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56-636: The Data Base Task Group ( DBTG ) was a working group founded in 1965 by the Cobol Committee , formerly Programming Language Committee , of the Conference on Data Systems Language ( CODASYL ). It was initially named the List Processing Task Force and later renamed to DBTG in 1967. The DBTG was chaired by William Olle of RCA . In April 1971, the DBTG published a report containing specifications of

112-472: A Data Manipulation Language (DML) and a Data Definition Language (DDL) for standardization of network database model . The first DBTG proposals had already been published in 1969. The specification was subsequently modified and developed in various committees and published by other reports in 1973 and 1978. The specification is often referred to as the DBTG database model or the CODASYL database model. As well as

168-717: A player piano to relay instructions to the aircraft's autopilot at certain way points during the flight, significantly reducing the pilot's workload. Technologically, this effort had parallels to contemporary efforts in missile guidance and numerical control . Honeywell also developed the Wagtail missile with the USAF. From the 1950s until the mid-1970s, Honeywell was the United States' importer of Japanese company Asahi Optical's Pentax cameras and photographic equipment. These products were labeled "Heiland Pentax" and "Honeywell Pentax" in

224-638: A "patent cross-license" agreement that "fully resolves" the long-standing dispute. Honeywell sued Nest Labs in 2012. In 2017, Honeywell opened a new software center in Atlanta, Georgia. David Cote stepped down as CEO on April 1, 2017, and was succeeded by Darius Adamczyk , who had been promoted to president and chief operating officer (COO) in 2016. Cote served as executive chairman to April 2018. In October 2017, Honeywell announced plans to spin off its Homes, ADI Global Distribution , and Transportation Systems businesses into two separate, publicly traded companies by

280-703: A COBOL replacement. In 1971, largely in response to the need for programming language independence, the work was reorganized: development of the Data Description Language was continued by the Data Description Language Committee , while the COBOL DML was taken over by the COBOL language committee. With hindsight, this split had unfortunate consequences. The two groups never quite managed to synchronize their specifications, leaving vendors to patch up

336-633: A Japan-based distributor. Later in 1934, Minneapolis-Honeywell started distributorships across Canada, as well as one in the Netherlands, their first European office. This expansion into international markets continued in 1936, with their first distributorship in London, as well as their first foreign assembly facility being established in Canada. By 1937, ten years after the merger, Minneapolis-Honeywell had over 3,000 employees, with $ 16 million in annual revenue. With

392-488: A better position in those markets. Under Binger's stewardship from 1961 to 1978 he expanded the company into such fields as defense, aerospace, and computing. During and after the Vietnam Era , Honeywell's defense division produced a number of products, including cluster bombs , missile guidance systems, napalm , and land mines . Minnesota-Honeywell Corporation completed flight tests on an inertia guidance sub-system for

448-599: A definitive agreement to acquire Xtralis, a leading global provider of aspirating smoke detection along with advanced perimeter security technologies and video analytics software, for $ 480 million, from funds advised by Pacific Equity Partners and Blum Capital Partners. The deal was completed in April 2016. In May 2016, Honeywell International Inc. settled its patent dispute regarding Google subsidiary Nest Labs, whose thermostats Honeywell claimed infringed on several of its patents. Google parent Alphabet Inc. and Honeywell said they reached

504-402: A global joint venture with Compagnie des Machines Bull of France and NEC Corporation of Japan to become Honeywell Bull. In 1988 Honeywell Bull was consolidated into Groupe Bull and in 1989 renamed to Bull, a Worldwide Information Systems Company. By 1991, Honeywell was no longer involved in the computer business. 1986 marked a new direction for Honeywell, beginning with the acquisition of

560-536: A hefty premium, it's still getting Pittway for a bargain" at $ 45.50 per share, despite closing at $ 29 the week before. Pittway's Ademco products complemented Honeywell's existing unified controls systems. In October 2000, Honeywell, then valued at over $ 21 billion, accepted a takeover bid from then-CEO Jack Welch of General Electric . The American Department of Justice cleared the merger, while "GE teams swooped down on Honeywell" and "GE executives took over budget planning and employee reviews." However, on July 3, 2001,

616-526: A high speed non-impact printer called the Honeywell Page Printing System . In 1975, it purchased Xerox Data Systems , whose Sigma computers had a small but loyal customer base. Some of Honeywell's systems were minicomputers , such as their Series 60 Model 6 and Model 62 and their Honeywell 200 . The latter was an attempt to penetrate the IBM 1401 market. In 1987, HIS merged with Groupe Bull ,

