ACCESSING NASA TECHNOLOGY WITH THE WORLD-WIDE-WEB

NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) began using the World Wide Web (WW W) in the summer of 1993, becoming the first NASA installation to prov ide a center-wide home page. This coincided with;a reorganization of L aRC to provide a more concentrated focus on technology transfer to bot h aerospace and non-aerospace industry. Use of WWW and NCSA Mosaic not only provides automated information dissemination, but also allows fo r the implementation, evolution and integration of many technology tra nsfer and. technology awareness applications. This paper describes sev eral of these innovative applications,,including the on-line presentat ion of the entire Technology OPportunities Showcase (TOPS), an industr ial partnering showcase that exists on the Web long after the actual 3 -day event ended. The NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS) provides uni form access to many logically similar, yet physically distributed NASA report servers. WWW is also the foundation of the Langley Software Se rver (LSS), an experimental software distribution system which will di stribute LaRC-developed software. In addition to the more formal techn ology distribution projects, WWW has been successful in connecting peo ple with technologies and people with other people.