A Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, he was educated at Clarkson and the University of Southern California, earning a PhD in chemistry at the latter. Tucker, who received a bachelor's degree in engineering at Purdue in 1980, has been at Sandia since 1983. Submitted by DOE's Sandia National Laboratories DOE Pulse highlights work being done at the Department of Energy's national laboratories. DOE Pulse is distributed every two weeks. Chicago Computation Institute takes form A new computation institute to probe the sciences, humanities and arts has been established by DOE's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, two leading research organizations in the Midwest.
Further plans involve analyzing the economic, social, and cultural impact of information technology.
Of special interest to the institute, Fradin added, is research requiring computational simulation, modeling, or massive data analysis. We foresee not only exciting applications to science and technology, but the CI will help connect the University's and Argonne's computational work to corporate and public interests. Ridgway Scott, professor of computer science and mathematics at the University of Chicago, and Rick Stevens, director of mathematics and computer science at Argonne National Laboratory, are the new institute's co-directors. Other appointments to the institute from among university and Argonne researchers will be made over the next six months. Part of Argonne's computer science research includes developing a suite of advanced visualization tools that can address the large amounts of data generated by scientific simulations, make use of parallel and distributed rendering, and be integrated into collaborative environments.