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Dare Mighty Things: How JPL Explores the Cosmos through the Clouds
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Summary
Rob Witoff presents how JPL and the Curiosity rover mission use cloud computing, including EC2, CloudFormation, Simple Storage Service, and Simple Workflow - to enable research, engineering and operations technologies.
Bio
Rob Witoff is the Data Scientist in the CTO's office at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a Y Combinator founder. He is JPL's first dedicated Data Scientist and his development team is incubating Big Data solutions supporting a variety of space, earth, infrastructure and business assets.
About the conference
Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Oct 31, 2013