First
FIRST may refer to: *For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology *Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams *Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters ("FIRST"), a radio survey *Far Infrared and Sub-millimetre Telescope, a previous name for Herschel Space Observatory The Herschel Space Observatory was a space observatory built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). It was active from 2009 to 2013, and was the largest infrared telescope ever launched until the launch of the James Webb Space Telesc ...

For Inspiration And Recognition Of Science And Technology
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (''FIRST'') is an international youth organization that operates the ''FIRST'' Robotics Competition, ''FIRST'' LEGO League Challenge, ''FIRST'' LEGO League Explore, ''FIRST'' LEGO League Discover, and ''FIRST'' Tech Challenge competitions. Founded by Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers in 1989, its expressed goal is to develop ways to inspire students in engineering and technology fields. Its philosophy is expressed by the organization as ''Coopertition'' and G''racious Professionalism''. ''FIRST'' also operates ''FIRST'' Place, a research facility at ''FIRST'' Headquarters in Manchester, New Hampshire, where it holds educational programs and day camps for students and teachers. Structure ''FIRST'' operates as a non-profit public charity corporation. It licenses qualified teams, usually affiliated with schools or other youth organizations, to participate in its competitions. The teams in turn pay a fee to ''FIRST''; these fee ...
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Forum Of Incident Response And Security Teams
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) is a global forum of incident response and security teams. They aim to improve cooperation between security teams on handling major cybersecurity incidents. FIRST is an association of incident response teams with global coverage. The 2018 Report of the United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation noted FIRST as a neutral third party which can help build trust and exchange best practices and tools during cybersecurity incidents. History FIRST was founded as an informal group by a number of incident response teams after the WANK (computer worm) highlighted the need for better coordination of incident response activities between organizations, during major incidents. It was formally incorporated in California on August 7, 1995, and moved to North Carolina on May 14, 2014. Activities In 2020, FIRST launched EthicsFIRST, a code of Ethics for Incident Response teams. Annually, FIRST offers a Su ...
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Faint Images Of The Radio Sky At Twenty-Centimeters
Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, or FIRST, was an astronomical survey of the Northern Hemisphere carried out by the Very Large Array. It was led by Robert H. Becker, Richard L. White, and David J. Helfand, who came up with the idea for the survey after they had completed the VLA Galactic Plane survey in 1990, as well as Michael D. Gregg and Sally A. Laurent-Muehleisen. The survey was started 50 years after the first systematic survey of the radio sky was completed by Grote Reber in April 1943. Survey The survey covers 10,575 square degrees, around 25% of the sky, with regions centred on the North and South Galactic poles. The regions were chosen so that they would also be covered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in 5 optical bands, and the survey was comparable to the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey in terms of resolution and sensitivity. The observations were made in 'B' configuration at a wavelength of (in the L Band), with an angular resoluti ...
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