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AL GLOBUS
Al Globus is
Senior Research Associate for Human Factors Research and Technology
at
San Jose State University at
NASA Ames Research Center.
He was previously visiting research associate at the
Molecular
Engineering Laboratory in
the chemistry department of the University of California at Santa
Cruz.
Al is co-recipient of the
1997 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
for Theoretical Work.
He is member of the governing board of education for
the
Space Colonization Training Center (SCTC),
Member of the board of directors
of the National Space
Society, Chairman of the National Space
Society
Space Settlement Advocacy Committee,
Honorary Foreign Member (Scientist) of the Romanian The Educational
Society for
Physics, Informatics, Chemistry and Mathematics in Biology,
Member of the program committee of the NASA/DoD Evolvable
Hardware Conference
EH-2005,
Member of the program committee for the
2002 and 2004 NASA Ames Research Center RoboSphere Workshops,
Member of the program committee for the
2004 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware,
Co-chair of the
Fifth
and
Sixth Foresight Conferences on Molecular Nanotechnology, and
Chairman of the NAS workshop
on computational molecular nanotechnology on March 4-5,
1996.
He developed JavaGenes — a program to evolve graphs, molecules,
circuits, atomic
potential functions, Earth observing satellite schedules, and antennas
using genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, stochastic hill
climbing, squeaky wheel optimization and related techniques. A version
of JavaGenes is available under the
NASA Open Source Agreement.
Download
JavaGenes.
Nanogears are his most
well-known work.
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He authored
Orbital Space Settlement,
NanoDesign: Concepts and Software for a Nanotechnology Based on
Functionalized Fullerenes,
Extending the Information Power Grid Throughout the Solar
System,
Contest-Driven Development of Orbital Tourist Vehicles,
Towards 100,000 CPU Cycle-Scavenging by Genetic Algorithms,
Optimizing Particle Tracing in Unsteady Vector Fields,
and
coauthored
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Carbon Nanotube Based
Gears,
Automated Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms,
A Comparison of Techniques for Scheduling Earth Observing
Satellites, and
Evolving Molecular Force Field Parameters for Si and Ge.
Read his full list of
publications!
From 1973 to 1977, Al was a self-employed professional musician.
He earned a
Bachelors of Arts in Information Science from the University of
California at Santa Cruz in 1979 and joined
Informatics Inc./Sterling Software Inc. at NASA Ames Research Center,
in 1979.
Listen to Al Globus on the
The Space Show
hosted by
Dr. David Livingston.
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