In 1997, a team of researchers led by John Gustafson from Ames Laboratory ( located on the Iowa State campus ) finished building a working replica of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer at a cost of $ 350, 000.

However, the November 2008 release of the TOP500 list places the Blue Gene / L supercomputer behind the Pleiades supercomputer in NASA / Ames Research Center, the Jaguar supercomputer in Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the IBM Roadrunner supercomputer in Los Alamos National Laboratory.

In addition, Ames has played a support role in a number of missions, most notably the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Exploration Rover missions, where the Ames Intelligent Robotics Laboratory played a key role.

Ames is also a partner on the Mars Science Laboratory, a next generation Mars rover to explore for signs of organics and complex molecules.

In 2010, NASA scientists at the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, studied the aerodynamics of the Jabulani World Cup soccer ball, concluding that it tends to " knuckle under " at speeds of.

An adaptation of the reaction, used to obtain pure uranium, was developed as part of the Manhattan Project at Ames Laboratory under the direction of Frank Spedding.

* Ames Laboratory

In 1939, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA, the forerunner of NASA ) began research at Ames Laboratory.

The nucleus for forming NASA was the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ), with its 7, 500 employees and Ames Research Center ( ARC ), Langley Research Center ( LaRC ), and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory ( later LRC, then Glenn RC ) becoming the initial operations of NASA.

Most of the funding for STScI activities comes from contracts with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center but there are smaller activities funded by NASA's Ames Research Center, NASA ’ s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the European Space Agency ( ESA ).

He worked for 14 years as a computer scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, but since 1998 has been at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

* Ames Aeronautical Laboratory ( Moffett Field )

With the creation of NASA in 1958, the NACA was abolished, and its research centers – Ames Research Center, Lewis Research Center, and Langley Aeronautical Laboratory – were incorporated within the new space and aeronautics agency along with some elements of the U. S. Army and U. S. Navy.

In 1997, the first near room temperature proof of concept magnetic refrigerator was demonstrated by Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr. by the Iowa State University at Ames Laboratory.

SJSU research partnerships include the SJSU Metropolitan Technology Center at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, the Cisco Networking Laboratory, and the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

" The Crystal Structure of Thorium and Zirconium Dihydrides by X-ray and Neutron Diffraction ", Ames Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ), United States Department of Energy ( through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission ), ( Apr.

As NASA Administrator, Glennan presided over an organization that had absorbed the earlier National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) intact ; its 8, 000 employees, an annual budget of US $ 100 million, and three major research laboratories — Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, and Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory — and two small test facilities made up the core of the new NASA.

Notable international sponsors include the European Space Agency, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, NASA Ames Research Center and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

Sandia Science and Technology Park, the NASA Research Park at Ames, and the Tri-Cities Science and Technology Park located close to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are examples of research parks that have been developed by or adjacent to federal laboratories.

* Ames Laboratory * at Ames, Iowa ( 1947 )

He was hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at the Ames Research Center, where he worked through 1951.

Remote Agent ( remote intelligent self-repair software )( RAX ), developed at NASA Ames Research Center and JPL, was the first artificial intelligence control system to control a spacecraft without human supervision.

NASA's Ames Research Center managed the probe, which was built by Hughes Aircraft Company.

Leading up to the 1998 return, an airborne observing campaign was organized to mobilize modern observing techniques by Peter Jenniskens at NASA Ames Research Center.

William Ames ( Latin: Guilielmus Amesius ) ( 1576 – 14 November 1633 ) was an English Protestant divine, philosopher, and controversialist.

Ames was born at Ipswich, and was brought up by a maternal uncle, Robert Snelling of Boxford.

Ames graduated BA in 1598 and MA in 1601, and was chosen for a fellowship in Christ's College.

" Episcopius was rebutted by Goodyear, who became a defender of Ames against the Remonstrants, and later provided Nethenus with material for his biography of Ames.

At this synod the position of Ames was anomalous.

He brought renown to Franeker as professor, preacher, pastor and theological writer ; one student of the period influenced by Ames was Johannes Cocceius.

Ames was much influenced in terms of method by Ramism, and opposed the residual teaching of Aristotle.

Ames ' thought was particularly influential in New England.

Lincoln asked Massachusetts Congressman Oakes Ames, who was on the railroad committee, to clean things up and get the railroad moving.

In the ensuing Congressional investigation, it was recommended that Ames be expelled from Congress but this was reduced to a censure and Ames died within three months.

Schickele was born in Ames, Iowa, to Alsatian immigrant parents, and brought up in Washington, D. C., and Fargo, North Dakota, where he studied composition with Sigvald Thompson.

Historically, Ames was founded to engage in wind-tunnel research on the aerodynamics of propeller-driven aircraft ; however its role has developed beyond research and technology in aeronautics, to encompass spaceflight, and information technology.

NASA Ames was a partner on the Mars Phoenix, a Mars Scout Program mission to send a high-latitude lander to Mars, deployed a robotic arm to dig trenches up to 1. 6 feet ( one half meter ) into the layers of water ice and analyzing the soil composition.

NASA Ames was one of the first locations in the world to conduct research on image processing of satellite-platform aerial photography.

The Ames Vertical Gun Range ( AVGR ) was designed to conduct scientific studies of lunar impact processes in support of the Apollo missions.

Also in 2008, it was announced that former Director Henry McDonald was a 60th Anniversary Class of the NASA Ames Hall of Fame for providing, "... exceptional leadership and keen technical insight to NASA Ames as the Center re-invented itself in the late 1990s.

On February 22, 1994, Ames and his wife were formally charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union and Russia.

On February 28, 1873, the House passed a resolution formally censuring Ames " in seeking to secure congressional attention to the affairs of a corporation in which he was interested, and whose interest directly depended upon the legislation of Congress, by inducing members of Congress to invest in the stocks of said corporation.

Jack Trice Stadium ( originally Cyclone Stadium and formally Jack Trice Field ) is a stadium, in Ames, Iowa, United States.