Final Program and Announcements Early Registrating Closing 2002 MAPLD International Conference Kossiakoff Conference Center The Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory 11100 Johns Hopkins Road Laurel, Maryland 20723-6099 September 10-12, 2002 Please see the following information about the 5th annual Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD) International Conference. Programmable devices and technologies, as well as digital engineering and related fields, will comprise the major emphasis of this Conference geared towards military and aerospace applications. Please visit http://klabs.org for additional information. This eliminates many long url's in this message. . Early registration closes August 23, 2002. . Advanced, electronic registration is highly desired and will minimize waiting time at check-in for all of us. . The Technical Program of about 70 technical presentations is released and may be viewed either by Session or by first author. . Participate in Paper A1: "Programmable Logic within NASA" http://osat-ext.grc.nasa.gov/rmo/plcsurvey/index.html or contact Kalynnda.Berens@grc.nasa.gov . Late abstracts will be accepted for the Poster Session. . NO MORE MUD!!!!!!!!!! Coffee by Starbucks this year. . Apollo 16 Moon Rock display. We'll take your picture with it. http://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon02/exhibits/nasa_exhibits.htm . Technical Sessions: A. Applications: Military and Aerospace Ralph Kohler - Air Force Research Laboratory B. Design 1: Logic Design and Programmable Devices Rich Katz - Grunt Engineer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center C. Reliability: Devices and The Effects of the Rad Environment Ken LaBel - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center D. Design 2: Systems and Platforms Hans Tiggeler, Grunt Engineers Union E. Design 3: Evolvable Hardware and Other Systems/Architectures John McHenry - National Security Agency P. Poster Session Dr. Mark Martin - Applied Physics Lab Panel Session Why Is Mars So Hard? A Discussion of the Technical, Programmatic, and Political Factors That Have Lead To Failures at Mars over the Last 40 Years Moderator: Dr. Rod Barto, Spacecraft Digital Engineering and K-Labs Intro: Dr. Roger Launius, NASA and National Air and Space Museum "Birds-of-a-Feather Session" - Reconfigurable Computing Al Hunsberger, National Security Agency . Invited Speakers Welcome: Dr. J. Sommerer Director Applied Physics Lab Keynote: Major General R. Hack US Army History: Dr. Roger D. Launius Chair, Dept. of Space History National Air and Space Museum Allan McDonald Thiokol Propulsion "Recovery from the Mars Surveyor '98 Failures: Lessons Learned and Applied", Ed Euler and Steven Jolly Lockheed Martin Astronautics Operations AIAA: Dr. Nancy Leveson, MIT Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Panel: Dr. Ed Euler Lockheed Martin Astronautics Operations Orlando Figueroa Mars Exploration Program Office, NASA Dr. Tom Krimigis Applied Physics Lab Ken Ledbetter Office of Space Science, NASA HQ James Oberg Soaring Hawk Productions, Inc. Anthony Spear JPL, Chair, NASA FBC Task Force Dr. Robert Zubrin Mars Society . Design Seminars (Seperate Registration) Logic Design: Clocking, Timing Analysis, Finite State Machines, and Verification Programmable Logic in the Radiation Environment . International guests and presenters should request their visas early. . As a courtesy, we are offering to help you get NASA souvenirs this year. You can order on-line and your items will be waiting for you at check-in. This will save you traveling time and we don't know what will and will not be open next September. https://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon02/Souvenir/souvenir.html . Hotel, Transportation, and Directions are available on the Conference home page.