HPC in the News           XSEDE, UC Berkeley Team Up to Offer Online Course Course Duration - January 20- May 8, 2016   XSEDE Seeking Partner Institutions to Offer Course in Applications of Parallel Computing   XSEDE project and the University of California, Berkeley are offering an...
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FORTUNE As recent Twitter campaigns like #ILookLikeAnEngineer have shown, stereotypes are powerful — perhaps especially in high school, where students are quick to pigeonhole each other (and themselves) into cliques like jocks, cheerleaders, brainiacs, computer geeks, and so on. High school also happens to be where people start to think seriously about what they want to do when they...
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CNet Getting women interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects in their early years and sustaining that interest through college is key to addressing an endemic gender imbalance in the technology sector. Programs such as Qualcomm's Qcamp coding camp, which offers instruction in coding, app design, and robotics, seek to nurture STEM interest in young girls....
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CNet Getting women interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects in their early years and sustaining that interest through college is key to addressing an endemic gender imbalance in the technology sector. Programs such as Qualcomm's Qcamp coding camp, which offers instruction in coding, app design, and robotics, seek to nurture STEM interest in young girls....
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HPC in the News Moore's Law at 50: The Past and Future When you're strapping on the latest smart watch or ogling an iPhone, you probably aren't thinking of Moore's Law, which for 50 years has been used as a blueprint to make computers smaller, cheaper and faster.   Without Moore's Law it's quite possible that new types of computers like Microsoft'NHoloLens, a...
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  HPC in the News   Weekend Workshop Hones Researchers’ Computational Skills A new skillset is in demand among scientists: As the size of datasets increases with enhanced data collection technologies, researchers must be proficient not only in their selected field of study, but also in the ability to use computers to analyze, interpret, and...
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HPC Happenings NSF Announces Two New Expeditions in Computing Awards The  National Science Foundation’s (NSF)   Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)  today  announced  two new  Expeditions in Computing  awards, providing each selected project team $10 million in funding over five years, representing the single...
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Researchers have turned to XSEDE to realize their vision of a world in which an energy model can attain cost savings, security, and sustainability in buildings. A team of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are leading a project known as Autotune, working to develop a methodology which places the bargain of energy efficiency within reach for more commercial and residential...
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UCSD Women In Computing (WIC) is hosting its first annual outreach event, Girl's Day Out, on Saturday, April 20, 2013. The objectives of this event are to attract high school girls to the amazing opportunities that the Computer Science and Engineering/Information Technology offer. In order to accomplish this goal, this event will expose these girls to interactive and real-world applications...
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