A brief bit of nostalgia
The first project I ever worked on was in the news recently. The Synthetic Aperture RADAR run by the European Space Agency is being used to detect massive rogue waves. I worked on the Information Management System/Data Analysis and Distribution System (IMS/DADS) for the ESA satellite and a similar one run by UA Fairbanks, writing testing code for a huge Motif application used by scientists to get particular images for their research. The software that I worked on is likely long since decommissioned — does anybody use huge, Solaris-only Motif applications any more? Really? — but it’s fun to see what the project’s data is being used for.