Street smarts
Imagine a powerful hurricane has wreaked havoc on the city of Cambridge, Mass. Thousands of residents are injured, but debris blocks roads everywhere, preventing medical workers from reaching the...
View ArticleA new master’s program
Harvard University will launch a master’s program in computational science and engineering (CSE) in the next academic year, with the aim of training leaders for a future in which large-scale...
View ArticleAn idea that changed the world
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was called the “Ten Days That Shook the World,” the title of a book by foreign correspondent Jack Reed, Class of 1910. But how about the one day in Russia that shook the...
View ArticleCompetition that computes
On the surface, it might appear that evacuating a major city following a natural disaster and playing foosball have little, if anything, in common. For students participating in the IACS Computational...
View ArticleStreet smarts
Imagine a powerful hurricane has wreaked havoc on the city of Cambridge, Mass. Thousands of residents are injured, but debris blocks roads everywhere, preventing medical workers from reaching the...
View ArticleA new master’s program
Harvard University will launch a master’s program in computational science and engineering (CSE) in the next academic year, with the aim of training leaders for a future in which large-scale...
View ArticleAn idea that changed the world
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was called the “Ten Days That Shook the World,” the title of a book by foreign correspondent Jack Reed, Class of 1910. But how about the one day in Russia that shook the...
View ArticleCompetition that computes
On the surface, it might appear that evacuating a major city following a natural disaster and playing foosball have little, if anything, in common. For students participating in the IACS Computational...
View ArticleThe promise of ‘big data’
What use is a library without a librarian, or an encyclopedia without an index? Scale that prospect up to the realms of Web analytics, astronomy, high-speed finance, or even basketball statistics, and...
View ArticleBig data, massive potential
What if you could predict domestic abuse two years in advance? Or understand the brain’s intricate physical structure, connection by microscopic connection? What if we needed new ways to think about...
View ArticleNow arriving: Internet of Things
While several technical experts highlighted just how smart our appliances, lights, cars, factories, and even cities are becoming, another questioned whether we’re thinking hard enough about what...
View ArticleNow arriving: Internet of Things
While several technical experts highlighted just how smart our appliances, lights, cars, factories, and even cities are becoming, another questioned whether we’re thinking hard enough about what...
View ArticleHarvard workshops explore data and computational science
Data is one of the most powerful tools any organization or business can utilize to make decisions, demonstrate results, or create computational breakthroughs, such as algorithms that can predict...
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