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3 unusual facts about Project Strato-Lab


Project Strato-Lab

The Strato-Lab flights culminated in a record-setting flight on May 4, 1961, by Commander Malcolm Ross and Lieutenant Commander Victor Prather (United States Navy) to test the Navy's Mark IV full-pressure suit.

These balloons were developed during the earlier Projects Helios and Skyhook by Jean Piccard and Otto C. Winzen.

Winzen Research

Winzen Research Inc created balloons in the 1950s and 1960s that were used by the United States Navy in its Projects Helios, Skyhook, and Strato-Lab.


Adam Lerner

He was the founder and Executive Director of The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar until The Lab merged with the MCA Denver in March 2009.

Adorama

Many serious amateur and professional photographers utilize Adorama's online photo lab service for their digital prints, AdoramaPix, which accepts JPGs and TIFF file input.

Adrenalin eSystems

Polaris Financial Technology Limited (formerly Polaris Software Lab Limited) is the parent company.

Aimbot

But, if it's done right meaning if it uses a color distance-algorithm it may work even though the colors are distorted, the algorithm will check if the color is within a given range of tolerance, this may require a different color space than RGB, often used is LAB, or HSB.

Albert J.R. Heck

After a Postdoctoral research at Stanford University in the lab of Richard Zare and Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore) he became a postdoctoral fellow and later lecturer at University of Warwick.

Animation Forum West Midlands

The network was founded in 2006 by Birmingham City University's Screen Media Lab, following initial funding by Digital Central.

Automated mineralogy

Commercially available lab-based solutions include QEMSCAN and Mineral Liberation Analyzer (MLA) from FEI Company, Mineralogic Mining and the RoqSCAN from Zeiss, INCAMineral from Oxford Instruments and the TIMA (Tescan integrated mineral analyzer) from TESCAN.

Carl Shipp Marvel

However, his studies were interrupted by World War I and during the war he worked under Roger Adams in a lab set up at the university to make fine chemicals that had, until then, been imported from Germany, which at the time was the centre of fine chemical production.

ChoiceStream

Pattie Maes, Interim Head of Program in Media Arts & Sciences, MIT Media Lab

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The Cornell Lab issues two quarterly publications, Living Bird magazine and the BirdScope newsletter, and manages numerous citizen-science projects and websites, including the Webby Award-winning All About Birds.

David Loxton

In addition to serving as the director of the TV Lab from 1972 through 1984, Loxton developed the Nonfiction TV series, which produced works such as Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang, I Remember Harlem and The Times of Harvey Milk.

Delbert Philpott

At the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago he established the first electron microscope facility, before moving to the Marine Biological Lab and Institute for Muscle Research in Woods Hole, MA in 1952, where he was Head of Electron Microscopy, directing research projects under Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi in the winter and for the Marine Biological Lab at Woods Hole during the summer.

Dick Guindon

There, in the Jazz Lab, we were introduced to Dave Brubeck, Chet Baker, Thelonious Monk and other greats of jazz through their LP recordings.

DiMenna–Nyselius Library

Steady technological improvements continued to augment the library-a CD-ROM reference center in 1990 thanks to the Gladys Brooks Foundation; a CD-ROM LAN in 1991 thanks to grants from the E.L. Cord Foundation and the George I. Alden Trust; an online public access catalog in 1993; and a computer lab with 25 workstations in 1997.

Electronic meeting system

Jay Nunamaker, Robert Briggs, Daniel Mittleman, Douglas Vogel, and Pierre Balthazard, "Lessons from a Dozen Years of Group Support Systems Research: A Discussion of Lab and Field Findings," Journal of Management Information Systems, Winter 1996-97, 13(3), pp.

Eric Paulos

In September 2008, Eric joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute where he founded a new lab, the Living Environments Lab, to explore environmental issues and sustainability scoped within HCI and Ubicomp research.

Fab Lab MSI

Fab Lab MSI (Fabrication Laboratory at the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago), Illinois) - The Fab lab MSI is a small scale workshop that uses various machines to create both prototypes for individuals and small projects for museum members and visitors.

G3school

The school is equipped with Smart Boards and online communication portals, a music lab, science and computer labs, a science park, a library and bookstore, and an audio-visual room.

Glen Woodall

Samples of his blood were sent to the state crime lab and were matched by Trooper Fred Zain.

Grid-oriented storage

Starting in January 2007, demonstrations were presented at Princeton University, Cambridge University Computer Lab and others.

HOOPS 3D Graphics System

The HOOPS 3D Graphics System was originally developed in the mid-1980s in the CAD Lab at Cornell University.

Ice Spiders

When she turns to leave, the last spider remaining at the lab, a mutated Black Widow, attacks her and forces her into a locked office.

Joline Blais

With Jon Ippolito in 2002, she co-founded Still Water, a new media lab she continues to co-direct that is devoted to studying and building creative networks.

Judith Weis

Her lab site is situated in close proximity to New Jersey's Hackensack Meadowlands and Newark Bay.

