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- Photos: NASA Science and Technology Showcase
- A look at the high-tech research and development going on inside the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. by CNET News.com
- Tags: NASA Ames Research Center, NASA, Photograph, Research & Development, Business Operations, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-06-29
- Photos: NASA meets Burning Man at Yuri's Night
- CNET News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman captures the Yuri's Night Celebration at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.
- Tags: Yuri, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, NASA, California, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-04-14
- Photos: Space capsules under pressure
- Models of crew exploration capsules go through the ringer at NASA's Ames Research Center.
- Tags: NASA Ames Research Center
- Image galleries 2006-03-07
- Photos: Space capsules under pressure
- Models of crew exploration capsules go through the ringer at NASA's Ames Research Center.
- Tags: NASA Ames Research Center
- Image galleries 2006-03-07
- Photos: Desert robot
- "Zoe" is a robotic astrobiologist that's been jointly developed under a $3 million grant from Carnegie Mellon University and NASA's Ames Research Center.
- Tags: Robots, NASA Ames Research Center, Carnegie-Mellon University, robot
- Image galleries 2005-08-10
- Photos: Desert robot
- "Zoe" is a robotic astrobiologist that's been jointly developed under a $3 million grant from Carnegie Mellon University and NASA's Ames Research Center.
- Tags: Robots, NASA Ames Research Center, Carnegie-Mellon University, robot
- Image galleries 2005-08-10
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- Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors
- Windows 7 to scale to 256 processorsMassively parallel architectures...There are more problems to solve besides dispatching. With a large number of processors, you will run into latency problems accessing memory as physical memory gets further away from a particular processor. Multiple queues and thread affinity to processors will...
- Tags: Processors, Operating systems, processor, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Super-duper green computers
- If you think about sheer performance-per-watt potential, it's pretty hard to beat a supercomputer. So any company with gargantuan transaction processing needs might want to scout the latest Green500 list for insight. This list was brought to my attention by SGI, which has 11 entries in...
- Tags: SGI Altix, Silicon Graphics Inc., Computer, Altix ICE, UNIX, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Google To Get A Lesson in Security, From the Pros
- Having just read that Google is taking up residence at Moffett Field, a storied air base in Mountain View that is home to NASA's Ames Research Center, among others, I realized there's a great opportunity for Google to learn a little about high end security, at least the kind that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Security, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Automatic eyeglasses prescriptions?
- For its space missions, NASA wants astronauts with excellent vision without corrective lenses or glasses. This doesn't prevent its Vision Science and Technology Group to study human vision of ordinary people like you and me. Two members of this group recently discovered that a new formula connecting optical quality with...
- Tags: NASA, Vision, Model, Metric, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- NASA goes open source as it seeks volunteers to code space missions
- NASA plans to recruit volunteers to write code for space missions with a new open source program called CosmosCode, Wired reports. The program was launched quietly last year under NASAs CoLab entrepreneur outreach program, created by Robert Schingler, 28, and Jessy Cowan-Sharp, 25, of NASAs Ames Research Center in...
- Tags: NASA, Government technology, Open source
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- NASA's Mars life-detector
- With the financial help of NASA, American and European researchers have developed a new sensor to check for life on Mars. It also should be able to determine if traces of lifes molecular building blocks have been produced by anything alive. The device has already been tested in the Atacama...
- Tags: Harold Urey, life-detector, NASA
- Blog posts 2007-03-11
- Terminal Server, Networked Apps Help NASA Cut TCO
- NASA's Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, Calif.) holds the agency's Center of Excellence for Information Technology CEIT. With some 4,000 civil servants and contractors working in a mixed PC/Mac/UNIX computing environment, deploying basic productivity applications such as Microsoft Office requires some users to keep multiple desktop machines. As a result,...
- Tags: NASA, Microsoft Windows Terminal Server, Server, TCO, Microsoft Corp., Servant, Roi/Tco, Desktops, Microsoft Office, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- NASA, Google in deal to make space images widely available
- NASA is the greatest collector of space imagery, without a doubt. But their websites were never quite satisfying, many of which seemed to be targeted to scientific experts not to average users looking for an outer-space thrill. Google on the other hand has created a multibillion business out of improving...
- Tags: Google Inc., NASA, Google, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- NASA to reveal major Google announcement Monday
- According to NASA Ames, a discussion about the agreement with Google has been scheduled for Monday, December 18. Not much is known about what is going to be discussed, but the press release gives us a couple clues:NASA Ames Research Center hosts a media briefing Monday to discuss a...
- Tags: Google Inc., NASA, Space Act agreement
- Blog posts 2006-12-16
- Step onto Mars with Vertical Motion Simulator
- NASA's virtual space explorationNASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley is home to SimLabs--simulation laboratories where you can take control of a virtual airport or explore the skies and space with the Vertical Motion Simulator. Take a look inside the facility.
- Tags: NASA
- Videos 2006-10-06
- Fly planes in a 360-degree virtual universe
- NASA's Future Flight Central supplies virtual airportTake a tour of the Future Flight Central at NASA Ames Research Center in California, a complete virtual airport tower that can simulate any airport under any amount of traffic. Hear what it's like for an air traffic controller to work in the environment.
- Tags: Performance management, 360-degree
- Videos 2006-09-21
- Teachers leave NASA program with new skills
- This year's crop of K-12 students have 22 new reasons to get excited about space exploration. Twenty-two award-winning teachers have attended NASA's newly created Airspace Systems Education Cohort ASEC and will impart their newly gained scientific knowledge scientific on fields from electrical engineering to complex aeronautics, reports eSchool News. ...
- Tags: teacher, NASA
- Blog posts 2006-08-01
- Nothing's too hot for NASA
- Designing heat shields for the Crew Exploration VehicleScientists at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., are testing high-tech materials they hope will hold up to temperatures three times hotter than the surface of the sun.
- Tags: NASA
- Videos 2006-05-25
- NASA's 20-G centrifuge machine
- Scientists from NASA and two U.S. universities are using a 20-G centrifuge machine that can simulate up to 20 times the terrestrial gravity to evaluate the effects of hypergravity on humans. This 58-foot diameter centrifuge has three cabins, one for humans -- limited to 12.5 G -- and two for...
- Tags: cab, gravity
- Blog posts 2006-04-29
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