Bill Cannon

High and dry

Midwesterners needn’t bother choosing their poison: droughts or floods. They get a double dose of both. The region is experiencing… Read More

February 7, 2023

Computing function from form

Over the past two years, artificial intelligence has shown it can predict what many cellular components look like. For instance,… Read More

January 4, 2023

Reconfiguring it out

With emerging, quantum-based logic gates and transistors, engineers will continue to shrink computer hardware and boost power and efficiency, even… Read More

December 14, 2022

Compile-o-matic

Editor’s note: The featured researchers, Johannes Doerfert and William Moses, will present their latest paper on parallel computation and compilers,… Read More

November 14, 2022

Seeing the big picture

With New Orleans' first COVID-19 deaths in March 2020, local pathologists autopsied victims in an urgent effort to tackle the… Read More

November 2, 2022

Banding together

The electromagnetic spectrum we rely on for communication and more has become a packed multilane freeway. Cellphones, WiFi, Bluetooth, radar,… Read More

October 18, 2022

Crops for a changing planet

For years, scientists have been grappled with a seemingly insurmountable challenge: feeding the world while providing it with renewable energy… Read More

September 20, 2022

Scaling cancer

Like falling dominos, the cascading processes that control how our body’s cells divide, grow and eventually die usually go as… Read More

September 6, 2022

Boxing in software

A well-known saying among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs is “move fast and break things.” That approach, however, doesn’t work for those… Read More

August 23, 2022

Riding RAPIDS

The Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing program, better known in computing circles as SciDAC, launched 20 years ago last year… Read More

August 9, 2022