2/26/21: Updates, Background Lit. Report, and Readings

 

Agenda and Minutes 

1. Updates and plans. MH noted that the AAS website didn't ask for a lot of the information it used to ask for upon submittal of an abstract. 

2. Background literature update (VJB): Technological Forecasting – A Review, by Ayse Kaya Firat, Wei Lee Woon, & Stuart Madnick, MIT Working Paper CISL# 2008-15 September 2008, http://web.mit.edu/smadnick/www/wp/2008-15.pdf.

Some generic questions about articles:

       a. What is the source? 
       b. What is the most significant advance in the human knowledge presented in the paper? 
       c. Why is that advance important? 
       d. What important questions arise from the paper for future research? 
       e. What important questions would it be nice if the paper answered, but does not answer? 
       f. What does the paper present that is novel (no one else has provided that before)? 
       g. What is the relevance of the paper to our satellite research goals? 
       h. Questions from the group? 

For a survey paper, question h may be especially applicable.

Questions that came up, to discuss next time:

- Any more recent surveys that cite this paper? Could check using scholar.google.com.

- What is the difference between technology forecasting and technology foresight?

3. Reading and discussion: 
    a. For the Magee et al. 2016 reading, we finished up to the first full paragraph on p. 245 last time. Next time we will read from this paper since we've neglected it recently.

    b. For the Reynolds and Szerszynski reading, we finished up through the 2nd sentence, last par., p. 11.

    c. Our next paper will be Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment.