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Computer Advisory Committee 1984 Meeting -- Photograph

Start Date:1984 Location:Green Bank, WV People:Seielstad, George A. Hogg, David E. Wells, Don Brown, David Moffat, Alan T. Kellermann, Kenneth I. Bignell, Carl Wilson, Robert Burns, Robert Hvatum, Hein Roberts, Morton S. Hunt, Gareth Duquet, Bob Vance, Bob Meredith, Bill Schwab, Fred Benson, John Bremenkamp, Victor Brenner, Alfred Brouw, Wim Burch, Joe Cornwell, Tim Cotton, Bill Drake, Margaret Farris, Allen Fickling, Gary Green, Paul Greisen, Eric Hilldrup. Kerry King, Dale King, Kenneth Kunz, Paul McDonald, Henry Patterson, Stuart Patton, Peter Retallack, Don Ris, Fred Romney, Jon Sowinski, Ken Stinebring, Dan Walker, Craig Wiener, Nancy Bridle, Alan H.	Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Computing and Information Services Series Unit:General Materials Unit Type:Still Image Original Format of Digital Item:B&W print	Description:The NRAO Computer Advisory Group, a group of outside experts who were asked to advise on long-range computing plans for NRAO, met in 1982 at the VLA site, and met again in Green Bank in September 1984. This photo is from the 1984 meeting.Seated are the nine members of the Committee, along with Margaret Drake, on the left, one of the official visitors. L-R: Margaret Drake, Stuart Patterson, Wim Brouw, Henry McDonald, Alfred Brenner, Fred Ris, Paul Green, Paul Kunz, Peter Patton, Kenneth King.Standing from the left: George Seielstad, Dale King, Dan Stinebring, Dave Hogg, Eric Greisen, Kerry Hilldrup, Don Wells, Bill Cotton behind Wells, Victor Bremenkamp, David Brown, Alan Moffet, Ken Kellermann, Carl Bignell, Bob Wilson, Bob Burns, Hein Hvatum behind Burns, Mort Roberts, Ken Sowinski behind Roberts, Don Retallack, Gareth Hunt, Allen Farris, Bob Duquet, Gary Fickling, Bob Vance, Jon Romney, Tim Cornwell, Bill Meredith, Craig Walker, Joe Burch, unknown hidden behind Burch, Alan Bridle, Nancy Wiener, Fred Schwab, John Benson. [show more]

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Cricket in New Mexico, 1980

Start Date:1980-11 Location:Socorro, NM People:Napier, Peter Salter, Chris Gibson, Dave Hunt, Gareth Bignell, Carl Randolph, Bill Ewald, Rosalie Cornwell, Tim Rigby, Eva Jean Ekers, Brook Russell, Eric Rigby, Clair	Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:NRAO Employees Unit Subunit:NRAO Social Events Subunit Type:Still Image Subject:Events--Social events Tags:women	Description:The winning cricket team, Socorro, November 1980. Front row: Peter Napier, Chris Salter, Dave Gibson, Gareth Hunt [captain]. Back row: Carl Bignell (holding Celeste and John Bignell), Bill Randolph, Rosalie Ewald, Tim Cornwell, Eva Jean Rigby, Brook Ekers, Eric Russell, Clair Rigby. The VLA team (pictured) beat the Socorro team. Players represented the USA, Jamaica, India, England, Holland, New Zealand, and Canada. Writing in the January 1981 Observer (v.22#1), Chris Salter said, "Passers by could be forgiven for imagining that mystical rites were being performed on the playing fields of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology on Saturday November 8th [1980]. The fact of the matter is that the slow perambulations and weird cavortings of fourteen white clad figures did not mark a frightening outbreak of alien worship but the progress of the first Socorro/VLA cricket match." [show more]

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Dedication of the VLBA, 20 August 1993

Start Date:1993-08-20 Location:Socorro, NM People:Goss, Miller Cornwell, Tim Brown, Robert L. Napier, Peter Finley, David Sramek, Dick Shaffer, David	Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) Events--Dedications	Description:Left to right: Miller Goss, Tim Cornwell, Bob Brown, Peter Napier, Dave Shaffer, Dave Finley (at podium), Dick Sramek. This ceremony was held in the VLBA Operations area of the Array Operations Center in Socorro. The map behind Peter Napier contains LEDs in the locations of the VLBA antennas. The table to the left of the podium holds a bar-code reader that was triggered by Sen. Pete Domenici, causing the VLBA antennas all to begin pointing at a specific source. Their azimuths and elevations began changing on the monitor behind Napier and, one by one, from East to West, the LEDs indicating the antennas lit up. [show more]