CPC-III Awards (1986)

CPC-III Awards (1986)

Pacific Grove, CA (Asilomar)

1. Sea Hare Award

Manfred Morari for IMC

For propagation of a given idea, species, or papers on a selected subject

“Each sea hare is both male and female, but they still have to mate.

Dozens pile up for sea hare orgies. They mate in lines and circles; each

is male to the one in front and female to the one behind”

(Monterrey Aquarium)

2.  IUDMC Award

Shell Development Company

A related award for promulgating that there is only one technique (DMC) worth using – the anti-proliferation approach

3.  Advanced Ad Hoc Control Strategy Award/Reuel Shinnar Optimum Sloppiness Award

Ed Bristol

For proposing a new way to determine good data from bad data

“You perturb the data and pass it through a P-I controller; if the results

are unchanged, the data are okay”

4.  Otto-Tuning Award

Bob Otto

For having read at least half of all academic control papers since 1960 and

retaining his sanity

5.  Would You Buy a Used Auto (Tuner) From This Man Award

Karl Astrom

For his inspired selling of a venerable (used) idea, the PID controller

6.  Self-citation Award

Winner: Cole Brosilow: SCA = 6/7 = 0.86

Runner up: Morari-Doyle: SCA = 0/0 = ?

For the CPC Author who cites himself the most in the proceedings

7. Doonesbury Award

Co-winners: Erik Ydstie and Guy Dumont

Honorable Mention: Jens Balchen

To a CPC participant who is most likely to leave the control field to become

a professional cartoonist

(Jens Balchen showed us a block diagram that looked like a cartoon!)

8. Extended Horizon Award

Guy Dumont

For emphasizing a 6-month commissioning period on an adaptive controller

9.  Wham Bam – Thank you Ma’am Award

Roger Sargent

For proposing a 10-minute commissioning period for adaptive controllers

10. Most Morbid Self-Tuning Control Slide

Graham Goodwin

For showing an Australian pre-med taking a final exam in experimental anatomy

11.  Dr. Ruth Westheimer Award

Tom McAvoy on the RGA

For presenting everything you ever wanted to know about a subject (plus some

things you didn’t want to know)

12. Lo-Cal Nutrition Award

CACHE Corporation

For forcing CPC participants to drink lite beer and coffee without cream

for five days

13.  “I Need Some Problems to Work on” Award

Billy Manousiouthakis

For implying that companies ought to build more open-loop unstable

processes

14.  Most Inaccurate Introduction Award

Co-Winners: Dale Seborg and Tom Edgar

Dale Seborg

For stating that Dr. Richalet was an academician (thus reducing his

credibility)

Tom Edgar

For forgetting about MIT (A small technical school in the Northeast)

15. Most Improved ChE Department As We Enter the Space Age

SHELL (Houston) Institute of Technology

16.  CPC Newcomer Award

Bill Luyben

To the old timer attending his first CPC

17. Let’s Get The Operator Back Into The Control Loop Award/Longest

Shortcut Award

Yaman Arkun

18.  Beware of Greeks Seeking Industrial Gifts Award

Christos Georgakis

19.  Incurable Romantic Award

(One week in San Francisco)

Expert Systems Speakers

For all those expert systems speakers who have developed aids (for the

operator) during the past year

Runner Up: CPC Participants

For those CPC participants who came in contact with SVD for the first

time this past week