Collaborative & Assistant Systems
Overview
As NASA missions become longer and more scientifically complex, the critical challenge of managing the data and information generated by the Agency’s varied scientific and engineering activities only increases in importance. The Collaborative & Assistants Systems (CAS) technical area tackles this challenge by applying its extensive data management research and development experience to address the specific needs of NASA missions, programs, and projects.
CAS focuses its efforts on building systems and developing techniques that address issues throughout the information management lifecycle – starting with data acquisition, and moving through data conditioning and integration; data storage, organization, and access; data visualization; and finally, data analysis, mining, and extraction. An underlying theme of CAS work involves enabling NASA’s distributed teams to rapidly access key information needed for collaboration and accomplishment of their missions.
Areas of Expertise
- Data architecture design
- Data mining and analysis
- Ground & flight data systems
- Information extraction
- Information integration systems
- Intelligent information retrieval, access, and search
- Knowledge management systems
- Semantic technologies
For more information, see the CAS Research Groups.
Technical Area Lead
Richard Papasin
Deputy Area Lead
Peter Tran
CAS Alumni
Gordon Aaseng
Jennifer Betancourt
Katharine Brinker
Lee Brownston
Sonja Caldwell
Cathy Chou
Michael Crawford
Misty Davies
Jason Duley
Dennis Heher
Judy Heinrich
Jennifer Hsu
Jon Jenkins
Sandra Johan
Rich Keller
Shawn Li
Joe Lin
Tony Lindsey
David Maluf
Nimesh Marker
Rob Morris
Chris Newton
Tuong Nguyen
Veronica Philips
Cedric Priscal
Sneha Raghunandan
Pete Richards
Pegah Sarram
Jeffrey Smith
Helen Stewart
Ian Sturken
Deep Tailor
Peter Tenenbaum
David Thompson
Eric Ting
Joseph Twicken
Kelly Vail
Yao Wang
Harald Weber
Mei Wei
Sam Westigard
Enya Yan
Jane Yuan