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100 Trillion

"Billions and Billions" was a phrase, fantastic at the time, that made Carl Sagan famous. At the time he was talking about the stars in the Milky Way, how many there were. Next...

15 years 5 months ago

Neighbors

A few billion years ago this planet formed, orbiting an otherwiserun-of-the-mill star. It was a wet world, covered with oceans, with aprotective atmosphere. Water dominated the...

15 years 5 months ago

Police Drone: Episode 2

On Thursday last week, I read that an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) hadbeen recently used by the UK's Merseyside Police in the tracking andarrest of two suspected car thieves (BBC...

15 years 5 months ago

Quit Bugging Me: Revalidated

One day, I get this phone call. "We're working with the system, we seethe calls that update the exception handlers early on – connecting theclock routines, etc. Then not very much...

15 years 6 months ago

A Decade at Wind River

On Wednesday, it will be exactly ten years since I joined Wind River. Iwas thinking about this on my flight to San Francisco on Saturday, andas well as wondering how I long I've...

15 years 6 months ago

It's All About the Evidence

An important distinction that gets drilled into people new to safetycritical systems and certification of said systems is the differencebetween "certified" and "certification...

15 years 6 months ago

Do You Design Flight Software?

Normally I don't like this blog to sound like a marketingmicrophone, BUT… once in a while something comes along that's WorthIt. I'll keep it short and sweet. Next month, Larry...

15 years 6 months ago

Sand Trap

Spirit Rover is heading to her sixth anniversary on Mars, but it lookslike she'll have to sit the dance out. Spirit has been trapped,basically high-centered on a hard spot...

15 years 7 months ago

Case study: Ultra Datel Safety-Critical Avionics Upgrade Using COTS

I recently had the privilege of working with one of our partners, LDRA, and one of our customers, Ultra Datel, on writing a case study of their experiences of a mid-life upgrade of...

15 years 7 months ago

In the Shadows of Giants

When I was a child, the Apollos were flying, and the whole world wasall about Mankind taking those first steps on Lunar soil. I remember myparents had this record, I think it came...

15 years 7 months ago