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21 April 2016
Manchester Central Convention Complex
Europe/London timezone

A brief walk through some history and findings of NASA's telecommunication network during Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes

21 Apr 2016, 15:30
15m
Manchester Central Convention Complex

Manchester Central Convention Complex

Petersfield Manchester M2 3GX
Lightning Talks

Speaker

Mr Neil McRae (BT)

Description

"They can land man on the moon but vendor X can't still write bug free code!". Since Sputnik started the space race, it infact actually became a relay race across many different things, from integrated circuits to welding torches no period has surpassed this time for the pace of innovation. Communications was clearly a key requirement of "landing a man on the moon and returning him safety to the Earth". I'll explore my own personal research of this and some other facets of early networking and in effect the birth of our industry.

Primary author

Mr Neil McRae (BT)

Presentation materials