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Lance Farrell
US desk editor

Lance is the US desk editor for iSGTW, and is based  in Bloomington at Indiana University.

Recent articles by this author:

  • Text mining strikes gold in political discourse August 26, 2015 – 7:55am
    From George Washington to Barack Obama, US presidents have been delivering the State of the Union address for the last 225 years. Mining nearly 2 million words, researchers at Columbia University trace a remarkable stability amid the discourse streams…
  • Big Agriculture part of the climate change solution August 19, 2015 – 5:45am
    Modern farming practices are often blamed for the rise in greenhouse gas emissions. A new big data analysis indicates change in land use might be as much to blame. With an eye to best practices, researchers see solutions to mitigate these contributors…
  • XSEDE humanities gateways August 5, 2015 – 6:38am
    Humanities gateways are the newest arrow in the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) quiver. With friendly interfaces, these gateways make it easy for humanities researchers to stay on target and create the scholarship of the…
  • Supercomputers listen for extraterrestrial life July 29, 2015 – 8:27am
    The search for intelligent life in the universe continues. Astronomers are using DiRAC and Piz Daint supercomputers to learn how stellar winds change radio signals emitted from exoplanets so radio telescopes know how to listen.
  • Fermilab’s flagship accelerator sets world record July 22, 2015 – 5:59am
    When hunting neutrinos, a more powerful particle beam increases the chance of seeing neutrinos interact. Fermilab scientists recently set a new world record for high-energy neutrino experiments with a sustained 521-kilowatt beam, and will soon achieve…
  • Eddies pull carbon emissions into deep ocean, new model simulates July 8, 2015 – 5:38am
    Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory are modeling huge ocean eddies to track their ability to move particles – including carbon dioxide – into the deep. This work will help prioritize a global response to climate change.
  • HPC for your visual library: How algorithms and supercomputers assess video quality July 1, 2015 – 6:53am
    The volume of video content has exploded in recent years, and museums and libraries face the daunting task of evaluating the condition of their collections to make preservation and access decisions. To meet this challenge, data curators, video…
  • HathiTrust Research Center adds 5 billion pages to help scholars see farther June 17, 2015 – 7:50am
    The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is the research arm of the HathiTrust, and provides computational know-how for humanities scholars. With secure access to copyright-protected works, HTRC helps scholars see patterns across decades of literature….
  • Making music across the miles: LoLa broadens access and breaks down barriers June 10, 2015 – 6:54am
    Musical collaboration over the internet has been perennially plagued by delay and bad audio; co-performances have been largely a product of smoke and mirrors. Overcoming the problems of distance, Internet2 and LoLa technology have set a new standard…
  • Internet2 Gender Diversity Initiative roundtable–part two June 3, 2015 – 8:17am
    Part two of our free-wheeling conversation with the organizers of the Internet2 Gender Diversity Initiative.