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Coral Reef Project National Aeronautics and Space Administration The NRP POST A publication of NASA Research Park Summer 2012 Silicon Valley Campus Celebrates Decade of Success by Nichole Dwyer The winds were gusty, but the spirit was joyous as hundreds gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Silicon Valley Campus, located in the NASA Research Park. The celebration included remarks from university leadership and local government officials, short videos showcasing the campus and celebrating its existence, recognition of the campus founders, a time capsule ceremony, and a technol- ogy showcase. California State Assemblyman Paul Fong and Mountain View Mayor Michael Kasperzak offered resolutions celebrating the Silicon Valley Campus (SV). CMU President Jared L. Cohon and CMU Provost Mark Kamlet offered remarks on looking back at the history of the campus and looking forward to the future. President Cohon proclaimed, “Truly, this is the center of innovation of the world. The present, and even more so Some of CMUSV’s original founders with CMU leadership (L-R): the future, is about networking in a collaborative mode that Drew Perkins, Jared Cohon, Duane Adams, Martin Griss, Raj Reddy, Gordon Bell, Jim Mitchell, Pradeep Khosla, Ed Frank, Mark Kamlet, Eric benefits everybody.” Daimler, Philip Lehman, and Jim Morris Provost Kamlet recognized the campus founders and how the SV campus became the start of CMU’s global networking. CMU-SV cont’d on page 3 President of Bulgaria Visits NRP The President of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev, the U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria, James Warlick, and the Bulgarian Ambassador to the U.S., Elena Poptodorova, along with 15-20 U.S. and Bulgarian government and media representatives, vis- ited NASA Research Park on May 17. The objective of the visit was to learn about the NASA Research Park (NRP) and public/ (L-R): Rosen Plevneliev, President of Bulgaria; John Boyd, private partnerships for Senior Advisor to the Center Director; and Lewis Braxton III, technology R&D. Bulgaria Deputy Director. is planning a similar type of research park in their capital city Sofia. The visit was coordi- nated by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Lewis Braxton III, ARC Deputy Director, welcomed the president on behalf of Ames Rosen Plevneliev, President of Bulgaria Center Director Dr. Pete Worden who was on travel. Michael Marlaire, Director, NASA Bulgaria Visit cont’d on page 2 NRP Post CONTENTS NRPWelcomes CMUSV 10th Anniversary . .1 President of Bulgaria Visits NRP . 1 Rhombus Power, Inc. Bldg. 19, Room 1070G New Partners . 2 Commencement 5/1/12 NASA Earth Exchange . 4 Rhombus has developed proprietary solid state technologies for the detection of neutrons, gamma rays and other sub-atomic particles. With the help of these Airship Venture’s Zeppelin technologies and an international collaboration with researchers at leading Airship Pilot School . 5 universities in the Bay area and in South Korea, Rhombus is developing neutron detectors for homeland security, oil & gas exploration, aerospace applications, NASA Lunar Science Forum . 6 and deep space exploration. NASA Roses Seagrass/Coral Reef Project . 8 Quintessence Labs Inc. Bldg. 19, Room 1077 Hangar One UAV Project . 9 Commencement 8/1/12 Kentucky Space Developments . 4 Quintessence Labs Inc. is the first in the world to exploit a new generation of quantum cryptographic technology to enable unbreakable, secure storage and PepBlast Animated eCards . 11 communication of sensitive information through the generation of an ultra secure cryptographic key. KleenSpeed Wins Refuel 2012 . 12 KleenSpeed Battery . 12 NRP Hosts UN leaders . 13 Bulgaria Visit cont’d from page 1 Bloom Energy Brings on Research Park, briefed the guests on and Technology Corporation (STC) and Big Customers . 14 the NRP and introduced a number Tiffany Montague, Google. of Silicon Valley and NRP leaders: Dr. Singularity University’s Summer Russ Hancock, CEO, Joint Venture Discussions continued over a stand-up Graduate Studies Program . 15 Silicon Valley Network; Jason lunch. Afterwards, the President and a Popko, Marketing Supervisor, Bosch small entourage were taken to tour the Google’s Cyborg Glasses . 15 Healthcare; Carol Ruth, Finance & NASA Ames Supercomputer facility. The HR Manager, Lyncean Technologies; other guests toured NRP partner Sky- Moon Express New Hires . 16 Alexis Roos, Master Principal of Sales, Tran’s facility. A note from the Bulgarian Oracle Healthcare; Dr. Martin Griss, leadership was received after their visit, Director, Carnegie Mellon University “Let me once again express our appre- Silicon Valley; Ravi Deepak, Taksha ciation to your efforts and great support University; Michael Gooding, Director, and engagement to the Bulgarian visit Marketing and Sales, Space Systems in San Jose. The NASA event was the Loral; Dr. Robert Baertsch, Chief highlight of the program with lots of Technology Officer, SkyTran; Rob Nail, impressive attendees. It was a big chal- CEO, Singularity University; Bob lenge for all of us but the event with you Richards, CEO, Moon Express; Adarsh added a great value to the success of the Deepak, CEO, and President, Science whole mission.” 