Kathy Butler

During the IAAF World Championships Olga Yegorova, who had shown positive for the blood-boosting agent erythropoietin in tests conducted by a Paris lab.

Kenneth Nyitray Trueblood

His organization of a departmental X-ray crystallography lab served as a worldwide model for other chemistry departments.

Lea-Tuti Livšits

Worked in the Kiviõli Chemical Plant as a lab assistant and later as an artist until 1974 when she moved to Kohtla-Järve and started working as an artist in the Kohtla-Järve Oil Shale Science Institute.

Lifestyle China

Lifestyle China (Simplified Chinese:中国式生活; Traditional Chinese:中國式生活) is a qualitative design research project ever organized in China by the Asian Lifestyle Design Research Lab of the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School

MEMS is noted for its electronic equipment, including smart boards, three to five computers in every room, 20-30 computers in each computer lab, and an electronic account for every lunch-purchasing student.

Mark Kingdon

Mark D. Kingdon, angel investor, former CEO of Linden Lab and Organic

Microsoft Live Labs

Live Labs was headed by Dr. Gary William Flake, who prior to joining Microsoft was a principal scientist at Yahoo! Research Lab and former head of research at the Web portal's Overture Services division.

Microsoft Research Labs

Microsoft FUSE Labs (FUture Social Experiences Lab), an applied research group that focuses on real-time and media rich experiences

Multics Emacs

Multics Emacs was an implementation of the Emacs text editor written in Maclisp by Bernard Greenberg at Honeywell's Cambridge Information Systems Lab.

Muriel Wheldale Onslow

In 1903 she joined William Bateson's genetics lab at Cambridge where she began her study of the inheritance of petal color in Antirrhinum (snapdragons).

NanoLab Nijmegen

NanoLab Nijmegen received funding from Europees Fonds for Regionale Ontwikkeling (EFRO) and NanoNed, a.o. The new NanoLab building was officially opened in March 2006 by the Commissaris van de Koningin Clemens Cornielje.

Nathan Jendrick

On March 30, 2008, The New York Daily News announced via their website that Jendrick was signed on to write the official BALCO book with infamous lab founder Victor Conte.

Psychogrotesque

The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at Fear No One Studios by Emiliano Natali, with the sound consulting of Marc Urselli (founder of The M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab and sound engineer for artists like John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Eric Clapton) at the Eastside Sound Studios in New York.

Same-sex marriage in Alberta

An October 2011 poll conducted by the Citizen Society Research Lab at Lethbridge College found that 72.1% of Albertans supported same-sex marriage, while 27.9% opposed it.

Soft Hard Real-Time Kernel

It has been developed at RETIS Lab, a research facility of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, and at the University of Pavia as a tool for teaching, testing, and developing real-time software solutions.

Stirling engine

Philips' management decided that offering a low-power portable generator would facilitate such sales and asked a group of engineers at the company's research lab in Eindhoven to evaluate alternative ways of achieving this aim.

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

Though traditionally the focus of the lab was on depression, past and current work focused on Generalized anxiety disorder, Social anxiety disorder and other mood disorders.

Suzanne Seggerman

While at Web Lab in 2002, she co-curated the art exhibition "Provocations", featuring social-issue games by Natalie Jeremijenko, Natalie Bookchin, Michael Mateas, Brody Condon, Tamiko Thiel, and Anne-Marie-Schleiner.

Symbiotica

Past research residents and collaborators at the lab have included Kira O%27Reilly, Orlan and the Critical Art Ensemble.

Tamil Nadu Medical Services

Operate 51 CT Scans Centres (X-ray computed tomography), 64 Slice CT Scan Centrers, 8 M.R.I Scans Centre (Magnetic resonance imaging), 2 Lithotripsy Centre, 7 Regional Diagnostic Centres (offers 68 different Diagnostic lab tests)and Master Health Checkup Centers at Tamil Nadu Government Medical Institutions & Hospitals

Two Bodies in the Lab

"Two Bodies in the Lab" attracted 12.07 million viewers, placing it first among 18 to 49 years old viewers and second in total viewers behind CBS' Survivor: Panama.

Vibrania

In a small South African nation of Kwarrai, Shara was exposed to radioactive Vibranium in her father's lab.

W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism

The Orgonon, Reich's last home and lab near Rangeley, Maine, USA, is seen with brief shots of the interior and exterior, including a cloud buster.

Web Experimental Psychology Lab

The Web Experimental Psychology Lab was founded in 1995, by Ulf-Dietrich Reips at the University of Tübingen, and is now at the University of Zürich.

Yamaha AN1x

The AN1x has been used by several artists, including Jean Michel Jarre, Psyclon Nine, History Of Guns, Velvet Acid Christ, Nine Inch Nails, Nitin Sawhney, Phish, Igor Khoroshev of YES, Spacehotel, Daniel Ruppar of Down In The Lab, and Jacob Thiele of The Faint.


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