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SHIELD Voyager StoryCorps: From punch cards to www: How technology changed the way we did science on Voyager

Friday, October 17, 2 pm ET

Speaker: Fran Bagenal

Registration at https://shielddrivecenter.com/shield-webinars/

Before Jupiter we used punch cards and mag tapes to process Voyager PLS data in batch jobs at a central computer at MIT. By Saturn we had desktop computers. By Neptune we had the internet. Not only has upgrading technology increased the efficiency of data processing but it has also changed the way we carry out and communicate the science.