What's at the CRPC (Archive)

• CRPC Featured in Houston Chronicle 'Careers in Computers' Section (20 October 1998)
• Ken Kennedy Testifies before the House Subcommittee on Basic Research (9 October 1998)
• University of Wisconsin LEAD Center Evaluates CRPC SaS Program (30 September 1998)
• CRPC Welcomes Two New Affiliated Sites (29 September 1998)
• CRPC's Dennis & Tapia to Speak at SIAM Conferences (17 September 1998)
• CRPC's Richard Tapia Gives Keynote Address at White House Mentoring Award Symposium (16 September 1998)
• Ken Kennedy discusses impact of high-risk research on the 21st Century Economy, Business Week (31 August 1998)
• The Spring/Summer 1998 Edition (Volume 6, Issue 2) of CRPC's quarterly newsletter "Parallel Computing Research" is now available! (25 August 1998)
• Presidential Advisory Committee calls for Increased Federal Spending on Advanced Computer Research (CRPC Director Ken Kennedy Co-Chairs Committee)
  • Panel Will Urge Major Spending for Computer Research (New York Times, 27 July 1998)
    
  • Advisory Committee Report (August 1998)
  • Report to White House on HPC Programs Rings Familiar Bells (21 August 1998)
• Java Grande Forum to be held August 6-7 in Palo Alto, California
• Rice Offers Thirty-Four Houston Teachers State-of-the-Art Computer Training (10 July 1998)
• SC-COSMIC & ADMI Conferences to be held at Duncan Hall, Rice University, June 25-28 1998
• CAARMS4 Conference to be held at Duncan Hall, Rice University, June 16-19 1998
• CRPC Researchers Solve Traveling Salesman Problem for Record-Breaking 13,509 Cities (2 June 1998)
• Java Grande Forum to be held May 9-10, Palo Alto, California (9 May 1998)
• Richard Tapia to Serve as Role Model for Oklahoma Summer Academies (May 1998)
• Alliance Partners To Meet in Champaign-Urbana, April 27-30, 1998 (27 April 1998)
• CRPC GirlTECH and Girl Games projects featured in article on preparing girls for successful careers in technology (22 April 1998)
• CRPC Leaders Participate in Java Workshop to Explore Applications in High-Performance Network Computing (24 March 1998)
• The Winter 1998 Edition (Volume 6, Issue 1) of CRPC's quarterly newsletter "Parallel Computing Research" is now available! (23 March 1998)
• Rice Affiliated Site, Drexel University, wins vBNS Grant (6 March 1998)
• Rice Hosts NSF Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Workshop (2 March 1998)
• 4th Annual Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS4) to be hosted by CRPC (Febraury 1998)
• Mary Wheeler Elected to National Academy of Engineering Membership (scroll to bottom of linked page) (13 Feb 1998)
• Cynthia Lanius, CRPC Manager, K-12 Programs wins Rice Women's Resource Center IMPACT Award (12 February 1998)
• Cynthia Lanius and GirlTECH Featured in Parade Magazine (8 Febraury 1998)
• Ellen Butler, Assistant to the Director, CRPC, recognized for Clerical/Computer Training (22 January 1998)
• Paul Messina Discusses Caltech's 256-processor Exemplar in HPCwire (26 Nov 1997)
• CRPC Well Represented at Supercomputing 97. CRPC research, applications, knowledge transfer methods, and educational outreach programs will be represented with demonstrations, videos, handouts, and presentations at SC97. CRPC Director Ken Kennedy will be featured in the conference. (21 Nov 1997)
• Supercomputing97 Participation Recorded for Posterity (21 Nov 1997)
• SACNAS Conference includes CRPC and Rice Representatives, Exhibit (12 Oct 1997)
• Richard Tapia wins AAAS Lifetime Mentoring Award (Oct 1997)
• CRPC EAC Chair Steve Wallach Interviewed in HPCWire
  • Part I (3 Oct 1997)
  • Part II (10 Oct 1997)
• Ken Kennedy and John Dennis discuss Internet2 in Houston daily online newspaper (note...link is invalid, trying to find article) (9 Oct 1997)
