<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font color="#006000"></font></b><br clear="all"></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff</div><div><br></div><div>Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D.</div>
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<div>612 625 8054 Fax</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 4:08 PM Corinna Kirsch <<a href="mailto:corinna.kirsch@stonybrook.edu">corinna.kirsch@stonybrook.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr">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? <div><br></div><div><a href="http://news.mit.edu/2016/scene-at-mit-margaret-hamilton-apollo-code-0817" target="_blank">http://news.mit.edu/2016/scene-at-mit-margaret-hamilton-apollo-code-0817</a></div><div><a href="http://wg18.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/discussion/17/week-1-gendering-the-apollo-11-onboard-in-flight-software" target="_blank">http://wg18.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/discussion/17/week-1-gendering-the-apollo-11-onboard-in-flight-software</a></div><div><br><div><br><div><br></div><div><a href="http://news.mit.edu/2016/scene-at-mit-margaret-hamilton-apollo-code-0817" target="_blank">http://news.mit.edu/2016/scene-at-mit-margaret-hamilton-apollo-code-0817</a></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail-m_609899285337788199gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#444444" face="times new roman, serif" size="2">Corinna J. Kirsch<br><a href="http://art.stonybrook.edu/person/corinna-kirsch-mcdonald/" target="_blank">PhD Candidate in Modern Art History, Criticism, and Theory</a></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="times new roman, serif" size="2">Stony Brook University, State University of New York</font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="times new roman, serif" size="2">Phone: +1 (936) 697-1902</font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><img alt="Stony Brook University logo" src="http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/email/images/SBU_signature.gif"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">****************************************************************************************************************</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">*****************************************************************************************************************</div></div><div><br></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><font size="2"><br></font></font></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 12:27 PM David C. Brock <<a href="mailto:dcb@dcbrock.net" target="_blank">dcb@dcbrock.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">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><br></div><div>Just a couple of quick thoughts...<br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 31, 2019, at 1:48 PM, Alex Roland <<a href="mailto:alex.roland@duke.edu" target="_blank">alex.roland@duke.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_609899285337788199gmail-m_6012716856316045984Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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<div> 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>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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