2 www.nasa.gov NRP Post Welcomes Gigapan photo of CMU-SV 10th anniversary attendees. The interactive photo can be viewed at http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/10years/ CMU-SV cont’d from page 1 “The Silicon Valley Campus really represented the start and the A technology showcase followed with over a dozen demon- learning curve for us on how to best network what we are doing strations and posters offering glimpses into the research being and how to best take advantage of who we can interact with,” performed at the campus. Kamlet said. Finally, a delicious reception capped the evening, after which Recognizing the rapidly advancing technology industry, the the winds had died down, but the sky still shone blue. SV campus also put together a time capsule, in which over 20 items from the campus and surrounding community were added. The capsule will be opened in 15 years during the 25th anniversary of the campus. SV Campus Director Martin Griss gave the final remarks, thanking those who helped push the campus to success, especially the College of Engineering. “The College provided a home for us to grow and a vehicle and assistance to develop and strengthen many ties,” he said. After the program, photos of SV alumni were taken, as well as a Gigapan photo of the attendees. Gigapans are gigapixel panoramas, digital images with billions of pixels. GigaPan was formed in 2008 as a commercial spin-off of a successful research collaboration between a team of researchers at NASA NASA Ames Associate Director for Mission Support, Deborah Feng, and Carnegie Mellon University. congratulates CMU for ten years at NRP. NRP hosts US Market Access International Business Leaders US Market Access Center (US MAC) is a non-profit business accelerator located in the heart of Silicon Valley. The US MAC is supported by the San Jose State University Research Foundation and focuses on helping emerging technology companies from other countries who seek to do business in the US. Since 1995 US MAC has worked with over 800 such companies from over fifty countries. Michael Marlaire, NRP Director, briefed the US MAC guests from University of Salford, England; Aalto University, Finland; Urban and Regional Innovation Research (URENIO), Greece; and University of Lodz, Poland. wwww.nasa.gov/centers/ames/researchpark 3 NRP Post NASA Earth Exchange Joins NRP Partnership by Jill Dunbar First application of NEX: global vegetation density estimates at 30-meter resolution (nearly 340 billion pixels) from Landsat satellite data. Take one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, add thousands According to Jennifer Dungan of NASA Ames’ Earth Science of terabytes of Earth science data, mix in state-of-the art Division, who co-manages the NEX project, a key advantage software tools, and blend with an array of international experts. of being located on the NRP campus is the ease of including The result: NASA Earth Exchange (NEX), the only complete non-NASA researchers in NEX-sponsored events. During the collaborative workspace for engaging and enabling the highly successful 2012 “Summer Short Course for Earth System extended Earth science community. Modeling and Supercomputing” held this past July, early-career scientists from the U.S. and around the globe were introduced The newest partner to join NASA Research Park, NEX offers a to NEX and attended lectures on a wide variety of topics, unique capability to share knowledge, research, and tools including Earth observing systems, Earth science modeling and to address global environmental challenges. The three key data analysis codes, handling big data, and publishing results. components of the NEX workspace architecture—a web portal for sharing project information and findings, a sandbox One of the most promising real-world results enabled by the with tools for building software codes and testing ideas, and NEX environment involves the Amazon rainforest, which has high-performance computers for running data analysis and gone through two extreme droughts since 2005. When NASA modeling and simulation on a large scale—are accessible scientists studied the first drought, it took 18 months to process to a variety of Earth scientists from universities, government, and analyze all the data. In sharp contrast, using NEX workflow industry and non-profits around the world. capabilities and the Pleiades supercomputer (see sidebar on page 5), scientists completed an analysis of the 2010 drought in “The idea is to give scientists a gateway to all the technologies just one month. This quick analysis led to further investigations they need to join forces, make new discoveries, and share that revealed widespread reductions in the health of forest knowledge gained to fast-track our understanding of the planet vegetation in the Amazon basin. we live on,” said Dr. Ramakrishna Nemani, NEX principal scientist from the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division Not all NEX members need to use Pleiades to advance at NASA Ames.
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