Jolitz Heritage

Jolitz Heritage Site - Chronicling the Legacies of the Jolitz Family of Silicon Valley, including the accomplishments of William Jolitz, Lynne Jolitz, Rebecca Jolitz, Ben Jolitz, and William Leonard Jolitz. [ Jolitz Heritage ] 		 
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William Frederick Jolitz NASA Projects

William Frederick Jolitz NASA Projects

While in high school, William Jolitz worked at NASA Ames Research Center supporting a number of projects:

  • For Dr. Gordon Auguson in the Space Sciences Astrophysics, he lead a small team that machined, ground, polished and figured an 9 inch hyperbolic secondary mirror for the Kuiper Airbone observatory.
  • For Leonard McGee, he ported a navigation simulation program from an IBM 360 to a CDC 7600
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    June 1974 Certificate signed by Hans Mark.

  • For Charles T. Jackson Jr. and Dallas Denery, he assisted in a computer automated navigation and guidance system for general aviation aircraft.
  • With the Sensory Aids Foundation, he designed and built a prototype talking computer development system for the blind.
  • Various other systems integration projects (30+) involving scientific and navigation issues, including a paper on navigational error estimation.


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