Word: design
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much of the computer software in Houston used to control virtually every switch and nozzle on the complex space vehicle. Two years ago, she was a highly rated section supervisor in charge of managing the software that had been updated to reflect changes in the shuttle's mission and design. In March 1986, two months after the Challenger tragedy, she was approached for help by software experts at Rockwell International, the shuttle's prime contractor. They asked her to find out whether Unisys had an adequate system for testing the shuttle's backup software, which would be vital...
...joined forces on chip research in the face of bruising foreign competition. Austin's coup could help make it a Sunbelt Silicon Valley. The capital had $ already attracted a research center for a similar consortium, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp., which is conducting research in computer architecture and software design...
...photos in search of a female lead for Phantom's April production in Japan, and kept a watchful eye on the Broadway incarnation, which started previews on Saturday. "He monitors every word and orchestrates every aspect of the production," says Black. "He is good at casting, costumes, orchestration, design, marketing. Nothing slips through the net." When he does unwind, it is generally at his Steinway grand piano. "Want to hear some tunes?" he will ask, and a moment later will deliver several songs from Aspects in the tuneless dee-dee-dah-dum voice universally adopted by composers...
...show how its engineers are using computers to speed the process of creating new cars, GM set up a design studio at the Waldorf, where a prototype sports car called the SRV-1 was under construction. Designers explained a computerized voice-recognition system that enables a driver to operate the radio, for example, simply by saying "Turn up the music" or "Change the channel...
...still struggling to streamline a lumbering bureaucracy that has slowed a new car's progress from drawing board to showroom. In fact, some of the new technologies that GM was showing off last week -- like the Quad 4 engine that offers eight-cylinder power in an economic four-cylinder design -- were first offered in similar form in cars built by competitors...