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Google and NASA team up

posted by Satri on Thursday September 29, @03:30PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the it's-not-about-searching-for-aliens dept.

LKS writes "Forbes.com is reporting that Google will team up with NASA to work on IT solutions and data management. What else might come of this collaboration? From the article - "Google's engineers will be able to pick NASA's brains for ideas on supercomputing design, which could help the company in its efforts to create products such as 3-D maps. "We already have Google Earth. We'd like to have Google Mars and Google Moon," quipped Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google. An updated press release can be found here."

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  by dharmaraft (134) on Thursday September 29, @09:43PM (#60)

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• About Google Moon...

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