NASA SMD AI Workshop
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NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Strategic Data Management Working Group (SDMWG) Artificial Intelligence (AI) team collaborated with the Frontier Development Lab (FDL) to host a virtual SMD AI workshop from May 12-14, 2021. The goals of the workshop were to explore ways to transform science data into AIready data, examine opportunities to utilize computational platforms for AI, foster applications of AI across multiple science domains, and develop next steps to realize the opportunities.
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is one of the nation’s premier producers of scientific data and research. Migrating SMD’s activities into the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a complex a nuanced task factoring multiple stakeholders and issues, such as uncertainty quantification, computational platforms, data and model sharing, reproducibility and AI ethics.
In this project Trillium worked with NASA SMD to ‘convene the system’ in the form of an inaugural workshop dedicated to exploring multiple aspects of AI and space science. The output was a series of Technical Memos and Executive Summary delivering on the goal developing a series of recommendations to inform NASA SMD’s AI policy.
This workshop format also used AI extensively, capturing over 90 hours of round table discussions and creating natural language summaries.
Read more about the NASA Open-Source Science Initiative here
