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SDR Lab Seeks Research Assistant for Rehabilitation Project

The SDR’s new project, a collaboration with Harvard Medical School and the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, involves interactive game development for rehabilitation interventions using multi-touch interactive tabletops and motion tracking.

Please see the full announcement on the employment page.

SciGPU project highlighted by Harvard Gazette

A popular account of the IIC’s SciGPU project has been posted online by the Harvard News Office.

Writer Alvin Powell describes the "trio of projects at Harvard whose massive computing needs have prompted investigators to join forces to pioneer new computing techniques that will benefit not just radio astronomy, but quantum chemistry and neuroscience as well."

New websites: PDOnline, SciGPU, Involv

The IIC is pleased to announce the rollout of three new websites that provide collaborative interfaces and showcase IIC work: PDOnline Research, SciGPU.org and Involvweb.org.

SEAS Dean Announces IIC transition

In a message to the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) community, Interim Dean Frans Spaepen described the IIC’s new status as of July 1, 2009. The text of the message follows.

Dear SEAS Community Members,

I am writing to let you know about the planned administrative transition of the Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) from its current status as an interfaculty initiative overseen by the Provost’s Office to a new effort managed by SEAS. We expect the transition will help to foster many existing activities begun at IIC and will fuel other new and exciting opportunities in computational science.

Harvard Recognized by NVIDIA for Pioneering Work Using GPU Computing

(For background on the following announcement, see the IIC’s SciGPU project site.) SANTA CLARA, CA—APRIL 2, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation, inventor of the GPU, today announced that Harvard University has been recognized as a CUDA Center of Excellence for its commitment to teaching GPU Computing and its integration of CUDA™-enabled GPUs for a host of science and engineering research projects.

Insights on star formation emerge from IIC work

New information on the role gravity plays in the formation of stars has emerged with the help of the IIC’s Astronomical Medicine project, which has applied visualization techniques from medical imaging to challenges in astronomy.

Graduate Research Fellowships in Computational Science program announcement

The IIC ‘s graduate fellowships program in computational science is no longer active. Thank you for your interest.

Life Sciences Education and IIC Collaborate on Allston education project

With the opening of Harvard’s new Allston Education Portal, a Boston neighborhood has become the first to experience the technology being developed by a new IIC research project, the Scientists’ Discovery Room.

IIC scientists participate in WWT development

Microsoft’s new tool for online astronomy has been developed with the participation of scientists at the IIC and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, including Alyssa Goodman, former IIC Director and current Core Member. For more about the IIC’s involvement, see the description of the Space Time Machine.

Felice Frankel featured on PBS's “Wired Science”

In a new interview, the lead investigator of the IIC’s Envisioning Science program describes her work in science photography.

IIC Open House May 23

The IIC invites the Harvard community and friends out for a close-up look at the technology emerging from the University’s bold interfaculty initiative. Connect with IIC on Friday, May 23, at “IIC Connect.”

IIC at the Cambridge Science Festival

“Cambridge Explores the Universe” at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 12 Noon until 4pm. Join us and explore some of the latest hi-tech tools for analyzing astronomical images and data.