A look at Emerging Technology at JPL

Tom Soderstrom, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, JPL Office of the CIO

March 2016

Tom.Soderstrom@jpl.nasa.gov

Use robotics+ 3D printing

+ startup mentality

Enable with robotics + 3D printing + startup mentality

Explore Artificial Intelligence

Deep Search+ Natural Language Processing+ Analytics+ Intelligent Assistance

AI Better by Design In this photo are three structural nodes, intended to hold cables above a road in The Hague.

1. Designed by a human.

2. The far right by a computer.

3. The node on the far right supports the same weight, but weighs 75% less and is 50% smaller.

JPL’s Deep Search Intelligent Assistance

E.g. AGU 2015:

20,000 abstracts +Decadal Survey +

Expertise (areas) +Expertise (people) +Insight

Architecture for 2018Leverages IOT, Programming, Smart Data, Cloud, and Deep Learning

Data Lake Cloud(Data

Exchange)

Lights

Open Source

APIs(Registry)

Sensors and Devices(IoT)

Hololens

Hue

IntelRealsenseMetadata

Gesture

Voice

Eyes

Mouse, Keyboard

Alexa,Siri,Google,

Cortana

FunctionTechnology

TBD

Click

Sentiment

Brain

Deep Learning

IntelligentAssistance

(IA)

Where do the experiments in innovation lead us?

Are we alone?

How do we protect Mother Earth?

How do we divert an asteroid?

Can we find Earth 2.0?

Is/was there life on Mars?

What are the BIG questions?

How did the Universe form and where is it going?

H O W C A N W E

H E L P M O T H E R E A R T H ?

W E W I L L C O L L E C T 1 0 0 X M O R ED A T A O C O - 2

2009

S M A P2015

S W O T & N I S A R

2021

1 0 0 T B / D A Y

F I N D L I F E ?

W H E R E

C O U L D W E

R E D I R E C T A N

A S T E R O I D?

H o w

C O U L D W E

W h e r e i s E a r t h 2 . 0 ?

Is Earth 2.0 in the TRAPPIST-1 ExoPlanet System?

W A S O R I S T H E R E L I F E O N M A R S ?

W A S O R I S T H E R E L I F E O N M A R S ?

C U R I O S I T Y S e l f i e

Enable interplanetary collaboration viaVirtual Mars exploration

M A R S 2 0 2 0

In our experience, progress comes from

1. Identify compelling value.

2. Bring together non traditional collaborators.

3. Automation first.

4. Do not let the complex get in the way of the simple and effective.

5. Build a powerful collaborating team and group of leaders.

6. Implement the opportunity efficiently.

7. Promote and celebrate the successes.

8. Remember you can do it.

What do you remember from 2007-2008?

• Bank closures and bail outs

• Investment firms bail outs

• Housing foreclosures

• Stock market nose dive

• Recession

• …

DOW JonesFrom http://www.macrotrends.net/

This also happened in 2007 *iPhone was released by AppleCloud computing was begun by Amazonfacebook went beyond college campusGitHub beganKindle was released by Amazon Twitter went globalAndroid was released by GoogleAirbnb was foundedYouTube was bought by GoogleWatson was begun by IBM

* From Tom Friedman’s book “Thank You For Being Late”

Hadoop was releasedSoftware-enabled networking was launched by AT&T (for the iPhone)Michael Dell returned to DellPalantir launched big dataNon-silicon materials in microchips by Intel (“saved” Moore’s law)

Internet crossed 1B usersChange.org was releasedDNA sequencing had a break-throughClean energy movement took offFracking began

What happened afterwards? (Key Trends)

Some key trends• Exponential curves (compute, storage, networking)• Everything is digitized (60% YOY data growth)• Everything is connected (IoT)• Everyone participates (Open Source, Social networking)• Everything can be done on a smartphone• Everyone get a digital assistant (Siri, Alexa, Google, Cortana)

• Next: everyone gains Intelligent Assistance (IA)• Next: learn faster, be agile, grow smarter… all the time• Next: put an “expire by” date on everything• Next: transform workplace & workforce of the future

DOW JonesFrom http://www.macrotrends.net/

The companies on the prior page went from $1T to $3T Market Cap in 2017.

In 10 years, what will we remember about 2017?

How can we warp-enable innovation together?

Come and brainstorm with us