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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, photograph, California
Image galleries 2007-04-14

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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., Roi/Tco, Desktops, Microsoft Office, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Office Suites, Software
Case studies 2007-01-01
NASA's World Wind Puts the Planet at the Fingertips of Internet Users Anywhere
World Wind is a program developed by the Ames Research Center Learning Technologies, a division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA. Using the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, and Microsoft DirectX, World Wind enables anyone with a PC and a broadband Internet connection to take a...
Tags: NASA, Internet User, Microsoft Corp., World Wind, Broadband Internet, Internet, .Net, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking
Case studies
Photos: Flying observatory's homecoming
Long-awaited--and long-delayed--airborne observatory makes first trip to NASA Ames, which was expected to be it home. by CNET News.com
Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, CNET News.com
Image galleries 2008-01-14
Model Checking Real Time Java Using JAVA PATHFINDER
The Real Time Specification for Java RTSJ is an augmentation of Java for real time applications of various degrees of hardness. The central features of RTSJ are real time threads; user defined schedulers; asynchronous events, handlers, and control transfers; a priority inheritance based default scheduler; non-heap memory areas such as...
Tags: Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development
White papers 2006-04-07
NASA: We're working on Warp Drive...sorta
In case you didn't know it, NASA has a research Web page dedicated to the development of Warp Drive (as seen on TV, and found via Reddit). More specifically, the PR Webmasters at NASA have a page they use to update the local citizenry as to the agency's research into...
Tags: Barrier, NASA, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2007-04-25
Project Management Tool Analysis and Recommendations White Paper
The Principal Center for Workgroup Hardware and Software PCHWS has been involved in an extensive study of project management tools in use and available in industry. Under the FY2000 Memorandum of Understanding MOU between NASA Headquarters and the NASA Glenn Research Center, the PCWHS is tasked with studying and evaluating...
Tags: NASA, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
White papers 2004-01-15
Navy X Planes from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
View this image gallery of examples of Navy X planes. by Tony Kaelin
Tags: TechRepublic Inc., NASA, Tony Kaelin, geekend, off topic, navy, aircraft, planes
Image galleries 2008-02-12
(Images: NASA builds Orion mock-up)
Why so long?Its like 37 years since the first time NASA reckoned it got to the moon, lets make it a nice round 50 year anniversary to get this thing back there again..big deal, by the time NASA try an launch it we will have all run out of hydrocarbon/oil...
Tags: dallas@..., NASA
Discussion threads 2007-11-14
Google to build 1 million square foot facility
Google has apparently struck a deal to build on part of the large NASA Ames facility:http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/28/GOOGLE.TMP&nl=topI love the comparison--at 1 million square feet it will be larger than the new George Lucas facility in the Presidio. With new huge facilities like these two it looks like the San Francisco...
Tags: google, Google Inc., RexWorld
Discussion threads 2005-09-28
TBTF: The Man From NASA
I had an invite from Oracle to attend a luncheon with the Tampa Bay Technology Forum TBTF to listen to Russell Romanella, the Director of the Space Station Processing Directorate at Kennedy Space Center, speak about NASA, the space shuttle program and going to Mars.This post originally appeared on an...
Tags: NASA
Blog posts 2006-06-02
NASA Normal (jar)
Based on NASA Web Site Style Guidelines. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
Tags: NASA
Software downloads 2007-08-15
Top VFX Artists Adopt Adobe OpenHD Workstations and Adobe Video Collection Software to Deliver HD for Broadcast and Film
Legato and Ames rank among the film industry's most elite visual effects artists. For the top VFX artist Rob Legato and Ron Ames use of desktop tools such as Adobe Video Collection represent a major, long-term shift in the way commercials, films, and other motion content is created. Studios no...
Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Workstations, Marketing
Case studies
Fearby NASA TV (gadget)
Vista gadget that will let you view in the sidebar or on your desktop in full screen the NASA TV station. Fearby NASA TV is a gadget that will let you view the NASA TV station on your desktop or Vista Sidebar. The source video is 320 x 240 at...
Tags: NASA, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
Software downloads 2007-12-13
Solar Viewer Mini (zip)
NASA and Ideum's Solar Viewer Mini puts today's images of the Sun on your desktop. These near real-time images come from NASA/ESA's SOHO mission, NASA Trace mission, and the Big Bear Observatory. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
Tags: NASA, Mission, Image
Software downloads 2007-07-25
Optimal Case Study: NASA
NASA's unique mission of exploration, discovery and innovation has preserved the United States' role as both a leader in world aviation and as the preeminent spacefaring nation. To improve and modernize the agency's financial management and accounting processes, NASA implemented its Integrated Financial Management Program IMFP. The goal of IMFP...
Tags: Accounting, NASA, Financial, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance
Case studies
Images: SpaceX, Rocketplane win NASA support
NASA steps toward handing the future of space flight to the private sector by funding development of two launch systems.
Tags: NASA
Image galleries 2006-08-21
Tropos Wi-Fi Hotzone Equipment Tested at Meteor Crater
Tropos 5110 Wi-Fi cells were successfully tested by NASA at its on-site field trial at Meteor Crater in Arizona as part of NASA's multi-center, human-robotic exploration research. The company said that this is the first time NASA has used outdoor cellular Wi-Fi technology as the communications network for potential interplanetary...
Tags: NASA, Tropos Networks, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
Case studies
Images: NASA hunts for a new Earth
As the number of planets spotted outside our solar system nears 200, NASA searches for one that's similar to Earth.
Tags: NASA, Earth
Image galleries 2006-10-18
The Freakonomics of space exploration
Over at the Freakonomics Blog, Steven J. Dubner asks: "Is space exploration worth the cost?" Respondents include: G. Scott Hubbard, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University and former director of the NASA Ames Research Center Joan Vernikos, member of the Space Studies Board of...
Tags: NASA, Alcohol Comparison, Investment, Finance, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-01-15
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