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SMC-IT 2009 is now over. Thank you for attending.
The Third IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT) is the first forum to gather system designers, engineers, scientists, practitioners, and space explorers for the objective of advancing information technology for space missions. The forum will provide an excellent opportunity for fostering technical interchange on all hardware and software aspects of IT applications in space missions. The conference, held in the beautiful city of Pasadena, California, will focus on current IT practice and challenges as well as emerging information technologies with applicability for future space missions.

INVITED KEYNOTES

Anant Agarwal
Anant Agarwal,
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
Associate Director of the CSAIL Laboratory

Rupak Biswas
Rupak Biswas,
Division Chief (acting) of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS), NASA Ames Research Center, USA


Peter Hughes
Chief Technologist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Hans Koenigsmann
Hans Koenigsmann,
VP of Guidance, Navigation and Control, SpaceX


Robert Manning
Chief Engineer, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA JPL, USA

Jeffrey Norris
Jeffrey Norris
Supervisor, Planning Software Systems Group, NASA JPL, USA

Kanna Rajan
Kanna Rajan,
Principal Researcher for Autonomy, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

Rami R. Razouk
Rami R. Razouk,
Senior VP, Engineering and Technology Group, Aerospace Corporation

PALOMAR TOUR!
(SAT, JULY 18)

A behind the scenes tour, not available to the public, of the famous 200-inch Hale telescope, one of the world's largest!
Palomar Fisheye
Palomar Dome
JPL TOUR
(FRI, JULY 24)
Mars yard for rovers? Deep space network operations? See it here and more!
SFOFy JPL
NIGHT OUT BANQUET AT PETERSON AUTO MUSEUM
(WED, JULY 22)

Presidential limos? Elvis Presley's convertible? Future "flying" cars? These and more set the backdrop for the conference banquet, and a special talk on "Space Invaders!"

STUDENT SPACE VIDEO GAME COMPETITION
(JULY 22)

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CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Sven Grenander (+1 818 354-0156)
Larry Bergman (+1 818 393-5314)
chairs@SMC-IT.org


SMC-IT 09 WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING CORPORATE DONORS:


IBM
Tilera Corporation
Wind River
Metron Scientific Solutions
Orbit Logic Incorporated
Perot Systems
Dynamic Systems, Inc.



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 Topics of Interest

• Reliable software and innovative fault tolerance approaches, and including software-based methods
• Autonomy - rovers to operations
• Autonomy - system validation
• Automated planners and schedulers
• Human robotic interfaces
• Engineering design and modeling tools
• IT tools for risk management
• Innovative IT methods for rapid technology mission infusion
• Real-time information systems
• Embedded IT systems (for control or onboard processing)
• Machine vision and advanced image processing methods
• Real-time software and IT hardware in the loop
• Novel applications - spacecraft, ground systems, telecom
• IT for low cost operations
• OOD methods that enhances reuse
• Middleware services
• Knowledge capture, management, and ontologies
• On-board vehicle health diagnosis and repair
• Reducing software development costs and risk through CMMI
• Science and user software applications
• IT for the Interplanetary Network and next generation space- and based networking
• New software architectures, languages, compilers, tools for and space missions
• Spaceborne computing architectures
• Advanced high performance computing systems and applications
• Revolutionary new information technologies
































































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