Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 23/1/2004As I type this, I'm watching the clock and anxiously waiting for the next scheduled attempt to communicate with the Mars rover. Good luck in getting the thing back, chaps, and let's hope the second rover lands safely this weekend.
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I am baff, I am surprised", said Steve Squyres, scientific director/conductor of the Rover mission. Being a space cadet of the first rank (even if I'm still waiting for a shiny tin-foil suit that fits), I find this very exciting -- but I've got an...
[March 5, 2004, 16:20]
Chris Long's Column: Of Buttons And Fuses...
News On the phone to the garage I was talking to the sales person who was on a computer connecting to the Rover central server (basically if I can't get a car I'm going to get a dog). Yup the TR7 is likely to be pensioned off (as long as I can find some...
[June 30, 1999, 7:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog In the US, Mattel's Hot Wheels Action Pack of the Pathfinder Lander and Sojourner rover sells out in hours. One story circulating is that the Rover design stems from the day that the scientists had the funding for a previous and much larger mission...
[July 12, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News In the US, Mattel's Hot Wheels Action Pack of the Pathfinder Lander and Sojourner rover sells out in hours. One story circulating is that the Rover design stems from the day that the scientists had the funding for a previous and much larger mission...
[July 12, 1997, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In practice, it's almost happening: while I had to hang on the phone to find out what was going on with Magellan a few years back (that was the probe to radar-map Venus), I pretty well watched the Mars Rover do its thing live on a JPL website.
[February 5, 1999, 16:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News In practice, it's almost happening: while I had to hang on the phone to find out what was going on with Magellan a few years back (that was the probe to radar-map Venus), I pretty well watched the Mars Rover do its thing live on a JPL website.
[February 5, 1999, 16:30]
C++ Creator: It's Bigger Than Ever
News Sun Microsystems has touted the use of Java in the Mars Rover, but Stroustrup claimed that C++ was also used. For example, C++ was used for scene analysis and route planning in the Mars Rover autonomous driving system, according to Stroustrup.
[April 22, 2005, 14:20]
Open Source Developers Provide 'glimmer Of Hope'
News For example, I would dearly love to have a good look at the [proprietary] code running in the Mars Rover. I take off my hat to these people. Bjarne Stroustrup, who currently works as a professor at Texas A&M University and is the creator of C++...
[April 22, 2005, 11:25]
Gadget Translates Woofs Into Words
News The company unveiled a new gadget on Thursday, called Bowlingual, which can scrutinise and translate a dog's bark into expressions, such as "I've had enough" or "I'm a little bored, let's play. If Dr Dolittle can't make animals talk, perhaps...
[May 10, 2002, 14:30]
