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<div class="">The first work should be Paul Ceruzzi’s “Beyond the Limits” which explores the special relationship between aerospace and computing. Over the years, Paul has made many more contributions on this subject (including a fine paper at the 2016 SHOT
meeting in Singapore). David Mindell’s “Digital Apollo” does an excellent job capturing the story of the Apollo Guidance Computer but as many know, this is hardly the only computer story in the space program. I would recommend Robert Ferguson’s “NASA’s First
A” as a good place to start as it includes a description of many projects, most importantly the development of the structural analysis software package NASTRAN. (The book can be downloaded: <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/NASAsFirstA-508-ebook.pdf" class="">https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/NASAsFirstA-508-ebook.pdf</a>).</div>
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<div class="">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)
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<div dir="ltr" class="">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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<div class="">On May 31, 2019, at 1:48 PM, Alex Roland <<a href="mailto:alex.roland@duke.edu" target="_blank" class="">alex.roland@duke.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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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
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