From: Mike Jones <mbj@microsoft.com> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 1997 6:47 PM Subject: What really happened on Mars? The Mars Pathfinder mission was widely proclaimed as “flawless” in the early days after its July 4th, 1997 landing on the Martian surface. Successes included its unconventional “landing” — bouncing onto the Martian surface surrounded by airbags, deploying the Sojourner rover, and gathering and transmitting voluminous data back to Earth, including the panoramic pictures that were such a hit on the Web. But a few days into the mission, not long after PathfinderRead More

From: Glenn E Reeves[SMTP:Glenn.E.Reeves@jpl.nasa.gov] Sent: Monday, December 15, 1997 10:28 AM To: jack@telerobotics.jpl.nasa.gov; mishkin@telerobotics.jpl.nasa.gov; rmanning@mail1.jpl.nasa.gov; miked@wrs.com; Mike Jones; gregg@wrs.com; dlre@chevron.com; David.Cummings@andrew.com; pky@appsig.com; karl_schneider@radixtek.com; lisa@wrs.com; dave@wrs.com; John Krumm; bilzabub@pclink.com; mike_conrad@atk.com; elf@wavemark.com; mlisa@erols.com; Thomas Blumer; shep@sunne.East.Sun.com; kmarks@xionics.com; frederick_hallock@lotus.com; athomas@xenergy.com; andy@harlequin.com; don@wavemark.com; bostic@bostic.com; samiller@red.primextech.com; higgins@daffy.fnal.gov; intersci@smof.demon.co.uk; kay@rsvl.unisys.com; glen@qnx.com; nev@bostic.com; jharris@mail1.jpl.nasa.gov; Richard A Volpe; Richard V Welch; Henry W Stone; Allen R Sirota; Kim P Gostelow; Robert D Rasmussen; David J Eisenman; Daniel E Erickson; Udo Wehmeier; Peter R Gluck; David E Smyth; Robert C Barry; Steven A Stolper; Alfred D Schoepke; David CRead More

Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself. BY AMANDA GEFTERILLUSTRATION BY JULIA BRECKENREIDDECEMBER 15, 2016 Walter Pitts was used to being bullied. He’d been born into a tough family in Prohibition-era Detroit, where his father, a boiler-maker, had no trouble raising his fists to get his way. The neighborhood boys weren’t much better. One afternoon in 1935, they chased him through the streets until he ducked into the local library to hide. The library was familiar ground, where he had taught himself Greek, Latin, logic,Read More