U President Taylor Randall announced the $100 million initiative in October 2023. Since then, initiative director Manish Parashar and his team have been working with academics across campus to define specific use cases in three areas that play to university strengths: the environment, health care and wellness and teaching and learning. Reports from working groups will be done by the end of June, and summit insights will guide RAI leaders as they build public-private partnerships to accomplish their goals.
Responsible AI Summit Sets Stage for Public-private Partnerships
NSF-Funded Team Launches reVISit—Pioneering Open-Source Software for Visualization Research
The Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute today announced the launch of reVISit, a National Science Foundation–backed infrastructure project that empowers visualization researchers to create and maintain ownership of sophisticated user studies.
Martin Berzins Appointed Chair of the DOE ASCAC
Congratulations to Martin Berzins on being appointed Chair of the Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC).
ASCAC reports to the Director, DOE Office of Science provides advice and recommendations on scientific, technical, and programmatic issues relating to the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Program.
SCI Mourns the Passing of Alumnus, Colleague, and Friend Steve Parker
Steve Parker passed away due to complications from brain cancer on May 2. Steve was one of the inaugural graduate students who formed the SCI research group in 1994.
That year, he published his first paper on the SCIRun problem solving environment, which continues to have scientific impact 30 years later (https://www.sci.utah.edu/software/scirun.html). While writing his dissertation, Steve worked on a side research project on parallel ray tracing that would pave the way for a series of research innovations, the establishment of the Center for Interactive Ray-Tracing and Photo Realistic Visualization, and the start-up company Ray Scale. Steve defended his PhD in 1999 and soon after became our colleague as a SCI Institute Faculty member and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Utah. In 2008, Steve joined NVIDIA as the Director for High Performance Computing and Computational Graphics and in 2014 became the Vice President for Professional Graphics.
Steve was a profound innovator, a remarkable student, and a wonderful colleague and friend. He was one of the smartest, nicest, and kindest person anyone could know. We will miss him greatly.
We offer our sincere condolences to Steve’s family and many friends.
You can find a list of Steve’s publications here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=J7N6-AgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
A link to Steve's obituary: https://www.larkinmortuary.com/obituary/view/steven-gregory-parker/
National Academy of Sciences Names Tamara Bidone a 2024 Kavli Fellow
Assistant Professor Tamara Bidone, Ph.D. has been named a 2024 National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow and was recently honored at the Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia on March 7-9th in Irvine, California.
Manish Parashar Wins the 2024 CRA Distinguished Service Award
By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications
The Computing Research Association (CRA) has selected Dr. Manish Parashar as the recipient of the 2024 CRA Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his multi-faceted and highly impactful service to the computing research community.
Parashar is the Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, Chair in Computational Science and Engineering, and Presidential Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. He recently completed an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment as the Office Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure.
SCI Institute Alumnus Steve Parker to Receive Honorary Degree
SDSC and SCI Democratizing Nationwide Access to Science Data
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego and the University of Utah (Utah) have announced a national-scale pilot project, called the National Data Platform (NDP), aimed at a service ecosystem to make access to and use of scientific data open and equitable across a broad range of communities, including traditionally underrepresented researchers.
Looking Toward an Election Year Through the Responsible AI Initiative
While AI poses risk against the upcoming election, the Responsible AI Initiative believes AI can do more good to counteract the bad.
(Design by Kristofer Hoon | The Daily Utah Chronicle)
SCI Partners with the Leonardo for "Into the Mind of AI"
We are delighted to partner with the Leonardo on this important and timely exhibit. A new, cutting-edge immersive exhibit coming to The Leonardo, “Into the Mind of Artificial Intelligence,” offers guests a unique glimpse into the realm of artificial intelligence. Guests are challenged to look closely, and to question everything. Where might this incredible technology take us in the future?