MEDIA ADVISORY: Astronomer to Announce Major Discovery

What: Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Google will participate in a NASA media teleconference to announce their discovery involving the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The researchers used machine learning, an approach to artificial intelligence. This discovery demonstrates new ways of analyzing Kepler data and has implications for future space missions. Who: The briefing participants are: Andrew Vanderburg, UT Austin astronomer and NASA Sagan fellow Christopher Shallue, senior software engineer at Google AI in Mountain View, California Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Jessie Dotson, Kepler project scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California When: Thursday, Dec. Noon CST Where: For dial-in information, media must send their names, affiliations and phone numbers to Felicia Chou at felicia.chou [at] nasa (p) gov no later than 11 a.m. CST on Dec. Questions can be submitted on Twitter during the teleconference using the hashtag #askNASA. Teleconference audio and visuals will stream live at: https://www.nasa.gov/live.