First Mobile NASA App and Quakesim Share Agency's 2012 Software Award
WASHINGTON
-- NASA's first mobile application and software that models the
behavior of earthquake faults to improve earthquake forecasting and our
understanding of earthquake processes are co-winners of NASA's 2012
Software of the Year Award. The award recognizes innovative software
technologies that significantly improve the agency's exploration of
space and maximize scientific discovery on Earth.
Software engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., developed the NASA App for mobile platforms including the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android phones and tablets. The NASA App currently has more than 9.6 million user installations and receives more than three million hits per day on average.
The NASA App gathers the agency's online content, breaking news, image and video collections, news and image feeds, social media accounts, and more in one easy-to-use location that aids public access to science, technology and engineering discoveries. The app's creators are program manager Jerry Colen, software engineer John Freitas and new media specialist Charles Du.
QuakeSim, developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art software tool for simulating and understanding earthquake fault processes and improving earthquake forecasting. Initiated in 2002, QuakeSim uses NASA remote sensing and other earthquake-related data to simulate and model the behavior of faults in 3-D both individually and as part of complex, interacting systems. This provides long-term histories of fault behavior that can be used for statistical evaluation. Quakesim also is used to identify regions of increased earthquake probabilities called hotspots.
Studies have shown QuakeSim to be the most accurate tool of its kind for intermediate earthquake forecasting and detecting the subtle, transient deformation in Earth's crust that precedes and follows earthquakes. Its varied applications include scientific studies, developing earthquake hazard maps that can be used for targeted retrofitting of earthquake-vulnerable structures, providing input for damage and loss estimates after earthquakes, guiding disaster response efforts, and studying fluid changes in reservoirs, among others.
The multidisciplinary QuakeSim team includes principal investigator Andrea Donnellan, Jay Parker, Robert Granat, Charles Norton and Greg Lyzenga of JPL; Geoffrey Fox and Marlon Pierce of Indiana University, Bloomington; John Rundle of the University of California, Davis; Dennis McLeod of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and Lisa Grant Ludwig of the University of California, Irvine.
A NASA software advisory panel reviews Software of the Year entries and recommends winners to NASA's Inventions and Contributions Board for confirmation. Both Ames and JPL have won individually or shared the award several times since it was initiated in 1994.
For more information about NASA's Inventions and Contributions Board, visit:
Software engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., developed the NASA App for mobile platforms including the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android phones and tablets. The NASA App currently has more than 9.6 million user installations and receives more than three million hits per day on average.
The NASA App gathers the agency's online content, breaking news, image and video collections, news and image feeds, social media accounts, and more in one easy-to-use location that aids public access to science, technology and engineering discoveries. The app's creators are program manager Jerry Colen, software engineer John Freitas and new media specialist Charles Du.
QuakeSim, developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art software tool for simulating and understanding earthquake fault processes and improving earthquake forecasting. Initiated in 2002, QuakeSim uses NASA remote sensing and other earthquake-related data to simulate and model the behavior of faults in 3-D both individually and as part of complex, interacting systems. This provides long-term histories of fault behavior that can be used for statistical evaluation. Quakesim also is used to identify regions of increased earthquake probabilities called hotspots.
Studies have shown QuakeSim to be the most accurate tool of its kind for intermediate earthquake forecasting and detecting the subtle, transient deformation in Earth's crust that precedes and follows earthquakes. Its varied applications include scientific studies, developing earthquake hazard maps that can be used for targeted retrofitting of earthquake-vulnerable structures, providing input for damage and loss estimates after earthquakes, guiding disaster response efforts, and studying fluid changes in reservoirs, among others.
The multidisciplinary QuakeSim team includes principal investigator Andrea Donnellan, Jay Parker, Robert Granat, Charles Norton and Greg Lyzenga of JPL; Geoffrey Fox and Marlon Pierce of Indiana University, Bloomington; John Rundle of the University of California, Davis; Dennis McLeod of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and Lisa Grant Ludwig of the University of California, Irvine.
A NASA software advisory panel reviews Software of the Year entries and recommends winners to NASA's Inventions and Contributions Board for confirmation. Both Ames and JPL have won individually or shared the award several times since it was initiated in 1994.
For more information about NASA's Inventions and Contributions Board, visit:
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Anthony J. Maturo,
NASA Inventions and Contributions Board Staff Director
Welcome to the Inventions and Contributions Board (ICB), the portal to
imagination, transferring today's ideas into tomorrow's technologies.
