Announcements Daniel S. Katz Elected to IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors NCSA Chief Scientist will join the Board of Governors for the IEEE’s Computer Society. October 5, 2021
Honors and Awards NCSA Wins Multiple Awards During SC20 NCSA and our partner institutions were honored to take home awards during the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20), spanning from Agriculture to Visualization and many domains in between. November 24, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Receives Honors in 2020 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards The biannual awards recognize achievements by users of high-performance computing technologies. November 17, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Receives Honors in 2020 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards 17th annual HPCwire Awards presented to leaders in the global HPC community. November 16, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Wins DOE INCITE Award for Physics-Inspired AI Project An NCSA-led team receives 145,000 node hours on Summit to create AI tools that enable data-driven discovery in multi-messenger astrophysics. November 16, 2020
Honors and Awards William “Bill” Gropp Voted IEEE Computer Society President The president oversees IEEE Computer Society programs and operations and is a nonvoting member of most IEEE Computer Society program boards and committees. October 14, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA’s Donna J. Cox Honored With Rare IPS Technology Innovation Award This is just the eighth time since the society’s founding in 1958 that this honor has been bestowed. September 4, 2020
Announcements NCSA’s Stuart Levy Wins Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award Levy, a Senior Research Programmer in NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Lab, received a campuswide honor for his decades of service and groundbreaking work in the realm of scientific visualization. April 17, 2020
Announcements NCSA Announces 2020 Recipient of Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Ananya Cleetus receives NCSA’s eDream Institute’s Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Award at the Illinois Innovation Prize virtual ceremony. April 6, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Faculty Affiliate Receives Fulbright Specialist Grant Anita Chan, a Fiddler Innovation Faculty Fellow at NCSA and a professor in Information Sciences and Media and Cinema Studies, will receive a prestigious Fulbright Specialist grant. January 30, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA and Partners Win Hpcwire Editors’ Choice Award for Earthdem Collaboration NCSA has been awarded the Best Academic/Government collaboration award for EarthDEM, a collaboration with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency that seeks to create digital elevation models of the entire Earth. November 20, 2019
Honors and Awards Thunderstorm Visualization Debuts at SIGGRAPH The visualizations of thunderstorms that an NCSA team built in 1989 were not only palatable, they were beautiful and hugely informative. The animation of a thunderstorm as it forms debuted at SIGGRAPH, the international visualization conference. July 15, 1989