JE 087: Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham

• Air Date: 2022-07-10
• Duration: 58 mins 6 secs

About this episode

Brent sits down with Tim Canham, Senior Software Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We explore topics including the hardware and software powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter; JPL's switch from Solaris to Linux; the open source projects, tools, and philosophy at JPL, ...and more.

Your hosts

• Brent Gervais
• Tim Canham

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Episode links

• LINUX Unplugged
• LINUX Unplugged - Tim Canham
• Timothy Canham - People Profile - NASA Mars
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - Robotic Space Exploration
• Mars Helicopter - NASA Mars
• Mars Perseverance Rover | NASA
• Cassini | NASA
• Curiosity – NASA Mars Exploration
• Sun Microsystems - Wikipedia
• Oracle Solaris - Wikipedia
• Fry's Electronics - Wikipedia
• Matplotlib — Visualization with Python
• Elasticsearch — The Official Distributed Search & Analytics Engine
• BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon
• BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon, Ep.05 The fourth astronaut — The computer that got us to the moon. The size of a briefcase, there had never been anything like it. Apollo 11 was “the first time software ran on the moon”.
• Impostor syndrome - Wikipedia
• How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars - IEEE Spectrum
• GitHub - F´ - A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework
• F´ - A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework
• Meet the Open-Source Software Powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
• quickemu — Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
• MythTV, Open Source DVR
• Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

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