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Project Apollo: Reading List

Project Apollo: Reading List

Time to talk books! > @bltroutwine [https://twitter.com/bltroutwine] by the way, do you have something like an Apollo recommended reading list? Because I would be *so* into that. — Daniel D. Beck (@ddbeck) August 27, 2015 [https://twitter.com/ddbeck/status/636961208726355969] Aside from embedded and real-time systems, my main

Pressure Suits and a Suitcase?

Pressure Suits and a Suitcase?

The X-15 is a fascinating project in NASA and aeronautic engineering history. Running from 1958 to 1968 this plane couldn't take off: it was dropped from under the wing of a modified B-52 bomber. You can see it below, the black craft under the far wing. A single occupant craft,

Peculiar Books Reviewed: Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.'s "Thirteen: The Apollo Flight that Failed"

Peculiar Books Reviewed: Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.'s "Thirteen: The Apollo Flight that Failed"

In the first Peculiar Books Reviewed we discussed David A. Mindell's delightful book "Digital Apollo" and, in particular, took from the book this lesson: a technical system which puts the human component in a position of supremacy over the machine is more capable of achieving the aim of the system

Peculiar Books Reviewed: Francis Spufford's "Backroom Boys"

Peculiar Books Reviewed: Francis Spufford's "Backroom Boys"

What is the soul of software engineering as a discipline? That is, who is it that the software engineer can esteem? What characteristics are laudable and worthy of emulation? Physicists have their heroes: Niels Bohr, say, careful to the point of being paralyzed by indecision but brilliant nonetheless, or Richard

Peculiar Books Reviewed: David A. Mindell's "Digital Apollo"

peculiar books reviewed

Peculiar Books Reviewed: David A. Mindell's "Digital Apollo"

This is the first of a series of monthly book reviews intended to make the case for expanding the canon of Software Engineering texts. Don't get me wrong, books like Code Complete or the Mythical Man Month are venerable and valuable, but I contend that the corpus should be more