History of Fundamental and Applied Sciences Achievements in Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Geographic Information Systems – Discovery of America by Queltanews

Geographic information science was pioneered at ORNL in 1969, more than a decade before the commercial geographic information system (GIS) industry blossomed. A GIS is a computer system     more...

History of Fundamental and Applied Sciences Achievements in Oak Ridge National Laboratory: High Performance Computing – Discovery of America by Queltanews

For 50 years ORNL has been a leader in advancing supercomputing. In 1954 an ORNL group led by Alston Householder partnered with Argonne National Laboratory to create a computer with the fastest speed and largest data storage capacity     more...

Directing Matter and Energy: Computational and Theoretical Chemistry – Discovery of America by Queltanews

Research in Computational and Theoretical Chemistry emphasizes integration and development of new and existing theoretical and computational approaches for the accurate and efficient description of processes relevant to the BES mission     more...

High-Performance Computing Center in Western Massachusetts, one capable of boosting the state's innovation economy

The collaboration between the Institute, the state of Massachusetts and several key players in industry and academia, formally announced Thursday at an event in Holyoke, Mass., aims to establish Massachusetts as a leader in the application and development of the next generation of computing technologies     more...

New insights on macular degeneration

A new MIT study sheds light on how the brain's visual cortex can re-map itself in response to visual deprivation caused by macular degeneration, the most common form of adult blindness. March 3     more...

Ballistic spin resonance a step for quantum computing

Scientists in Germany and Canada have developed a new technique called ballistic spin resonance that is a step forward for controlling spin in semiconductors     more...