by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 6, 2018 | Press release
April 6, 2018 Paola Buitrago has been appointed as the founding director of the Artificial Intelligence & Big Data (AI&BD) Group at PSC. The group expands the scope of the center’s activities to enable research through the convergence of AI and high...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 6, 2018 | Press release
April 6, 2018 PSC has a strong history enabling artificial intelligence (AI) research at scale. AI advancements at PSC include Never Ending Language Learning (NELL), led by CMU’s Tom Mitchell and William Cohen, on PSC’s Blacklight system and the 2017...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 6, 2018 | Press release
April 6, 2018 Phil Blood, widely recognized for his contributions to national genomics and molecular dynamics communities, has been appointed senior director of PSC’s Computational Biology Group. In his new position, Blood is responsible for PSC’s strategy across the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 6, 2018 | Press release
April 6, 2018 To unify its research efforts and strategic planning in computational biology and public health, PSC has launched a new Computational Biology Group. The senior director of the new group, Phil Blood, will oversee PSC’s Biomedical Applications and Public...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 5, 2018 | Press release
April 6, 2018 Jason Sommerfield has been appointed director of PSC’s Facilities Technology Group, succeeding J. Ray Scott. In his new position, Sommerfield will be responsible for leading the deployment and operation of high-impact resources for computation and data...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 5, 2018 | Press release
World’s Tiniest Test Tubes in Alzheimer’s Protein Simulation Why It’s Important: The progressive memory loss of Alzheimer’s disease is devastating to the people it affects and to their loved ones. And it’s a problem that isn’t going to go away. According to the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 3, 2018 | Collaborations, Press release
PSC and XSEDE Do AI ECSS Experts Support Users in Deep Learning with Deep Expertise April 3, 2018 Artificial intelligence (AI) research is tackling increasingly complicated problems, creating a need to converge AI, high performance computing (HPC) and Big Data...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 3, 2018 | Press release
Finding Cause CMU Group Uses PSC’s Bridges to Nail Down Cause in Brain-Region Activity April 3, 2018 Why It’s Important: At first blush, fMRI seems magical. Doctors can put a person in an fMRI scanner and watch their brain work as they think, perform simple mental...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 6, 2018 | Press release
You Break it, You Understand It PSC, XSEDE Help Quantum Chemists Understand Break-up of Atmospheric Chemicals March 6, 2018 Why It’s Important: Hydrazine and samarium are two chemicals with little in common, other than that humans sometimes introduce them into the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 15, 2018 | Press release
Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies Day Proclaimed in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Parallel State Proclamations Also Recognize PSC Founders’ Legacy of Service and Discovery Feb. 16, 2018 By proclamation of the mayor and the county executive, today is Michael...
