Enhancing Productivity ...
The basic mission of the MCS Division is increase scientific productivity in the 21st century by providing intellectual and technical leadership in the computing sciences -- computer science, applied computational mathematics, and computational science.

Through World-Class Science ...
Projects in the division range from algorithm development and software design in core areas such as optimization, to exploration of new technologies such as distributed (Grid) computing and bioinformatics, to numerical simulations in challenging areas such as climate modeling.

October 15, 2008
"Taming the Data Deluge: Building an Open Analytics Environment"
SPEAKER: Ian Foster, Director, Computation Institute
TIME: 3:30 - 4:30pm
LOCATION: RI, room 405
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October 22, 2008
"CCA: Cloud Computing and Its Applications"
TIME: all day event
LOCATION: Unversity of Chicago
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November 1, 2008
"Call for Papers: 2008 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science"
TIME: 8:30 am-5:30 pm
LOCATION: Ida Noyes Hall,1212 East 59th St.
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"Mark Hereld Particiapates in Panel on 'Emergence: Philosophy Meets Science' at the Chicago Humanities Festival"
A distinguished cross-disciplinary panel will consider the various meanings and applications of this dynamic view of the world. Participants include Sandra Mitchell, Robert Laughlin, Paul Humphreys and Mark Hereld... [more info]

"Ian Foster: Big Computation, Bigger Knowledge"
Ian Foster will participate in the Chicago Humanities Festival on October 11th. His discussion will include descriptions and demonstrations of relevant projects at the University and Argonne, including the world's fastest supercomputer for open science; grid computing for worldwide resource federation and collaboration; and massive data sets from political science, astrophysics, and neuroscience. [more info]

"Collaborative Supercomputing--DOE partners with NOAA, Work to be Performed at the ALCF"
The Office of Science will make available more than 10 million hours of computing time for NOAA to develop and refine advanced climate change models. The work will be performed on the latest computing hardware at three DOE labs: Argonne, Oak Ridge, and NERSC at Lawrence Berkeley. [more info]

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