In the News NCSA 2022 Year-end Highlights A recap of the top NCSA stories that spoke to readers the most in 2022. December 27, 2022
Honors and Awards NFI, NCSA Win Second Place in AI Competition for Critical Mineral Assessment A team of researchers from NFI, NCSA and CAII were awarded second place for their solution in the Map Feature Extraction challenge, co-sponsored by USGS and DARPA. December 21, 2022
Announcements Newly Formed IASC Connects Worldwide Supercomputing Centers Together with co-founding institution NCSA, IASC hopes to unite nearly 100 publicly funded worldwide supercomputing centers. December 16, 2022
Honors and Awards NCSA Director Leads IEEE Awards Ceremony at SC22 IEEE Computer Society President Bill Gropp presided over the awards presentation for three awards at the 2022 Supercomputing Conference. December 12, 2022
Science Features Undergraduate Students Excel in NCSA Summer Programs SPIN interns and participants of a 10-week research experience in machine learning at NCSA were recognized for their outstanding research contributions at the end of the summer. December 9, 2022
Honors and Awards NCSA Student Researchers Lead Authors on Award-Winning Paper Paper on FAIR principles for AI models wins HPCwire Readers’ Choice award for “Best Use of High Performance Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence.” December 7, 2022
Funding New Grants Allow Parsl Project to Enter Its Next Stage Parsl, software designed to help simplify supercomputing, will now focus on community outreach and sustainability. November 23, 2022
Honors and Awards Seven Future Stars Awarded Fellowships Introducing the 2022-23 CAPS Fellows – seven new scientists with accomplishments from working on the James Webb telescope project to studying black holes. November 11, 2022
Honors and Awards NCSA Awards 24 Fiddler Innovation Fellowships to Illinois Students, Faculty Students and faculty of three NCSA programs were recognized for their outstanding work and contributions to computational research in a variety of fields. November 7, 2022
Announcements NCSA Hosts First-Ever Energy Datathon UIUC students competed to solve examples of exciting and challenging energy problems at an NCSA weekend event. October 11, 2022
Profiles Meet Alaina Kanfer, NCSA’s Great Connector Alaina Kanfer is back at NCSA working with the Healthcare Innovation Program Office and the Industry Program Office. We spoke at length with her about her time at NCSA with founder Larry Smarr, Marc Andreessen and why she recently returned to NCSA. October 5, 2022
Announcements Delta Now Fully Operational NSF approves Delta for full production following review. October 3, 2022
Funding NCSA Leading $3.2 Million Project To Make Scientific Data More Discoverable A collaborative research award between NCSA and six other institutions will take on an effort to standardize how scientific data is described. September 30, 2022
Announcements NCSA Welcomes 2022-23 Fellows A dozen NCSA Fellows are part of nine different projects funded by the NCSA Fellowship program. September 23, 2022
Announcements Digital Ag Programs Prepare Candidates for Highly Skilled Technology Careers The Center for Digital Agriculture at NCSA partners with Illinois College of ACES and The Grainger College of Engineering to launch Digital Ag M.Eng and certificate programs. September 14, 2022
Funding NCSA and UChicago Receive NSF Funding For Software Sustainability A collaborative research award between NCSA and the University of Chicago will undertake a community-centered approach for supporting and sustaining Parsl. August 2, 2022