Volume 10, Number 3 • May/June 2002 • Moving Forward

Sensors Expo & Conference is being held Sept. 23–26, 2002 at the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau Boston, MA. This event will allow attendees to discover ways to reduce time to market and increase competitive advantage. It also will showcase emerging technologies and how to use them. Sensors Expo brings together a broad range of technologies that are shaping sensing, MEMS, data acquisition, control and communications. Extra focus will be on solutions for the automotive, aerospace, defense, medical device, white goods and general design and manufacturing sectors.

For more information, visit http://www.sensorsexpo.com/boston2002/V31/index.cvn

Awards

A NASA history of the Soviet human space flight program received the Emme Award for Astronautical Literature at a luncheon of the Goddard Memorial Symposium, sponsored by the American Astronautical Society. Named in honor of the first NASA Historian, Eugene Emme, the Emme award was created in 1982 to annually recognize an outstanding book that increases public understanding of the past and potential impact of the field of astronautics. Details on ordering the book can be found at http://history.nasa.gov/gpo/order.html

Two NASA Internet sites were honored with Webby Awards, sponsored by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. The Webby Awards recognize Web sites that are both aesthetically exceptional and which utilize technology to help build communities.

The NASA Home Page, which serves as the Agency’s entryway into its more than four million public World Wide Web pages, won the Webby’s People’s Voice Award in the Government & Law category. The Earth Observatory, an interactive site that highlights news and imagery about NASA’s Earth science research, won the People's Voice Award for Science. The two sites are the fourth and fifth NASA sites to be selected for this honor during the past six years.

Previous winners include the following:

• Mars Pathfinder (http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/): 1998 People’s Voice for Science

• Science@NASA (http://science.nasa.gov): 1999 People's Voice for Science

• Starchild (http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov): 1998 Webby for Education

The full list of winners and nominees can be found on the Internet at http://www.webbyawards.com

Heads-Up

NASA’s annual publication, Spinoff, documents NASA technologies initially developed for space missions and commercialized by industry for the development of products and services. Look for the next issue, Spinoff 2002, in October, and visit the Spinoff Web site at http://netsrv.casi.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff.html or http://nctn.hq.nasa.gov Q