• CRPC Partners Strengthen new PACI Alliance to prototype National Technology Grid. Alliance Includes CRPC sites at Rice, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Tennessee, and University of Texas as well as CRPC affiliated sites at Indiana, University of Illinois, Boston University, and University of Maryland.
• John Dennis speaks to 1500 attendees at the Mathematical Programming Society Symposium, held August 25 in Lausanne, Switzerland. (25 Aug 1997)
• Cynthia Lanius Interviewed About the GirlTECH Program in ZDNET
  Also reprinted in Yahoo News and CNN Custom News (14 Aug 1997)
• Ken Kennedy To Be Featured in Supercomputing Conference (26 June 1997)
• Caltech Installs HP Exemplar Technical Server (26 June 1997)
• HPCwire Interviews Paul Messina about Caltech's New HP Exemplar (26 June 1997)
• Rice University Hosts 1997 CRPC Annual Meeting (6 June 1997)
• HPCwire Interviews UTK's Jack Dongarra About the
  NetSolve Virtual Software Library (6 May 1997)
• SGI's VRML Gallery Features NPAC's Visible Human Project (6 May 1997)
• PCR Editor Gretchen Jacobson Wins Matrix Award (6 May 1997)
• Rice Honors Theresa Chatman with Distinguished Service Award (24 Apr 1997)
• Syracuse University's NPAC Joins Supercomputer Consortium (2 Apr 1997)
• PACI: Two Houston Institutions Align with Winners
  in National Supercomputing Competition (31 Mar 1997)
• Students, Parents and Teachers Invited to Rice Engineering Day! (19 Mar 1997)
• NSF Travel Funds Available for PLDI '97 Conference (14 Mar through 21 Apr 1997)
• Cynthia Lanius Named a STAR Honoree (07 Mar 1997)
• NPAC's Kids Web Recommended by Parenting for High Potential Magazine (07 Mar 1997)
• Ken Kennedy To Co-Chair Clinton's HPCC Advisory Committee (13 Feb 1997)
• HPCwire Seeks Mani Chandy's Views on Metacomputing (7 Feb 1997)
• ADIFOR Featured in NASA's NAS News (17 Jan 1997)
• Cynthia Lanius, GirlTECH, Girl Games featured in NetGuide Live: Spotlight (8 Jan 1997)
• HPCwire Seeks Jack Dongarra's Views on Benchmarks (17 Dec 1996)
• First Annual High Performance Fortran (HPF) User Group Meeting Scheduled for February (17 Dec 1996)
• NBI: A Better Technique for Nonlinear Multicriteria Optimization Problems (10 Dec 1996)
• CRPC Home Page Selected as "Outstanding Page," PCR Newsletter Article Selected for Inclusion by PC Webopaedia (29 Nov 1996)
• Infosphere Infrastructure (II) Release 1.0b1 Now Available! (17 Nov 1996)
• CRPC Puts Best Foot Forward at Supercomputing '96 (15 Nov 1996)
• Paul Messina Receives Grant To Investigate PetaOps Architecture (12 Nov 1996)
• CRPC Director Ken Kennedy Speaks at CEB Dedication (7 Nov 1996)
  See also "How will the CRPC collaborate with ... occupants of the new ... building?"
• Tapia Recognized for Excellence in Mentoring at Rice, CRPC (24 Sep 1996)
• CRPC Research Scientist Chuck Koelbel Juggles Education, Entertainment (20 Sep 1996)
• Drexel University Becomes Sixth CRPC Affiliated Site (19 Sep 1996)
• Panel Backs Science and Technology Centers Program (19 Sep 1996)
• GirlTECH Teachers Receive Local, National Attention (17 Sep 1996)
• Lucille Barrera, Israel Galvan Win 1996 Hispanic
  Engineer National Achievement Awards (20 Aug 1996)
• CRPC Applications Highlights and associated Movies (14 Aug 1996)
• Richard Tapia Nominated to National Science Board
  and Named Hispanic Engineer of the Year (7 Aug 1996)
• Boston University Becomes Fifth CRPC Affiliated Site (7 Aug 1996)
• Public Invited To Attend CRPC Annual Meeting Tutorials on May 14 (Apr 1996)
• Richard Tapia Featured in Houston Chronicle and PBS Special (Apr 1996)
• Danny Powell Receives AUTM Award (27 Mar 1996)
• 1996 Outstanding Rice Women Awards (13 Feb 1996)
  • Linda Torczon's Nomination (12 Feb 1996)
  • Sara Carlstead's Nomination (12 Feb 1996)
  • Melissa Chaika's Nomination (12 Feb 1996)

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