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Kunjan P

National Center for Supercomputing Applications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances science and engineering. NCSA operates as a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but it provides high-performance computing resources to researchers across the country. Support for NCSA comes from the National Science Foundation, the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, business and industry partners, and other federal agencies.
  • These centers were founded when a group of University of Illinois faculty, led by Larry Smarr, sent an unsolicited proposal to the National Science Foundation in 1983. The foundation announced funding for the supercomputer centers in 1985; the first supercomputer at NCSA came online in January 1986.
  • NCSA provides leading-edge computing, data storage, and visualization resources. NCSA computational and data environment implements a multi-architecture hardware strategy, deploying both clusters and shared memory systems to support high-end users and communities on the architectures best-suited to their requirements. Nearly 1,360 scientists, engineers and students used the computing and data systems at NCSA to support research in more than 830 projects. A list of NCSA hardware is available at NCSA Capabilities
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  • Today NCSA is collaborating with IBM, under a grant from the National Science Foundation, to build [1] "Blue Waters," a supercomputer capable of performing 1 quadrillion calculations per second, a measure known as a petaflop. Blue Waters is due to come online in 2011.
  • The Mosaic web browser, the first popular graphical Web browser which played an important part in expanding the growth of the World Wide Web, was written by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at NCSA. Andreessen and Bina went on to develop the Netscape Web browser. Mosaic was later licensed to Spyglass,_Inc. which provided the foundation for Internet Explorer.
  • Initially, NCSA's administrative offices were in the Water Resources Building and employees were scattered across the campus. NCSA is now headquartered within its own building directly north of the Siebel Center for Computer Science, on the site of a former baseball field, Illini Field. NCSA's supercomputers remain at the Advanced Computation Building, but construction is now under way on a Petascale Computing Facility to house Blue Waters.
  • Kunjan P on 06 Oct 09
     
    The NCSA is a great stepping stone to the evolution of Web 2.0.
Justine B

Web 2.0 Science Tools | Digital Learning Environments - 0 views

www.guide2digitallearning.com/...web_2_0_science_tools

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  • Justine B on 31 Oct 11
     
    Web 2.0 Science
Ashley Martins

Importance of science and technology for the environment | Centre for Education in Scie... - 0 views

www.cest.org.uk/technology-for-the-environment

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  • Ashley Martins on 08 Mar 13
     
    This article explains various aspects of technology affecting the environment.
Taylor Wasem

How we used technology to develop student-led learning in science - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...echnology-student-led-learning

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  • Taylor Wasem on 28 Oct 13
     
    This article discusses mobile technology being used in the form of ipads and ipods to assist children learning in the classroom, specifically, in learning science.
Haley A

National Science Foundation and Workflow Software - 0 views

www.news.ucdavis.edu/...news_detail.lasso

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  • Haley A on 19 Oct 10
     
    Workflow Software in the study of science.
Steve Madsen

Christian Science Paper to End Daily Print Edition - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...29paper.html

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  • Steve Madsen on 30 Oct 08
     
    A signficant development since the advent of the world wide web. May offer an opportunity to predict.
  • Steve Madsen on 30 Oct 08
     
    After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to largely give up on print.
Vicki Davis

ExploraVision - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 03 Oct 08
     
    School competitions now center around online websites, they used to just be on paper! What a difference to get to see what kids suggest, it means that their influence is felt far beyond the classroom and can even influence the scientists who view their work.
  • Vicki Davis on 03 Oct 08
     
    Contest to encourage student to create a vision of the future of technology. This site shows the inventions and the awards. This is a neat competition and you might want to plug in your math and science program, particularly the gifted program. Competitions help your top students reach higher and are a very important part of gifted programs (and others too!)
Vicki Davis

Smithsonian Education - Educators - 0 views

www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators

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  • Vicki Davis on 03 Oct 08
     
    An incredible resource from the Smithsonian for educators
  • Vicki Davis on 03 Oct 08
     
