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Building Automation & Control Networks
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Since 1987 the American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Engineers has lead development of the de facto standard for campus building automation systems 135 BACnet® – A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks. This title supports the #WiseCampus transformation in two important ways:
- It defines data communication services and protocols for computer equipment used for monitoring and control of HVAC&R and other building systems
- It defines an abstract, object-oriented representation of information communicated between such equipment, thereby facilitating the application and use of digital control technology in buildings.
BACNet Committee: ASHRAE SSPC 135
Since the late 1970’s these systems have grown from single building control networks for environment air into multi-building campus-wide systems that conform to the ISO model of layered communication architecture. Every large research university has long since installed facility management unit that monitors and controls points such as outdoor air intake, wet-bulb temperature, occupancy load, elevator action, time of day, outdoor lighting etc. The University of Michigan, for example, monitors and controls nearly 1 million control points on its 6 square mile Ann Arbor campus.
The ASHRAE 135 technical committee has released a consultation on addendum cd regarding cipher suite application security profiles. Several redlines are now open for public consultation and may be found here:
ASHRAE Public Review Drafts Standards
Consultation on several titles is open until March 20th.
This title, and several others in the ASHRAE catalog, are on the standing agenda of our Energy 200 and Energy 400 colloquium. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [17-230]
Category: #SmartCampus, Electrical, Telecommunications, Mechanical, Energy, Facility Asset Management
Colleagues: David Anderson, Larry Spielvogel, Richard Robben
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Minutes of the First SPC 135P Meeting (June 26, 1987)
Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber
The Google employee who was fired for writing an explanation about why more women are not working in technology careers was James Damore. In August 2017, Damore wrote a memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” that criticized the company’s diversity policies and argued that innate biological differences between men and women may explain why more men than women work in tech and leadership positions.
The memo sparked a heated debate within and outside of Google, with some defending Damore’s right to express his views and others criticizing the memo as perpetuating harmful stereotypes and biases. In response, Google CEO Sundar Pichai denounced the memo, stating that it violated the company’s code of conduct and perpetuated harmful gender stereotypes.
Damore was subsequently fired from his position at Google, and he later filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming that he had been discriminated against for his conservative views. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2018, but it sparked ongoing discussions about the role of free speech and diversity in the tech industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Chamber
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf
“Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber“, commonly referred to as the Google memo, is an internal memo, dated July 2017, by US-based Google engineer James Damore (/dəˈmɔːr/) about Google’s culture and diversity policies.[1] The memo and Google’s subsequent dismissal of Damore in August 2017 became a subject of interest for the media. Damore’s arguments received both praise and criticism from media outlets, scientists, academics and others.
In August 2017, he wrote a memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” which criticized Google’s diversity initiatives and suggested that biological differences between men and women might explain the gender gap in tech careers. The memo became highly controversial and led to his termination by Google. His firing sparked extensive debates and discussions about diversity, inclusion, and free speech in the tech industry.
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