by Ken Chiacchia | Jul 30, 2018 | Press release
July 12, 2018 Four billion years ago, the incredible energy of a massive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy—a blazar—created a cosmic ray particle. As part of that process, it also formed a high-energy neutrino and a shower of gamma rays. In September, the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 19, 2018 | Press release
User-friendly software that can advance vaccine supply chain decision making is now available April 23, 2018 Public health experts at the Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) at Johns Hopkins University and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) have released...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the Spring 2018 issue of PSC Science Highlights! PSC’s 32nd year of operations is off to an exceptional start, with multiple important initiatives in motion and some exciting new ones imminent. Those initiatives build on PSC’s leadership in converging...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 17, 2018 | Science Highlights
CMU Group Describes “Superhuman” Poker AI in Science In a paper published online in December 2017 by the journal Science, Tuomas Sandholm of the CMU School of Computer Science and Noam Brown, a PhD student working with him, detailed how their artificial intelligence...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 17, 2018 | Science Highlights
Bridges Helps Quantum Chemists Understand Break-up of Atmospheric Chemicals The U.S. Air Force would like to detect remotely when bad guys have fired a rocket. They’d also like, in an emergency, to seed the atmosphere to damp down communication disruptions from solar...
