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Gregory Voth receives theoretical chemistry award
CI faculty and senior fellow Gregory Voth received the 2013 Award in Theoretical Chemistry from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society.
 
 
MacArthur Foundation Grant Fuels Computational City Research
The Urban Center for Computation and Data, a new Chicago-based research center using advanced computational methods to understand the rapid growth of cities, will receive a $500,000 grant from the John D...
 
 
Computational Urban Sciences Center Forms in the City of Big Data
The new Urban Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD) will apply the most advanced computational and data-driven techniques to the challenge of intelligent urban planning and design...
 
 

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The Freedom of Science as a Service
“Software as a Service,” or SaaS, is a concept that has revolutionized the way people use their computers. Every time you check your e-mail on Gmail, stream a... [read more] - Posted on February 12, 2013 @ 2:42 pm
Compiler 2/8/13: Where the CI Meets Breaking Bad
THE CI’S MOST FAMOUS CAR WASH OWNER A recurring theme of Breaking Bad is getting out of difficult situations with science. Yet, you still probably wouldn’t... [read more] - Posted on February 8, 2013 @ 4:37 pm
The Walls of the Visualization Cave
Humans have a visual bias, even hundreds of thousands of years after our pattern recognition skills evolved due to prehistoric habits of hunting and predator avoidance. In a... [read more] - Posted on February 6, 2013 @ 2:59 pm
The Thick and Thin of Antibody Therapies
Monoclonal antibodies are increasingly popular therapies for diseases such as cancer, arthritis and multiple sclerosis. They are also very expensive, due in part to the... [read more] - Posted on January 28, 2013 @ 11:04 am