http://www.silicon.com Results for Nasa en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39677646,00.htm As well as independent coders, developers from Nasa Ames Research Center, Google, Yahoo! The Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California, is a community of hackers who have come together to work on projects, collaborate, and share expertise in... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:12:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39655945,00.htm The system will launch with data from organisations including the Associated Press and Nasa. Microsoft's cloud-based computing platform Azure has been given an official launch date. Azure will be made commercially available from 1 January... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:55:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60817411p,00.htm Agencies of the U.S.government such as The Pentagon, NASA, FAA, The Army, The Veterans Administration, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have suffered data losses - either through inadvertent human error, insider espionage, state-sponsored... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/agenda-setters-2009/gary-mckinnon-39547920.htm McKinnon has been fighting extradition to the US since 2003, a year after he was arrested for hacking into computer systems used by the Pentagon and Nasa, where it was alleged he caused $700,000 worth of damage. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:19:08 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/itoutsourcing/0,3800004871,39525924,00.htm Speaking at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California, federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled the administration's first formal efforts to roll out a broad system designed to take advantage of existing infrastructure and, in the process, cut federal... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:02:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39495231,00.htm After all, they have regular access to superstar teachers like George Smoot, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dan Kammen, co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:05:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39473326,00.htm He was charged with intentionally damaging a federal computer system, and with breaking into 97 computers belonging to the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, US Department of Defense and Nasa. Gary McKinnon has lost his high court bid to avoid... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:57:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60635095p,00.htm A charter of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is to educate the public and inspire students. NASA hosts a Web site for the purpose of generating public awareness about the Mars Science Laboratory rover known as Curiosity. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:21:46 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39461052,00.htm Moon in Google Earth incorporates the data on the surface of the moon from Nasa. On the 40th anniversary of the first moon walk, Google launched Moon in Google Earth, an addition to its Google Earth mapping software that lets people virtually... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:09:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39452609,00.htm The Conservative Party has championed the case of Gary McKinnon, the self-confessed Nasa hacker, in an opposition day debate in parliament. McKinnon has admitted breaking into Nasa and other US agency systems, but he claims he was looking for... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:48:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39444465,00.htm Pleiades, SGI, NASA Ames Research Center (487.01 teraflop/s) Despite the Jaguar nipping at its heels, Roadrunner continues to speed past the supercomputing pack. That's according to the twice yearly Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:52:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39439895,00.htm Johnson can also expect to face fresh pleas from lawyers for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon, who made unsuccessful appeals to Smith to block his extradition to the US to face prosecution. Following a week of political turmoil culminating in a cabinet... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:47:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/pdas/0,39024643,39428598,00.htm Photo credit: Nasa silicon.com's Tim Ferguson travelled to Portugal to see how 2004 European Cup winner, FC Porto, uses video security and networking technology at their Estádio do Dragão ground in Porto. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 11 May 2009 12:02:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60587074p,00.htm Following decades of work on major NASA efforts such as the Apollo program, they're playing a key role in the success of a small and relatively inexpensive next-generation satellite. The company wanted to work with the Naval Academy to design... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 01 May 2009 01:18:56 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39412408,00.htm Photo credit: Nasa Here, teams of Nasa flight controllers sit behind banks of consoles to monitor and direct shuttle missions from the ground tracking station. Photo credit: Nasa Nasa Mission Control Center: Houston we have a problem editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:00:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39400390,00.htm The Crown Prosecution Service has decided it will not prosecute self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon in the UK, edging him closer to extradition to the US. US authorities last year won the extradition of McKinnon to face charges of breaking... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:25:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39391131,00.htm Starting this summer, some of the world's leading thinkers in exponentially growing technologies will be gathering annually at Nasa Ames Research Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley, for 10 weeks of discussions on how to change the future - and... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:03:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39383816,00.htm Gary McKinnon, the man accused by US prosecutors of "the biggest military hack of all time", has won the right to a judicial review of a Home Office decision to extradite him to the US. Lord Justice Maurice Kay made the ruling at the High Court in... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:31:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39380476,00.htm McKinnon has always admitted hacking into Nasa and Pentagon systems - a crime for which he could face up to 70 years in prison if he were found guilty by a US court - but denies causing damage to the extent claimed by the US. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:13:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39376849,00.htm The Crown Prosecution Service will give a decision in the next four weeks as to whether it will prosecute Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon. The Nasa hacker: All the coverage Nasa hacker says will plead guilty in UK editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:52:01 +0000