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| Date | Topic | Speaker |
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| February 14 | Future Telescopes on the Ground and in Space | Roger Angel
University of Arizona |
| February 21
(No colloquium -- Holiday) |
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| February 28 | RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Soccer Games | Peter Stone
AT&T Research Labs |
| March 6 | Musical Chairs & Magic Carpets: Things That Think at the MIT Media Lab | Joe Paradiso
MIT Media Laboratory |
| March 13 | Cosmic Journeys: To the Edge of Gravity, Space, and Time | Nick White
GSFC/Code 662 |
| March 20 | Gemini North Telescope: Ground-Based Astronomy at the Diffraction Limit | Wayne Van Citters |
| March 27
**** NOTE --- Location changed to Building 8 Auditorium |
Eyewitness to the First Space Age: Some Lessons to Be Drawn | W. Burrows
Author |
| April 3 | Visions of (20th Century) Technology | Richard Rhodes
Author |
| April 10
(No colloquium due to Hubble Space Telescope Celebration activities) |
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| April 17 | Impacts of Solar Storms on the North American Power Grid | John Kappenman
MetaTech Corp. |
| April 24 | Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: The Ultra-Long Duration Balloon | I. Steve Smith
GSFC/Code 820 (Wallops) |
| May 1 | Low Energy Routes Using Chaos in Space Travel and Astronomy | Edward Belbruno
Princeton University |
| May 8 | The C&O Canal: Marvelous Engineering Failure | Arthur D. Delagrange
Author |
| May 15 | Mars Exploration and the New Millennium | Benton Clark
Lockheed Martin Astronautics |
| May 22 | Using the Internet Protocols in Space (And Other Unusual Locations!) | Ron Parise
Computer Sciences Corp. |
| May 29
(No colloquium -- Holiday) |
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| June 5 | NASA’s North Pole Expedition, 1999 | Michael Comberiate
GSFC |
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