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May 16, 2011
Rajeev Thakur named technical papers co-chair for SC11
Rajeev Thakur, computer scientist in Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division, is co-chair of the Technical Papers Program at SC11. The Technical Papers Program is the lead component of the prestigious SC conference series, which has for many years attracted the international community in high-performance computing, networking, and storage and analysis...more info >
May 14, 2011
DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis
With the advent of more powerful and economical DNA sequencing technologies, gene discovery and characterization is transitioning from single-organism studies to revealing the potential biotechnology applications embedded in communities of microbial genomes, or metagenomes...more info >
May 5, 2011
Bigger supercomputers to help safeguard nation
When someone mentions national security and computation, the phrase “war games” probably pops into many heads. Indeed, the U.S. government uses powerful computers to run such strategic simulations...more info >
May 2, 2011
James Dinan named Givens Postdoctoral Fellow
James Dinan, a postdoctoral researcher in Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division, has been selected as the James Wallace Givens Postdoctoral Fellowship recipient for 2011.
The fellowship is named for Prof...
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April 21, 2011
Finding the Right Tools for Energy Research
Aaron Knoll, an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-funded Computational Postdoctoral Fellow at MCS, discusses the diverse and multi-scale challenges of the field, and calls for new ways of analyzing high-performance computational chemistry in nanoscale materials and energy research...more info >
April 19, 2011
Winners of 2011 Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software Announced
Andreas Waechter (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) and Carl Laird (Texas A&M University) have been awarded the 2011 Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. The prize, sponsored by Argonne National Laboratory and the Numerical Algorithms Group and National Physical Laboratory, is awarded every four years to the entry that best addresses all phases of the preparation of numerical software.more info >
April 18, 2011
Language quest turns to the brain
Computational linguists John Goldsmith and Greg Kobele use computer programs to model different components of human language, as part of a broader effort by researchers at the University of Chicago to find new ways to incorporate the field’s latest approaches and tools.more info >
April 15, 2011
Ian Foster on Accelerating Science and Discovery
It seems that nearly every domain has its own range of community-level celebrities—individuals who have blazed new trails in their fields, creating new opportunities for innovation and progress. In the world of distributed computing, Ian Foster, current director of the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago, is one of those stars.more info >
April 14, 2011
Argonne Lab to pitch careers in science to area high school girls
Argonne nuclear physicist Kawtar Hafidi and MCS computer scientist Boyana Norris are co-chairpersons of the 24th annual Science Careers in Search of Women conference being held Thursday, April 21, at the sprawling national laboratory near southwest suburban Lemont...more info >
April 14, 2011
Steve Tuecke on Science, SaaS Synergies
In scanning the floor during the GlobusWORLD conference event this week, it wasn't hard to miss Steve Tuecke. Not just because of he towered over most of the attendees or the fact that he seemed to be everywhere at once--there was something else--you could say that he seemed to be bursting with energy...more info >