Oliver Wendell Holmes believed that "a man's mind, once stretched by a
new idea, never regains its original dimensions." It is with this spirit
that Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, forming NASA and initiating the flow of its new technologies to the public.
Since its creation on December 4, 1958, as a NASA innovation source the ICB has distributed millions of dollars for thousands of technologies that have enhanced the nation's space program and the individual citizen's quality of life. The ICB has issued over 100,000 awards to applicants from NASA and other U.S. government agencies, as well as from industry and academia. For a historical overview of the ICB, see NASA's Inventions and Contributions Board: A Historical Perspective.
The Space Act limits the amount of an award for any single contribution to no more than $100,000 without notification of Congress. ICB operations are governed by three sections of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations: 14CFR1209 (Sub-part 4), 14CFR1240, and 14CFR1245.
The ICB is chaired by the NASA Chief Engineer and is composed of representatives from across the Agency, who reflect NASA's finest technical talent and whose expertise covers more than 40 fields of science and technology. The Board is assisted by four staff members, based at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, who carry out the administrative activities of the awards process.
The ICB also acts as the approval body for grants of waiver of NASA's rights to contractor inventions. Changes in the law in 1984 automatically grant waivers for small businesses, certain not-for-profit organizations, and universities. NASA, as a title agency, is vested with all rights to inventions by large contractors, unless a waiver is granted by the ICB.
All awards are submitted through the Awards Liaison Officers for the NASA Center that sponsors the candidate technology. The Board approves awards for Tech Brief Articles, Software Releases, and Patent Applications. The Board Award is the mechanism for awarding competitors in two Yearly Competitions: Software of the Year and Invention of the Year.
The NASA Software of the Year Competition is sponsored by the Chief Engineer and the Chief Information Officer. The NASA Invention of the Year Competition is sponsored by the Chief Engineer and the Office of the General Counsel and seeks to highlight the top innovations of NASA each year. Awards may be made in two categories: Government Invention of the Year and Commercial Invention of the Year. The winning team(s) are presented awards at the annual NASA Project Management Challenge the following year.
Since its creation on December 4, 1958, as a NASA innovation source the ICB has distributed millions of dollars for thousands of technologies that have enhanced the nation's space program and the individual citizen's quality of life. The ICB has issued over 100,000 awards to applicants from NASA and other U.S. government agencies, as well as from industry and academia. For a historical overview of the ICB, see NASA's Inventions and Contributions Board: A Historical Perspective.
The Space Act limits the amount of an award for any single contribution to no more than $100,000 without notification of Congress. ICB operations are governed by three sections of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations: 14CFR1209 (Sub-part 4), 14CFR1240, and 14CFR1245.
The ICB is chaired by the NASA Chief Engineer and is composed of representatives from across the Agency, who reflect NASA's finest technical talent and whose expertise covers more than 40 fields of science and technology. The Board is assisted by four staff members, based at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, who carry out the administrative activities of the awards process.
The ICB also acts as the approval body for grants of waiver of NASA's rights to contractor inventions. Changes in the law in 1984 automatically grant waivers for small businesses, certain not-for-profit organizations, and universities. NASA, as a title agency, is vested with all rights to inventions by large contractors, unless a waiver is granted by the ICB.
All awards are submitted through the Awards Liaison Officers for the NASA Center that sponsors the candidate technology. The Board approves awards for Tech Brief Articles, Software Releases, and Patent Applications. The Board Award is the mechanism for awarding competitors in two Yearly Competitions: Software of the Year and Invention of the Year.
The NASA Software of the Year Competition is sponsored by the Chief Engineer and the Chief Information Officer. The NASA Invention of the Year Competition is sponsored by the Chief Engineer and the Office of the General Counsel and seeks to highlight the top innovations of NASA each year. Awards may be made in two categories: Government Invention of the Year and Commercial Invention of the Year. The winning team(s) are presented awards at the annual NASA Project Management Challenge the following year.
- Learn More about the Award Requirements
- Access the Board Award Application Forms
- View Software of the Year Award Winners
- View Invention of the Year Award Winners
I hope you will also take time to explore the contributions of the past, as documented in the ICB Annual Reports, to understand the "how, who, and what" of participation in the ICB process.
Contacts:
- Mr. Anthony J. Maturo, Inventions and Contributions Board Staff Director
- Questions regarding the NASA Space Act Awards Program: Contact Mr. Jesse Midgett, ICB Technologist.
- Questions regarding ICB records: Contact Ms. Iona Butler, ICB Records Manager.
- Questions regarding the process for an application for patent waiver, and for advance patent waivers:
Contact: Angela F. Greene, ICB Staff Specialist.
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