Sharon Bertsch McGrayne is the author of several books about the history of science and scientific discoveries. Her last book was a history of Bayesian probability, “The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines & Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy”. Summary of the Talk: […]
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Seven Women in IT Chosen to get Hands-on Experience Building, Managing Super-fast Network at SC16
Seven women who work in IT departments at research institutions around the country have been chosen to help build and operate SCinet, the very high capacity SC conference network, under the “Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS)” program. Now in its second year, WINS is a collaboration between the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research […]
Happy Birthday to the National Science Foundation
Funding is critical to research and discovery. In this light for more than six decades the National Science Foundation has supported research and education in the fields of science and engineering that then led to some phenomenal discoveries and innovations. Take a moment to read about just some of these great accomplishments over the past […]
Hear from NSF’s Aaron Dubrow as He Lists 10 Ways Advanced Computing Catalyzes Science
Visualization of 3-D Cerebellar Cortex model generated by researchers Angus Silver and Padraig Gleeson from University College London. The NeuroScience Gateway was used for simulations. Credit: Angus Silver and Padraig Gleeson, University College London When researchers need to compare complex new genomes; or map new regions of the Arctic in high-resolution detail; or detect signs […]
SC15 Invited Talk Spotlight: Reproducibility in High Performance Computing
The number of lines of code published in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 1960–2012, on a log scale. The proportion of articles that published code remained roughly constant at about a third, with standard error of about 0.12, and the journal consistently published around thirty-five articles each year. Source: click here and click here. Ensuring […]
Five Women in IT Selected to Participate in SCinet and Attend SC15
The 2014 SCinet team at last year’s conference in New Orleans. A collaboration between the University Corporations for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and the Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research (KINBER) are pleased to announce that five women IT professionals have been selected to receive funding […]
