Al Globus' NASA Related Work Plus

Interests and accomplishments:

• Orbital Space Settlement (NASA site Mirror of NASA site.). Papers.
• Computational nanotechnology(see the gallery) Papers.
• Scientific Visualization. Papers. You might like the vector field topology page.
• Evolvable systems. Papers. JavaGenes (12 Mbytes) open source software (NASA Open Source Agreement).
• Misc. Papers.
• Software
• Grants
• Presentations
• Panels
• Professional Activities
• Awards
• Media Experience
• Employment
• Academics

Nanogears, my most well-known work. Grey spheres are carbon atoms, white hydrogen. You can see images like this all over the scientific and technical world. They were computationally designed and tested by myself, Jie Han, and Richard Jaffe. See "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Carbon Nanotube Based Gears," Jie Han, Al Globus, Richard Jaffe and Glenn Deardorff, Nanotechnology, Volume 8, Number 3, 3 September 1997, pages 95-102.

Publications

• Paths to Space Settlement given to the NASA Ames Research Center in February 2009. PDF (39MB) Power Point (9MB)
• Paths to Space Settlement given to the ATWG (Aerospace Technology Working Group) at NASA Ames Research Center in December 2008. PDF (25MB) Power Point (7MB)
• "Space Settlement," 1st International Symposium of the Educational Society for Applied Exact Sciences in Biology, Iasi, Romania, 20-21 September 2006. PowerPoint format, 2.9 Mbyte.
• "JavaGenes and Condor: Cycle-Scavenging Genetic Algorithms," Al Globus, Eric Langhirt, Miron Livny, Ravishankar Ramamurthy, Marvin Solomon, Steve Traugott, presented at ACM Java Grande 2000 Conference, San Francisco, 4-5 June 2000. PowerPoint format and in web format.
• Molecular Nanotechnology in AeroSpace: 1999. PowerPoint format and in web format.
• "Interacting Robotic Elements for Automomous Space Applications," Silvano Colombano, Al Globus, Gary Haith, Creon Levit, Jason Lohn, and Dimitris Stassinopoulos, NASA Ames Research Center Director's Discretionary Fund poster session, November 1999.
• NASA Ames Java User's Group presentation 12 January 1998 discussing Java issues encountered developing genetic graphs and running under Condor. Microsoft PowerPoint format -- Html and gif format
• Genetic graphs poster at the, Sixth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, Sunnyvale, California, November, 1998. Microsoft PowerPoint format -- Html and gif format
• Genetic graphs talk at NanoSpace 98, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, November 1998. Microsoft PowerPoint format -- Html and gif format

Invited Talks (partial)

• "Orbital Space Settlement," Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 2014.
• "Space Settlement," International Youth Science Forum for Humanity and Peace, Kolcata, India, November 2013.
• "Paths to Space Settlement," Space Access '13, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2013.
• "Paths to Space Settlement" and "A New Kid on the Asteroid Block," International Space Development Conference, San Diego, CA, May 2013.
• "Asteroid Mining," International Spsace University (ISU), Strasbourg, France, Summer 2010.
• "Paths to Space Settlement," IEEE Minneapolis awards banquet, 2009.
• "Space Settlement," 1st International Symposium of the Educational Society for Applied Exact Sciences in Biology, Iasi, Romania, 20-21 September 2006.
• "JavaGenes: Evolving Molecules and Molecular Force Fields," Al Globus, Deepak Srivastava, Sandra Johan, presented at code IC, NASA Ames Research Center, 20 March 2001. PowerPoint format and in web format.
• "Orbital Space Settlements and a Solar System Wide Web," presented at Sun Microsystems. PowerPoint format and in web format.
• "Extending the Information Power Grid Throughout the Solar System," Al Globus, AIAA Space 2000, Long Beach, CA, September 2000. PowerPoint format and in web format.
• "Orbital Space Settlement," at the Instituto Tecnologico Y Estudios Superiores De Monterrey Campus Toluca, Mexico, April 2000. Microsoft PowerPoint format. and in web format.
• "Novel Approaches to Circuit Evolution," Al Globus and Jason Lohn, SRC/NASA Ames Workshop on Self-Assembly for Nanoelectronics, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, November 15-17, 1999. Microsoft PowerPoint format. and in web format.
• "AsterAnts: A Concept for Large-Scale Meteoroid Return and Processing," presented at Space Frontier Conference 8, 1999. Microsoft PowerPoint format. and in web format.
• "Automatic molecular design using evolutionary techniques," IBC Molecular Nanotechnology Conference, San Francisco, Dec. 7, 1998.
• "Nanotechnology and Space Colonization," at IBM Almaden (30 January 1998).
• "Nanotechnology and Space Settlement," the Technology and Society Committee (20 January 1998).
• "NASA applications of molecular nanotechnology," Optical Society of Northern California (9 December 1997).
• "Fullerene Nanotechnology," Foresight Senior Associates Meeting 1997, Lockheed-Martin Palo Alto 1997, Cambridge Healthtech Institute Conference on Nanotechnology 1997, Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, November 5-8, 1997; Palo Alto, CA.
• "14 Ways to Say Nothing with Scientific Visualization," September 1994 at Xerox PARC.
• "A Software Model for Visualization of Unsteady 3-D Computational Fluid Dynamics Results," April 1994 at MIT.
• "Scientific Visualization at the NAS Applied Research Branch," May 1991 at Rutgers University and 1992 at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

• Moderator for the panel entitled "How?" at the Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.
• "Verification, Validation, and Evaluation," S. Uselton, chair, IEEE Visualization '94.
• "How to Lie and Confuse with Visualization," N.D. Gershon, chair, SIGGRAPH 1993.

