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Google, NASA Ames to cooperate on technical projects
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal - 9:24 AM PST Monday

NASA Ames Research Center and Google Inc. said Monday they will work together on a variety of technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing to human-computer interfaces.

Moffett Field-based NASA Ames, and Mountain View-based Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) said that as the first in a series of joint collaborations, they will focus on making the most useful of NASA's information available on the Internet.

Real-time weather visualization and forecasting, high-resolution 3D maps of the moon and Mars, real-time tracking of the International Space Station and the space shuttle will be explored in the future.

Moving forward, NASA and Google said they intend to collaborate in a variety of areas, including incorporating agency data sets in Google Earth, focusing on user studies and cognitive modeling for human computer interaction, and science data search utilizing a variety of Google features and products.

Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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