From the birth of Numerical Control (NC) in the late 1940’s—a collaboration between John Parsons and Frank Stulen (both received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation), the MIT Servomechanisms Lab, and the U.S. Air Force to machine the complex contours of aerospace parts—to today’s model of fully digitized ideation through production, digital manufacturing has followed a remarkable path from baby steps to … Continue reading A 70-Year Odyssey, from “Sneakernet” to Machine Learning