BP unleashes world-scale supercomputer, plans continued technology investment (Houston Business Journal) BP unveiled its new 110,000-square-foot high-performance supercomputing facility, which it is touting as the world’s largest supercomputer for commercial research. Designed primarily for seismic and geophysical research, the facility has the capability to reach 2,000 trillion calculations per second.
Faculty question ‘College Credit Plus’ program (The Independent Collegian) Several University of Toledo professors are concerned that new post-secondary courses they will be in charge of creating under the program will be owned by the university and used without the their oversight or permission.
Grant funds development of improved nanoscale additive manufacturing (3D printing) (Nanowerk) A new Department of Energy grant will fund research to advance an additive manufacturing technique for fabricating three-dimensional (3D) nanoscale structures from a variety of materials.
Textbook publisher McGraw-Hill writing digital future (The Columbus Dispatch) Columbus based publisher McGraw-Hill has a new president who is focused on pushing the publisher toward producing even more digital educational content.
Two Ohio development groups win federal grants for job creation (The Columbus Dispatch) The Buckeye Hills-Hocking Valley Regional Development District and the N.E.O. Foundation were among 10 organizations to win a total of $20.5 million from the federal Make it in America Challenge for their work encouraging companies to bring jobs to the United States.
When Students Can't Compute (Campus Technology) Many colleges have focused on providing students with the technology necessary for their courses, but still see few results. New surveys and evidence from IT professionals suggest that although students have access to the technology, many are not technologically literate enough to perform basic tasks.
