Working with NASA

Adjustable Autonomy with NASA Procedures

NASA’s Exploration missions will require more effective use of human resources in space and on Earth. The use of automation to perform routine or hazardous tasks can free humans for other tasks. But increased use of automation must be done without compromising human safety or introducing unnecessary risk. At JSC we have developed technology for incrementally increasing the level of system auton...

Working Notes of the NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space

Experience with Parallel Computers at NASA Ames

Beginning in 1988, the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) organization at NASA Ames Research Center has studied the usability of highly parallel computers on computational uid dynamics and other aerophysics applications. Presently this organization operates a CM-2 with 32,768 nodes and an Intel iPSC/860 with 128 nodes. This note gives an overview of the experience in using these systems, hi...

2 NASA Aeronautics Blueprint NASA unveiled the Aeronautics

NASA’s Aeronautics Blueprint lays out a research agenda for the Agency’s aeronautics program. The word software appears only four times in this Blueprint, but the critical importance of safe and correct software to the fulfillment of the proposed research is evident on almost every page. Most of the technology solutions proposed to address challenges in aviation are softwaredependent technologi...

NASA NASA Object - Oriented Systems : An Annotated Bibliography

The USL/DBMS NASA/PC R&D Working Paper Series contains a collection of formal and informal reports representing results of PC-based research and development activities being conducted by the Center for Advanced Computer Studies of the University of Southwestern Louisiana pursuant t o the specifications of National Aeronautics and Space Administration Contract Number NASW-3846 and NASA Training ...