Victor Zavala, Pavan Balaji Win Early Career Research Awards
Four researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have received 2012 Early Career Research Program awards, granted to exceptional researchers beginning their careers...

Illinois Technology Association names Ian Foster as Technologist of the Year
The Illinois Technology Association (ITA) has named grid and cloud computing pioneer Ian Foster its CityLIGHTS Technologist of the Year for 2012. The ITA CityLIGHTS awards, given annually to key thought leaders and companies from the Illinois technology sector, span several categories, and recognize the technology ecosystem from ideation to application in non-tech products...

New institute to tackle data tsunami challenge
Researchers at Argonne have received part of a planned $25 million grant from the DOE Office of Science to tackle the problem of extracting knowledge from massive data sets...