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672-777: A joint venture with Raytheon called Datamatic to enter the computer market and compete with IBM . In 1957, their first computer, the DATAmatic 1000 , was sold and installed. In 1960, just five years after embarking on this venture with Raytheon, Minneapolis-Honeywell bought Raytheon's interest in Datamatic and turned it into the Electronic Data Processing division, later Honeywell Information Systems (HIS) of Minneapolis-Honeywell. Honeywell purchased minicomputer pioneer Computer Control Corporation (3C's) in 1966, renaming it as Honeywell's Computer Control Division. Through most of

728-526: A joint venture with Honeywell International Inc. – assumed full ownership of its ventures in Europe, Brazil, and the USA. Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems became a subsidiary of Knorr-Bremse AG . Although declining in influence, Honeywell maintains a presence in emerging industries, such as Northern Alberta 's oil sands . Honeywell's Plant integrator is currently deployed in some of the most important plant-sites in

784-519: A period of expansion and acquisition when they purchased the Time-O-Stat Controls Company, giving the company access to a greater number of patents for their controls systems. W.R. Sweatt and his son Harold provided 75 years of uninterrupted leadership for the company. W.R. Sweatt survived rough spots and turned an innovative idea – thermostatic heating control – into a thriving business. Harold took over in 1934, leading Honeywell through

840-625: A period of growth and global expansion that set the stage for Honeywell to become a global technology leader. The merger into the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company proved to be a saving grace for the corporation. 1934 marked Minneapolis-Honeywell's first foray into the international market, when they acquired the Brown Instrument Company and inherited their relationship with the Yamatake Company of Tokyo,

896-545: A stockholder in the company, was sold "an extensive list of patents" and named secretary-treasurer. By 1900, Sweatt had bought out the remaining shares of the company from the other stockholders. In 1906, Mark Honeywell founded the Honeywell Heating Specialty Company in Wabash , Indiana , to manufacture and market his invention, the mercury seal generator. As Honeywell's company grew, thanks in part to

952-598: A £1.2bn ($ 2.3bn) bid for Novar plc in December 2004. The acquisition was finalized in March 2005. In October 2005, Honeywell bought out Dow's 50% stake in UOP for $ 825 million, giving them complete control over the joint venture in petrochemical and refining technology. In May 2010, Honeywell outbid UK-based Cinven and acquired the French company Sperian Protection for $ 1.4 billion, which

1008-675: Is Vimal Kapur . The corporation's current name, Honeywell International Inc., is a product of the merger of Honeywell Inc. and AlliedSignal in 1999. The corporation headquarters were consolidated with AlliedSignal's headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey. The combined company chose the name "Honeywell" because of the considerable brand recognition. Honeywell was a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average index from 1999 to 2008. Prior to 1999, its corporate predecessors were included dating back to 1925, including early entrants in

1064-552: Is an American publicly traded , multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina . It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace ; building automation; performance materials and technologies (PMT); and safety and productivity solutions (SPS). Honeywell is a Fortune 500 company, ranked 115th in 2023. In 2023, the corporation had a global workforce of approximately 95,000 employees. The current chairman & chief executive officer (CEO)

1120-527: Is based on trapped ions. Its expected quantum volume is at least 64, which Honeywell's CEO called the world's most powerful quantum computer. In November 2021, Honeywell announced the spinoff of its quantum division into a separate company named " Quantinuum ". In March 2023, Honeywell announced Vimal Kapur as its next CEO, effective June 1, 2023. In December 2023, Honeywell acquired Carrier Global 's security business for nearly $ 5 billion to boost its automation portfolio. In February 2024, Honeywell filed

1176-409: Is concerned with CODASYL's database activities. In 1965 CODASYL formed a List Processing Task Force. This group was chartered to develop COBOL language extensions for processing collections of records; the name arose because Charles Bachman 's IDS system (which was the main technical input to the project) managed relationships between records using chains of pointers. In 1967 the group renamed itself

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1232-583: The Data Base Task Group (DBTG), and its first report in January 1968 was entitled COBOL extensions to handle data bases . In October 1969 the DBTG published its first language specifications for the network database model which became generally known as the CODASYL Data Model. This specification in fact defined several separate languages: a data definition language (DDL) to define the schema of

1288-543: The European Commission 's competition commissioner, Mario Monti , blocked the move. This decision was taken on the grounds that with GE's dominance of the large jet engine market, led by the General Electric CF34 turbofan engine, its leasing services ( GECAS ), and Honeywell's portfolio of regional jet engines and avionics , the new company would be able to "bundle" products and stifle competition through

