Month: July 2024

Space Habitat artists' impression

Low-Cost Access to Space

Background Jump to our solution: quench gun technology for Earth to space launch —> For decades, humankind has dreamed, written books, created films and video games and invested billions of dollars to explore the unique environment of Earth orbit and outer space. Most of the benefits of the past and current space programs are attributed…
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Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP): part of the solution to the validity and usability crisis in COVID-19 research papers? Problem Statement: The peer review system already was strained before COVID-19. Unknown for most of 2019, the number of papers associated with COVID-19 has approached 4,000 a week by the middle of 2020. It then asks the…
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ISIT Forecasting

Hybrid Forecasting

2020 – 2021 ISIT’s Carolyn Meinel and Dawna Coutant participated in IARPA’s recent hybrid forecasting research in the Forecasting Counterfactuals in Uncontrolled Settings (FOCUS) program. Oct. 2021: ISIT’s involvement in IARPA’s Hybrid Forecasting Competition finally paid off. Although we didn’t win a contract, we went ahead and did the research anyhow. See ” What do…
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ISIT - Texas Islands of Stability

Texas Islands of Stability

Why MobileNuclear is Joining ISIT Mission MobileNuclear Energy LLC was formed in 2022 to accelerate development and deployment of a mobile advanced nuclear reactor for the expeditionary energy market as quickly and widely as possible. This goal aligns with ISIT mission of bringing advanced technologies to market. Advantages Non-profit – ISIT can act as an…
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