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Welcome to CoLab

The NASA CoLab program develops and supports online and offline communities collaborating with NASA.

With the involvement of many NASA centers, CoLab provides frameworks for partnership projects between the nation’s space program and talented, creative, tech-savvy communities. In addition to getting people more interested and involved with the space program, CoLab provides a way for individuals to actually contribute to NASA.

CoLab is already in action with a vibrant, active community in the virtual world of Second Life, a virtual learning community with interactive content.

CoLab projects just around the corner include CosmosCode and an event and group collaboration site, Web2.0 style, where scientists and engineers from NASA will collaborate with talented and interested individuals.

The CoLab program is also actively working towards having a physical space in downtown San Francisco dedicated toward collaborative work with NASA.

May 21, 2008: Luna Philosophie

Fri, 25 Apr, 2008 at 11:29

WHAT:The eighth Luna Philosophie will feature Patrick Hogan, Project Manager and Randy Kim, UI, Data and Graphics Lead for NASA World Wind, an open source 3D interactive world viewer. Together, they will be discussing "Open Source at NASA: 3D Visualization with NASA World Wind".

February 20, 2008: Luna Philosophie

Thu, 27 Dec, 2007 at 11:15

WHAT:The seventh Luna Philosophie will have Vytas Sunspiral, of NASA Ames Research Center, at Yahoo Brickhouse in San Francisco. He will be discussing "Control Schemes for Complex Coordinated Human Motion."

January 9, 2008: Luna Philosophie

Thu, 27 Dec, 2007 at 10:34

WHAT:The sixth Luna Philosophie will have Tom Cochrane, of NASA Ames Research Center, at Yahoo Brickhouse in San Francisco. He will be discussing Virtual Reality System Engineering Environments for the Space Program.

Proceedings of the Participatory Exploration Summit

Thu, 29 Nov, 2007 at 10:56

Please check out the Proceedings of the Participatory Exploration Summit This event, held at NASA Ames Research Center on June 26, 2007, explored creative opportunities for individuals, organizations, and communities to engage with NASA through the use of new and emerging technologies, and to participate in space exploration.

November 7, 2007: Luna Philosophie- Viewpoints: Exploratory Data Analysis [NEW location!]

Mon, 29 Oct, 2007 at 10:00

WHAT:The fifth Luna Philosophie will have Creon Levit, of the NASA Ames Research Center Advanced Supercomputing Division, at Yahoo Brickhouse in San Francisco. Creon will be discussing Viewpoints, a High-Performance Interactive Cross-Platform Graphical Data-Mining Tool.

NASA Official: Robert Schingler
Curator: Tek Okimura
Last Updated: May 9, 2008

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