Source: Fort Gordon The Signal: Specturm section
Larry Edmond, Signal Staff
Feb 17 2009

FORT GORDON, GA: Engineers conducting show and-tell with a 20-ton robot on the last day of two weeks of trials on Fort Gordon were cautiously optimistic.

Like Air Force Capt. Ed Murphy who coined the famed Murphy’s Law, Karl Murphy, a software engineer from Robotic Research said there was a new principle at work on the test field. “One of my professors reminded us that we have ‘sight-ons’ present whenever an experiment is being viewed. The more ‘sight-ons’ you have the greater is the potential for something to go wrong.” Tongue in cheek, he continued explaining that sight-on fields increase with the rank and reach of individuals viewing a test.  [Click the title for the link. See page 12 of the link for complete article]