2024.06.02
[Herald Interview] Korea's space sector should strive for 'balanced portfolio'
"Steve Chien, long-time NASA engineer, advises importance of having diverse space ecosystem"
+ The Korea Herald
2021.11.04
Innovation: AI and the global software arms race
"AI is essential to the cyber space. In cyber, one can create
hundreds or thousands of ‘software agents’ far easier than
building physical tanks, airplanes, ships or missiles."
+ Irish Times
2021.10.20
Steve Chien interview: Why NASA is inventing curious AI for deep space
"Space probes will be the first to explore the furthest reaches
of our solar system and beyond.
To make discoveries like finding alien life,
they will need to think more like humans, says NASA’s Steve Chien"
+ New Scientist
2021.09.28
Feds Offer Recommendations on Scaling AI
"'We recognize that establishing justified confidence in AI system
is the critical issue in seeing AI systems deployed widespread.
And for that, we need robust and reliable AI, testing evaluation
verification and validation, we need leadership among the
different institutions that will be deploying the AI,
we need rules of the road in accountability in governance,
and we also need to develop patterns for human and AI interaction
and teaming is a very critical point,' Dr. Steve Chien, Commissioner at the NSCAI, said."
+ MeriTalk
2021.03.21
U.S. Unprepared for AI Competition with China, Commission Finds
"The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence is
out with its comprehensive final report recommending a path forward
for ensuring U.S. superiority in AI that calls for the
Defense Department and the intelligence community
to become “AI-ready” by 2025."
+ Nextgov
2021.03.02
AI commission sees ‘extraordinary’ support to stand up tech-focused service academy
"The report also recommended creating a Digital Service Academy,
modeled after the five current military service academies,
that would “grow tech talent with the same seriousness of purpose
that we grow military officers,” and train current
and future federal employees."
+ Federal News Network
2019.12.05
Mission to Mars: No humans need apply
"The real Captain Kirk, the ambassador from Earth who will travel
to the farthest reaches of the solar system and the galaxy,
is much more likely to be an assemblage of microprocessors and intelligent software,
than a Spandex-clad space captain."
+ Irish Times
2019.12.03
NASA JPL’s AI chief on interstellar robot meetings and the search for ET
"Chien was one of the speakers at the recent National Analytics Summit
held in Dublin by the Analytics Institute,
where he revealed the work underway at [NASA] to use machine learning
and other autonomous technologies to
bring warp-like speeds to the rate of cosmic discoveries."
+ Silicon Republic
2019.11.07
U.S. National Security Commission Warns Pentagon Of Falling Hopelessly Behind In The AI Arms Race
"An interim report compiled by a U.S. national security panel warns the
U.S. government of falling too far behind China and Russia in the AI arms race,
while calling for new investments to foster innovation."
+ Gizmodo
2019.02.19
Space: the new AI frontier?
"In today’s media-rich environment the concept of artificial intelligence
is hard to miss, but its role in our space-based systems is easy to overlook.
In fact, for some applications, it is already embedded."
+ Engineering and Technology
2019.01.10
Top tech execs named to new National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence
"Executives from major technology firms Google, Microsoft, Amazon
and Oracle will serve on the new National Security Commission on
Artificial Intelligence, along with former national security officials,
leading academics and one sitting U.S. senator."
+ Inside Defense
2018.12.06
NASA’s next Mars rover will use AI to be a better science partner
"NASA can't yet put a scientist on Mars. But in its next rover mission to
the Red Planet, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is hoping to use
artificial intelligence to at least put the equivalent of a talented
research assistant there."
+ Ars Technica
2018.10.15
Artificial Intelligence At NASA - Interview with Steve Chien, Head of AI, NASA-JPL
"From rovers to satellite imagery analysis, AI is a powerful tool in the
agency's quest to advance human scientific knowledge. But today, AI is also
a powerful tool for businesses."
+ YouTube
2018.07.16
Curiosity Gets More Curious - To make Curiosity (et al.) more curious, NASA and ESA smarten up AI in space.
"The future of deep-space exploration? 'We can't deal with it without autonomy'"
+ Ars Technica
2018.05.22
Toquin TEC 1. Capítulo 2: Steve Chien x Diego Slezak
"Steve Chien es el director del grupo de inteligencia artificial en el
laboratorio de propulsión de la NASA, Estados Unidos. Y con Diego Slezak,
uno de los referentes más fuertes en el campo de la inteligencia artificial
de Argentina, se encuentran para conversar cómo es aplicar esa tecnología
en el espacio."
