Ken Harper is an associate professor and the first director of the Newhouse Center for Global Engagement at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. The Newhouse Center for Global Engagement is dedicated to bringing knowledge to the world through storytelling, collaboration and innovation. Harper’s role in the Center stems from his long history in working internationally and he is now sharing that passion by bringing the classroom into the world and the world into the classroom. Continue Reading
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ECS Professor Secures Yahoo Donation of Servers for Research Processing
Yahoo Labs has made an initial donation of 120 servers, or about 1,000 cores, that have been installed as part of the University’s Research Computing facilities in Machinery Hall.
The Power of Ideas: Spring 2018 Colloquies
Register to hear Assistant Professor Teng Zheng speak on topology design in soft structures by controlling surface wrinkles on April 17 and then on April 25 Professor Timothy Korter speaks on nondestructive and noninvasive identification of historical pigments.
SUrge Contributes to MicroBooNE Collaboration Research
Physics PhD candidate Jessica Equivel discusses her experience being stationed at Fermilab and using Syracuse University’s SUrge GPU Cluster.
OrangeGrid Accelerates Foreign Exchange (FX) Forecasting
Naylor’s case study, Gaussian Process Regression for FX Forecasting, which is available on GitHub, demonstrates how quantitative analysis can be used on the buy-side to produce a new forecasting model. Continue Reading
Syracuse Savors Role in 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
Members of the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences are celebrating their role in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of gravitational waves. Continue Reading
Computational Chemistry and The Study Of Molecular Solids By Terahertz Spectroscopy
Computational chemistry, the branch of chemistry that employs computers and algorithms both for the prediction of molecular properties and the simulation of molecular behavior, has a long history of utilizing all of the power made available from state-of-the-art computing. Continue Reading
GNU Octave
Software License / Cost:
GNU General Public License / Free
Brief Description:
GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. Continue Reading
TensorFlow
TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs
Public Policy, Governance, and Data-Driven Research
When entering the University’s datacenter, it’s natural to wonder about the seemingly infinite sources of information being computed there. Could these systems be performing cutting-edge thermodynamic modeling? Or, perhaps are they helping to unravel some of the mysteries of quantum chemistry? That said, would your curiosity would change if the source of this data were closer to home? In fact, it’s much closer to home: the US Census Bureau or the Social Security Administration.