Many of these links are ephemeral.
Please inform me
if you find a stale link.
One of my cousins managed development of on-board software
for several Apollo missions. That may account for some
selection bias.
Ephemeral Sayings
Wade Phillips on Adam "Pacman" Jones:
Everything I've heard about the guy is that he works hard,
practices hard and plays hard.
(Emphasis added.)
Horror Stories
Success Stories
- How the on-board shuttle group
develops
software.
- Not everyone views the on-board shuttle software as a success.
For an opposing view, read
"Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code"
by Richard P. Gabriel
and Ron Goldman.
- ACL2
is one of the great success stories of computer science.
(In 1975, as an undergraduate at the University of Texas,
I used an early version of the Boyer-Moore theorem prover
in a graduate course taught by Woody Bledsoe.)
- Kevin Everett's recovery,
as chronicled by Tim Layden of Sports Illustrated,
is about science as well as football and medicine.
- No list of success stories would be complete
without mentioning the
43rd President of the United States.
Last updated 29 April 2008.