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Press Releases

June 18, 2007 - Grid Today: Students Unlock the World of Advanced Computing

"What does "cyberinfrastructure" mean to you and to others in your community? How will cyberinfrastructure benefit scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and society as a whole? What opportunities for you and others around the world come to mind as you think about the benefits of cyberinfrastructure? These are some of the poignant questions posed to students at the second annual TeraGrid conference last week in Madison, Wis." ...more...


June 17, 2007 - Nation's Most Innovative Education Leaders Honored For Creative Contributions to K-12 Teaching and Learning

Including Mechelle De Craene from SC Education!

"Some of the most innovative educational leaders in the nation will be honored with Cable's 2007 Leaders in Learning Awards at a ceremony Wednesday, June 6th at the Library of Congress. This year's winners include teachers who have helped students organize and televise political debates, created a program for 8th-12th grade students to live with, learn from, and teach Panama's Ngobe Bugle Indians, and collaborated with the local community to showcase a student-produced documentary about local U.S. service members and veterans that raised funds to build a local memorial. The winners also include administrators and state and federal policymakers." ...more...

Watch the video of the awards night.

February 5, 2007 - Diverse: Navajo Officials Have High Hopes For Wireless Grid

"Navajo officials have a vision that one day students on the vast reservation can do school work on laptops during bus rides home and that making a phone call won’t mean walking miles to the nearest chapter house.

The vision starts on the eastern edge of the reservation in New Mexico through initiatives known as the Internet to the Hogan and Dine Grid." ...more...


December 5, 2007 - Earlham College Public Affairs: Peck Claims High-Tech Title in Ten Minutes

Featuring Charlie Peck from SC Education!

"You won't see this at the Miss America pageant...

Earlham College Associate Professor of Computer Science Charlie Peck is the country's newly crowned "Ultimate Geek," according to marketing executives of computer chip maker Intel Corporation, following his impressive "talent" demonstration at the recent SuperComputing '06 conference in Tampa, Fla." ...more...

Watch the video Intel produced.


November 2006 - Maryland Virtual High School: Using Computation and Communication to Solve Problems

"What is the difference between serial computing and parallel computing? What does a supercomputer do? Recently, 52 Montgomery Blair High School students learned the answers to those questions when five professors from the fields of computer science, math and physics came to Blair to demonstrate LittleFe, a portable, 6-processor parallel computer." ...more...


November 19, 2006 - The Register: Educators boost US tech fortunes with cheap cluster

"The scenario would horrify many of the well-funded Linux clusternistas out there. You want to teach students about the joys of high performance computing, load balancing, and parallel programming but can't afford a multi-processor box for the kiddos." ...more...


October 2005 - HPCWire: New Directions for Computational Science Education

"We could dedicate pages of text to a precise meaning of "High Performance Computing Education at the Undergraduate Level". In the end, just one word suffices a complete description of its current state: Broken. The June 2005 President's Information Technology Advisory Committee report "Computational Science: Ensuring America's Competitiveness" states "only a small fraction of the potential of computational science is being realized", and later in the report "The diverse technical skills and technologies underlying software, computing systems, and networks themselves constitute a critical U.S. infrastructure that we underappreciate and undervalue at our peril. Computational science is a foundation of that infrastructure." In another word: Broken. " ...more...