NASA needs help making its FUN3D software better, and it’s asking the world for help. The space agency just announced several bounties for anyone in the U.S. who can optimize the code for the NASA ...
NASA wants your help on it’s newest project. Doug Rohn, director of NASA’s Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program, is calling the competition the “ultimate ‘geek’ dream assignment.” Essentially, ...
Tracey Birch, a woman with 25 years of experience in software development and system administration, had never seen so many women in tech in one room. Last week she was named as one of 49 NASA ...
NASA and the TopCoder community are looking to find ways to better detect asteroid threats. (Credit: NASA JPL Lab) In order to solve some of the challenges presented by the massive expanse of the ...
IN A OLD WIDE COMPETITION. THEO: AS NASA COMMEMORATES ANNIVERSARY PLANS ARE IN PLACE TO GO BACK TO THE MOON BY 2024 AND PUT THE FIRST PERSON ON MARS BY 2040. THOSE MISSIONS ARE INSPIRING YOUNG MINDS ...
As NASA prepares for a return trip to the moon in 2024, along with a trip to Mars by 2040, it's inspiring young minds like third grader Paxton Summers.Paxton recently won a coding contest put on by ...
Oct. 15 (UPI) --NASA is launching a coding competition to get some much-needed help with organizing images from April's solar eclipse for the 2024 Eclipse Megamovie project. "Thanks to the efforts of ...
Houston, we have open-source code. NASA recently announced that it will open up parts of its vast catalog of software projects for use by the public, delivering on earlier promises to improve the ...
If you're a computer programmer with some time on your hands, NASA needs you! The agency said it wants to streamline a piece of software used for aviation research and run on one of the world's most ...
If you'd like to work on software projects that might one day send your code to Mars or on a deep space mission, NASA has some code for you to hack on. The Space Agency recently unveiled a new website ...
Back in the 1980s, I was writing open-source programs for NASA. Oh, we didn't call it open source then. Open source as a term wouldn't exist until 1998. All the code we produced was “free software,” ...