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April 25, 2012

Advanced computing is helping humanities and social science scholars analyze troves of data about worlds both real and virtual, shedding light on human behavior.

February 24, 2012

CERN Science Communication student placement, deadline 6th March 2012

Dear all,

We currently have a great opportunity for a science communication student to come to CERN on an internship. The deadline for applications is tight: 6th March 2012. Please spread the word to anyone that might be interested. If you have any queries, please contact me via [email protected].

January 11, 2012

The roots of all Arabic

To sort through an Arabic language database and separate words according to their root might take an ordinary person about a year. But Majdi Sawalha did it in less than a week.

December 21, 2011

A littleBit of geeky fun

littleBits coffeemaker from ayah bdeir on Vimeo.

October 26, 2011

Digitizing the past

Archaeology is an inherently destructive process. But archaeologists working with computing experts hope to change that.

September 7, 2011

Distributed rendering

Complex animations and computer graphics, a field long driven by gamers and movie makers, requires computationally expensive ‘rendering’. This involves generating a single image from a model that contains information about an object – its geometry, viewpoint, lighting, etc.

As well as being used to create computer animated movies and shows, such as Shrek, The Penguins of Madagascar, and Happy Feet, rendering is also useful for areas such as medicine and architecture.

May 11, 2011

The humanities, as lonely as a cloud

Distributed computing is only useful for the sciences, when there are large amounts of data or large amounts of computational power is required - right?

Think again. The humanities are overwhelmed with data as well, according to Sheila Anderson from King's College London, and also need to use grids to advance their field.

March 24, 2011

There is no such thing as Humanities

Humanities practitioners understand the benefits of the Grid, but they intend to use it in a fundamentally different way.

February 16, 2011

A marriage of art and engineering

"Keep it simple" is the motto of Ilknur Colak, accelerator engineer at CERN and photographer.

February 2, 2011

PhD Comics

"The ongoing chronicle of life (or the lack thereof) in grad school."

February 2, 2011

The beauty of software

If you are the kind of person that thinks software development is lifeless and dull, think again. A vivid method of visualizing programmers as they collaborate is taking shape on the web. ‘Gource’ displays software projects as an animated tree that dynamically changes as the respective project does, albeit speeded-up.