Craig Fields has named Alan Salisbury COO of MCC. Salisbury has been president of Contel Technology Center since 1987, following nearly 30 years with the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He also served on the information and science technology board at DARPA. Salisbury says that MCC doesn't have to "give up long-term results in order to gain shorter-term benefits. The key is to look for intermediate deliverables." [EE Times, 6/17.]

MCC is already exploring AI, neural networks, heterogeneous computing, software technology, and advanced packaging, but they've done almost nothing with fuzzy logic. Now MCC's June 27 "first international industrial Conference on Fuzzy Systems" has brought together leading researchers, including Takeshi Yamakawa, deputy director of Japan's $70M fuzzy logic initiative, and Tomohiro Takage of the Laboratory of International Fuzzy Engineering (LIFE). And Lotfi Zadeh, of course. (Sorry, Lotfi!) Steve O'Hara, the conference chairman, is at (512) 338-3776. [R. Colin Johnson, EE Times, 6/17.]