![Gary Whitworth](/sites/default/files/2023-01/Cover_Picture_Perfect.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 19, 2019
Picture Perfect: How APL Helped the World See the First Man on the Moon
It is an indelible moment in American history: “That’s one small step for man,” Neil Armstrong’s voice crackled through television sets worldwide, as he descended from the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, “one giant leap for mankind.”
![Participants in an internal Reconnaissance Chess Challenge at APL observe a player’s moves](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20190719b_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 19, 2019
APL to Host AI Challenge for Making Optimal Decisions Under Uncertainty; Register by Aug. 6
Reconnaissance blind chess (RBC), invented by APL researchers, is a powerful twist on chess that incorporates uncertainty and sensing: players cannot see the positions of their opponent’s pieces, except through private sensing actions.
![An engineering test model of the Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS)](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20190628_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 2, 2019
Johns Hopkins APL Plasma Instrument for Europa Clipper Passes Critical Design Review
The Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS), built by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, will measure the plasmas, or electrically charged gasses, in Europa’s ionosphere and Jupiter’s magnetosphere.
![Timothy J. Collins](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20190701_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jul 1, 2019
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Exec Timothy Collins to Head Walsh University
Timothy J. Collins, chief government relations officer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has been named president of Walsh University.
![Pictured left to right, Oliver Harrison, Scott Deitchman, Antony Rosen, Sezin Palmer, Guy Miller and Geoff Ling.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20190627_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 27, 2019
Inaugural National Health Symposium Event Summary Available
The official event summary for the inaugural National Health Symposium, held March 5–6 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, is available.
![Artist rendering of Dragonfly on Titan’s surface](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20190627b_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 27, 2019
Destination: Titan
It sounds like science fiction: fly a robotic rotorcraft over the dunes of an alien moon. But NASA is giving a team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory the opportunity to turn this idea into space exploration reality.
![Cyber warrior](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20190624_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 24, 2019
Operating at the Speed of Thought
With a recent award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will develop a brain-machine interface that will enable the control of complex systems at the speed of thought.
![Force Projection Sector Head Lisa Blodgett welcomes attendees to the Submarine Technology Symposium](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20190621_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 21, 2019
Submarine Technology Symposium Pushes to Expand the Competitive Space from Undersea
Leaning into its theme of “Expanding the Competitive Space from Undersea,” the annual Submarine Technology Symposium focused on high-impact technologies, design techniques and artificial intelligence capabilities to expand the undersea force.
![eye](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20190620_image1_lg-eye.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 20, 2019
Leveraging Deep Learning for Eye Health Requires More Attention to Technical, Clinical Considerations
Much has been written recently about the success of artificial intelligence and deep learning systems in accurately detecting and diagnosing ocular diseases, and research results of new applications are being published with increasing frequency. But less is known about the practical considerations for actually clinically deploying DL algorithms for medical imaging.
![This image of the Moon is from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 mission](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20190620b_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 20, 2019
Lunar Trailblazer: Johns Hopkins APL’s Rachel Klima Will Help Develop Concept NASA Mission
A small satellite concept designed to detect and map water on the surface of the Moon has been selected as one of three finalists for NASA’s latest round of research and design development. Rachel Klima, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, has been named as deputy principal investigator for this concept, called Lunar Trailblazer.