[Sci-tech-public] Book talk on Apollo Guidance Computer Programming - March 7, 6 pm

[Deborah Douglas]

Colleagues,

If you have taken Professor David Mindell/John Tylko’s STS471J “Engineering Apollo” Course (or just wish you had), you will have had the chance to meet Don Eyles, one of the most interesting computer scientists working at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now Draper Laboratory).  Eyles worked on the software for the lunar landing phase of the Moon mission and his memoir tells this story most effectively.  It is also filled with insight, wit, and interesting commentary by the man Rolling Stone described  as the “Weird-Looking Freak” who “Save[d] Apollo 14.”

As the flyer indicates, Eyles will be giving a talk at the MIT Museum next week (it is also the launch of the publication) beginning at 6 pm.

Debbie Douglas


Deborah G. Douglas, PhD • Director of Collections and Curator of Science and Technology, MIT Museum; Research Associate, Program in Science, Technology, and Society • Room N51-209 • 265 Massachusetts Avenue • Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 • ddouglas at mit.edu<mailto:ddouglas at mit.edu> • 617-253-1766 telephone • 617-253-8994 facsimile • http://mitmuseum.mit.edu • http://museum.mit.edu/150







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