Some POSTGRES Applications...
...that were out of the ordinary. (These are not urban legends, these
are all based on bug reports or other support requests we received
first-hand.)
- cruise missile “threat assessment” system (Johns Hopkins APL /
U. S. Navy Tomahawk Program Office, 1991)
- “evaluation of automatic target recognizer (ATR) algorithms”
(U. S. Army Night Vision & Electro-Optics Directorate, 1993)
- “a jet engine measuring system” (General Electric, 1993)
- “an asteroid detection project, which aims at discovering
earth-grazing asteroids which are potentially dangerous for the
Earth.” (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, 1993)
- “Geoinformation Systems for the problems of the Chernobyl
accident” (TechnoSoft, Ukraine, 1992) and other unspecified
applications (Russian Nuclear Safety Institute, Moscow, 1993)
Paul M. Aoki,
aoki@acm.org
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