Dave Aiello

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  • The Search for RPI’s Next Men’s Hockey Coach

    The Search for RPI’s Next Men’s Hockey Coach

    I’d like to share a few thoughts on the search for RPI’s next men’s hockey coach, following the news that Dave Smith was let go as head coach of the Men’s Varsity Ice Hockey Team. First, this was a hard but necessary decision. Although people will have their opinions as to what Dave could have…

    March 11, 2025
  • GitHub Copilot is Not Autopilot

    GitHub Copilot is Not Autopilot

    GitHub Copilot team members often say “GitHub Copilot is Not Autopilot.” They repeat this phrase often in YouTube videos on their channel. But what does it really mean?

    May 30, 2024
  • What Apollo Program Success Can Teach Indy Developers in the 2020s

    What Apollo Program Success Can Teach Indy Developers in the 2020s

    On December 18, 2023, I found “What made Apollo a success?” on Hacker News. It was a simple link to this 86-page compilation of eight articles from the March 1970 issue of Astronautics & Aeronautics, a publication of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. George M. Low was the manager of the Apollo Spacecraft…

    February 29, 2024
  • George Low, the RPI President Who Changed World History

    George Low, the RPI President Who Changed World History

    Today is the anniversary of a huge day in world history. Fifty years ago at about this time of day, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon. Mike Collins kept the Command Module operating until they got…

    July 20, 2019
  • Unifying My Photos and Videos on iCloud

    I've owned a digital camera since at least 2004. I bought my first iPhone on Day 1, June 29, 2007. Before I bought my first megapixel digital camera, I was buying Kodak Photo CDs: I have at least 23 of…

    May 23, 2019
  • I'm Supporting Jean-François Gosselin for Mayor of Québec

    Earlier in October, I learned that Jean-François Gosselin, a fellow RPI Hockey alumnus, is running for Mayor of Québec City, Canada. I looked around for a web page written in English that described his candidacy, and when I couldn't find…

    October 31, 2017
  • Building up Photos for RinkAtlas

    For the past year, I've been taking photos of many of the hockey arenas I've visited in the United States and Canada, with the intent of adding them to my arena database called RinkAtlas. The current version of RinkAtlas is…

    January 11, 2016
  • In Memory of Friends Lost on 09/11

    Every year since September 11, 2001 I've mentioned the following people who were victims of the terrorist attacks, in the hope that some of my friends will remember them:World Trade Center: Vito DeLeo, mechanic at World Trade Center, USA Hockey…

    September 11, 2015
  • 25 Years of NJ High School Hockey Officiating

    Yesterday I was honored to receive a service award from the Metropolitan New York-New Jersey Chapter of the National Ice Hockey Officials Association. I have been an on-ice official in this organization for 25 years. I joined the Metro NY…

    April 13, 2015
  • Why Shirley Ann Jackson Has My Support as Rensselaer President

    Here's a critical piece from The Chronicle of Higher Education on Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, the President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ("Behind RPI's Highly Paid Chief, Tales of an Imperial Air and Cowed Staff"). In case you are wondering, here…

    December 8, 2014
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