Hi Karl, Memex is a DARPA initiative to build a next generation search engine capability for the Deep/Dark web. It’s of course a play on the famous Vannevar Bush paper in 1945:
http://www.darpa.mil/newsevents/releases/2014/02/09.aspx The articles I shared below explain NASA and JPL’s involvement below in addition our use of Tika, Nutch, and Lucene/Solr. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Karl Wright <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 8:33 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: NASA/JPL's involvement in Memex: now public >The name "Memex" is, I think, already in use by a company that was bought >out by Autonomy some years ago, and thence by HP. I presume this is >*not* what you are talking about? > > >Thanks, >Karl > > > > >On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) ><[email protected]> wrote: > >Hey Folks, > >Just wanted to share publicly some articles recently on NASA and >JPL’s involvement in Memex. It’s basically focused around Tika, >Nutch and Solr, so keep up the great work on all projects. A sampling >of the recent press/articles: > >E. Landau. Deep Web Search May Help Scientists. NASA Jet Propulsion >Laboratory. Web >Feature. May 22, 2015. >http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4595 >http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/deep-web-search-may-help-scientists > > > >R. Chirgwin. JPL joins DARPA’s Memex project: Better search and indexing >for space stuff. > The Register - >UK. May 27, 2015. >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/27/jpl_joins_darpas_memex_project/ > > > >J. Lendino. NASA, DARPA collaborating on Deep Web search to analyze >spacecraft data. >ExtremeTech. May 26, 2015. >http://goo.gl/iRAFXC > > > >M. Prigg. Nasa joins US government project to create ’Google for the dark >net’ that could >uncover cyber criminals, paedophiles and drug dealers in the online >underworld. Daily Mail - >UK. May 25, 2015. >http://goo.gl/xMj2hH > > > >J. Wolman. Knee-deep in data. The Positive. May 27, 2015. >http://thepositive.com/knee-deep-in-data/ > > > >Scientists will benefit more from Deep Web Searches. GreenAtom. May 26, >2015. >http://goo.gl/UqDJAN > > > >NASA to put science face on scary DARPA project. TRTWorld.com. May 26, >2015. >http://goo.gl/HJPv5O > > > >Kitware Participates in DARPA Memex Program, Developing Software to >Address Complex >Search Problems. PR News, May 23, 2015. >http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/05/prweb12741017.htm > >Any questions let me know. > >Cheers, >Chris > > > > > > > > > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. >Chief Architect >Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) >NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA >Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 >Email: [email protected] >WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department >University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > > > >
