Genome Technology will feature Bioengineering Assistant Professor Jian Ma as one of Tomorrow's PIs in the December 2011/January 2112 issue.
Every December, the magazine profiles the work of up-and-coming young investigators who've been nominated by senior principal investigators in the field.
With the announcement of a new Blue Waters petascale system that includes a considerable amount of GPU capability, it is clear GPUs are the future of supercomputing.
University of Illinois computer science professor Brighten Godfrey was among a select group of academic researchers and Internet visionaries chosen to participate in Verisign's "Building a Better Internet Symposium."
University of Illinois computer science professor Bill Gropp was one of the driving forces behind the launch of a new ACM Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing.
The University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has finalized a contract with Cray Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY), to provide the supercomputer for the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters project. PCI Director Bill Gropp and Chief Scientist Wen-mei Hwu are both co-PIs of Blue Waters.