Dr. Thomas Sterling, renowned professor of computer science at Louisiana State University, will present the inaugural lecture in Indiana University's Peebles Lectures in Information Technology series. All interested parties are invited to attend. Sterling is best known as the father of the Beowulf cluster and for his work on petascale computing.

One of the world's foremost learning scientists says the educational system is at odds with technological innovation and change is imperative to ensure many students don't fall further behind. Allan Collins, professor emeritus of education and social policy at Northwestern University, will speak about the changing nature of schools' relationship to technology during an appearance at the IU School of Education on Thursday (Oct. 8).

The future of scientific computing will be developed with the leadership of Indiana University and nine national and international partners as part of a $15 million project largely supported by a $10.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award will be used to establish FutureGrid—one of only two experimental systems in the NSF Track 2 program that funds the most powerful, next-generation scientific supercomputers in the nation.

Much as meteorologists predict the path and intensity of hurricanes, Indiana University's Alessandro Vespignani believes we will one day predict with unprecedented foresight, specificity and scale such things as the economic and social effects of billions of new Internet users in China and India, or the exact location and number of airline flights to cancel around the world in order to halt the spread of a pandemic.

Two Indiana University School of Informatics professors have written a paper explaining a model they have developed that could lead to improved techniques for identifying key terms that capture the topics of a Web page. The study by Alessandro Flammini and Filippo Menczer, along with M. Ángeles Serrano from the University of Barcelona, has been published in the PLoS One open access online journal.

Little more than a week after election as a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science Douglas Hofstadter has been elected a fellow of the American Philosophical Society. With the honor Hofstadter becomes the first faculty member in Indiana University history to hold fellowships in the two prestigious societies and to have won a Pulitzer Prize.

Animation, computer graphics, virtual reality and Web design are just a few of the applications high school students will delve into while attending Indiana University's Informatics Summer Camp.

Pulitzer Prize winning author and Indiana University distinguished professor of cognitive science and computer science Douglas Hofstadter has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Indiana University School of Informatics hosted its inaugural Alumni Awards Banquet on April 2 at the Woodstock Country Club in Indianapolis. The school presented three awards to five recipients for their outstanding service and dedication: the Career Achievement Award (two recipients), the Young Alumni Award, and the Distinguished Service Award (two recipients). For each award, the school requested nominations from faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the school.

WIC Week, a string of events tonight (March 9) through Thursday -- organized by Indiana University's Women in Informatics and Computing -- will focus as much on the social aspects of securing success in technology fields as it will on talking technical applications. WIC Week is but one outgrowth of an organization founded in 2002 to increase opportunities for women in computing and information technology.

Indiana University Professor of Computer Science Paul Purdom has been named to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) list of distinguished scientists.

A touch of the keyboard or push of the joystick, and massive dump trucks loaded with coal, giant combines harvesting soybeans, and aircraft observing landscapes do the work of a multitude of humans as software and satellite work together. So why, wondered Indiana University Professor Steven Johnson's computer science students, shouldn't the trip between Bloomington and Indianapolis be as simple as stepping into an elevator?

A touch of the keyboard or push of the joystick, and massive dump trucks loaded with coal, giant combines harvesting soybeans, and aircraft observing landscapes do the work of a multitude of humans as software and satellite work together. So why, wonder Indiana University professor Steven Johnson's computer science students, shouldn't the trip between Bloomington and Indianapolis be as simple as stepping into an elevator?

Sarah Loos, a student in the Indiana University School of Informatics, was named as a finalist for the Computing Research Association's (CRA) 2009 Outstanding Female Undergraduate Award. Loos was one of 22 women cited, and as a finalist she is one of the top seven females in this highly competitive selection process.

Not even an ocean could stand between them and success. The "ClusterMeisters," a team of students from the Indiana University School of Informatics and Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) were awarded first place in the SC08 Cluster Challenge, an international collegiate competition for leading-edge, energy-efficient high performance computing.

Computerworld magazine announced in its August 2008 issue its "Top IT Schools to Watch 2008," and the Indiana University School of Informatics was among the 10 schools recognized in a feature article on graduate programs.

A recent study by Indiana University School of Informatics researchers revealed that nearly 2.5 million Web pages on some of the Internet's most recognizable and trusted sites have 128,000 links that could be easily manipulated by phishers -- making them vulnerable to online scams.

Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, an exhibit that illustrates the social interactions of scientists and the substance of their research, opens Saturday, May 17 at the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. The exhibit will remain on display until June 30, after which it will travel to Chinese Academy of Sciences branches in Lazhou (July 15 - Aug. 15), Chengdu (Sept. 1 - Oct. 1), and Wuhan (Oct. 15 - Nov. 15).

William Aspray, Rudy Professor of Informatics at the Indiana University School of Informatics, has co-edited a book selected by Choice Magazine as one of its Outstanding Academic Titles. The book, Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation, examines the reasons for the lack of women in IT fields.

Two IU School of Informatics faculty researchers have received a multi-year funding grant from One-to-One, a Boston-based digital marketing company that will bring to Indiana University's Bloomington campus a one-of-a-kind research laboratory to measure media and user engagement.

Beth Plale, associate professor in the Indiana University School of Informatics, Department of Computer Science, received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop a digital toolkit to help researchers more easily capture information about their scientific work. Perhaps most importantly, the new tools will create a kind of "digital tagging," keeping research intact as it passes from one scientist to another.

Using high-speed computer networks and Indiana University's supercomputer, a team of researchers from IU and Purdue University will be contributing to an open-source bioinformatics software platform development project in proteomics, thanks to a $25,000 bioinformatics research award from the Canary Foundation. The San Jose-based foundation's slogan is "stopping cancer early," and it awards funding for cancer-related research to accelerate realization of that goal.

David S. Wise, professor of computer science at the Indiana University School of Informatics, is the recipient of the 2007 Outstanding Contribution Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.

Fueled by curiosity and powered by computer technology, students at the Indiana University School of Informatics are poised to test drive a class project using unmanned vehicles.

The National Security Agency has assigned Indiana University "center of excellence" status for the academy's ongoing commitment to the protection of digital information from hackers and other Internet-savvy troublemakers. As a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, IU becomes a formal partner in national efforts to keep networks and computers safe and secure.