November 22, 2015 Re: DConf keynote speaker ideas | ||||
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 Posted in reply to Walter Bright | 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 | |||
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 Posted in reply to Jonathan M Davis | On 11/21/2015 11:47 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 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
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>>>> Maybe someone from JPL who can talk about software on space probes.
>>>
>>> Sounds like someone just watched The Martian.
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>> No, I'm waiting for it to appear on dvd.
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>> 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
Maybe Zottarelli is our man!
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November 22, 2015 Re: DConf keynote speaker ideas | ||||
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 Posted in reply to Walter Bright Attachments:
| On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 23:28 -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d 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. At PyConUK 2015 earlier this year we got Simon Sheridan from the team that put some of the sensors on a comet (you know the one :-) to come and tell us about it and the computing involved. > > 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. Obviously these are somewhat history lessons since the devices were built and fired off many, many years ago. So there is an element of "ancient history" to the computing, but it indicates how IoT will have to go to get things working. In these days of profligate use of an excess of resources, even thinking about what they had to do so many years ago to get the experiments run and results back was wonderful to hear about. Oh and they used special MCU chips that were programmed in Forth. Simon's session was excellently good, and the attenders loved it. Geek. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.winder@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: russel@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder | |||
November 22, 2015 Re: DConf keynote speaker ideas | ||||
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Posted in reply to Russel Winder | On 11/22/2015 1:14 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Obviously these are somewhat history lessons since the devices were
> built and fired off many, many years ago. So there is an element of
> "ancient history" to the computing, but it indicates how IoT will have
> to go to get things working. In these days of profligate use of an
> excess of resources, even thinking about what they had to do so many
> years ago to get the experiments run and results back was wonderful to
> hear about.
One of the interesting things was reprogramming the machine with modern software techniques that were unknown at the time it was launched.
I know that if I knew then what I know now, I'd program my older projects very differently, including the embedded asm code ones.
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Posted in reply to Andrei Alexandrescu Attachments:
| 2015-11-17 19:48 GMT+01:00 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>: > I'm thinking of inviting a notable industry luminary to deliver a conference keynote. Please reply to this with ideas! -- Andrei > Over the proposed speakers so far, Carmack would be my favorite. Someone that wasn't yet suggested so far is Richard Jones ( http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/rej/) which is one of the author of "The garbage collection handbook". | |||
November 22, 2015 Re: DConf keynote speaker ideas | ||||
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 Posted in reply to Mathias Lang | On 11/22/2015 06:38 AM, Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Over the proposed speakers so far, Carmack would be my favorite.
I've asked him a few days ago, he declined. -- Andrei
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