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Vertical Flight Society Announces 2023 Individual Recipients of Its Prestigious Awards Nine

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화요일, 3월 21, 2023
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FAIRFAX, Va., March 21, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Vertical Flight Society (VFS) today announces the individual recipients of its prestigious 2023 awards. For nearly 80 years, the VFS awards program has paid tribute to the outstanding leaders of vertical flight and served as a catalyst for stimulating technological advances. This year's winners will be recognized at the 79th Annual Grand Awards Banquet on Thursday, May 18, 2023, during the Society's 79th Annual Forum & Technology Display in West Palm Beach, Florida (http://www.vtol.org/forum).

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  • FAIRFAX, Va., March 21, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Vertical Flight Society (VFS) today announces the individual recipients of its prestigious 2023 awards.
  • For nearly 80 years, the VFS awards program has paid tribute to the outstanding leaders of vertical flight and served as a catalyst for stimulating technological advances.
  • The Vertical Flight Society was founded as the American Helicopter Society in 1943 by the pioneers of the helicopter industry, who believed that technological cooperation and collaboration were essential to advancing vertical flight.
  • VFS is the global non-profit society for engineers, scientists and others working on vertical flight technology.

KBR Wins Dual NASA Prime Contractor of the Year Awards, Continues to Enhance Small Business Partnerships

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화요일, 3월 21, 2023
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Announced yearly, these accolades are a part of NASA's Small Business Industry Awards , which honors its contractors' small business partnerships.

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  • Announced yearly, these accolades are a part of NASA's Small Business Industry Awards , which honors its contractors' small business partnerships.
  • KBR earned the Large Business Prime Contractor of the Year awards for its overall contract performance, participation in NASA-related outreach events, sound small business practices and use of small business contractors.
  • This is not the first time NASA's Office of Small Business Programs has recognized KBR for this achievement.
  • NASA also honored KBR as its Large Business Prime Contractor of the Year for ARC in 2019 and Johnson Space Center (JSC) in 2020.

NTT Research Announces Plans to Double the Size of its Optics Lab

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수요일, 3월 15, 2023
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NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced plans to double the size of its optical research facility in 2023.

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  • NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced plans to double the size of its optical research facility in 2023.
  • “We are excited to announce these expansion plans,” PHI Lab Director Yoshihisa Yamamoto said.
  • This hybrid-remote smart workplace, named the NTT OneVision Center, features collaboration-focused spaces, working pods and offices for research staff.
  • It is also conducting joint research with the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley and 1QBit, a private quantum computing software company.

SOFIA Reveals Map of Moon's Water Near its South Pole Artemis Landing Sites

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수요일, 3월 15, 2023
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With clear, identifiable lunar features marked out by the water data, the study provides hints about how water may be moving across the Moon's surface, particularly near its South Pole — an important area for space exploration.

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  • With clear, identifiable lunar features marked out by the water data, the study provides hints about how water may be moving across the Moon's surface, particularly near its South Pole — an important area for space exploration.
  • The new map covers about one-quarter of the Earth-facing side of the lunar surface, below 60 degrees latitude and extends to the Moon's South Pole.
  • This finding, along with two previous SOFIA results about the amount and distribution of water on the Moon's sunlit surface, tracks a unique light signature of water.
  • And, as NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the Moon under Artemis, the agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar South Pole.

NASA's Webb Telescope Receives Top Space Foundation Award

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금요일, 1월 27, 2023
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team has been selected to receive the 2023 John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration , a top award from the Space Foundation.

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  • WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team has been selected to receive the 2023 John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration , a top award from the Space Foundation.
  • This annual award honors a space agency, company, or consortium of organizations in the realm of space exploration and discovery.
  • "The James Webb Space Telescope team represents the best of our humanity and an enduring pursuit to better understand the cosmos.
  • The award will be presented at the Space Foundation's yearly opening ceremony of the Space Symposium in Colorado on April 17.

NASA Observes Day of Remembrance Ahead of Columbia 20th Anniversary

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금요일, 1월 20, 2023
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This year's NASA Day of Remembrance precedes the 20th anniversary of the Columbia accident on Wednesday, Feb. 1.

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  • This year's NASA Day of Remembrance precedes the 20th anniversary of the Columbia accident on Wednesday, Feb. 1.
  • The town hall will stream live on NASA TV, the NASA app , and the agency's website .
  • "NASA's Day of Remembrance is about pausing, remembering, and uplifting the legacies of the NASA family who gave their lives to advance the cause of discovery.
  • Additional various agency centers also will hold observances for NASA Day of Remembrance.

