My monthly column, The Last Word, focused on a very hot topic for January, “(When) Will AI Overtake the Truss Industry.” Delving further into this burning issue, I turned away from random YouTube AI sessions and went to a better source, the School of Data Science at the University of...

Hans Hundegger grew up in the village of Hawangen, Germany, working in his father’s sawmill, which fortunately was far enough removed from war-torn Munich to provide a fertile learning environment. While his brother ran operations, Hans constantly improved the machines that were processing...