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Associated Organisations
- The Monza Organisation
Our sister company providing software, resources and internet services
General Interest
- A lost interview with ENIAC co-inventor J. Presper Eckert
On the the 60th anniversary of the unveiling of ENIAC, a newly discovered interview with "Pres" Eckert explodes some ENIAC myths.
- Manchester Mark I
To mark the 50th anniversary of the first computer ever to run a stored program, the Manchester Mark I, a competition was held in 1998 to write the most interesting program for a simulator of the original machine.
- The Stardust Project
Peoples names are written among the stars, or at least near a comet. NASA's Stardust spacecraft, a scientific mission to study a comet, also is going to carry silicon chips engraved with the names of people who signed upat the project's Web site. The mission, launched in February 1999 is due to reach the comet Wild-2 in 2004.
- Why the internet changes everything
A review of how DVD piracy rules are un-enforcable and the impact on all web publishing of music etc.
- Popular Mechanics 1054
Just read the caption !
Humour
Systems Design
- What really happened on Mars ?
An authoritative first-hand account of "What really happened on Mars?" from Glenn Reeves, who led the software team for the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft. This should be compulsory reading for all involved in a systems development lifecycle
- A Study on the activity, ethology and psychology of flourescent plastic cubes
A spoof paper designed too show the flaws in making assumptions about data. In this case everything is correct except on initial assumption, that the mice are extraneous to the experiment
- Beagle 2
Low tech and low budget British engineering go in search of life on Mars. A great project that unfortunately ended in the lose of the spacecraft
- Ariane 5
On 4 June 1996, the maiden flight of the Ariane 5 launcher ended in a failure. Only about 40 seconds after initiation of the flight sequence, at an altitude of about 3700 m, the launcher veered off its flight path, broke up and exploded. Engineers from the Ariane 5 project teams of CNES and Industry immediately started to investigate the failure.
Patterns & AntiPatterns
Patterns ...
Portland Pattern Repository
Patterns are the recurring solutions to the problems of design. People learn patterns by seeing them and recall them when need be without a lot of effort. Patterns link together in the mind so that one pattern leads to another and another until familiar problems are solved. That is, patterns form languages, not unlike natural languages, within which the human mind can assemble correct and infinitely varied statements from a small number of elements.
... and AntiPatterns
AntiPatterns.com
A survey of hundreds of corporate software development projects indicated that five out of six software projects are considered unsuccessful. About a third of software projects are canceled. The remaining projects delivered software that was typically twice the expected budget and took twice as long to developed as originally planned [Johnson 95]. These repeated failures, or "negative solutions", are highly valuable, however in that they provide us with useful knowledge of what does not work, and through study: why. Such study, in the vernacular of Design Patterns can be classified as the study of AntiPatterns.
Created on 06/23/2003 08:20 AM by datamgmt
Updated on 04/26/2006 01:29 PM by datamgmt
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