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Managing Content In A Matter Of Minutes

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution NASA software created to help scientists expeditiously search and organize their research documents is now aiding compliance personnel, law enforcement...

Conversing With Computers

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution I/NET, Inc., is making the dream of natural human-computer conversation a practical reality. Through a combination of advanced artificial intelligence research and practical...

Hearing In True 3-D

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution In 1984, researchers from Ames Research Center came together to develop advanced human interfaces for NASA's teleoperations that would come to be known as virtual reality. The basis...

Providing A Turn For The Better

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Engineers are tasked with designing new systems every day to meet changing or unexpected technical requirements. After the tragic explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger...

Fluid Flow Technology That Measures Up

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution From 1994 to 1996, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center conducted a Center Director's Discretionary Fund research effort to apply artificial intelligence...

Reading Through Paint

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Two-dimensional data matrix symbols, which contain encoded letters and numbers, are permanently etched on items for identification. They can store up to 100 times more information...

Material Analysis And Identification

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution KeyMaster Technologies, Inc., develops and markets specialized, hand-held X-ray fluorescence (XRF) instruments and unique tagging technology used to identify and...

Freeing Water From Viruses And Bacteria

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Four years ago, Argonide Corporation, a company focused on the research, production, and marketing of specialty nano materials, was seeking to develop...

Settling The Score With Heart Disease

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Technology and medicine forged a bond in 1986 when a group of dedicated NASA scientists, University of Southern California (USC) medical professors, and a Dutch...

New Glass Serves As Window To Cutting-edge Lasers

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Since 1997, Marshall Space Flight Center’s Electrostatic Levitator (ESL) facility has been used to study the characteristics of new metals, ceramics,...

Smart Camera Technology Increases Quality

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution When it comes to real-time image processing, everyone is an expert. People begin processing images at birth and rapidly learn to control their responses through...

A Coating That Cools And Cuts Costs

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution To enable low-cost space access for advanced exploration vehicles, researchers from NASA’s Ames Research Center invented and patented a protective coating for...

Helping Aircraft Engines Lighten Up

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution High-temperature polyimide/carbon fiber matrix composites are developed by the Polymers Branch at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. These materials can withstand high...

Hybrid Tank Technology

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Researchers have accomplished great advances in pressure vessel technology by applying high-performance composite materials as an over-wrap to metal-lined pressure vessels. These...

'Contact' In Space Leads To New Lenses

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution While gravity has its advantages in keeping us balanced and grounded here on Earth, scientists often find that they are at a disadvantage when trying to conduct...

Segmenting Images For A Better Diagnosis

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Originally conceived for use in terrestrial remote sensing applications, NASA's Hierarchical Segmentation (HSEG) software has found its way into a new medical...

A Look From The Inside

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given the world amazing images of the distant stars, planets, and galaxies. The cutting-edge imaging technology that enhances the Hubble images...

Reducing The Time And Cost Of Testing Engines

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Producing a new aircraft engine currently costs approximately $1 billion, with 3 years of development time for a commercial engine and 10 years for a...

New Outboard Motor Firing On All Pistons

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Seven years ago, NASA was in the planning stages of producing an aluminum alloy with higher strength and resistance at elevated temperatures for aerospace...

Understanding Fire Through Improved Technology

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution By studying fire through the science of combustion physics, scientists and researchers from NASA, academia, and private industry find new ways to improve...

Approaching Suspicious Substances Safely

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution A mineral identification tool that was developed for NASA's Mars Rover Technology Development program is now serving as a powerful tool for U.S. law enforcement...

Fighting Corrosion

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Reinforced concrete structures such as bridges, parking decks, and balconies are designed to have a service life of over 50 years. All too often, however, many structures fall short of...

Spreading The Word On Safety

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Beginning with the Apollo Program in the early 1960s, the NASA White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) has supported every U.S. human exploration space flight program to date....

Superior Sensor Making Sense In Military, Medicine

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution A fiber-optic voltage sensor developed a decade ago for NASA's aircraft and space power systems has been the building block for a string of new sensor...

Leaving A Print On Safety

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Pattern-recognition technologies developed by NASA to identify spacecraft and other objects in space have helped in the development of new, biometrics-based security solutions...

Sizing Up The Situation

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Hailstorm damage to the Space Shuttle's External Tank inspired a NASA innovation with extensive photography applications. In order to measure the defects caused by the storm,...

The Perfect Mate For Safe Fueling

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Referred to as the "lifeline for any space launch vehicle" by NASA Space Launch Initiative Program Manager Warren Wiley, an umbilical is a large device that transports...

Bringing In The Reinforcements

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution What do NASA and ballistics have in common? More than the average person may know. Everyday, millions of Americans drive in vehicles, cross over bridges, and fly in...

Forecasting Weather With A Wave Of The Hand

Originating Technology/NASA Contribution Cybernet Systems Corporation, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, originally developed its gesture recognition technology for the U.S. Department of Defense. A 1997 Phase...