Do your students have a project they would like to fund? The Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) is launching a new initiative called “Think it Up” to invite public middle and high school students to work with their teachers to develop projects that draw on their passions and help pursue their educational goals. Posted on Think It Up! in collaboration with DonorsChoose.org , the...
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Registration Deadline – May 1, 2015 Stanford’s ProCo is a computer programming contest for high school students in the style of the college-level ACM-ICPC (Association for Computing Machinery - International Collegiate Programming Contest). The ACM ICPC is considered as the "Olympics of Programming Competitions." It is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest...
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HPC in the News   PRACE Completes First Phase of Pre-Commercial Procurement   PRACE is pleased to announce that Phase I of its Pre-commercial Procurement (PCP) was completed on March 9, 2015. PRACE started this pre-commercial procurement (PCP) to obtain R&D services, which should result in future PRACE HPC systems to become more energy...
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Stanford University will spearhead a century-long initiative to study and predict the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in all aspects of people's lives. The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) has started with the formation of a committee tasked with choosing an expert panel to begin a series of periodic studies of AI's implications for automation, national...
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Forbes Stanford University president John Hennessy's speech at Intel Capital's recent annual summit focused on four barriers he says are preventing gender equality in the technology industry and his proposed solutions for each. Hennessy says, "our system is broken somewhere between middle school and high school," noting that in elementary school girls do slightly better than boys in...
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Stanford Report Stanford University has opened a new facility at the Huang Engineering Center called the HANA Immersive Visualization Environment (HIVE), which uses cutting-edge technology to enable unprecedented visualizations of scientific data. "Researchers are creating tremendous amounts of data through computations, simulations, measurements, sensor readings, and so forth," says...
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HPC Happenings   NCSA Blue Waters Symposium for Petascale Science and Beyond May 12-15, 2014 – Champaign, Illinois Science teams from across the nation use Blue Waters to simulate the evolution of the cosmos, delve into fine-scale processes in molecular dynamics and quantum physics, and solve many research challenges in between. Many of these projects require a large...
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Stanford University's Faculty Senate recently approved two new joint-major programs that will enable students to study English and computer science, or music and computer science, starting in the fall. Stanford professor Nicholas Jenkins says the joint-major program, called CS+X, is expected to attract humanists who want a competitive edge on the job market, computer science-minded students...
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HPC Happenings IEEE Launches 400GbE Task Force The Ethernet Alliance, a global consortium dedicated to the continued success and advancement of Ethernet technologies today offered its congratulations to the IEEE 802.3 Working Group and the IEEE 400Gb/s Study Group on the formation of the IEEE P802.3bs Task Force. The new group is chartered with the development of the IEEE P802.3bs...
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Stanford University The University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the California Institute of Technology have formed the California Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate, a partnership that aims to solve the problem of having too few minority Ph.D. students in the science, technology, engineering, and math...
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