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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by hoorayimhelping on Thursday April 11, 2019 @02:13PM (#19637474)
Yes, absolutely. I've made comments before to the effect of: I cringe hard enough to actually feel physical discomfort every time a headline refers to a team effort of SpaceX as "Elon Musk's Rocket."
Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by wklauss on Thursday April 11, 2019 @10:12PM (#19641324)
Ok, how about "Turing: the genius that cracked the ENIGMA code"?
Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by belorn on Friday April 12, 2019 @04:01AM (#19642941)
I would start by informing them that ENIGMA was actually broken by Poland, and they invited the British two weeks before the German invasions to show them how it worked and give them a prototype enigma breaking machine. They didn't want the technique and knowledge in how to break enigma to be lost after Germany invaded. The French also got a copy, and it was actually the French intelligence service that had gathered the initial data and it was unknown to them that this enabled the polish to break ENIGMA.

What turning did was to take the initial prototype they received and build a even more powerful and refined version. In particular he improved the technique so it broke the naval version of enigma which was more complicated than the army version that the polish had broken earlier. This was in part possible because the British had captured a working naval enigma from a German submarine.

(A lot of this comes a book called The Code Book by Simon Singh. The last chapter on modern ciphers is a bit dated but the chapters on enigma was quite good.

Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by symlock on Friday April 12, 2019 @12:24PM (#19646225)
Well, other arguments aside, there is a little bit of a difference between a single-system ENIGMA and building multi-system spaceships.
Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by martin_bech on Saturday April 13, 2019 @07:08AM (#19652268)
Well since he founded and owns the company.. legally it would be his Rocket, would it not?
Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by wrycoder on Saturday April 13, 2019 @05:02PM (#19655698)
Does anyone here believe that rocket system would exist without Musk?