CHICAGO, March 24 – The University of Chicago has appointed Michael Franklin, a prominent computer scientist and data science leader, as Deputy Dean for Computational and Mathematical Sciences in its Physical Sciences Division. Franklin will…
Power, influence and vision; stars align for CeBIT…
CeBIT Australia 2015 reveals its line up of exceptional keynote speakers A chief evangelist, a digital prophet, the former CTO of NASA, the founder of the Google Brain Project and one of the FBI’s Most…
NASA Spacecraft Nears Historic Dwarf Planet Arrival
[caption id="attachment_3038" align="alignnone" width="695"] NASA's Dawn spacecraft took these images of dwarf planet Ceres from about 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers) away on Feb. 25, 2015. Ceres appears half in shadow because of the current position…
Simulating space for JWST’s four infrared instruments
Description Building a space telescope is no mean feat. Conditions here on Earth are drastically different from those experienced in orbit around our planet. How do we know that any telescope built in our controlled…
Scientists Develop Method to Suppress Malaria Parasite’s Virulence…
Up to one million people -- mainly pregnant woman and young children -- are killed each year by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, which causes the most devastating form of human malaria. Now, researchers at the…