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“Sociological Considerations” Contributed to Planetary Science Decadal Survey
In September 2009, Bill Clancey and Charlotte Linde submitted a white paper “Sociological Considerations for the Success of Planetary Exploration Missions” as a contribution to the Planetary Science Decadal Survey. ...
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MOD Enterprise Architecture Repository Released
Johnson Space Center (JSC)’s Mission Operations Directorate (MOD) has significantly increased their reliance on the Ames-developed MOD Enterprise Architecture Repository (MODEAR) system, recently released for operational use at JSC. MODEAR ...
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XSearch Incorporates New Interface and Search of ISS Flight Rules
On August 11, 2009 XSearch v2.0 was released to Mission Control Center (MCC) flight controllers. This release represents a major revision of XSearch, coupling the search of a major new ...
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CDE Demonstrated to ISU Satellite Applications Group
Francis Enomoto was invited to demonstrate the Collaborative Decision Environment (CDE) to an International Space University (ISU) class on 8/3/2009 as part of a tour of the Earth Science facilities. ...
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Flight Tracker for CASIE Mission
The Collaborative Decision Environment (CDE) development team supported the Characterization of Arctic Sea Ice Experiment (CASIE) mission by a providing a near real-time flight tracking tool so that the mission ...
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IRG Ground Data Systems Support Pavilion Lake Research Project
The Intelligent Systems Division hosted members of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region IX Emergency Response Unit. The EPA visitors were Jan Baxter, Scientist on detail to Ames; Peter Guria, ...
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Maarten Sierhuis Gives Brahms Tutorial at Summer Computer Simulation Conference
On July 16, 2009, Maarten Sierhuis delivered the tutorial Introduction to Brahms: Modeling, Simulation and Development of Multi-Agent System at the Summer Computer Simulation Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. Brahms is ...
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Maarten Sierhuis Gives Keynote Address at IJCAI 2009 COIN Workshop
On July 11, 2009, Maarten Sierhuis delivered a keynote address at the Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN) workshop at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence ...
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Scheduling, Training Administration, and Records (STAR) V0.4 Release
The Scheduling, Training Administration, and Records (STAR) team achieved a major milestone on July 7, 2009 with the release of STAR v0.4. This release represents one of the first major ...
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NASA Bluesky Meeting “Toward a Sustainable Lunar Architecture”
Bill Clancey participated in an Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) Bluesky workshop held May 28-29 at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (Pensacola, FL) as part of a series ...
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STAR v0.3 Release
The Scheduling, Training, Administration, and Records (STAR) team achieved a major milestone last week with the release of STAR v0.3. This release represents the third iterative release of the STAR ...
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STAR Project Presents to the Mission Operations Directorate Control Board
On April 22, 2009, the Scheduling, Training, Administration, and Records (STAR) project team presented a high-level view of the STAR project schedule to the Johnson Space Center (JSC) Missions Operations ...
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MCT Developers Workshop
MCT Developers Workshop at JSC
The first Mission Control Technologies (MCT) developers workshop was held at Johnson Space Center (JSC) for developers from the Mission Operations Directorate (MOD). MCT is a software technology that enables ...
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OCAMS Rule Editor Used to Implement Change in Mission Operations Requirement
On April 2, 2009, OCAMS Release 2 (R2) was deployed for JSC mission control backroom operations involving file transfer between ground support and the crew of the International Space Station. ...
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Collaborative Traffic Flow Management Publication
“A Multi-Agent Simulation of Collaborative Air Traffic Flow Management,” by Shawn R. Wolfe, Peter A. Jarvis, Francis Y. Enomoto, Maarten Sierhuis, Bart-Jan van Putten, and Kapil S. Sheth, has been ...
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PMT Team Receives NASA Agency Honor Award
The Ames Program Management Tool (PMT) Team and the Johnson Space Center (JSC) Dashboard Team received the Agency Honor Award for their joint group achievement in providing NASA with an ...
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Designing for Cognitive Task Performance Book Chapter Published
“Designing for Cognitive Task Performance,” by Judith M. Orasanu (Human Systems Integration Divison) and Michael G. Shafto (Intelligent Systems Division), has been published as Chapter 17 (pp. 691-721) of the ...
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OCAMS System Release 2.0 Deployed in JSC Mission Control
The second release of the Orbital Communications Adapter Monitoring System (OCAMS) was installed for International Space Station (ISS) operations on April 2, 2009. This version significantly extends the automation of ...
