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Nasa hacker extradition: On hold
News 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... [20 Jan 2009]
Will Nasa hacker be prosecuted in UK?
News 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... [16 Jan 2009]
Nasa hacker says will plead guilty in UK
News McKinnon has been accused by US prosecutors of "the biggest military hack of all time", after entering Nasa and Pentagon systems. The Nasa hacker: All the coverage Nasa hacker says will... [13 Jan 2009]
2008: The year in mobile
News Nasa prepares trial for takeoff 2008 was a year of change in the mobile sphere - not least for the iPhone which switched from being exclusively a shiny consumer toy to a business-friendly mobility tool as Apple licensed... [30 Dec 2008]
A Formal Object-Oriented Analysis for Software Reliability: Design for Verification
White Paper The formal OOA methodology, including the design rules, was applied to the design of NASA robot control software. This paper presents the OOA design step in a methodology which integrates automata-based model checking... [19 Dec 2008]
Moon mobiles, Windows without Gates and DIY wi-fi signal boosting
News Nasa prepares trial for takeoff 2008 has been a year of many interesting tech developments, especially in the mobility space - from the launch of Apple's 3G iPhone, to the ballooning take-up of mobile broadband and a... [15 Dec 2008]
Lunar satellite mission inches closer to blast off
News In addition to relying this scientific data back to Earth, the satellite system should also ensure a full four-bar mobile signal for lunar colonists living in a Moon base which Nasa wants to build after 2020. [05 Dec 2008]
Flight Dynamic Model Exchange Using XML
White Paper The AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technical Committee has worked for several years to develop a standard by which the information needed to develop physics-based models of aircraft can be specified. The purpose of this standard is to... [04 Dec 2008]
A Semantic Search Engine for Spatial Web Portals
White Paper Spatial Web Portals, such as NASA's Earth Science Gateway (ESG, esg.gsfc.nasa.gov) and ESIP's Earth Information Exchange (EIE, eie.esipfed.org) have improved the sharing, exchanging, and interoperating... [29 Nov 2008]
PM speaks out on Nasa hacker plight
News Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spoken publicly for the first time on the future of Gary McKinnon, who is facing extradition to the US on hacking charges. During Prime Minister's questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday, David... [21 Nov 2008]
Photos: The best of Google Labs
Photo It works in much the same way as Google Earth, although instead of providing views of the globe, Google Mars offers the surface of our nearest planetary neighbour using images from Nasa's Mars Global Surveyor. [19 Nov 2008]
High-Performance Business Computing With Hiperware
White Paper Cluster Computing - famously used by Google, Hotmail, Yahoo and others to reliably and cost effectively run their services, as well as by government and science agencies such as NASA and the Human Genome Project to... [18 Nov 2008]
Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers revealed
Photo At number three on the supercomputer list is the Nasa Ames Research Centre Pleiades supercomputer. Photo credit: Nasa Ames Research Center/Marco Librero The colossi of computing took their places on the... [17 Nov 2008]
Photos: The greatest tech sites from around the globe
Photo Photo credit: Nasa Nasa still launches spacecraft from both Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Centre on nearby Merritt Island. Cape Canaveral is famous as the site from which Nasa has... [13 Nov 2008]
"We'll find ET within two dozen years," says Seti
News He explained it had originally been a Nasa project but that it had been cancelled in the 1990s by a Nevada senator unhappy with its lack of success. A senior Seti astronomer believes advances in computing power could... [12 Nov 2008]
