An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. The new machine is more than twice as fast as the previous fastest supercomputer, the I.B.M. BlueGene/L, which is based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. [...]
The next American Idols will be STEM superstars, as in science, technology, engineering and math, says Dr. Kemi Jona. As America’s reliance on technology grows and the lack of STEM-focused students brews into a crisis, Jona just very well could be correct. Jona is a research associate professor of learning sciences and computer science at [...]
Forget learning to write in cursive. A bigger challenge faces some students in Perry Local elementary schools — engineering. Students in grades 3 through 5 will be taught engineering concepts next fall. Elementary-level courses will provide future high-school students a jump-start on engineering concepts. Goals are to Increase children’s technological literacy and elementary teachers’ abilities [...]
The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has created the Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) program to provide the CISE research and education community with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing and information. In planning Expeditions, investigators are encouraged to come together within [...]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks to develop a dynamic putty which, when packed in/around a compound bone fracture, provides full load-bearing capabilities within hours, creates an osteoconductive bone-like internal structure, and degrades over time to harmless resorbable by-products as normal bone regenerates. Read more
The IEEE Computer Society is seeking original papers for two special issues of IEEE Software. (1) Special issue on Mining Software Archives – This special issue will look at the resulting patterns and rules to increase program quality and programmer productivity that result from applying data mining and machine learning techniques to software development and [...]
The June issue of IEEE Spectrum, which focuses on the singularity and how continuous technological innovation in artificial intelligence could one day outstrip human brain power, changing life as we know it. The special report touches on a wide variety of singularity arguments, including how to create consciousness if we do not know what it [...]
The American Society for Engineering Education administers a number of federally funded programs that offer fellowship opportunities, including the Naval Research Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This program is open to U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents and offers a competitive stipend as well as insurance, relocation, and travel allowances. The program offers one to three [...]
Tracy Matthews, Customer Education Specialist at Thompson Reuters, will be on campus on Tuesday, June 17th to provide FREE training on 3 popular resources: Web of Science (9:00-10:30am), Journal Citation Reports (11:00–11:45am), and Endnote Web (1:00-2:00pm). Classes will be held in the Lister Hill Library Electronic Classroom. Register online.
Robust entanglement at room temperature is a necessary requirement for practical applications in quantum technology. We demonstrate the creation of bipartite- and tripartite-entangled quantum states in a small quantum register consisting of individual 13C nuclei in a diamond lattice. Individual nuclear spins are controlled via their hyperfine coupling to a single electron at a nitrogen-vacancy [...]