Almaden Institute

NASA Challenges in Autonomic Computing Abstract: “To boldly go where no man has gone before.” This phrase is now entrenched in our society due to the popularity of the Star Trek series. However, space exploration is clearly not just science fiction. For years, NASA has been exploring space and going places where “no man or robot has gone before.” Traditionally, space exploration has been immensely expensive and often quite risky due to the need to build a platform that can robustly survive in a harsh unknown environment while still attempting to achieve its science goals. For some time now, researchers at NASA Ames and other NASA centers have been attempting to develop techniques that will allow NASA to develop smarter more adaptive spacecraft that can self-regulate themselves while exploring the Universe. In this talk, I will present some of the compelling challenges that NASA offers for Autonomic computing and briefly describe some of the research that we have been doing in this area.  Daniel J. Clancy - Bio Daniel J. Clancy: Chief, Computational Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center dclancy@arc.nasa.gov Daniel Clancy, Ph.D., is the division chief of the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center. This division performs basic and applied research in the areas of artificial intelligence, neuro-control, human-centered systems, robotics, collaborative assistants, and other related research areas. Prior to becoming the division chief, Dr. Clancy was a researcher in the Autonomy and Robotics area focusing on research developing model-based reasoning techniques to manage the health of complex physical devices. Prior to coming to NASA, Dr. Clancy received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin..