For the first time in the 37-year history of the distinguished honor, the National Science Foundation (NSF) today named two individuals — both computer scientists — as joint recipients of the 2012 Alan T. Waterman Award. Scott Aaronson of MIT and Robert Wood of Harvard were honored with the award, recognizing “an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering” supported by NSF. Also for the first time, both Aaronson and Wood will receive $1 million grants over a five-year period to further their research, up from $500,000 awards in recent years. Aaronson was selected for his research on the limitations of quantum computers and computational complexity theory more generally. Wood received […]
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Archive for March 8th, 2012
Two Computer Scientists Receive 2012 Alan Waterman Award
March 8th, 2012 / in awards / by Erwin GianchandaniVisualization Technologies for Human-Environment Interactions
March 8th, 2012 / in research horizons, resources / by Erwin GianchandaniThe National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) — the newest of the national synthesis centers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) focused on fostering synthetic, actionable science related to the structure, functioning, and sustainability of socio-environmental systems — has issued a call for participation in a July workshop on visualization technologies that support research on human-environment interactions. Abstracts are due by April 20th, and travel expenses for lead authors will be covered by SESYNC. According to the call: One of SESYNC’s strategic goals is to foster the development of computational tools and services in support of researchers including scholars studying human-environment interactions. SESYNC is hosting this workshop to focus especially […]