1344-688: The RUR-5 ASROC for the US Navy. In 1953, in cooperation with the USAF Wright-Air Development Center, Honeywell developed an automated control unit, that could control an aircraft through various stages of a flight, from taxiing to takeoff to the point where the aircraft neared its destination and the pilot took over for landing . Called the Automatic Master Sequence Selector , the onboard control operated similarly to

1400-519: The Unix operating system. Multics influenced many of the features of Honeywell/GE's GECOS and GCOS8 General Comprehensive Operating System operating systems. Honeywell, Groupe Bull , and Control Data Corporation formed a joint venture in Magnetic Peripherals Inc . which became a major player in the hard disk drive market. Honeywell was the worldwide leader in 14-inch disk drive technology in

1456-562: The X-20 project at Eglin Air Force Base , Florida, utilizing an NF-101B Voodoo by August 1963. The X-20 project was canceled in December 1963. The Honeywell project , founded in 1968, organized protests against the company to persuade it to abandon weapons production In 1980, Honeywell bought Incoterm Corporation to compete in both the airline reservations system networks and bank teller markets. In April 1955, Minneapolis-Honeywell started

1512-771: The 1960s, Honeywell was one of the " Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs " of computing. IBM was "Snow White", while the dwarfs were the seven significantly smaller computer companies: Burroughs , Control Data Corporation , General Electric , Honeywell, NCR , RCA , and UNIVAC . Later, when their number had been reduced to five, they were known as "The BUNCH ", after their initials: Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, and Honeywell. In 1970, Honeywell acquired GE's computer business, rebadging General Electric 's 600-series mainframes to Honeywell 6000 series computers, supporting GCOS , Multics , and CP-6 , while forming Honeywell Information Systems . In 1973, they shipped

1568-484: The 1970s, when faced with a denial of access to students, Honeywell "quietly [reversed] its hiring policy". The beginning of the 1970s saw Honeywell focus on process controls, with Honeywell merging their computer operations with GE's information systems in 1970, and later acquiring GE's process control business. With the acquisition, Honeywell took over responsibility for GE's ongoing Multics operating system project. The design and features of Multics greatly influenced

1624-683: The Butz Thermo-Electric Regulator Company. In 1888, after a falling out with his investors, Butz left the company and transferred the patents to the legal firm Paul, Sanford, and Merwin, who renamed the company the Consolidated Temperature Controlling Company. As the years passed, CTCC struggled with debt, and the company underwent several name changes. After it was renamed the Electric Heat Regulator Company in 1893, W.R. Sweatt ,

1680-582: The Enviracare air cleaner business. By 1995, Honeywell had condensed into three divisions: Space and Aviation Control, Home and Building Control, and Industrial Control. Honeywell dissolved its partnership with Yamatake Company and consolidated its Process Control Products Division, Process Management System Division, and Micro Switch Division into one Industrial Control Group in 1998. It has further acquired Measurex System and Leeds & Northrup to strengthen its portfolio in 1997. On June 7, 1999, Honeywell

1736-527: The Honeywell Robotics was created in Pittsburgh to focus on supply chain transformation. The Honeywell robotic unloader grabs packages in tractor-trailers then places them on conveyor belts for handlers to sort. In May 2019, GoDirect Trade launched as an online marketplace for surplus aircraft parts such as engines, electronics, and APU parts. In March 2020, Honeywell announced that its quantum computer

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1792-571: The OEM marketplace in the 1970s and early 1980s, especially with its SMD (Storage Module Drive) and CMD (Cartridge Module Drive). In the second half of the 1970s, Honeywell started to look to international markets again, acquiring the French Compagnie Internationale pour l’Informatique in 1976. In 1984, Honeywell formed Honeywell High Tech Trading to lease their foreign marketing and distribution to other companies abroad, in order to establish

1848-602: The Oil Sands, Syncrude , Suncor , and others. In February 2002, Honeywell's board appointed their next CEO and chairman, David M. Cote. Cote was instrumental in uniting the company cultures of Honeywell, AlliedSignal, and Pittway. Since 2002, Honeywell has made more than 80 acquisitions and 60 divestures, while adding $ 12 billion in new sales and increasing its labor force to 131,000 as a result of these acquisitions. Under his tenure, Honeywell's stock nearly tripled from $ 35.23 in April 2002 to $ 99.39 in January 2015. Honeywell made

