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Hey folks. this year we're trying something new. All Videos for NIWeek 2019 can be found here: https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek_2019 Feedback welcome. Thanks to @Mark Balla and other volunteers for recording the videos. Edit: We're starting to add the back catalog to YouTube. NIWeek 2018 videos are also up.

Dr Powell, First of all thank you for developing a dream library (framework), I've been using it for 2 years already. It is incredibly powerful and elegant. There are no words to express my admiration of your work! For couple of days I've been thinking about one scenario: Imagine there are 5 actors, each of them is dedicated to one particular piece of hardware or software component. They are launched by Main actor. Each of 5 actors has a state and it is updated once action is performed. Now, what if one of the actors gets into an infinite loop (or an action that will make it stuck). In this case it won't be able to update it's state. However my Main actor doesn't know about it, it only remembers that the last state of that frozen actor was, for example "good". 1. How to make the Main actor realise that one of its sub-actors is frozen? 2. What to do in this case with a frozen actor? How to restart it? P.S. I've been thinking about using the "Watchdog" actor. Create 5 of them in Main actor and share with subactors. Then inside of subactors constantly reset the Watchdogs. If watchdog wasn't reset, Main actor gets a message. Not sure if this is the most elegant solution. And there is still question 2 left. It would be great if you could share your thoughts about this. Thank you! Kind regards, Max