Kanna is a Senior Research Scientist and a member of the management team
of the the 95 member Autonomous Systems and Robotics Area at NASA Ames
Research Center Moffett Field, California. He is also the Program
Manager for Autonomy & Robotics for a $5M FY05 program at Ames. He is
one of the principals of the Remote Agent Experiment (RAX) which
designed, built, tested and flew the first AI based closed-loop control
system on a spacecraft. The RA was the co-winner of NASA's 1999 Software
of the Year, the agency's highest technical award
(http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/remote-agent/).