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John A. Black, Jr. spent the first 13 years of his career in industry
Industry

An industry is the manufacturing of a Good or Service within a category. Although industry is a broad term for any kind of economic production, in economics and urban planning industry is a synonym for the secondary sector, which is a type of economic activity involved in the manufacturing of raw materials into goods and products....
, as a hardware/software engineer
Engineer

An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of engineering. Engineers are concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints....
, project engineer, and engineering manager. During that time he and Craig MacKenna coauthored the VMEbus Specification, which has been accepted as an IEEE, ANSI, and ISO standard, and currently serves as the primary backplane architecture standard for the US Military. In 1985 he left Motorola to found his own company (Micrology pbt, Inc) as a consultant, working with start-up companies seeking to offer leading edge backplane-based products based on the VMEbus
VMEbus

VMEbus is a computer bus standard, originally developed for the Motorola 68000 line of Central processing unit, but later widely used for many applications and standardized by the IEC as American National Standards Institute/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1014-1987....
 standard.






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John A. Black, Jr. spent the first 13 years of his career in industry
Industry

An industry is the manufacturing of a Good or Service within a category. Although industry is a broad term for any kind of economic production, in economics and urban planning industry is a synonym for the secondary sector, which is a type of economic activity involved in the manufacturing of raw materials into goods and products....
, as a hardware/software engineer
Engineer

An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of engineering. Engineers are concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints....
, project engineer, and engineering manager. During that time he and Craig MacKenna coauthored the VMEbus Specification, which has been accepted as an IEEE, ANSI, and ISO standard, and currently serves as the primary backplane architecture standard for the US Military. In 1985 he left Motorola to found his own company (Micrology pbt, Inc) as a consultant, working with start-up companies seeking to offer leading edge backplane-based products based on the VMEbus
VMEbus

VMEbus is a computer bus standard, originally developed for the Motorola 68000 line of Central processing unit, but later widely used for many applications and standardized by the IEC as American National Standards Institute/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1014-1987....
 standard. At the same time Black launched OpenSystems Publishing to promote the development of open standards, and to assist start-up companies in introducing products based on those standards.

In 1992 Black compiled and edited The System Engineer's handbook
Handbook

A handbook is a type of reference work, or other collection of instructions, that is intended to provide ready reference. A vade mecum or pocket reference is intended to be carried at all times....
 (ISBN 0121028208) which was published by Academic Press. In 2004 he joined the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing at Arizona State University as a research scientist.