You write it!] Steel plant upgrade

Recent control system upgrades carried out by Schneider Electric have contributed to an 8 per cent increase in productivity at a Corus steel plant in Wales.

[You write it!] Engineers and heroes

The mainstream media outlets are full of depressing news stories about high profile bankruptcies, factory closures and redundancies.  Even the technical trade press has an air of panic around it. You could be forgiven for feeling that the world has gone into meltdown, that we’ll all be out of work soon and facing a bleak future.

[You write it!] A unified system architecture

Specifying an open building automation system reduces costs and increases flexibility.

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