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Curt Tilmes
Computer Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Curt Tilmes is a Computer Scientist at NASA, Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt MD. He received B.S. degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 1991 and M.S degrees in Computer Science and System Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1997 and 2002 respectively. He has a background in programming, databases and system administration. He has been working at GSFC on a number of projects since 1994. His current research interests included provenance management throughout the data processing of earth science climate research data.

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10:45am Friday, 07/25/2008

Open Source Software in Satellite Science Data Processing at NASA

Emerging Topics
Location: E145

Curt Tilmes (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

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This presentation will discuss science data processing of Earth climate data from two projects at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the evolution from large scale proprietary Unix platforms and traditional commercial databases to open source solutions based on Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, and Perl. Read more.