Over 100 years, NASA's top 5 tech advances
One hundred years ago this month, Congress established the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), launching the nation into a time of advancing aeronautics and eventually space exploration.
"NASA" news, interviews, and features
Features about NASA
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NASA rides artificial intelligence to the moon and Mars
As NASA sends robotic spacecraft and rovers to the moon and Mars, the space agency has been using artificial intelligence to get the most science out of its missions.
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3D printing makes its move into production
The use of 3D printing for finished goods is about to disrupt manufacturing and supply chains in a big way. Here's why, and here's how IT will be critical to that transition.
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After successful launch, NASA probe heads to the moon
After a successful lift off late Friday night, NASA's lunar orbiter is powered up, communicating and on its way to the moon.
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Businesses adopting robots for new tasks
Thanks to better sensors and other tech advances, robots are being used for new applications, including quality control.
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The time is right for an 'IT petting zoo'
Being a visionary within a corporation lead to playing with a lot of consumer toys, and that's exactly the point. Play, have fun and discover what does or doesn't work in your company.
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5 tips for avoiding private cloud failures
According to Piston Cloud Computing's CTO, the rate at which his customer's pilot projects turn into production private clouds is pretty typical of most OpenStack-based providers – and it's pretty low.
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Stack wars: OpenStack v. CloudStack v. Eucalyptus
OpenStack -- co-founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 -- certainly has the buzz, what with partnerships with AT&T, HP and IBM, to name a few, all of which have promised to use OpenStack as the base for their private cloud offerings.
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Planck spacecraft offers clues to age, origin of universe
The Planck space mission has given scientists new information about the age, content and origin of the universe.
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Cloud computing's big debt to NASA
IBM's decision this week to base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish this open source platform as the standard in enterprises.
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Worst security snafus of 2012
The first half of 2012 was pretty bad - from the embarrassing hack of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard to a plethora of data breaches - and the second half wasn't much better, with events including Symantec's antivirus update mess and periodic attacks from hactivists at Anonymous.
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Startup tech vendors are worth the risk, say IT execs
Working with startup vendors requires a lot of legwork and a plan for managing the risk. But the payoff can be great.
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NASA amps up wicked cool competitive prize program
NASA this month greatly expanded its public prize competition program known as the Centennial Challenges.
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10 Apollo-era technologies used today
It's been 40 years since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launched into space in Apollo 11, with the historic moon landing occurring four days later.
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NASA research finds way into IT, consumer products
Aware of a history of heart disease in his family, then-50-year-old Gary F. Thompson saw his doctor for a checkup before he ran a Los Angeles marathon in the mid-1990s.
