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Ignite DC #2

Sean Stickle

The Moon Computers

For at least the past 5000 years, we've been obsessed with the Moon. The ancient Greeks and Assyrians programmed their wooden & bronze machines to predict the location of the Moon, the Industrial Revolutionaries programmed their brass machines to describe the movements of the Moon, and in the 20th century we programmed our silicon machines to go to the Moon. There are hidden connections between all these programs, and the machines they ran on -- deep correspondences across time. This is a quick look at how we've written programs about the Moon for the last 5000 years.

About Sean Stickle:

I started out in comparative literature and the history of philosophy, diverted into studying nuclear reactor operation in the US Navy, and then into programming and systems administration. For the past 10 years, I've been programming professionally and studying the practice of programming, working to distill the rhetoric of code into a concise and consistent philosophy.