The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) has appointed Professor Neil Hall as its new Director. He will join TGAC in April 2016 from the University of Liverpool where he is currently the Director of The Centre for Genomic Research
Digital Science, a technology company serving the needs of scientific research announced the award of a Catalyst Grant to enable Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) to launch two innovative online, interactive tools to help advance womens achievements in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM)
Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, a competition aims to inspire female students by asking what they would most like to communicate to Lovelace about 21st century technology
Geoff Lyon, CEO/CTO at CoolIT Systems, a global supplier of Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (DCLC), has been elected Chair of The Green Grids Liquid Cooling Work Group
Following hard on the heels of the announcement of initiatives in Europe to encourage women to take a more active and more visible role in scientific computing, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, is sponsoring 'Pearl Hacks' to encourage women into software engineering
In the bicentenary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, widely regarded as having devised the first computable algorithm and thus as the worlds first computer programmer, Tom Wilkie considers some initiatives to counter the widespread impression that scientific computing is the preserve of nerdy men
Dotmatics, a provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, has appointed Dr Rob Brown, from Biovia, Dassault Systèmes (formerly Accelrys), as vice-president of global informatics
In September Louis Culot became chief executive officer of BioData, a Digital Science company. He talked to Siân Harris about the informatics challenges presented by the growing volumes of laboratory data.
The Texas Advanced Computing Centre (TACC) at the University of Texas has appointed Dan C Stanzione as executive director
In sign of the growing importance of data as well as processing to HPC, the HPC integrator OCF has appointed a Big Data Scientist to the company
Through the use of cutting-edge simulation, software engineers are developing innovative new wind energy technology and increasing the efficiency and durability of wind turbines. The drive to find sustainable energy sources is one of the most pressing concerns facing society.
Dame Sally Davies, the outgoing Chief Medical Officer for England, pulls no punches when it comes to the threat of antibiotic resistance. She has called for an ‘Extinction Rebellion-type’ response to it, describing it as ‘catastrophic’ and ‘as dangerous as climate change’.
The Pistoia Alliance has been pioneering initiatives that will support organisations as they work to enable and engage Fair (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles of data management and stewardship in their organisations.
Achronix and Bittware collaborate on a new FPGA designed for cloud, AI and machine learning applications, writes Robert Roe
By increasing the energy efficiency of a supercomputer scientists can save huge amounts of money over the total lifecycle of the system. With ever-increasing core counts and increasingly large supercomputers, the drive for increased computational power comes at a cost.
