Tag: Institute for Applied Computational Science
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Nation & World
Now arriving: Internet of Things
The Internet of Things is growing ever more sophisticated, enabling everything from smart cities to automatic appliances. A Harvard ethicist says we should think not just about what we can do, but what we should do.
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Nation & World
The promise of ‘big data’
Harvard symposium embraces the goals and challenges of collecting and processing massive amounts of information on key complex issues.
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Nation & World
Competition that computes
It might appear that evacuating a major city following a natural disaster and playing foosball have little, if anything, in common. For students participating in the IACS Computational Challenge, however, both are problems that can be tackled with some clever coding.
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Nation & World
An idea that changed the world
Harvard celebrates the 100th anniversary of a computational principle that was little noticed in its time, but that underlies all of modern science.
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Nation & World
A new master’s program
Harvard will offer a master’s degree in computational science and engineering.
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Nation & World
Street smarts
Students develop hurricane response plans on Cambridge roads, gaining practical experience in computational science competition, ComputeFest, a two-week program hosted by the recently created Institute for Applied Computational Science within the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.