First Derivatives selected for Nasa project

The software and consulting group Newry First Derivatives was selected to support a NASA project to explore some of the mysteries of the universe

NASA's Frontier Development Lab (FDL), an accelerator research on artificial intelligence. confirmed that it will partner with First Derivatives to use its Kx technology in its summer 2018 research challenge.

A little over a week ago, First Derivatives confirmed that she would pay $ 53.8 million to acquire the remaining shares of Kx Systems that she did not yet own with minority shareholders.

Kx technology can be used to badyze and badyze billions of The SETI Institute of London, as well as other leading technology and space companies, including Intel, Google and Lockheed Martin, will also work with this technology as part of the new spatial and exoplanet identification of FDL.

AIM listed company technology will be used to badyze space weather and apply data from global navigation satellite systems to monitor solar activity.

Kx will also be involved in the implementation of IA innovations to discover new planets outside the solar system that revolves around other stars

The final results of FDL 2018 will be presented to Intel in Santa Clara on August 16th.

Brian Conlon, C The North Irish company was thrilled to be working again with the Nasa FDL team

"The ultra-high-performance capabilities of Kx technology make it the ideal platform for meeting Space challenges, from Earth observation to space weather, "he said." This mission demonstrates the power and scalability of Kx technology. "