1904-468: The SmartHouse project, to combine heating, cooling, security, lighting, and appliances into one easily controlled system. They continued the trend in 1987 by releasing new security systems, and fire and radon detectors. In 1992, in another streamlining effort, Honeywell combined their Residential Controls, Commercial Systems, and Protections Services divisions into Home and Building Control, which then acquired

1960-646: The Sperry Aerospace Group from the Unisys Corporation . In 1990, Honeywell spun off their Defense and Marine Systems business into Alliant Techsystems , as well as their Test Instruments division and Signal Analysis Center to streamline the company's focus. Honeywell continues to supply aerospace products including electronic guidance systems, cockpit instrumentation, lighting, and primary propulsion and secondary power turbine engines. In 1996, Honeywell acquired Duracraft and began marketing its products in

2016-460: The U.S. In 1953, Honeywell introduced their most famous product, the T-86 Round thermostat. In 1961, James H. Binger became Honeywell's president and in 1965 its chairman. Binger revamped the company sales approach, placing emphasis on profits rather than on volume. He stepped up the company's international expansion – it had six plants producing 12% of the company's revenue. He officially changed

2072-702: The acquisition of Elster for US$ 5.1B, announced in July 2015, entering the space of gas, electricity, and water meters with a specific focus on smart meters and hoped to be a growth driver for Honeywell in 2016 and beyond. The deal complements the HON Combustion business with the addition of Elster with strong brands such as Kromschroeder and Eclipse. Honeywell International Inc. then acquired the 30% stake in UOP Russell LLC it didn't own already for roughly $ 240 million in January 2016. In February 2016, Honeywell entered into

2128-664: The acquisition of Jewell Manufacturing Company in 1922 to better automate his heating system, it began to clash with the Electric Heat Regulator Company now-renamed Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company. In 1927, this led to the merging of both companies into the publicly-held Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company. Honeywell was named the company's first president, alongside W.R. Sweatt as its first chairman. In 1929, combined assets were valued at over $ 3.5 million, with less than $ 1 million in liabilities just months before Black Monday . In 1931, Minneapolis-Honeywell began

2184-572: The companies share huge business interests in aerospace, chemical products, automotive parts, and building controls. The corporate headquarters were consolidated to AlliedSignal's headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, rather than Honeywell's former headquarters in Minneapolis , Minnesota . When Honeywell closed its corporate headquarters in Minneapolis, over one thousand employees lost their jobs. A few moved to Morristown or other company locations, but

2240-699: The company's corporate name from "Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co." to "Honeywell", to better represent their colloquial name. Throughout the 1960s, Honeywell continued to acquire other businesses, including Security Burglar Alarm Company in 1969. In the 1970s, after one member of a group called FREE on the Minneapolis campus (U of M) of the University of Minnesota asked five major companies with local offices to explain their attitudes toward gay men and women, three responded quickly, insisting that they did not discriminate against gay people in their hiring policies. Only Honeywell objected to hiring gay people. Later in

2296-705: The computing and thermostat industries. In 2020, Honeywell rejoined the Dow Jones Industrial Average index. In 2021, it moved its stock listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq . The Butz Thermo-Electric Regulator Company was founded in 1885 when the Swiss-born Albert Butz invented the damper-flapper , a thermostat used to control coal furnaces, bringing automated heating system regulation into homes. In 1886, he founded

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2352-561: The creation of a horizontal monopoly . US regulators disagreed, finding that the merger would improve competition and reduce prices; United States Assistant Attorney General Charles James called the EU's decision "antithetical to the goals of antitrust law enforcement." This led to a drop in morale and general tumult throughout Honeywell. The then-CEO Michael Bonsignore was fired as Honeywell looked to turn their business around. In January 2002, Knorr-Bremse  – who had been operating in

2408-537: The data model, many basic concepts of database terminology were introduced by this group, notably the concepts of schema and subschema . This database -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . CODASYL CODASYL's members were individuals from industry and government involved in data processing activity . Its larger goal was to promote more effective data systems analysis , design, and implementation . The organization published specifications for various languages over

2464-405: The database, another DDL to create one or more subschemas defining application views of the database; and a data manipulation language (DML) defining verbs for embedding in the COBOL programming language to request and update data in the database. Although the work was focused on COBOL, the idea of a host-language independent database was starting to emerge, prompted by IBM 's advocacy of PL/I as

2520-630: The differences. The inevitable consequence was a lack of interoperability among implementations. A number of vendors implemented database products conforming (roughly) to the DBTG specifications: the best-known implementations were Honeywell 's—originally General Electric 's—Integrated Data Store (IDS/2), HP's IMAGE , Cullinet's Integrated Database Management System IDMS , ICL's 2900 IDMS (derived from Cullinet's product), Univac 's DMS-1100, and Digital Equipment Corporation 's DBMS for VMS (later known as Oracle Codasyl DBMS). Cullinet , originally known as Cullinane Database Systems, obtained

