A Public Infrastructure For Data Access – Quantified Self
Larry Smarr’s major contributions to scientific progress are well known. A physicist and the founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), he helped bring the power of computing to scientific research at a time when computers will still highly specialized instruments.
Leggo my LIGO – Smile Politely
After LIGO detected gravitational waves a few months ago (detected in September 2015 but announced in February 2016), LIGO and gravitational waves became almost household words. However, did you know that the revolutionary observations couldn’t have been made without the help of the U of I?
Cyber-archaeology, Big data and the race to save threatened cultural heritage sites – UC News
"People have been destroying material culture representations of their enemies for millennia,” said Thomas Levy, distinguished professor of anthropology at UC San Diego and director of the Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability at the Qualcomm Institute.
Gravitational Wave Discovery Echoes CSE Professor’s 1975 Dissertation – CSE News
In his doctoral dissertation at the University of Texas, Austin in 1975, CSE professor Larry Smarr developed a computational method for solving Albert Einstein’s equations of general relativity.
Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein’s Prediction – HPC Wire
Larry Smarr's Ph.D. dissertation presaged the announcement of the first detection of gravitational waves created by a merger of two black holes 1.3 billion light-years away.