<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just a couple of quick thoughts...<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 31, 2019, at 1:48 PM, Alex Roland <<a href="mailto:alex.roland@duke.edu" class="">alex.roland@duke.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""> 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
<i class="">Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993
</i>(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.</div>
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<div class="">Thanks, Alex Roland</div>
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