will pomerantz on google nasa talk

Will Pomerantz on the Google NASA Talk

Yesterday I posted on Google CEO Eric Schmidt's talk on NASA's

anniversary. That was just based on an article I read, but the X PRIZE

Foundation's Will Pomerantz was there, and posts a lot more about the

talk. There's quite a lot about prizes like Centennial Challenges and

the Google Lunar X PRIZE in Schmidt's talk and Pomerantz's analysis.

There's also a lot about other important topics, like opening up NASA

and making it more responsive to the public using models familiar to

companies like Google.

At the end of his post, Will has a number of other notes of interest:

Dr. Bob Richards, the CEO of Odyssey Moon, was on The Hour tonight.

Worth watching!

Tomorrow--Friday, January 18th--we'll be presenting the Conrad Award

at NASA HQ. It should be broadcast live on NASA TV. I'll post more

about this on Tuesday

Also on Tuesday, I'll be speaking at a Congressional Nanotechnology

Caucus briefing entitled: "Nanotechnology and Innovation,

Commercialization, and Prize Competitions" over in the Dirksen Senate

Office Building. Should be fun--hopefully I'll blog about that next

Tuesday!

The Pete Conrad Award press release is found in a lot of places - for

example, see Earth Times.

RLV News has a post with a number of prize-related pieces, including

Will's post. It also links to the fast-paced interview of Dr. Bob

Richards that Will mentioned.