WASHINGTON, May 21, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Bill
Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam
Melroy are hosting an employee town hall at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 22, to discuss how the
agency is using and developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools
to advance missions and research.
The event will steam live on NASA+, NASA Television, and the
agency's website.
The town hall also will feature the NASA experts pioneering and
leading the use of AI across the agency, including:
- A.C. Charania, chief technologist
- David Salvagnini, chief
artificial intelligence officer
- Jeff Seaton, chief information
officer
- Kate Calvin, chief
scientist
A wide variety of AI tools are used by NASA to benefit humanity
from supporting missions and research projects across the agency,
analyzing data to reveal trends and patterns, and developing
systems capable of supporting spacecraft and aircraft
autonomously.
On May 13, Nelson named Salvagnini
as NASA's first chief artificial intelligence officer. The agency
continues developing recommendations on leveraging emerging AI
technology for a variety of missions including sifting through
Earth science imagery to identifying areas of interest, to
searching for data on planets outside our solar system from NASA's
James Webb Space Telescope, scheduling communications from the
Perseverance Mars rover through the Deep Space Network, and
more.
Learn more about artificial intelligence at NASA at:
https://www.nasa.gov/artificial-intelligence
Faith McKie / Jennifer Dooren
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
faith.d.mckie@nasa.gov / jennifer.m.dooren@nasa.gov
Hillary Smith
Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley
650-604-4789
hillary.smith@nasa.gov
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