Tag: Institute for Applied Computational Science

  • Nation & World

    Workshops explore data and computational science

    Two Harvard events on data and computational science showcase the breadth of data experts and help meet the demand for training in the field.

    4 minutes
    A hand reaching out to graphs and charts
  • 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.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Big data, massive potential

    Across Harvard, programs and researchers are mining big data, vast quantities of computerized information, often revolutionizing their fields in the process.

    23 minutes
  • 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.

    8 minutes
  • 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.

    3 minutes
  • 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.

    5 minutes
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    A new master’s program

    Harvard will offer a master’s degree in computational science and engineering.

    4 minutes
  • 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.

    6 minutes