On Sunday, 22 November 2015 at 07:27:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 11/21/2015 6:32 PM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
On Saturday, 21 November 2015 at 22:21:48 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 11/17/2015 10:48 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I'm thinking of inviting a notable industry luminary to
deliver a conference
keynote. Please reply to this with ideas! -- Andrei
Maybe someone from JPL who can talk about software on space
probes.
Sounds like someone just watched The Martian.
No, I'm waiting for it to appear on dvd.
It comes from 20 years ago I attended a seminar given by the
lead on the Voyager project, and his discussion on how they
developed the software and fixed bugs in it and drastically
improved it while it was traveling was fascinating. For
example, they figured out how to boost the resolution of the
cameras with a software improvement.
It's going to be a lot harder to find a Voyager engineer now. ;)
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/27/technology/voyager-nasa/index.html
- Jonathan M Davis
