GHTC2015

ghtc2015.pdf

ghtc2015.tex Latex file (will not "compile" without drawings, not included here)

Note July 12, 2015 - the citations are poorly formatted, and two links have changes since posting the above. I have repaired most of the citation format errors, and will post a new version (along with the June 3 version) on Monday July 13. I still have not received the reviews expected on June 25.

fra0.c Used to compute SSPS antenna sizes


Woulda Shoulda Coulda

The deadline for this draft was June 3 midnight. The next morning, I'm already thinking about what I could have included. :-)


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It is an accident of history that computers are programmed with text; Inca quipu, Mayan and old world weaving, and Jacquard machine-woven brocades were designed and coded visually and tactually. The read-only memory for the Apollo Guidance Computer was literally a rope of wires hand-woven through magnetic cores[A]. Programs may be created, compiled, and evaluated with other sensibilities; ...

[A] E. Hall, Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer, Reston VA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1996.


Ulises refs


Can we use bit.ly? How about ie.ee?

It would be great if the URLs in the references were shorter. I would like to use bit.ly or tiny.cc or other service - but I don't want the references to die if the shortened url service does.

The IEEE should offer a shortened url service - perhaps they can negotiate with the Estonian engineering company that owns it to get ie.ee and offer http://ie.ee/<number> shortened URLs, with 9 digit numbers reserved for past and future ieee xplore articles, 9+3 digit numbers assigned to references per paper, and 8+4 digit numbers self-assignable by ieee members (a nice perk that costs almost nothing).

Hence, my 2013 IEEE Sustech paper would be http://ie.ee/006617309, reference 6 could be http://ie.ee/006617309-006, and the URL for my personal favorite online joke site could be http://ie.ee/01221480-0577

Perhaps the ieee can even get its own top level domain, .ieee . We are bigger than 30 small countries with seats at the UN.