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Visualizing the Brain's Hardware
Thursday, January 9, 2014
The brain doesn’t work like a piano, where activating one neuron automatically contracts one muscle somewhere in the body. The vast range of motions possible for a body require control by a complicated neural code, one that can’t possibly be deduced from the activity of a single neuron.
Lost Freshwater May Double Climate Change Effects on Agriculture
Monday, December 16, 2013
A warmer world is expected to have severe consequences for global agriculture and food supply, reducing yields of major crops even as population and demand increases. Now, a new analysis combining climate, agricultural, and hydrological models finds that shortages of freshwater used for irrigation could double the detrimental effects of climate change on agriculture.
Data-Intensive Summer School at the RCC
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Summer school organizers incorporated common tools and software into the various sessions to help students use predictive analytic algorithms, data management techniques, and non-relational database models.
Building Virtual Universes to Solve a Cosmic Mystery
Monday, May 6, 2013
For physics graduate student Matthew Becker and the Research Computing Center, making a batch of universes was simply a project for the holidays.
Research Data Management for the 99%
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Big science projects can afford big cyberinfrastructure. Individual researchers increasingly need their own data management tools, but lack the hefty budget large projects can dedicate to such tasks. What can the 99% of researchers doing big science in small labs do with their data?