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Canada as never seen before: The new RADARSAT Constellation Mission
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Technology
Canada's RADARSAT program has a long history, going back to experimenting with radar sensors onboard the Convair 580 aircraft, which is now in the collection of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
Why do we call computer glitches "bugs"?
Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
The term "bug" is another way of saying something is wrong with our computer or software, but where did the term come from? While many attribute the reference to computer scientist Grace Hopper, this article from Curiosity explains that it dates back to Thomas Edison's private journals.
Researching the untold story of Canada's keypunch girls
Last summer, the Canada Science and Technology Museum offered up access to its collection so that researcher Jennifer Thivierge could study "keypunch girls" — the women who punched holes in data cards and fed them into machines or tabulators, starting in the 1950s. The University of Ottawa's Gazette writes about her findings, and what they say about gender discrimination within the field of computer science.
How the Canada Science and Technology Museum designed an accessible, modular headphone jack | Innovation150
Accessible headphone jacks aren't hard to find nowadays, but they're always built into your average neighbourhood fixtures, like an ATM. This isn't the most welcoming design since there's no way to get the device as a standalone product. But the Canada Science and Technology Museum strives for inclusive design, and since they couldn't buy an accessible headphone jack, their innovators decided to design their own.