Founding NCSA Director Receives Golden Goose Award – HPC Wire
Feb. 18 — Larry Smarr, a physicist whose work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on calculating black hole collisions led him to champion a federal commitment to dramatically enhance U.S. computing power.
Collective Genius – The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation
Great leaders of innovation don’t fit the conventional mold of “good” leadership. They’re not visionaries who set direction and inspire others to follow. Instead, they create the context in which others are both willing and able to innovate. As one leader said, “My job is to set the stage, not to perform on it.”
Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience – New York Times
Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head.