Keith’s note: NASA has spent $2 billion on Curiosity. But NASA allows researchers to post the research results – results paid for by taxpayers – behind a paywall at Science. You have to pay twice if you want to see what has been discovered. Too bad NASA is not interested in following OSTP guidelines on Open Data, Transparency, etc. Keith’s update: Note: the papers from the 24 January issue of […]
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” […]
NASA’s Inconsistent Support of the International Space Apps Challenge “Several weeks ago NASA and a number of sponsors held the International Space Apps Challenge. The intent was to enlist people from all across the world to create solutions to problems and issues associated with spaceflight. The participants were truly spread out across our planet including Antarctica with support from the crew aboard the International Space Station. … I think it […]
Keith’s note: Here’s the premise: Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) – a series of long workshops (often known as “Hackathons”) are held in multiple locations around the world wherein people come together to share their skills and create things (software etc.) that can be of use to others locally and globally. Wonderful idea. NASA becomes involved – thus offering the potential to bring its resources to bear – and ingest […]
NASA Launches Open Gov Status Dashboard “Some ideas, on the other hand, have taken a little longer than we anticipated and need some extra time in order to be done correctly. To articulate the status of all of these milestones, we’re launching the new Open Government Status Dashboard, which details the status of all 39 three-month goals in an easy-to-read format. We’ll work to keep this status page updates as […]