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XSearch Incorporates Detection Of ISS Inventory Records
On March 31, 2009, XSearch v1.6 was released to Mission Control Center (MCC) flight controllers. This release extends the system’s cross-reference detection capability to identify citations to International Space Station ...
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XSearch Nominated for 2009 JSC Software Awards
The XSearch system was nominated for consideration as part of Johnson Space Center (JSC)’s 2009 Software Awards process. The nomination was submitted in response to a JSC-wide call for software ...
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Planetary Data System Tools Web Site Rollout
The Planetary Data System (PDS) Tools web site has gone into live beta test phase. Designed, developed, and hosted at NASA Ames, this site provides hosted cross-platform web-based tools to ...
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Planetary Data System Image Search Site Rollout
The Planetary Data System (PDS) Image Search Site, developed in collaboration with Google has gone live at http://alderaan.arc.nasa.gov/pdsimages This site provides, for the first time, the capability to search selected ...
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NASA Bluesky Meeting “Refining the Vision of the Lunar Electric Rover”
On March 2-4, 2009, Bill Clancey and Terry Fong participated in an Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) Bluesky workshop at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), part of a series of ...
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OCAMS Release 2 Testing at Ames
The week of November 3, the OCAMS team performed an integration test at NASA Ames for Release 2 of the OCAMS agent system. Release 2 is scheduled to be installed ...
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Planetary Data System Home Page Goes Live
The Planetary Data System (PDS) homepage has an all-new design, the purpose of which is to make the PDS data and tools more readily available to the existing users, as ...
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Deloitte Fast 50 Delegation Visit
On November 2, 2008, a select group of ten CEOs from companies in The Netherlands, on the list of this year’s Deloitte’s Fast 50, visited the Ames Intelligent Systems Division. ...
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Scheduling, Training Administration, and Records Release
The Scheduling, Training Administration, and Records (STAR) team achieved a major milestone in November with the release of STAR v0.2. This release contains functional capabilities such as being able to ...
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XSearch Incorporates PVCS Change Management Record Search
On November 4, 2008, XSearch v1.5 was released to Mission Control Center (MCC) flight controllers. This release adds four new sets of records that can be searched in a consolidated ...
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Historical Review of Situated Cognition Published
An introductory review chapter, “The Scientific Antecedents of Situated Cognition,” by Bill Clancey (Chief Scientist, Human-Centered Computing) has appeared in the Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition. The article explains how ...
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Divers Use Mobile Agents to Develop Operational Procedures for Lunar Missions
The NASA Ames Mobile Agents team collaborated with Smithsonian Institution scientists in a series of underwater extravehicular activities (EVAs) at the Smithsonian Institution’s Carrie Bow Cay Field Station in Belize ...
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XSearch Support for Hubble Repair Mission
On September 30, 2008, XSearch v1.1 was released to Mission Control Center (MCC) flight controllers at Johnson Space Center (JSC) in anticipation of STS-125, the Hubble repair mission. This release ...
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Synergies in Exploration Studies and Technology Development
Bill Clancey (Chief Scientist, Human-Centered Computing, Intelligent Systems Division), made a one-hour presentation at NASA Headquarters on October 8, 2008 titled “Enabling Field Science: Synergies in Exploration Studies and Technology ...
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Mobile Agents Used by Geologists in Volcanic Setting
The Mobile Agents team supported a series of simulated lunar mission EVAs on the Kilauea, HI volcanic shield in August 2008. Two experiments replicated Apollo 12 EVA #2 in the ...
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Planetary Data System Redesign
The redesign of the primary web site of the Planetary Data System (PDS) was deployed on August 8, 2008, in preparation for public beta test starting August 15. This is ...
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Training Management System Lab
STAR Team Implements New Automated Build Capability
The Ames Scheduling, Training Administration, and Records (STAR) development team researched, architected, and implemented an automated build capability to allow for the STAR source code to be checked out and ...
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OCA MPSR
OCAMS System Deployed in Mission Control at JSC
After a successful two-week operations testing phase in Johnson Space Center’s International Space Station (ISS) Mission Control, the Orbital Communications Adapter Monitoring System (OCAMS) began “live” operations on July 8, ...
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ISS Flight Control Room
XSearch System Successfully Deployed Into MCC Operations
The second and final phase of XSearch deployment was completed successfully on July 22, 2008 when the system went live as part of the International Space Station (ISS) Mission Control ...
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