AGENDA AND MINUTES
1. Updates:
- Women in space project. Semester ends soon so we'll ramp this up soon.
- HA has noted the new reference suggestions but needs to review and if appropriate cite them in order to include them in the references section.
- DB suggested dividing it into two papers, one with all the details and one with the core elements.
- Forum(s) to be determined after article is done. HA may be able to present at a conference if we get something accepted.
- One set of possibilities is at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - may have a conference we could submit it to. https://www.aiaa.org/events-learning/events has a long list of possibilities.
- OK Acad. of Sci. has submittal deadline of Aug. 15.
- Feminist journal.
- JS involvement: what would be a good task? Perhaps listing possible fora?
- RS: WMSCI conference is in July and will be virtual. Reviews were high enough to make journal acceptance possible later. This will allow adding 2 more pages if desired. Next step: prepare the presentation. VJB will do the presentation, send to RS, who will upload it. Presentation is live or by video.
- VJB: Has uploaded dissertation, will now start working on WMSCI slides.
- PT: He will next prepare presentation for proposal defense. We hope to publish the SLR portion later.
- Received: "I am writing to see if you might be interested in giving a presentation at the Southeast Symposium on Contemporary Engineering Topics (SSCET) this year. The 11th SSCET will be held on Friday, September 16th in Little Rock. No new news. I plan to list everyone as co-presenters.
2. Reading and discussion:
- In-depth readings:
- https://ourworldindata.org/technological-change. Votes were 4,5,3,5,5, averaging to 4.4. We read up to the subheading "Non-linear technological change".
- Scanned readings that might or might not be read in more depth at some point. Listed in decreasing order of vote rank.
- Already voted on: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology. Let's find out more about it. We skimmed https://www.picmet.org/main/ and the question next is whether we want to read through the site in more detail. We can skim a little more before making a decision. the question then is: Do we search this site for another paper/papers to read? Vote was 3 11/12.
- Already voted on. We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like it might be a good paper for us to read. Vote was 3.9.
- Already voted on: One candidate: https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/394111 is a recent account of using DEA (which is part of TFDEA). We rechecked the abstract and read the first paragraph. Votes were: 3,5,2,5,4, averaging 3.8.
- Already voted on: The Institute for Progress. They address questions like what policies and social factors affect technological progress. We will try out a bit of https://progress.institute/immigration-powers-american-progress/ to see if we want to read it in full. Vote was 3 2/7.
- Voted on 4/15/22: One of McDowell's update reports, available on the website. Link is: https://planet4589.org/space/jsr/jsr.html. We checked #804. Vote was 3 1/12.
- Proposed readings that have not yet been scanned and voted on. Read a paragraph or so of each and vote: Should we read it in more depth? 5=strongly agree, 4=agree, 3=neutral, 2=disagree, 1=strongly disagree.
- https://www.planet4589.org. Scan one link deep from the astronautics page at https://planet4589.org/space/index.html. Don't read large documents through entirely.
- One of McDowell's *yearly* (not the more frequent news) reports, in particular, the most recent one: https://planet4589.org/space/papers/space20.pdf.
- Goldin et al., The Productivity Paradox, 2019.
- A background paper related to the women in space project: see SpaceTravelMetric-b6-5-16\PapersAndPresentations\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles
- https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/techno-optimism-for-2022
- James Pethokoukis, https://fasterplease.substack.com/, tech foresight blog by former Jeopardy! champ.
- Chad Jones, https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/, writes about endogenous growth theory.
- Pantelis Koutroumpis, The Productivity Paradox, a report.
- Some interesting videos are at the Kartik Gada channel such as at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRX67CJhaOT98Jdjh85CEQ which we discussed previously.
- MH suggests a short book called Future Spaceflight Meditations, a cosmist perspective, by Jiulio Prisco, physicist formerly with the ESA.
- For general reference here are some generic questions about articles (and videos):
- What is the source?
- What is the most significant advance in the human knowledge presented in the paper?
- Why is that advance important?
- What important questions arise from the paper for future research?
- What important questions would it be nice if the paper answered, but does not answer?
- What does the paper present that is novel (no one else has provided that before)?
- What is the relevance of the paper to our satellite research goals?
- Questions from the group?
