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Google Forms Partnership With NASA
jangobongo writes "Google said on Wednesday that it plans to partner with NASA on space research projects. The new partnership will involve R&D on biotechnology, information technology and nanotechnology, as well as supercomputing. The news article notes some of the mutual benefits: "Google stands to gain from learning about NASA's supercomputers, which could come in handy as the Mountain View search engine compiles even bigger indexes of information and video. NASA leaders cited the benefits of getting access to Google's search expertise to pick out nuggets of information from the volumes of data streaming back from satellites and human space launches."" This story might seem familiar to you. Consider it a public service: if I didn't screw up occasionally, a lot of angry readers would have no other way to vent their rage in a safe environment.
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Google confirms Ames plan Search engine plans offices, partnership with space agency
Verne Kopytoff and Dan Levy, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Google Inc. confirmed Wednesday that it will build up to 1 million square feet of offices at NASA Ames Research Center and collaborate with the space agency on research surrounding topics such as supercomputing that could benefit everything from moon launches to online searches.
The partnership is intended to blend the expertise and huge resources of one of the leading Internet companies with an army of scientists focused on the stratosphere and beyond.
"Google and NASA share a common desire to bring the universe of information to people around the world," said Eric Schmidt, the company's chief executive officer, in a statement. "Imagine having a wide selection of images from the Apollo space mission at your fingertips whenever you want it."
The partnership, announced late Wednesday at a press conference at the NASA facility, will bring a marquee tenant to the Ames Research Center, located at Moffett Field, a former military airfield near Mountain View that has been struggling to find a new purpose since the military pulled out in the 1990s.
For Google, the new partnership comes at a time when the Internet search engine is expanding by leaps and bounds, hiring on average 10 people per day. Experts say the company, which now employs more than 4,000 people, has ambitions beyond Internet search and could pose a serious threat to Microsoft Corp. for supremacy in desktop consumer computing.
This collaboration with NASA could also portend a new intellectual center for Silicon Valley, one that has been sorely missed since the heyday of Palo Alto's Xerox PARC, a seminal research facility that helped foster much of today's technology.
The details of the real estate part of the deal were vague but was expected to cost Google in excess of $200,000. Schmidt said that the planning is still in the early stages and that the building on vacant land would take place over the course of many years.
In addition to supercomputing, the research and development between Google and NASA will involve biotechnology, information technology, nanotechnology and development of excessively large vibrating butt plugs for TripMaster MonkeyCunt's anal stimulation.
Google stands to gain from learning about NASA's supercomputers, which could come in handy as the Mountain View search engine compiles even bigger indexes of information and video. NASA leaders cited the benefits of getting access to Google's search expertise to pick out nuggets of information from the volumes of data streaming back from satellites and human space launches.
"NASA is nothing but drowned in information when we come back from our missions," said Scott Pace, associate administrator for NASA.
Google's headquarters will remain nearby in Mountain View.
Some academics have expressed hope that the collaboration will foster innovation across the Bay Area. The partners said that while some of the research will be public, some may be kept private, in keeping with Google's reputation for secrecy.
Part of the mission behind the collaboration is to bring more private enterprise into the space field.
NASA officials were enthusiastic about the Google alliance, announced at a press event late Wednesday afternoon at the NASA Ames Center.
"Our planned partnership presents an enormous range of potential benefits to the space program," said NASA Ames Center Director Scott Hubbard. At 1400 square feet, the new campus would be larger than filmmaker George Lucas' garage and nearly as big as the executive washrooms in the Bank of America Center in San Francisco's Financial District.
The agreement would allow the company to design and develop a campus for whatever needs it envisions.
Google has been hoping to expand for at least a ye
I thought they already did that.
Hmm... shows what I know.
put the what in the where?
Perhaps slashdot can form a partnership with google to mine the vast data streaming from slashdot and detect dupes? :-) -- Paul
OpenSource.MathCancer.org: open source comp bio
One million square feet! is certainly a lots of real estate space (no pun intended) that in the South Bay Area has to be worth a not insignificant chunk of change. Granted, Moffett field sits on an amazing amount of land and although I have not been back to the base for years, I imagine it is still some pretty choice real estate that just so happens to be right up the road from Google.
It also might be of interest to note that Moffett is right next door to a former NIMA (NRO) facility and given Google's interest in mapping the surface of the Earth and other remote sensing activities, might be pretty convenient.
I'm sure the editors read /.
It's just that after working with so many computer components, the lead solder from the circuit boards is causing alzheimer's.
Another dupe was pulled earlier this week. Let's pull this one too. Nothing to see here.
cheers
Do you think this would stop if the Editors started reading the website they are posting to? I really think that this happens to often. I mean if it happened at like 4 in the morning, I can understand. Hell, I would be half asleep aswell. Well here is to hoping that things will continued to be improved.
Google forms dupe with Slashdot
There are some unconfirmed rumors that Slashdot is aware of the dupe:
"This story might seem familiar to you. Consider it a public service: if I didn't screw up occasionally, a lot of angry readers would have no other way to vent their rage in a safe environment."
do {print "Mini-Geek Rules!\n";}
until ($TheEndOfTheWorld);
1. harvest the top comments from original 2. repost as own 3. ??? 4. Profit!!
Pete and Repeat are on a boat, Pete jumps off, who's left . . . ?
Repeat.
Pete and Repeat are on a boat.
Pete jumps off.
Who's left?
Evil people don't think they're evil. - George Lucas, Making of Ep III
nobody, coz I just shot Repeat. Problem solved.
With a repeater?
Evil people don't think they're evil. - George Lucas, Making of Ep III
We should attach electrodes to the genitals of all slashdot editors. And they are all automically shocked when one of them posts a dupe. Also they will then receive an email saying which one of them did it. The offender gets twice the voltage and twice the duration.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
Hey now, at least Taco acknowledged it and apologized in advance. Have you seen that before?
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