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Cloudburst of Computing Power

For U.S. academics, computational resources are not hard to come by. The National Science Foundation's Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) program, for 25 years has made computation and storage platforms available, free-of-charge to academic researchers in the United States with high-performance computing (HPC)...

Computer Scientists Get Wet

In the summer of 2008, Wired magazine ran a cover story titled “The End of Science.” Former Editor‑in‑Chief Chris Anderson argued that the data deluge had rewritten the scientific method: with enough information and the computational power to analyze it, correlation could outrun causation, theories...

When All Science becomes Data Science

Ed Lazowska, who holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at UW, believes that data-driven discovery will become the norm, as he told Science Careers in a recent interview. This new environment, he says, will create and reward researchers (like Loebman) who are...

Pollinating His Own Science

Noah Wilson-Rich began studying the health of honeybees as a graduate student at Tufts University in 2005. Growing up in Connecticut, he was not a nature-loving kid -- he recalls being scared of "creepy-crawlies." An undergraduate course in sociobiology, and a subsequent lab project, changed...

Freedom Isn’t Free

In the acknowledgements section of NW, her 2012 bestseller, Zadie Smith thanked a computer application called "Freedom" for "creating the time" she needed to finish the book. It may be the highest-profile printed acknowledgment of a computer program in a work of fiction—The...

A Scientist Becomes a Social Entrepreneur — In Science

Nina Dudnik, a molecular biologist from Harvard, is the founder and CEO of the Boston-based Seeding Labs. The non-profit organization tries to bridge the resource gap between research labs in the U.S. and the developing world, starting with lab equipment. Dudnik is on the Massachusetts High...