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Alessandro Fanfarillo

NCAR software engineer to discuss exascale computing, message passing interface

9/21/18

Alessandro Fanfarillo, a senior software engineer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, will present “Getting ready for exascale computing: New features of the Message Passing Interface (MPI), challenges and opportunities" from 2 to 3 p.m. Oct. 15 in W375 Westgate Building. The event is sponsored by the Institute for CyberScience, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the College of Information Sciences and Technology.

Multiple choice exam

Putting answers to the test

9/17/18

Teachers, rejoice. A team of Penn State researchers has developed a way to make multiple-choice exam questions easier for instructors to create, yet more intellectually challenging for test-takers. Utilizing machine-learning ranking models, the researchers have proposed a method that automatically generates "distractors," which are the alternative options used to distract students from the correct answer in a multiple choice question.

Seed grants to support opioid research announced

9/13/18

Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute, in collaboration with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, has awarded over $200,000 in funding to support 10 new interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers whose work is aimed at combating the opioid epidemic.

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Parallel computing boot camp: hundreds learn together, miles apart

9/10/18

Once a year students, faculty and staff around the country log in on their computers for the four-day XSEDE Summer Boot Camp. Attendees gather together on their respective campuses to learn about parallel programming for conducting research more efficiently on supercomputers while also testing their computing skills.

Yuya Ong - IBM Research

IST junior spends two summers at IBM Research, files patent for prediction tool

9/7/18

Yuya Ong, a junior in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, feels fortunate to be at the forefront of the rapidly-growing data sciences field. “Every day when I wake up, I realize that there are new opportunities out there and new problems to be solved,” he said. “Waking up to that is really exciting.”

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Hot streak: Finding patterns in creative career breakthroughs

9/6/18

You’ve likely heard of hot hands or hot streaks — periods of repeated successes — in sports, financial markets and gambling. But do hot streaks exist in individual creative careers? A team of researchers, including two from Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology, examined the works of nearly 30,000 scientists, artists and film directors to learn if high-impact works in those fields came in streaks.

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National conference on child maltreatment to advance innovation through data

9/4/18

Penn State isn’t just a leader on childhood well-being through its Child Maltreatment Solutions Network — but is pushing others to be leaders, too. The network's seventh annual conference will be held on Sept. 27 and 28 at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus, and is open to researchers, policymakers, child welfare professionals, and members of the public interested in learning about the future of data-driven innovations in improving children’s lives.

Tim Simpson receiving the ASME Robert E. Abbot Award.

Simpson receives two engineering design awards at international conference

9/4/18

Tim Simpson, a professor and researcher known for his knowledge within the realm of product design and additive manufacturing, was the recipient of two awards at the 2018 American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference.

From Micro to Macro

IST faculty, students well represented in Nittany AI Challenge finals

8/31/18

Three of the five teams competing in the $100,000 Nittany AI Challenge finals include members from the College of Information Sciences and Technology. The challenge will conclude Sept. 5, when the teams will present their minimal viable products for a chance to earn funding from the remaining pool of $50,000.

Ping Li

Psychologist to speak on how the brain learns languages, Sept. 11

8/30/18

How are cyber-enabled and computational methods helping researchers better understand how humans learn languages? Ping Li, Penn State professor of psychology, linguistics, and information sciences and technology, and associate director of the Institute for CyberScience, will share his perspective to kick off the ICS CyberScience Seminar series for 2018-19 on Sept. 11. The event is free and open to the public.

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IST students, faculty help develop training exercise for College of Medicine

8/29/18

Students and faculty from the College of Information Sciences and Technology and the University Park Curriculum of Penn State College of Medicine joined together to develop an introductory exercise for incoming medical students. The exercise, titled EpiCentre, is a multi-part tabletop activity designed to introduce new medical students to the local community and to provide a platform for their early clinical reasoning development.

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