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February 7, 2020. Researcher to discuss threats to machine learning and AI applications
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are powering some of the latest advances in self-driving cars, smart speakers and highly personalized, recommendation engines. But these technologies are also vulnerable to potentially dangerous hacks and manipulations, according to Patrick McDaniel, the William L. Weiss Professor of Information and Communications Technology in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

28.1.2020. Many practical issues are related to questions of theory – this steered Jara Uitto’s interest towards theoretical computer science
Even though theoretical computer science is – as its name suggests – theoretical, its connection to real-life questions is easy to draw, says Assistant Professor Jara Uitto

January 2, 2020; ORNL researchers advance performance benchmark for quantum computers
An ORNL research team lead is developing a universal benchmark for the accuracy and performance of quantum computers based on quantum chemistry simulations. The benchmark will help the community evaluate and develop new quantum processors.

December 9, 2019.Reorganizing a computer chip: Transistors can now both process and store information
Researchers solve decades-old challenge of building a functional transistor integrated with ferroelectric RAM. Purdue University engineers have developed a way that the millions of tiny switches used to process information – called transistors – could also store that information as one device.

OCT 24, 2019.NCAR CLIMATE MODEL DATASET AVAILABLE ON THE CLOUD
A massive dataset that is widely used by the climate and atmospheric research community to study phenomena like extreme rainfall, ice loss, and extended droughts in North America, is now freely available on the commercial cloud.

MAY 28, 2019.CAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MAKE EARTH SYSTEM MODELING MORE EFFICIENT?
To answer critical questions about the climate and how it's changing, scientists are pressing sophisticated Earth system models to solve increasingly complex equations. The result is more detailed simulations — and also more demand for the scarce supercomputing resources needed to run them.

MAY 2, 2017.PROMOTING DIVERSITY IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Since 2014, NCAR has been using Raspberry Pi as part of the SIParCS (Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science) program to teach "hot" computing skills to small groups of university students, including one or two who are underrepresented in the sciences.

JAN 30, 2017.TURBOCHARGING SCIENCE
New supercomputer triples Earth system science capability with greater efficiency. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is launching operations this month of one of the world's most powerful and energy-efficient supercomputers, providing the nation with a major new tool to advance understanding of the atmospheric and related Earth system sciences.

May 10, 2011.Western Washington University computer science department faces the ax despite tech worker shortage
Western Washington University is considering eliminating or drastically reducing its computer science department, a proposal that comes amid a growing need for software developers and engineers in the state.

Feb. 8, 2011 US commissions beefy IBM supercomputer
The U.S. Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory has commissioned IBM to build what will become one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, IBM announced Tuesday.