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August 23, 2007
Institute Addresses Computational Challenges Posed by Economic Models
ICE2007 was the third in this annual series of computational economics workshops. Previous institutes have been only five days. The expanded program provided time for informal discussions as well as a poster session in which participants presented their current research. |read >
August 17, 2007
Access Grid Connects Collaborators, Earns R&D 100 Award
After a vision nearly 10 years ago to build a system to enable group-to-group collaboration using scalable computing and networking technology, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have been honored with an R&D 100 Award for their resulting product, Access Grid 3... |read >
August 16, 2007
Ian Foster Named One of the Top Three Contributors to Computer Science
Argonne researcher Ian Foster has been named one of the top three contributors to computer science, according to a recent article in Nature. The ranking is based on the so-called h-index, introduced by physicist Jorge Hirsch in 2005 to rank the quality of a researcher's work... |read >
July 27, 2007
CI Fellow Michael North "Profiled" on the Cover of Science
Online virtual worlds, electronic environments where people can work and interact in a somewhat realistic manner, have great potential as sites for research in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, as well as in human-centered computer science. |read >
July 12, 2007
Intensive Computation Research Not Just for Exploding Star Simulations Anymore
"We're seeing exponential growth in the number of people who want to compute," said Ian Foster, Director of the Computation Institute. "Part of that is we’re hiring people who have the interest. Part of it is that people are facing new problems... |read >
June 13, 2007
A Conversation with TeraGrid's Dane Skow
CI Senior Fellow, Dane Skow, was interviewed by iSGTW at the TeraGrid '07 conference. In this interview, Skow reviews TeraGrid's recent and approaching milestones and the expected doubling of TeraGrid’s computing resources by early next year. |read >
May 1, 2007
Catlett named Chief Information Officer at Argonne
Charlie brings over two decades of information technology research, development, and management experience, most recently as Director of the National Science Foundation's nation-wide TeraGrid initiative and principal investigator of the TeraGrid's Grid Infrastructure Group, which is a distributed team that coordinates TeraGrid operations, planning, software integration, and architecture. |read >
April 30, 2007
American Academy of Arts & Sciences Elects John Goldsmith, CI Executive Committee Member, to the 2007 Class of Fellows
The 227 scholars, scientists, artists, civic, corporate and philanthropic leaders come from 27 states and 13 countries, and range in age from 36 to 92. Represented among this year’s newly elected members are 70 universities, including seven presidents or chancellors; more than a dozen corporations; as well as museums, research institutes, media outlets and foundations. |read >
March 9, 2007
Rick Stevens: Connecting Computing to Science
Perhaps the two most important technologies of the 21st century will be information technology and biotechnology. At Argonne National Laboratory, the Computing and Life Sciences (CLS) directorate is attempting to synergize these two technologies to fulfill the department's mission. |read >
February 22, 2007
Papka named deputy associate laboratory director for Computing and Life Sciences at Argonne
Mike Papka has been named deputy associate laboratory director for Computing and Life Sciences. Since joining Argonne in 1992, Mike has been actively involved in the development of collaboration technology and currently is co-director of the Futures Laboratory. |read >
