NASA Tournament Lab to Launch Big Data Challenge Series for U.S. Government Agencies, NASA “NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced on Wednesday the launch of the Big Data Challenge, a series of competitions hosted through the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL). The Big Data Challenge series will apply the process of open innovation to conceptualizing new and novel approaches to using “big data” […]

Crowdsourcing Science with Zooniverse and NASA at the NEEMO-15 Underwater Asteroid Mission “Analyzing the vast amount of data that NASA brings back from its missions is an enormous task. In order to improve collaboration internally, as well as engage citizens in NASA’s mission, the Open Government team is experimenting with different ways to process mission data quickly. The NASA OpenGov team has enlisted the help of established NASA partners Zooniverse […]

NASA Announces International Space Apps Competition “NASA is announcing the International Space Apps Competition to support the Open Government Partnership (OGP), which President Barack Obama announced Tuesday. The challenge will culminate with a two-day event next year that will provide an opportunity for government to use the expertise and entrepreneurial spirit of citizen explorers to help address global challenges. During the event, NASA representatives and officials from international space agencies […]

What is a Galaxy? Cast Your Vote Here “Our aim here is to promote further discussion of how to define a galaxy and, in particular, what separates it from a star cluster. Like most previous definitions, we adopt the requirement of a gravitationally bound stellar system as a minimum … we give our favoured criteria, and in the spirit of a ‘collective wisdom’, invite readers to vote on their preferred […]

According to ESA: “The Space Game is a game and a crowdsourcing experiment run by the Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency aimed to improve the methods for designing interplanetary trajectories. We do not claim that computers are not able or are particularly bad at solving such problems. Rather, we think that ‘watching’ humans design complex interplanetary trajectories can be of help to improve the intelligence of computer […]