Al Globus
Al Globus is
Senior Research Associate for Human Factors Research and Technology
at
San Jose State University at
NASA Ames Research Center.
He was previously visiting research associate at the
Molecular
Engineering Laboratory in
the chemistry department of the University of California at Santa
Cruz.
Al is co-recipient of the
1997 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
for Theoretical Work.
He is member of the governing board of education for
the
Space Colonization Training Center (SCTC),
Member of the board of directors
of the National Space
Society, Chairman of the National Space
Society
Space Settlement Advocacy Committee,
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, and
Chairman of the NAS workshop
on computational molecular nanotechnology on March 4–5,
1996.
He developed 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.
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From 1973 to 1977, Al was a self-employed professional musician. He earned a Bachelors of Arts in Information Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1979 and joined Informatics Inc./Sterling Software Inc. at NASA Ames Research Center, in 1979.
Listen to Al Globus on The Space Show hosted by Dr. David Livingston.
