one manifestation of his interest the boundary between human and automatic control. His book Humans and Automation is a concise summary of the history, issues, and progress in the role of the human and technology in automation. Publications He has published some books and over 200 technical papers. Books: Sheridan, Thomas B. and William Ferrell. 1974, Man-Machine Systems (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1974, 1981; USSR, 1981) Sheridan, Thomas B., and Gunnar Johannsen. 1976, (ed.) Monitoring Behavior and Supervisory Control, New York: Plenum. Sheridan, Thomas B. 1992, "Telerobotics, Automation, and Human Supervisory Control, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Sheridan, Thomas B., and Ton VonLunteren 1997, (ed.) Perspectives on the Human Controller, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Sheridan, Thomas B. 2002, Humans and Automation: System Design and Research Issues, John Wiley and Sons, 2002. Sheridan, Thomas B. 2014. What is God? Can Religion Be Modeled?, Washington DC, New Academia Press, 2014 See also Adaptive autonomy References External links Web page Thomas B. Sheridan at MIT. Other web page Thomas B. Sheridan at MIT. Google Scholar report 1929 births Cyberneticists Living people Purdue University College of Engineering alumni American roboticists IEEE Centennial Medal laureates Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering American electrical engineers