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New GPU Computing Collaboration Network for Scientists, Researchers, and Developers Launches at SC09

The Coordinated Science Laboratory, home of the first CUDA Center of Excellence, today announced the launch of a new network of research communities designed to foster collaboration among scientists, researchers, and developers utilizing GPU computing.

CSL's Andy Schuh discusses new collaborative CUDA platform

From SC09, Andy Schuh discusses gpucumpting.net, a new collaborative website, on YouTube.

Illinois researchers successful in measuring the “seeds” of crystallization

 A novel microscopy technique—fluctuation transmission electron microscopy—allowed researchers at Illinois to detect subcritical nuclei in a glassy material, the first such measurements of the earliest stages of crystallization.

Alum Horst develops novel robotic knee

While Robert Horst was in high school, he suffered a knee injury that required three surgeries to fix. He endured a long healing process, and the primitive rehabilitation technology used frustrated him. So he decided to do something about it.

Illinois, A*STAR names Winslett new Director of Advanced Digital Sciences Center

The University of Illinois has named Marianne Winslett as Director of the Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC) in Singapore.  ADSC, operated by the University of Illinois and funded by the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), is focused on breakthrough innovations that will make human-machine interactions as seamless and trustworthy as our interactions with each other.

CSL researcher Todd Coleman joins prestigious ISAT study

 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invited CSL researcher Professor Todd Coleman to join its Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group for a three year term beginning this fall. The group carries about 30 people and only invites the brightest new scientists and engineers to be members.

Illinois undergrad helps break ground on innovative neuroengineering research

Martin McCormick once thought mind reading was a talent reserved for superheroes in the comics. But he’s not so sure anymore.

Illinois researchers win Best Student Paper for research advancing computer vision

ECE professor Yi Ma, graduate students Shankar Rao and Hossein Mobahi, and 2006 Ph.D. ECE alumnus Allen Yang won the 2009 Best Student Paper Award (Sang Uk Lee Award) at the Asian Conference on Computer Vision.

InfoStructure seminar series to challenge intersections between technology and society

Imagine the success of the iPhone without millions of busy people who demand information on the run. Or consider the viability of MySpace without the legion of teens, like, dying to be connected to their social network with one click.

Neither would exist without the other. But too often, information technology is discussed as though it were independent of society, a chasm that graduate students at the University of Illinois are hoping to bridge through a new educational initiative.

Bursting the Bubble: Researchers study ionospheric plasma bubbles that interfere with communications systems

High up in the ionosphere, plasma bubbles invisible to the naked eye wreak havoc on communication and navigation systems back on Earth.

Instabilities in the bubbles often cause over-the-horizon radars to either lose signals or to register readings from different regions than where they should be looking. GPS receivers can fail as these structures pass overhead.