![Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma [image courtesy NSF/Science Nation].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mcgovern.jpg "Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma [image courtesy NSF/Science Nation].")
Today's National Science Foundation (NSF) Science Nation features the work of Amy McGovern, an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Adjunct Associate Professor of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, whose data mining and predictive modeling approaches are transforming the way we predict tornadoes. According to the article: Tornadoes claim hundreds of lives and cause billions of dollars in ...
We've previously described in this space the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) -- a $100 million initiative announced last June to drastically accelerate the discovery, development, and manufacturing of new and advanced materials -- describing the critical role to be played by the computer and information sciences and engineering research community, including via predictive modeling, simulation, and visualization capabilities. Now there's an ...
