Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

... on finally detecting gravitational waves from a pair of merging
black holes.

http://www.nature.com/news/einstein-s-gravitational-waves-found-at-last-1.19361

The earliest tech-talk message from a LIGO email address was from David
Barker in 1996. I believe EPICS has always been a fundamental part of
the observatories' control systems.

- Andrew

-- 
There are only two hard problems in distributed systems:
  2. Exactly-once delivery
  1. Guaranteed order of messages
  2. Exactly-once delivery
 -- Mathias Verraes

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