This email from my advisor Wallace Fowler (after the Mars seminar, the chairman of the department assigned me a second advisor in addition to Roger Broucke, who was pretty much in absentia) tells me to put my FORTRAN code online. Who tells their grad student to give away his life’s work? His Ph.D. research in its entirety?!
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Wallace Fowler <fowler@csr.utexas.edu>
- W. Clark
<whcii@mindspring.com> Friday. March 02. 2001 2:15 AM Re: Mars Society
Bill.
I think that having your code out there working while you study can do nothing but enhance your reputation. It is probably a very good thing to do.
Keep up the studying.
\VF
Hi Dr. Fowler.
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- The Mars Society folks have been pressing me to use my trajectory program for their privately funded mission to Mars. I finally relented and put the code and technical article (both of which I received formal Copyright notices from the Library of Congress last week) on my Mars web site. A fellow with an aerospace software firm in Canada was interested. \.Wanting to take what I have and do a 3D simulation. They know it’s not well tested yet but still need something to start with. I said OK. but don’t expect much until after the middle of June.
- The URL for my site is https://get-me.to/mars or you can try
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I have a large section in the “Enter” link on the opening page with ideas solicited from my old EM discussion groups. If your design class wants to email me some ideas I would be happy to put them on the page too. I have a list of ideas on the “R&D” link on the sidebar.
Don’t worry. I’m studying HARD for the exams.
Bill Clark
