In an ideal scenario of intelligent machine tools [22] the human mechanist was almost replaced by the controller. During the last decade many efforts have been made to get closer to this ideal scenario, but the way of information processing within the CNC did not change too much. The paper summarizes the requirements of an intelligent CNC evaluating the different research efforts done in this f...

This program evaluation examined the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk Reduction Program which aims to identify CVD risk factors and reduce these risk factors through health education phone counseling. High risk participants (those having two or more elevated lipid values) are identified from monthly voluntary CVD screenings and counseled. Phone counseling consists of...

In contrast to manufacturing robotic applications, many Kennedy Space Center robotic applications require a combination of heavy lift capacity, real-time vision for course positioning of the robot arm and real-time compliance for the final precise positioning of the robot end-effector. Moreover, for some applications, this must be accomplished in a dynamic environment. The design requirements f...

" The Panel shall review safety studies and operations plans referred to it and shall make reports thereon, shall advise the Administrator with respect to the hazards of proposed or existing facilities and proposed operations and with respect to the adequacy of proposed or existing safety standards and shall perform such other duties as the Administrator may request. " This report is respectful...

We describe the design of an Artificially Intelligent Personal Assistant (AIPA) system whose theory is based on concepts from the artificial neural networks, triple-based knowledge representation that is used for both ontologies and their binary relationships, fast access via hash functions, and Class Algebra. The purpose of research and implementation is to study and test the effects of sharin...