[SIGCIS-Members] NASA contributions to computer development

[Jeffrey Yost]

NASA Ames has the RIACS the Research Institute for Advanced Computer
Science, its founding Director was esteemed computer scientist and past ACM
President Peter J. Denning (now a Prof. at Naval Post Graduate in
Monterey).  NASA Langley has computing research programs.  NASA has major
research programs funding government labs, FFRDCs, and university
researchers, in particular, its Program in High-End Computing
(HEC)/Supercomputing.  There are quite a number of hits to NASA in CBI
finding aids (hundreds) as well as CBI oral histories.

Jeff

Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D.
Director, Charles Babbage Institute
Research Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and
Medicine

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On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 4:08 PM Corinna Kirsch <
corinna.kirsch at stonybrook.edu> wrote:

> Depending on the nature of the journalist's interest in "computer
> development," I'd suggest pointing the journalist in the direction of
> Margaret Hamilton and team's work on Apollo software. I'm not sure what
> type of interest the journalist has in "computer development": big
> machines, fast processors, virtual reality software, prototyping?
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> http://news.mit.edu/2016/scene-at-mit-margaret-hamilton-apollo-code-0817
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> http://wg18.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/discussion/17/week-1-gendering-the-apollo-11-onboard-in-flight-software
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> http://news.mit.edu/2016/scene-at-mit-margaret-hamilton-apollo-code-0817
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> Corinna J. Kirsch
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> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 12:27 PM David C. Brock <dcb at dcbrock.net> wrote:
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>> NASA was a sponsor of Englebart’s lab at SRI. NASA also funded work in
>> computer graphics and animation. NASA’s JPL is an important site in the
>> history of computer animation.
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>> Just a couple of quick thoughts...
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>> David C. Brock
>> dcb at dcbrock.net
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>> On May 31, 2019, at 1:48 PM, Alex Roland <alex.roland at duke.edu> wrote:
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>> Friends:
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>>           I have been a passive member of SIGCIS for many years now, even
>> though I am no longer an active researcher in the field.  Still, I follow
>> your correspondence with great interest.  I am writing now because I have
>> received an inquiry from a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who is
>> interested in NASA’s historical contributions to computer development.  I
>> know from research on my book *Strategic Computing: DARPA and  the Quest
>> for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993 *(2002) that NASA was involved in
>> the Federal High Performance Computing Program in the late 1980s and early
>> 1990s.  I do not, however, know of other significant contributions by NASA
>> to computer development.  If anyone knows of such contributions, I would be
>> happy to know about them.
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>> Thanks,  Alex Roland
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