• MACS - part of a team developing the MACS Air Traffic Control simulation and emulation software used to help develop NextGen airspace concepts.
• JavaGenes -- a program to evolve graphs, molecules, circuits, atomic potential functions, Earth observing satellite schedules, and antennas using genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, stochastic hill climbing, squeaky wheel optimization and related techniques. A version of JavaGenes is available under the NASA Open Source Agreement. Click here to download (12 Mbytes) JavaGenes.
• NanoDesign -- a program to design and simulate functionalized fullerene molecular machines.
• The isosurface, cutting plane, and vector field topology modules of FAST. See the NAS vector field topology web site.
• A dynamic display editor for aircraft simulators.
• Image analysis software to study bone exposed to weightlessness.
• A space station operations simulation.
• An Earth to Moon teleoperations simulator.
• Many smaller programs.

• Member of the board of directors of the Alliance for Space Development (ASD).
• Administrator of the annual student Space Settlement Contest for 25 years at NASA Ames Research Center and now with the National Space Society (NSS).
• Editor in chief of the NSS Space Settlement Journal.
• Member of the Lifeboat Foundation Nanotechnology and Space Settlement Boards.
• Member of the board of directors of the National Space Society
• Honorary Foreign Member (Scientist) of the Romanian The Educational Society for Physics, Informatics, Chemistry and Mathematics in Biology.
• Member of the program committee of the NASA/DoD Evolvable Hardware Conference EH-2005.
• Member of the program committee for the 2002 and 2004 NASA Ames Research Center RoboSphere Workshops.
• Member of the program committee for the 2004 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware.
• Co-chair of the Fifth and Sixth Foresight Conferences on Molecular Nanotechnology.
• Chairman of the NAS workshop on computational molecular nanotechnology on March 4-5, 1996.

• 2019 Vision of the Future awarded at NewSpace 2019 by the Space Frontier Foundation for the book Space Settlement: an Easier Way by Tom Marotta and Al Globus.
• 2015 NASA Tech Brief Award for Genetic Graphcs (JavaGenes).
• 2014 NASA Group Achievement Award to the Separation Assurance Team.
• 2013 NASA Group Achievement Award to Air Traffic Management Technology Demonstraion-1 for making groundbreaking technical progress towards the field demonstration with eight large-scale, high-fidelity human-in-the-loop simulations.
• 2011 NASA Center Team Award to the NextGen Separation Assurance Simulation Team for outstanding contributions in the conduct of simulations of automated separation assurance with multiple constraints, NASA APG 10AT05.
• NASA Group Achievement Award to the TOOWiLD Team for developing advanced concepts for future air traffic, integrating novel flight guidance methods with efficient communication and aircraft spacing techniques.
• 2008 National Space Society's Space Pioneer Award for Education.
• 2005 Software Release Award for JavaGenes from the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board on 18 January 2005.
• 2004 NASA Certificate of Recognition for the creative development of a technical innovation which has been approved for publication as a NASA Tech Brief entitled "Formation of Carbon Nanotube Based Gears: Quantum Chemistry and Molecular Mechanics Study of the Electrophilic Addition of O-Benzyne to Fullerenes, Graphene, and Nanotubes."
• 2004 NASA Group Achievement Award, Propulsion IVHM Technology Experiment (PITEX) Team for successful demonstration of real-time execution of advanced diagnostics technology for space transportation propulsion systems on flight-like hardware.
• 2002 NASA Ames Research Center honor award for team excellence to the PITEX Group.
• 2001 NASA Ames Group Achievement Award to the Information Power Grid Group for the successful implementation of the Information Power Grid (IPG).
• 2000 NASA Ames Group Achievement Award to the Integrated Product Team on Devices and Nanotechnology for excellence in research and outstanding contributions to the emerging field of nanotechnology.
• 1998 Ames Contractor Council NASA Team Contractor Certificate of Excellence as part of the nanotechnology group.
• 1998 NASA Public Service Medal "For ... vision, dedication, and technical ability in forming and leading the Ames computational molecular nanotechnology group." In a perfect world this award would have been shared with Creon Levit.
• Co-recipient of the 1997 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (theoretical).
• 1995 NASA Software of the Year Award as a team member for FAST development.
• 1992 CSC Honorarium Award in recognition of outstanding papers.
• 1986 NASA Group Achievement Award for technical support during the design and development of the space station proximity operations research mockup.
• 1984 NASA Group Achievement Award as team member on the NASA Ames Man-Vehicle Systems Research Facility development.
• 1979 ARCS Foundation Achievement Rewards for College Scientists, Chapter Scholarship Award.

• Interviewed for The Space Show Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 7-9:30 PST.
• Interviewed for Diplomatie, a French magazine, which appeared in the September/October 2005 issue.
• Assisted with "Modern Marvels: Dommsday Tech," the History Channel, Tuesday, 28 December 2004.
• Interviewed on space colonization for the Australian "Wild Tech Episode 1, Supercolony" for Beyond Productions in 2003.
• Interviewed on nanotechnology for the European Commission's video "Nanotechnology" in 2003.
• Interviewed on Nanotechnolgy for Danish Radio in the late 1990s.

• Visiting research associate at the Molecular Engineering Laboratory in the chemistry department of the University of California at Santa Cruz, 1995-1998.
• Bachelors of Arts in Information Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1979.