+ YouTube
2018.03.31
NASA Has Switched Off A Groundbreaking Satellite After 17 Years
"EO-1 out-performed everyones expectations and pushed the boundaries
of satellite technology. Among its contributions, it was able to help our
understanding of the Earth, observe the extreme disasters of the last 17
years, further AI tech for satellites, and pioneer satellite formation
flying"
+ Forbes
2018.02.14
The Silicon Valley Summer Camp Trying To Save Us From Extinction
"the data-digesting talents of deep learning aren’t just useful for
designing autonomous robot explorers for the oceans believed to be on
Jupiter’s moon Europa, for instance, but for finding signs of
extraterrestrial life."
+ Fast Company
2017.12.28
How NASA's Search for ET Relies on Advanced AI
"Jet Propulsion Laboratory's artificial intelligence chief describes the
'ultimate' test for AI in space exploration."
+ Scientific American
2017.12.21
While earthlings take a break, the Mars rover keeps working
"While many of us will spend the final days of 2017 taking a break from
work, the ChemCam instrument aboard NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will
keep busy."
+ LANL Press Release
2017.11.29
NASA's Lessons For AI In Business Are Out Of This World
"AI holds the key to our quest to finding our place in the universe.
'Distant environments are so hostile – and so far away – that robotic
explorers will be first to explore the nooks and crannies of the solar
system, and indeed, neighbouring stars. Due to the complexity of such an
endeavour, AI will be critical to making this inevitable exploration
possible.'"
+ AI Business
2017.11.14
Steve Chien, NASA: On how automation helps monitor natural hazards and the future of AI
"Today, there are now global networks of sensors on volcanoes, linked with
satellites, producing relevant alerts to help organisations make the right
decisions. The data generated by this, through seismic sensors, remote
imaging, atmospheric modelling and more, goes into the terabits each day.
As more processes become automated, through artificial intelligence (AI)
and machine learning, more can get done."
+ IoT News
2017.10.25
Extraterrestrial Hunters
"Meet the Robots Helping in the Quest to Find Extraterrestrial Life Today,
robots roam the deep seas and the slopes of volcanoes. Their next mission:
the search for life beyond earth"
+ Wall Street Journal
2017.07.11
NASA: A 60-Year Interstellar Trip Needs a "Self-Healing" Ship
"[An interstellar spacecraft], Chien emphasizes, 'needs to be self-healing,
self-aware, able to manage all these things,
manage problems that come up… It’s pretty much on its own.'"
+ Inverse
2017.07.08
Exactly How A.I. Could Be the First to Find Extraterrestrial Life
"A critical aspect of NASA’s mission to explore our solar system and
beyond is artificial intelligence, especially in uncrewed probes that
venture into deep space beyond our solar system. So it stands to reason
that if there is extraterrestrial life sitting out there in the solar
system, an artificially intelligent system will find aliens before humans
do."
+ Inverse
2017.07.05
Artificial intelligence helps explore Mars ... and go further
The AEGIS system allows the robot 'Curiosity' to study the composition
of the red planet in less time and in an almost autonomous way.
+ El Pais
2017.06.27
NASA: AI Will Lead the Future of Space Exploration
"Steve Chien and Kiri Wagstaff of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
have predicted that in the future, the behavior of space probes
will be governed by AI rather than human prompts from earth."
+ Futurism
2017.06.23
NASA? More like NASAI: Brainy robots 'crucial' to space exploration
"Autonomous space robots are going to be key to making new discoveries and
exploring the furthest reaches of our Solar System and beyond, according
to NASA scientists."
+ The Register
2017.06.21
A.I. Will Prepare Robots for the Unknown
"How do you get a robot to recognize a surprise? That's a question
artificial intelligence researchers are mulling, especially as A.I. begins
to change space research..."
+ JPL Press Release
2017.06.21
Laser-targeting A.I. Yields More Mars Science
"Artificial intelligence is changing how we study Mars. A.I. software on
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has helped it zap dozens of laser targets on
the Red Planet this past year,"
+ JPL Press Release
2017.06.21
Space Robots Will Work for Decades in Alpha Centauri Before Humans
"Forget about Mars for a second. If humanity is to ever reach Alpha
Centauri — the nearest star system that claims the potentially habitable
planet Proxima Centauri b — we’ll likely rely on artificial
intelligence-powered spacecraft to put in years and probably decades, of
the prep work before we arrive at the destination 4.37 light-years away."
+ Inverse
2017.06.21
Curiosity Doesn't Need Your Help Blasting Rocks with a LASER
"As cars here on Earth begin to drive themselves and robots autonomously
roam sidewalks delivering food and nearly running over dogs, over on Mars,
the Curiosity rover very much remains a remotely piloted vehicle."
+ Wired
2017.06.21
The Curiosity rover and other spacecraft are learning to think for themselves
"Autonomous science-bots will make it easier to explore our solar system
… and beyond."
