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Amanda Aubuchon
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Office of the Vice President for Information Technology

Indiana University

Recent articles by this author:

  • Brown Dog software sniffs out and transforms inaccessible data November 12, 2014 - 7:19am
    After serving its original purpose, data is often set aside to live out the rest of its days in obscurity. It's lying around in all sorts of formats — hand-written notes, scanned images, unstructured databases — up to 90% of which are...
  • Living cyberinfrastructure: Accelerating discovery October 15, 2014 - 8:35am
    For scientists looking to complete large, complex, data-driven research projects quickly, living cyberinfrastructure can be a powerful solution. This is a different way of working for most scientists; applying for time on a machine does not guarantee...
  • Researchers piece together how virus causes human cancers June 25, 2014 - 7:38am
    Although most individuals are exposed to cancer-causing types of HPV — that could potentially lead to cancer of the head and neck, uterine cervix, or the anogenital region — the majority never develop cancer.  Researchers are trying to...
  • Going organic: A cheaper, better way to store renewable energy May 14, 2014 - 9:06am
    Even though scientists and engineers have figured out how to harness Mother Nature's energy and use it to power an electric grid, not every community has access to a grid. In some parts of the world, communities collect energy from the sun and...
  • Scientists explore why some materials are superconductive at high temperatures March 19, 2014 - 7:26am
    Energy is wasted the second we attempt to use it, but the property of superconductivity defies this rule. Current sent through a superconducting wire loses no energy to resistance. Most superconductive materials require extremely low temperatures to...
  • Unusual supercomputer design poised to make climate change forecasts more accurate December 4, 2013 - 7:45am
    Forecasting climate change is no easy feat. Scientists use climate models, but accuracy can be a huge challenge. Read about how researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California, US, designed an unconventional supercomputer that could result...
  • High-speed analysis leads to new regulatory law November 20, 2013 - 10:47am
    With the advent of high-frequency trading, traders can compete in the market, taking advantage of brief price differences to clean up on profit. Last year, iSGTW published a story about how supercomputers were helping to analyze market data to uncover...