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IBM’s Watson computer system competes against Jeopardy!’s two most successful and celebrated contestants—Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Photo Credit: IBM
Putting Cognitive Computing to Work at NASA Langley

NASA’s need for the capacity to accumulate and make sense of vast amounts of material is what makes Watson a potentially valuable tool for NASA.

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Knowledge Journal Issue 1: On the Front Cover

In this April 25, 1990, photograph taken by the crew of the STS-31 space shuttle mission, the Hubble Space Telescope is suspended above shuttle Discovery’s cargo bay some 332 nautical miles above Earth. Photo Credit: NASA

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Knowledge Journal Issue 1: On the Back Cover

“Being here, living here, is something that I will probably spend the rest of my life striving to find just the right words to try to encompass and convey just a fraction of what makes our endeavors in space so special and essential,” said Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of Expedition 5, who lived six months […]

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Welcome from NASA’s Chief Knowledge Officer

Many people think of knowledge management as lessons learned databases and other online tools for locating expertise.

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The Curiosity rover was subjected to stringent sterilization procedures. Image Credit: NASA
JPL Tube Pioneers Searchable Video Capture

The NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is the lead NASA field center for the robotic exploration of the solar system.

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Data computing equipment at reactor at NASA Plum Brook Station circa 1960. Photo Credit: NASA
Better Access to Critical Expertise

One question I repeatedly receive from employees at NASA is, “Why can’t I ever find what I need?”

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Learning Lessons from GEMS

The Gravity and Extreme Magnetism SMEX (GEMS) mission failed to pass confirmation in May of 2012.

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Spaceport Innovators Keep on Innovating

Since 2011, a group of Kennedy Space Center (KSC) employees calling themselves the Spaceport Innovators have been organizing and attending talks on a wide range of subjects.

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Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 space mission in July 1969, served for seven years as a research pilot at the NACA-NASA High-Speed Flight Station, now the Armstrong Flight Research Center, at Edwards, California, before he entered the space program. Armstrong is pictured here on an early simulator, dated October 8, 1956. Photo Credit: NASA
What Motivates Knowledge Sharing at NASA?

From the early days of knowledge management in the 1990s, practitioners have looked for effective ways to motivate knowledge-sharing in their organizations.

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