+ Popular Science
2017.06.13
When We Go to Mars, Will We Have a Real-Life HAL 9000 With Us?
"How generations of NASA scientists were inspired by an evil Hollywood
supercomputer..."
+ Smithsonian Magazine
2017.04.28
Should your next big hire be a chief A.I. officer?
As companies increasingly turn to artificial intelligence to communicate with customers,
make sense of big data and find answers to vexing questions,
some say it’s time to think about hiring a chief A.I. officer.
+ Computer World
2017.04.17
NASA's scientists formed a club to dream up uses for AI like self-replicating robots and harpooning comets
"To conjure up ideas outside of the space agency's regular mission
cycle, top minds from JPL's artificial intelligence research teams have
formed an informal group to talk about the big questions, like how
autonomous robots could help space exploration around distant stars and
methods for leveraging huge celestial bodies to carry our AI around the
solar system."
+ Quartz
2017.03.24
The Journey of NASA's Smartest Satellite Finally Comes To an End
Retrospective of 16 years of operations of the EO1 spacecraft, including
more than a decade under control of the AI group's Autonomous Sciencecraft
Experiment software that managed day to day operations and on-board
science analysis.
+Wired Article
2017.03.22
How A.I. Captures a Volano's Changing Lava Lake
AI group Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment software onboard EO-1 captures
images of the lava lake in Ethiopia's Erta Ale volcano and rounds out 12
years of autonomous operations for the spacecraft.
+JPL Press Release
2017.01.25
NASA develops AI for future exploration of extraterrestrial subsurface oceans
"NASA is developing technology that could enable autonomous navigation of
future underwater drones studying subsurface oceans on icy moons like
Jupiter's Europa. The agency is working on artificial intelligence (AI)
that would allow submersibles to make their own decisions during
exploration of extraterrestrial water worlds."
+ Article
2016.12.01
US lead on AI will shrink without more funding and education
Experts tell Ted Cruz's Senate hearing that China, India and others aren't
far behind.
+Endgadget Article
2016.11.30
Senate Testimony: The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence
Testimony by Dr. Steve Chien of the JPL AIG and other industry experts to
the US Senate Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness
regarding applications and future of artificial intelligence.
+Senate.gov
2016.11.30
From Monterey Bay to Europa
JPL press release describing deployment of artificially intelligent
submersible science robots to Montery Bay. The technology demonstrates a
step toward autonomous exploration of ocean worlds such as Europa.
+JPL Press Release
2016.07.21
NASA Mars Rover Can Choose Laser Targets on Its Own
Press release describing deployment of AEGIS software to the MSL rover,
allowing it to condust autonomous follow-up science data gathering on
Mars.
+JPL Press Release
2015.01.08
Los cerebros de la Inteligencia Artificial
+Clarin
2010.04.07
NASA Sensors Providing Rapid Estimates of Iceland Volcano Emissions
+NASA Press Release
2005.09.14
JPL Team Honored With NASA's Software of the Year Award
Software developed by a team of engineers at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, has been selected
to receive NASA's Software of the Year Award. The ASE software
helps scientists monitor environmental events on Earth, such as
volanic eruptions, floods and wildfires.
+ JPL Press Release
2005.07.13
Software Learns to Recognize Spring Thaw
Spring thaw in the Northern Hemisphere was monitored by a new
set of eyes this year -- an Earth-orbiting NASA spacecraft
carrying a new version of software trained to recognize and
distinguish snow, ice, and water from space.
+ JPL Press Release
2004.09.06
Agents of Change
"Autonomous agents are still in the labs but could eventually play a
critical role in areas ranging from setting market prices to creating
more resilient networks."
Industry press coverage of the rise of autonomous agents, with specific
focus on the AI group's Autonomous Sciencecraft agent operating on-board
NASA's EO1 spacecraft.
+ Computerworld Article
2004.06.25
New Software on NASA Spacecraft Monitors Active Volcano
Software on a NASA spacecraft recently made a scientific
observation on its own without human interaction. The ST6
Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment captured images of
Antarctica's Mt. Erebus and detected volcanic activity.
+ JPL Press Release
2003.08.13
NASA Satellites Eye Forest Fires
If a forest catches fire and no one is around to see it, can it
call for help? The forest cannot call, but thanks to new
technology developed by NASA, firefighters may get the word
faster through new, high-tech eyes in the sky.
+ JPL Press Release
2001.05.29
Artificial Intelligence Software to Command Mission
NASA software that thinks for itself and makes decisions without
help from ground controllers will fly as the brains of triplet
satellites in 2002.
+ JPL Press Release