    An online presence for the smithsonian.
  • Vicki Davis on 03 Oct 08
     
    Government organizations like the smithsonian are reaching out to educators and others with an online presence. This cool site has lesson plans and lots of great information for arts, science and technology, history and culture, and language arts.
mitch g

Scott Hyten - LinkedIn - 0 views

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  • CEO at Wild Brain
  • the largest independent animation studio at Wild Brain
  • building more than 100 computer-generated television shows and music videos for the Walt Disney Company, Hyten has pioneered the use and integration of technology utilizing a worldwide supply chain while producing product for a global market.
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  • He is featured in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tom Friedman’s book, “The
  • World is Flat.
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  • Over the last 25 years, Scott Hyten has either been a founding employee, founded, co-founded or provided startup capital for some of the world’s leading companies and practices, including technology practice Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE:CSC) (Continuum outsourcing), the world’s leading healthcare technology practice at Perot Systems (NYSE:PER);
  • krysten j on 06 Oct 09
     
    worked for wild brain, an animation studio that created stuff for the Disney channel.
  • mitch g on 28 Sep 10
     
    Over the last 25 years, Scott Hyten has either been a founding employee, founded, co-founded or provided startup capital for some of the world's leading companies and practices, including technology practice Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE:CSC) (Continuum outsourcing), the world's leading healthcare technology practice at Perot Systems (NYSE:PER); the largest independent animation studio at Wild Brain; and the world's leading managed hosting and internet broadcast compan at ThePlanet.com. Whether through managing 3-D Seismic exploration in the North Sea, Indonesia and Africa for Mobil Oil or building more than 100 computer-generated television shows and music videos for the Walt Disney Company, Hyten has pioneered the use and integration of technology utilizing a worldwide supply chain while producing product for a global market. He is featured in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tom Friedman's book, "The World is Flat." and has latterly received the Albert Einstein Award for technology, Scott Hyten's Specialties: Technology, Entertainment, Digital Content Distribution and Music
Andrew Kemp

Twenty years of the world wide web: What's the score? | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/13277389

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  • The web, as everyone now knows
  • has found uses far beyond the original one of linking electronic documents about particle physics in laboratories around the world
  • But amid all the transformations it has wrought, from personal social networks to political campaigning to pornography, it has also transformed, as its inventor hoped it would, the business of doing science itself
  • Andrew Kemp on 20 Oct 11
     
    info onhow the web has changed science.
Damian Cabrera

How Movie Makers Use Science to Make Magic - 1 views

www.npr.org/...kers-use-science-to-make-magic

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  • Damian Cabrera on 01 Mar 13
     
    This article explains how computer scientists make the software that brings entertainment to the world more efficiently. The software that makes the effects can also help movie makers display their ideas better, thus simplifying communication.
Emma S

The World Wide Web of Science: emerging global sources of expertise - 1 views

www.oii.ox.ac.uk/...projects

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  • Emma S on 20 Oct 12
     
    This talks about what the web has to do with science.
Annika Sundlof

What if Africa were to become the hub for global science? - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...science-environment-21851042

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  • Annika Sundlof on 22 Oct 13
     
    This article discusses sub-Saharan Africa's potential for scientific study, reasons why advanced study is not common yet, and various institutions that aim to facilitate and spread scientific education.
Riley F.

Optical fiber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • An optical fiber is a thin, flexible, transparent fiber that acts as a waveguide, or "light pipe", to transmit light between the two ends of the fiber. The field of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of optical fibers is known as fiber optics. Optical fibers are widely used in fiber-optic communications, which permits transmission over longer distances and at higher bandwidths (data rates) than other forms of communication. Fibers are used instead of metal wires because signals travel along them with less loss and are also immune to electromagnetic interference.
  • Riley F. on 28 Sep 10
     
    Definition of fiber optic cables: "An optical fiber is a thin, flexible, transparent fiber that acts as a waveguide, or "light pipe", to transmit light between the two ends of the fiber."
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