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DeltaAI will enable the nation’s scientists and researchers to address the world’s most challenging problems.

The campus-funded program is making accessible and nimble computing available to Illinois researchers free of charge.

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Transforming Agriculture with AI

Showcasing the myriad ways in which NCSA’s partner, the Center for Digital Agriculture, is harnessing the power of AI.
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NCSA Director Bill Gropp on ‘Different Approaches to AI’

The Download: A Thought Leadership Series.
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NCSA, NAIRR Providing Greater Access to AI Resources

NCSA’s partnership with NAIRR already producing impactful results.
Participants at the International Climate Computer Summit, hosted by NCSA and CLiMAS, look up and smile for a drone photograph. (Photo credit: Darrell Hoemann.)

Building a ‘Large Hadron Collider for Climate Change’ – Together

The team behind the recent International Climate Computer Summit, co-hosted by NCSA, seeks to empower communities with the information they need to make good decisions about climate change.
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NCSA Welcomes Kenton McHenry to the Center Stage!

Get to know some of our amazing staff in our profile series.
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Chuck Thompson on ‘The Evolving Vision for Illinois Computes’

Director of Illinois Computes Chuck Thompson lays out the next steps for the growing program.
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NCSA Building Stronger Connections Among Observatories, Astronomers 

The HEROIC service will provide the entire astrophysics community a single destination to coordinate resources around an astronomical event.
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Probing the Early Universe

NCSA scientists probe the epoch of the first stars and galaxies using the oldest light in the universe and the Illinois Campus Cluster.
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Poetry in Motion

NCSA’s Advanced Visualization experts provide a visual spectacle to accompany poets performing at Pygmalion 24.
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Software, Science, Melting Permafrost in Alaska

Members of NCSA and Google worked together in Alaska as part of the Permafrost Discovery Gateway.
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SkAI Launched to Further Explore Universe

NCSA and partner institutions received a $20 million grant to create new artificial intelligence tools for space exploration.
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International Summit Seeks to Harness Supercomputing Power for Climate Decision-making

Hosted and organized by NCSA and led by Professor of Atmospheric Science Kelvin Droegemeier, the summit’s long-term goal is kilometer-scale global resolution in Earth system modeling and climate projection.
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Astronomers Use AI to More Clearly Observe Space

With support from NCSA, an evolving DeepDISC project helps identify objects such as stars and galaxies.
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Illinois Computes Helps Bring a Whale of a Story to Life

You don’t need to be a scientist who crunches big data to take advantage of Illinois Computes.
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Hub to Connect Illinois’ Data Science Research Community Launched

New Office of Data Science Research will connect the campus data science research community.
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NCSA Receives Cancer Research Funding

NCSA’s Health Innovation Program Office will lead a portion of President Biden’s “Moonshot” cancer research initiative funded through ARPA-H.
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Where Technology, Agriculture and Young Minds Meet

Summer CDA REU students learn how advanced technology is transforming traditional agricultural practices.
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REU FoDOMMaT Students Dive Deep into Machine Learning and Deep Learning

NCSA’s summer program gives undergraduates a unique experience in building out the full implementation of a state-of-the-art model each week.
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Quantum Computing: Finding solutions by the people for the people

NCSA leads the First Workshop on Broadly Accessible QC at PEARC24.
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NCSA Welcomes Chen Wang to the Center Stage!

Get to know some of our amazing staff in our profile series.
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Gropp, Former NCSA Leaders Selected for HPCwire’s Inaugural ‘35 Legends’ List

The list recognizes 35 luminaries who have made HPC what it is today.
Researchers, from left, agricultural and consumer economics professor Madhu Khanna, civil and environmental engineering professor Jeremy Guest, crop sciences professor DoKyoung Lee and their colleagues weighed the many factors that go into selecting a biofuels feedstock to supply aviation fuel and meet various environmental, land-use and policy related goals. Photo by Michelle Hassel

Finding the Best Bioenergy Crops for Sustainability

Professor Madhu Khanna from the Center for Digital Agriculture leads study to find the most economically and environmentally viable biofuel crops.
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CDA Creates New Industry Partner Program

The Center for Digital Agriculture launched a program to strengthen connection between academia, technology and industry within the agriculture sector.
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Building Relationships and Driving Results

The people power behind NCSA’s Industry Partner Program helps bridge the gap between organizations solving large computational problems and the NCSA expertise and resources that can most benefit them.
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Demand Skyrockets for Illinois Computes Research Notebooks

Illinois Computes is providing access to Jupyter Notebooks to a record number of University of Illinois researchers.
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Building a Network of Care

NCSA assists the Center for Prevention Research and Development (CPRD) with its Medicaid waiver program designed to assist highly vulnerable populations.
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Cross-Disciplinary Science in Action

Researchers at the University of Illinois and NCSA team up to study the role that stress from neighborhood violence plays in lung cancer progression.
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