CMI Directors' Award.Norris B. Luther, president, Luther & Assoc., Tuscon, Arizona, was presented with the CMI (Computer-Managed Instruction) Using computers to organize and manage an instructional program for students. It helps create test materials, tracks the results and monitors student progress. Directors' Award "for his exceptional contributions to the Institute as an instructor and a member of its faculty." An AFS A distributed file system for large, widely dispersed Unix and Windows networks from Transarc Corporation, now part of IBM. It is noted for its ease of administration and expandability and stems from Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew File System. AFS - Andrew File System member since 1954, Luther received the Thomas W. Pangborn Gold Medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize in 1996 and the AFS Award of Scientific Merit in 1985. He was chairman of the AFS Plant Engineering Committee (1981-83) and the first chairman of the Engineering Div. (1983-86), establishing structure and formulating its by-laws. He also has been a member of the AFS Detroit Chapter (1956-78), Chicago Chapter (1979-87) and Desert Chapter (1988-present). He has served as a Cast Metals Institute director (1993-97), vice chairman (1995-96) and chairman (1996-97). He began his own consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a in 1982 after more than 45 years in the foundry industry. |
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