SSRP Group Photo from 2003

The purpose of this program has been to provide talented university students in the Information Sciences the opportunity to spend a ten-week session teaming with researchers at NASA Ames to address information technology challenges of future NASA missions.

During 2003, RIACS continued the RIACS Summer Student Research Program (SSRP), a competitive program in which selected students spend the summer at Ames working with Ames researchers. In 2003, over 110 students from all around the world competed for 10 summer internship positions. Ten undergraduate and graduate students, from universities internationally, were selected in this third year of the SSRP. Five students returned from last year's program for a second session with the support of their mentors. Each student spent 10 weeks at Ames, teaming with NASA scientists on research projects in a variety of areas in IT, including automated planning and scheduling, natural language understanding, model-based autonomy for spacecraft and rovers, automated software synthesis and verification, model checking and real time fault detection.

SSRP provides an opportunity for students to gain experience and expertise solving challenging problems at the forefront of information technology and space science. NASA and RIACS scientists are actively engaged in research in a number of areas of Information Technology, including but not limited to:

• Bayesian Learning

• Constraint-based Planning and Scheduling

• Intelligent Vehicle Health Monitoring and Diagnosis

• Robotics

• Bio-informatics

• Automatic Software Engineering, including

  • Formal Verification of Software

  • Program Synthesis

• Spoken Dialog Systems

• Knowledge Management

• Automated Workplace Analysis

• Intelligent Agent Systems

• Human factors

• Scientific computing

Information on Ames programs may also be found at these NASA Ames information science and technology websites:

http://infotech.arc.nasa.gov
http://www.ic.arc.nasa.gov
http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov
http://www.nas.nasa.gov

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