Yeah - NASA knows software.  I have a package for using their CLIPS system on the Mac.  It works great.

http://homepage.mac.com/tblanchard/ObjectiveCLIPS 

On Tuesday, January 24, 2006, at 11:00PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

>FWIW, this project uses Croquet and Tweak. If you ever wanted to work 
>with a bunch of really sharp guys this is definitely a place to consider.
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>Cheers,
>   - Andreas
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>stéphane ducasse wrote:
>> Read read the nasa is using Squeak for....
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>>> From: Ted Shab <tshab at email.arc.nasa.gov>
>>> Date: 23 janvier 2006 18:30:44 HNEC
>>> To: ecoop-info at ecoop.org
>>> Subject: [ecoop-info] MCT Architect at NASA/Ames in Mountain View, CA
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>>> A team at NASA Ames Research Center is looking for a system  architect 
>>> to help us design, develop, and deploy a component-based  framework 
>>> for building NASA mission control systems. This project  is at a point 
>>> where they need someone with serious chops to help  translate the 
>>> preliminary design and prototypes into a state-of-the- art yet 
>>> practical and deployable system. The architect would be  joining an 
>>> up-and-running, 10+person team of engineers and  designers. The design 
>>> includes elements of user-level composition,  model-driven user 
>>> interfaces, dynamic assembly of components  according to 
>>> ontology-specified roles, distributed components, etc.  etc. We are 
>>> currently building a pilot in Java / Eclipse RCP, and a  parallel 
>>> testbed for user-experience exploration in Squeak  (Smalltalk) 
>>> (really). The resulting framework will be used by the  various NASA 
>>> centers (e.g. Ames, JPL, Johnson Space Center, Kennedy  Space Center, 
>>> etc) to build distributed, multi-mission systems for  planning and 
>>> executing a variety of NASA missions, including  robotic (e.g. Mars 
>>> rovers & deep-space probes) and manned (e.g. the  new Moon/Mars 
>>> exploration effort, including the Crew Exploration  Vehicle currently 
>>> being designed).
>>>
>>> Position is located in Mountain View, California, at NASA/Ames, a  
>>> NASA research center.  We can work with individuals on residency  issues.
>>>
>>> Interested parties should send a resume to tshab at mail.arc.nasa.gov
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --Ted
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