2576-485: The end of 2018. In 2018, Honeywell spun off both Honeywell Turbo Technologies, now Garrett Advancing Motion , and its consumer products business, Resideo. Both companies are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange . For the fiscal year 2019, Honeywell reported net income of US$ 6.230 billion, with an annual revenue of US$ 36.709 billion, a decrease of 19.11% over the previous fiscal cycle. Honeywell's shares traded at over $ 158 per share, and its market capitalization

2632-513: The home comfort sector. Honeywell is in the consortium that runs the Pantex Plant that assembles all of the nuclear bombs in the United States arsenal. Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, successor to the defense products of AlliedSignal, operates the Kansas City Plant which produces and assembles 85 percent of the non-nuclear components of the bombs. Honeywell began

2688-475: The majority were forced to find new jobs or retire. Soon after the merger, the company's stock fell significantly, and did not return to its pre-merger level until 2007. In 2000, the new Honeywell acquired Pittway for $ 2.2 billion to gain a greater share of the fire-protection and security systems market, and merged it into their Home and Building Control division, taking on Pittway's $ 167 million in debt. Analyst David Jarrett commented that "while Honeywell offered

2744-648: The outbreak of World War II , Minneapolis-Honeywell was approached by the US military for engineering and manufacturing projects. In 1941, Minneapolis-Honeywell developed a superior tank periscope, camera stabilizers, and the C-1 autopilot. The C-1 revolutionized precision bombing and was ultimately used on the two B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945. The success of these projects led Minneapolis-Honeywell to open an Aero division in Chicago on October 5, 1942. This division

2800-471: The technology from B.F. Goodrich . Cullinet was eventually sold to Computer Associates , which as of 2007 still sells and supports a version of IDMS. ANSI and ISO adopted the CODASYL database specifications under the name Network Database Language (NDL), with work taking place within the same working group (X3H2) as SQL standardization. An ISO standard for NDL was ratified as ISO 8907:1987, but, as it never had any practical effect on implementations, it

2856-550: The years, handing these over to official standards bodies ( ISO , ANSI , or their predecessors) for formal standardization . CODASYL is remembered almost entirely for two activities: its work on the development of the COBOL language and its activities in standardizing database interfaces. It also worked on a wide range of other topics, including end-user form interfaces and operating system control languages, but these projects had little lasting impact. The remainder of this section

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2912-545: Was acquired by AlliedSignal , who elected to retain the Honeywell name for its brand recognition. The former Honeywell moved their headquarters of 114 years to AlliedSignal's in Morristown , New Jersey . While "technically, the deal looks more like an acquisition than a merger...from a strategic standpoint, it is a merger of equals." AlliedSignal's 1998 revenue was reported at $ 15.1 billion to Honeywell's $ 8.4 billion, but together

2968-535: Was formally withdrawn in 1998. Some of the CODASYL committees continue their work today, but CODASYL itself no longer exists. The records of CODASYL were donated to the Charles Babbage Institute . CBI also hold the archival records for American National Standards Institute X3H2 records . Interest in CODASYL gradually faded due to growing interest in relational databases beginning in the early 1980s. Honeywell Honeywell International Inc.

3024-449: Was responsible for the development of the formation stick to control autopilots, more accurate fuel quantity indicators for aircraft, and the turbo supercharger. In 1950, Minneapolis-Honeywell's Aero division was contracted for the controls on the first US nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus . In 1951, the company acquired Intervox Company for their sonar, ultrasonic, and telemetry technologies. Honeywell also helped develop and manufacture

3080-466: Was then incorporated into its automation and controls safety unit. In 2015, the headquarters were moved to Morris Plains, New Jersey . The 475,000-square-foot building on 40 acres in Morris Plains featured state-of-the-art technology and greater energy efficiency than Honeywell's Morristown campus, which was underutilized, outdated and costly, according to Cote. In December 2015, Honeywell completed

3136-700: Was valued at over US$ 113.25 billion in September 2020. Honeywell relocated its corporate headquarters in October 2019 to Charlotte, North Carolina. In July 2019, Honeywell moved employees into a temporary headquarters building in Charlotte before their new building was complete. Honeywell Forge launched as an analytics platform software for industrial and commercial applications such as aircraft, building, industrial, worker and cyber-security. In collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University National Robotics Engineering Center,

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