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Welcome to the Texas Learning & Computation Center!
TLC2 researcher hosting noninvasive brain mapping collaboration
Dr. George Zouridakis, TLC2 affiliated faculty member and director of the Biomedical Imaging Lab, welcomes two Japanese researchers to his lab for on-site work on their investigation into the development of a unique brain-mapping device that promises to deliver more comprehensive and accurate insights into the brain at a fraction of the cost of current technologies. The technology uses refracted light to indicate brain activity and could lead to more accurate brain-injury diagnosis in hospitals and on battlefields.The full story...
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2010 Mars Rover Celebration goes into pre-flight mode
Plans for the 2010 Mars Rover Celebration, to be held on January 30, 2010, are well under way. A teacher training workshop to acquaint area high school science and gifted/talented teachers with the Mars Rover curriculum has been scheduled for Saturday, September 26. Fifty-four Mars Rover models came in for a landing at the 2009 Mars Rover Celebration, held at the University Center on February 28, and when the dust settled, the top prizes went to Red Rover, Mars Geniuses Inc., The Hover Rover, Carlosbot1, and Gladiator 1. Video from the event was featured on the Discovery Channel’s “Daily Planet” science newscast. Read the complete list of winners, see photos from the competition, and see a special gallery of the winners' tour at Johnson Space Center. To reserve a spot in the September 26 teacher training, e-mail Sarah Sweaney at TLC2.
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High performance computing workshop motivates high schoolers
In April, Dr. Margaret Cheung presented the workshop High Performance Computing for Molecular Biology, an outreach event for area high school students. Twenty students and two high school teachers from three local high schools attended the workshop, and learned how some problems in today's molecular biology are being solved by computational simulations and how the work performance can be drastically improved through powerful computers and well-optimized software. More on the results of the day...
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VisVid Fest showcases student work in 3-D visualization
The Texas Learning & Computation Center congratulates Michael C. Brims for his work "Hands," winner of first prize in the inaugural VisVid Fest on Friday, May 8. Best visualization and second prize in the science category went to Chuanying Chen's "Target." VisVid Fest was created to celebrate the renovation of the former TLC2 Visualization Lab in PGH 216 into the TLC2 Visualization Theater, whose state-of-the-art technology facilitates top-flight visualization of scientific research.
The complete list of winners...
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TLC2 affiliated faculty featured as a presenter for SiCortex webcast
Dr. Barbara Chapman, TLC2 affiliated faculty member and director of the Open MP Users Group, will present "Parallel Programming for Multicore Platforms" as part of a SiCortex webcast series. Dr. Chapman will discuss the pros and cons of the different language extensions for parallel programming, examine how they can be used to develop applications on next generation systems, address OpenMP in more depth, and share insights into how OpenMP will evolve to meet the needs of future applications developers. The June webcast will feature UH computer science professor Dr. Marc Garbey, speaking on "Driving Toward Environmental Sustainability."
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Follow TLC2 on its Facebook page
As a part of a strategic communications shift into social media, TLC2 now has a page on Facebook, where it will post news and events, interact with other University of Houston Facebook pages, and serve as an online gathering point for conversation and discussion. You can become a fan at the TLC page itself. Also, follow TLC2 on Twitter: @tlcsquared.
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Speedy research is in the (FPGA) cards
TLC2-affiliated faculty will have the opportunity to take their high performance computing research to a new level, thanks to the donation of eight field-programmable gate array (FPGA) cards by Petroleum GeoServices. Any faculty interested in using the cards for research should contact Erik Engquist at erike@tlc2.uh.edu.
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Asida Soul AIDS/HIV Awareness Music Video
With a professional video camera and the services of its professional videographer/photographer, the Texas Learning & Computation Center provided support for Houston music group Asida Soul as the six musicians filmed the HIV/AIDS awareness video "Do Something." The video was released on Friday, February 7, on YouTube, and a sold-out video release event was held at the Museum of Printing History that evening.
Photos from the event...
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Portuguese Mapping Project Funded at TLC2
Portuguese Mapping of Coastal Africa (PMOCA) a collaboration project between TLC2 at UH and University of California-Irvine. The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities has funded Josten Ma and a graduate student in conjunction with University of California-Irvine Professor Pat Seed to create a database of all the places that the Portuguese first encountered nearly six hundred years ago. Read more ...
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