Larry Gould 21 Mill Stream Road Auburn, NH 03032-3815

Lawrence Gould writes mostly about factory automation and its information, control, and production equipment and subtechnologies, and associated production management strategies in a variety of industry segments. If a production technology or management technique is labeled with a 3-letter acronym, Gould has probably written about it. As observer, writer, and consultant, he has written scores of feature articles-both bylined and ghostwritten-for many trade magazines related to computers and production. As a contributing editor to Automotive Design & Production, Gould focuses on the computer bits, rather than the tool bits, in manufacturing technologies. Before choosing gainful self-employment in 1984, Gould was for a very, very short time the director of research for the Factory Systems Planning Service of The Yankee Group (Boston, MA). Before that, he was an associate editor for Modern Materials Handling (Newton, MA); advertising manager for Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. (Wilmington, MA); and an engineer at Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation (Boston, MA). Between his second and third jobs, Gould took his Wanderjahre, which amounted to nine months of learning about America while hitchhiking around Europe. Though a lot more comfortable as a writer than a public speaker, Gould has spoken at various conferences, including the annual IBM Manufacturing Executive Conference, the annual AS/RS Users Association Conference, and a 5-day tour sponsored by the Czechoslovak Scientific and Technical Society in Prague, Czech Republic. Gould holds a BS in engineering from Clarkson University (Potsdam, NY), but really majored in newspaper-layout design and student politics. He then went south for a winter to get an MS in technical writing from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). More information about Gould, such as his interests in bagpiping and sailing, can be found at his web site, www.lsgould.com.