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Mahomet Aquifer dance to be performed Oct. 10-18
Release date: 2009-10-05
NSF supports project to analyze medieval manuscripts
Release date: 2009-09-16
Animations on display at guitar festival
Release date: 2009-09-09
NCSA staffer to lead Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science
Release date: 2009-07-22
Cyber Connoisseurship: Tools to Aid Understanding of the Medieval French Book Trade
Anne Hedeman, an Illinois professor of art history and medieval studies, worked with image analysis experts at NCSA to gain insights into the Medieval French book trade through close analysis of a collection of manuscripts.
Release date: 2009-07-10
NCSA, I-CHASS provide 1 million hours of supercomputing time to projects in the humanities, arts, social sciences
Release date: 2009-06-25
Illinois' edream Institute kickoff event
Illinois' new digital arts and media institute, edream, launched this spring. Led by NCSA's Donna Cox, it will give students a unique competitive edge in the growing creative industries that are driven by the digital arts.
Release date: 2009-06-17
Donna Cox on scientific visualization and Illinois' new edream Institute
Donna Cox, director of NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory, discusses the importance of visualizing scientific data—both for researchers and for the general public. She also talks about Illinois' new edream Institute, which will give Illinois students a unique competitive edge in the growing creative industries that are driven by the digital arts.
Release date: 2009-06-04
Realizing the dream
The University of Illinois launched a new institute that will combine arts and technology. Called edream, the institute will be headed by Donna Cox, who leads NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory. Access' Barbara Jewett sat down with her and Kelly Searsmith, the institute's assistant director for planning and development, to learn more about the institute and digital arts media.
Release date: 2009-04-15
Reimaging performance
Release date: 2009-04-15
HASTAC conference to be held at Illinois April 19-21
Release date: 2009-02-18
Combining high tech with the ancient world
Illinois religion professor Wayne Pitard describes the Inscriptifact project, which allows users to access high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. As an NCSA Faculty Fellow, Pitard collaborated with staff from the Illinois Institute for Computing in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Science (I-CHASS).
Release date: 2009-02-03
Understanding social networks
Library and information science researcher Caroline Haythornthwaite analyzes communal conversation, such as email, listservs, chat, and blogs. In collaboration with NCSA, Haythornthwaite is developing an environment to help researchers find meaningful patterns and networks in this enormous volume of text.
Release date: 2009-01-06
Supercomputing resources available to Illinois humanities, arts, and social science researchers
Release date: 2008-12-12
Modeling the mind
Using an NCSA cluster, behavioral scientists demonstrate the value of a novel genetic algorithm approach to fitting their cognitive models to human data.
Release date: 2008-12-02
I-CHASS earns NEH grant for cartography project
Release date: 2008-10-07
Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science earns $250,000 NEH grant
Release date: 2008-09-05
NCSA helps develop online tool to put early childhood programs on the map
Release date: 2008-04-01
Audio + Visual
So you thought the visualizers on iTunes were entertaining? How about a live musical performance where digital artwork goes well beyond oscilloscopes and actually creates music in a real-time collaborative, interactive virtual world.
Release date: 2007-11-08
Providing political insight
NCSA research scientist Wendy K. Tam Cho is tackling a 'computationally intractable problem' by developing a framework to analyze the 'astronomical number' of redistricting options.
Release date: 2007-10-02
Audio + Visual
So you thought the visualizers on iTunes were entertaining? Check out a live musical performance where digital artwork goes well beyond oscilloscopes and actually creates music in a real-time collaborative, interactive virtual world.
Release date: 2007-09-18
War through the pages
NCSA aids a collaborative effort to preserve and digitize Spanish Civil War history.
Release date: 2007-08-24
Using NCSA resources, Illinois researchers gain better understanding of entrepreneurs
Release date: 2007-08-06
NCSA, Library Science receive $1.2 million Mellon Foundation grant; project aims to transform humanities research
Release date: 2007-05-31
Productive connections
Release date: 2007-05-10
NCSA aids collaborative effort to preserve, digitize Spanish Civil War history
Release date: 2007-04-09
America's 16th president goes high-tech with NCSA's help
Using pen and ink to put thoughts on paper by the light of a candle, Abraham Lincoln surely never envisioned a world where news traveled around the globe via CNN's satellites or instant messages over the World Wide Web. But today Lincoln scholars worldwide have access to a life's worth of writings by America's 16th president, thanks to the state of Illinois and NCSA.
Release date: 2006-09-05
Nature publication by NCSA users shows effectiveness of pandemic mitigation strategies
A team led by Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, uses NCSA resources to build computer models of the spread of an influenza epidemic in human populations to estimate the effectiveness of different strategies to limit the spread of the disease. The team's results were published in April 2006 in Nature.
Release date: 2006-06-19
Homing in on suspicious insurance claims with D2K
Through his faculty fellowship at NCSA, UIUC professor of finance Stephen D'Arcy has been exploring the use of data mining techniques to allow insurers to identify situations when further investigation of a false claim is likely to lead to a positive outcome.
Release date: 2006-05-02
