5/28/21: graph, video, & reading.

     Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates and plans.

• Updates? RS reports the WMSCI paper is fully revised and ready to upload. Final version is due June 16. HA identified an issue with the slides. 
• DB reported on a new graph: lifetimes based on moving window of 15 chronological failures.
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• Registration and etc. fees: Any news?

2. Background literature update.

• HA suggested a segment from "The Technological Progress of Video Games : Why There is Apparent Saturation" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BReHW-5HSsQ, from the Kartik Gada channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRX67CJhaOT98Jdjh85CEQ. So we viewed it and discussed.

For general reference here are some generic questions about articles (and videos):

       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? 

3. Reading and discussion: 

    a. Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment. We read the third full par. on p. 26 (2nd page). So far this paper seems to be generating more discussion than some of the previous papers we've read.

    c. We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like a good paper for us to read.

5/21/21: Revising our accepted paper; start new reading

    Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates and plans.

• Updates? VJB's paper was accepted with reviewer comments. Final version is due June 16. DB will update wrt the moving average figure. VJB will update the figures with light yellow and email the result to everyone this weekend. 
• Registration and etc. fees: PT's upcoming conference, any news?

2. Background literature update.

• Nothing for today, but videos might be fun if we can find short ones. MH recommends some by Kartik Gada, channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRX67CJhaOT98Jdjh85CEQ.

For general reference here are some generic questions about articles (or videos):

       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? 

3. Reading and discussion: 

    a. Today, start on Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment. We got up to the third full par. on p. 26 (2nd page), so we will start there next time.

    c. We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like a good paper for us to read.

5/14/21: Video on exponential decline in launch cost, etc.

   Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates and plans.

• Updates? RS reports that 2 non-anonymous reviewers have reviewed the WMSCI paper but one said he never got the request. VJB has a new spreadsheet of results. MH reported looking into the impact of exponential technologies on inflation. 
• Registration and etc. fees: MH, PT, VJB, RS, any news?

2. Background literature update.

• Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHtzJFgR7h8 specifically claims exponential space. Several minutes long. The claim is that cost of launch per kg is on a roughly exponential decline.
• Anything to report? MH suggests videos and a blog, see https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kartik+gada. He may suggest a specific reading or viewing for next time.

For general reference here are 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? 

3. Reading and discussion: 

    a. We finished the Reynolds and Szerszynski reading last time (to be removed from site soon). We will next start on Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment (link to be debugged soon).

    c. We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like a good paper for us to read.

5/7/21: Finish reading

  Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates and plans.

• Updates?
• Registration and etc. fees: MH, PT, VJB, any news?

2. Background literature update.

• Anything to report? MH suggests videos and a blog, see https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kartik+gada. He may suggest a specific reading or viewing for next time.

For general reference here are 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? 

3. Reading and discussion: 

    a. We finished the Reynolds and Szerszynski reading. Next time we start on Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment.

    c. We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like a good paper for us to read.

4/30/21: Updates and readings

 Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates and plans.

• RS submitted VJB's paper to WMSCI before the deadline. 
• Registration and etc. fees: MH, PT, VJB, any news?
• VJB is now finding half lives by launch year for each individual year.
• SD has registered for project in the Fall.

2. Background literature update.

• Anything to report?

For general reference here are 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? 

3. Reading and discussion: 

    a. For the Reynolds and Szerszynski reading, we read up to the sentence beginning with "However" in the partial par. at the top of p. 18. So we can start there next time and hopefully finish the paper. Reading sentence by sentence instead of paragraph by paragraph seems to work better for what seems to be becoming a somewhat unconvincing paper.

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

    c. We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like a good paper for us to read.

4/23/21: Papers!

Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates and plans.

• VJB's paper. Plan to finish RS's updates by tomorrow by 1 p.m. HA will get the paper next. Then PT. Then MH, and DB will make the final version and RS will upload it.
• PT submitted the FTC paper. 
• MH still waiting for the AAS to get back to him.
• Registration fees. MH, PT, VJB, ...?

2. Background literature update.

• We could take a look at: https://www.aitrends.com/ai-and-business-strategy/reports-of-death-of-moores-law-are-greatly-exaggerated-as-ai-expands/, pointed out by RS.

For general reference here are 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? 

3. Reading and discussion: 

    a. For the Reynolds and Szerszynski reading, we have so far read up to the last paragraph, p. 16.

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

    c. We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like a good paper for us to read.

4/16/21: Updates on papers; readings

  Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates and plans.

• MH's paper: registration fees were probably $30. Paper submittal status. Recall the video presentation at https://youtu.be/TwFtty7XFvE.
• PT's FTC paper (& reg. fees?). He has applied for reimbursement from the university. 
• VJB's paper - rotate among coauthors for comments and editorial suggestions?
• VJB - has some half life results for satellite launches in a few different years.
• Welcome guest SD.

2. Background literature update.

• "LSTM has demonstrated great success in various NLP tasks and is the state of the art algorithm for sequential data." - An Encoder-Decoder model for visual question answering in the medical domain, I. Allaouzi, M. Ben Ahmed, B. Benamrou, CLEF 2019.
• Excel Solver how-to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewp5CF5ba_w

For general reference here are 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? 

3. Reading and discussion: 

    a. For the Reynolds and Szerszynski reading, we read up to the last paragraph, p. 16.

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

    c. We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like a good paper for us to read.