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SUMMARY:How to Land on the Moon: The Apollo Guidance Computer - Nav Leelar
 athna\, Homerton College
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CONTACT:Matthew Ireland
DESCRIPTION:On July 24th 1969 Neil Armstrong landed on the moon\, achievin
 g one of humanity’s greatest triumphs but the Saturn V would have been h
 elpless if not for its brain: the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). How did 
 the engineers design hardware and software reliable enough to land a man o
 n the moon? How did the AGC achieve concurrency and handle I/O on a single
  processor? How did they overcome continuous design changes throughout the
  project and a perpetual lack of memory?\n\n \n\nIn this talk we will answ
 er these questions and take a look at the structure and architecture of th
 e AGC. We will also see how a 1202 computer alarm threatened to cause the 
 mission to abort minutes before the landing and show in actual fact that t
 he AGC performed flawlessly.
LOCATION:Online\, via MS Teams
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