NASA Announces 1996 Software of the Year Award Recipients
--Dwayne C. Brown, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. (Phone: 202/358-1600)
Computer software that helps scientists better examine geophysical and climatalogical data and software that provides solutions to aerodynamic problems in designing new aircraft are the winning entries for NASA's 1996 Software of the Year Award. Sponsored by NASA, the award is granted to individual(s) that develop software to enhance NASA's mission and assist the U.S. aerospace industry in maintaining world-class technology.
This year's recipients are the Linked Windows Interactive Data System (LinkWinds) software developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, headed by Dr. Allan "Bud" Jacobson; and the Tetrahedral Unstructured Software System (TetrUSS) developed by NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, headed by Dr. Neal Frink.
LinkWinds is the world's most powerful viewer for scientific examination of geophysical and climatalogical data retrieved from satellite remote sensing. This software is a visual data analysis and exploration system that grew out of a research program to apply computer graphics to interactive science data analysis.
TetrUSS is an aerodynamic analysis and design system that is widely used throughout U.S. industry, government, and universities to study aerodynamics and other problems in spacecraft, rotorcraft, automotive, turbo-machinery, and medical analysis and design.
NASA will present the awards at the Technology 2006 Conference to be held in Anaheim, CA, this October. Recipients will receive a plaque and a substantial monetary award.
Further information about this software is available by calling 202/358-2279 or via the World Wide Web at:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codei/codeic.html
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