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Kathy Yelick to Receive ACM/IEEE-CS Kennedy Award at SC15 for Contributions to International Research Agenda
ACM and IEEE Computer Society have named Katherine Yelick as the recipient of the 2015 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for innovative research contributions to parallel computing languages that have been used in both the research community and in production environments. She was also cited for her strategic leadership of the national research laboratories and for developing novel educational and mentoring tools. The award will be presented to Yelick on Tuesday, Nov. 17 at SC 15:… Read More »
New Berkeley Lab Partnership Offers Computing Science Research Opportunities to Faculty, Students from Diverse Backgrounds
A new program being launched by Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences organization to provide research opportunities for faculty and students from diverse backgrounds will begin with an introductory Dec. 7-8 workshop. Read More »
Is Your Digital Information More at Risk Today than 10 Years Ago?
Researchers from the University of New Mexico and Berkeley Lab say cybersecurity breeches are not happening more frequently than they did a decade ago. And these data breaches in general are not growing in size. Read More »
New ‘Design Rule’ Paves Way for Nature-Inspired Nanostructures
Berkeley Lab researchers have discovered a design rule that enables a recently created material--peptoid nanosheets--to exist. This never-before-seen design rule could be used to piece together complex nanosheet structures and other peptoid assemblies such as nanotubes and crystalline solids. Read More »
After 10 Years, IMG Still Revolutionizing Genomics
This year, the Integrated Microbial Genome (IMG) data management system celebrates its tenth anniversary. In honor of this milestone, the Berkeley Lab researchers who led the development of IMG—Victor M Markowitz and Nikos C Kyrpides—reflect on its development, evolution and impact. Read More »
UCSF’s Atul Butte to Give Oct. 12 CS Distinguished Lecture on Precision Medicine
Dr. Atul Butte, who leads the Institute for Computational Health Sciences at UC San Francisco, will give a talk on “Translating a Trillion Points of Data into Therapies, Diagnostics, and New Insights into Disease” at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 12, in the Bldg. 50 Auditorium. Butte’s talk is presented as part of the Computing Sciences Distinguished Lecture Series. Here is the abstract for his talk: There is an urgent need to take what we have learned in our new “genome era” and use it to… Read More »
New Employee Profiles - October 2015
Introducing Jialin Liu and Changho Kim. Read More »
New DOE Office of Science support for CAMERA to develop computational mathematics for experimental facilities research
The Department of Energy has announced approval of a joint ASCR-BES-supported award of $10.5 million over three years to expand the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA). Read More »
Berkeley Lab Climate Software Honored for Pattern Recognition Advances
The Toolkit for Extreme Climate Analysis, developed at Berkeley Lab to help climate researchers detect extreme weather events in large datasets, has been recognized for its achievements in solving large-scale pattern recognition problems. Read More »
DOE's New HPC4Mfg Program Issues 'Call for Concept Papers'
The Department of Energy's new HPC4mfg initiative will allow industry to leverage the high performance computing capabilities of Lawrence Livermore, Oak Ridge and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories to advance clean energy manufacturing technologies. Read More »