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Spinoff story
Software Surrogate
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
In 1994, Blackboard Technology received a NASA Phase I SBIR award entitled A Blackboard-Based Framework for Mixed-Initiative Crewed-Space-System Applications. This research continued in Phase II at JSC where a generic architecture was developed in which a software surrogate serves as the operator's representative in the fast-paced realm of nearly autonomous intelligent systems. This SBIR research effort addressed the need to support human-operator monitoring and intervention with intelligent systems such as those being developed for NASA's crewed space program.