CITIZEN Debuts CZ Smart Watch with Proprietary Wellness Software That Anticipates, Learns, and Gets Smarter with the Wearer

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수요일, 1월 4, 2023
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NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CITIZEN, an innovator in watchmaking, announced today the launch of its newest version of CZ Smart, the Smarter Smartwatch, at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2023. The revolutionary wearable provides a built-in self-care advisor through the proprietary CZ Smart YouQ application, developed using research pioneered by NASA's Ames Research Center and AI built through CITIZEN partnerships using the environment and tools within IBM Watson® Studio on IBM Cloud. The CZ Smart YouQ software helps the wearer understand and anticipate patterns of fatigue and alertness and offers customized insights and personalized strategies to build better habits to maximize a wearer's daily potential. CZ Smart watches combine timeless watch design, purposeful function, and innovative technology in a game-changing wearable device.

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  • CZ Smart watches combine timeless watch design, purposeful function, and innovative technology in a game-changing wearable device.
  • The CZ Smart YouQ application provides insights that help make the wearer smarter about their own wellness, syncs with their daily life, and provides real-time biofeedback.
  • "Coupled with the proprietary CZ Smart YouQ application, this smartwatch is a revolution in wearable wellness."
  • The latest generation of CZ Smart watches with the proprietary CZ Smart YouQ application will be available in the U.S. at www.citizenwatch.com starting in March 2023.

CITIZEN Debuts CZ Smart Watch with Proprietary Wellness Software That Anticipates, Learns, and Gets Smarter with the Wearer

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NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CITIZEN, an innovator in watchmaking, announced today the launch of its newest version of CZ Smart, the Smarter Smartwatch, at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2023. The revolutionary wearable provides a built-in self-care advisor through the proprietary CZ Smart YouQ application, developed using research pioneered by NASA's Ames Research Center and AI built through CITIZEN partnerships using the environment and tools within IBM Watson® Studio on IBM Cloud. The CZ Smart YouQ software helps the wearer understand and anticipate patterns of fatigue and alertness and offers customized insights and personalized strategies to build better habits to maximize a wearer's daily potential. CZ Smart watches combine timeless watch design, purposeful function, and innovative technology in a game-changing wearable device.

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  • CZ Smart watches combine timeless watch design, purposeful function, and innovative technology in a game-changing wearable device.
  • The CZ Smart YouQ application provides insights that help make the wearer smarter about their own wellness, syncs with their daily life, and provides real-time biofeedback.
  • "Coupled with the proprietary CZ Smart YouQ application, this smartwatch is a revolution in wearable wellness."
  • The latest generation of CZ Smart watches with the proprietary CZ Smart YouQ application will be available in the U.S. at www.citizenwatch.com starting in March 2023.

NTT Scientists Report First Practical Application of Cyber-CIM

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화요일, 12월 20, 2022
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NTT Research is funding a five-year cyber-CIM project with Tokyo Tech, which also includes work on drug discovery.

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  • NTT Research is funding a five-year cyber-CIM project with Tokyo Tech, which also includes work on drug discovery.
  • This is the first known practical application of the cyber-CIM.
  • NTT Research is part of NTT, a global technology and business solutions provider with an annual R&D budget of $3.6 billion.
  • NTT and the NTT logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION and/or its affiliates.

NTT Research and Tokyo Tech Algorithm Enhances Performance and Scope of Coherent Ising Machine

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화요일, 12월 20, 2022
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NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that scientists from the NTT Research Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have presented a new algorithm that successfully combines amplitude control feedback and Zeeman terms to overcome inherent limits of a Coherent Ising Machine (CIM) and enhance its potential to solve a wide range of optimization problems.

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  • NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that scientists from the NTT Research Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have presented a new algorithm that successfully combines amplitude control feedback and Zeeman terms to overcome inherent limits of a Coherent Ising Machine (CIM) and enhance its potential to solve a wide range of optimization problems.
  • This joint research between Tokyo Tech and NTT Research, published as an article in Communications Physics on June 15, 2022, grew out of a joint research agreement pairing the PHI Lab with the laboratory of Dr. Toru Aonishi.
  • (The Ising model is a mathematical abstraction of magnetic systems composed of competitively interacting spins, or angular momentums of fundamental particles.)
  • NTT Research is part of NTT, a global technology and business solutions provider with an annual R&D budget of $3.6 billion.