NYU expands its supercomputing power with new high performance computing cluster from AMD. The new cluster, named Hudson, will be a powerful resource for NYU researchers fighting COVID-19.
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3D Printing Critical Medical Equipment Remotely
LaGuardia Studio may be closed for now, but their team still found ways to help NYU Langone by 3D printing critical parts for personal protective equipment and lending their expertise to others.
What’s that Noise? Using Technology to Fight Noise
New York is a loud place. The Sounds of New York project uses machine learning to analyze the cacophony of city life to better understand how it affects health and how to mitigate its impact.
Vintage Texts, Modern Tech: How NYU Digitally Preserves the Past
Digital Library Technology Services is at the forefront of digitizing and archiving rare materials for scholars. From Arabic books to a photo history of the Village, here’s a look at what they do.
VR, 3D Printing, and Storytelling at 2019 NYU Research Day
The 2019 Research Day showcased the ways data science and research technology can benefit students and instructors in nearly every field of academic study. This included demonstrations of augmented and virtual reality, data visualization, 3D scanning and printing, and more.
NYU IT’s Stratos Efstathiadis Discusses Supercomputer Plans
NYU IT’s Director of Research Technology Services, Stratos Efstathiadis, spoke with NYU’s Alumni Magazine about plans for a new supercomputer and network that is targeted for 2020.
Qualitative Research and Artificial Intelligence
A new analysis by NYU research fellow and adjunct professor, Mona Sloane, and CUNY doctoral student, Emmanuel Moss, advocates for implementing qualitative research into AI.
NYU Study: Hate Speech on Twitter and Hate Crimes
A study performed by NYU researchers found that cities with more racist tweets reported more real-life crimes related to race, ethnicity, and national origin. The researchers used machine learning to analyze 532 million tweets posted in 100 cities between 2011 and 2016.
OpenStack Brooklyn Research Cluster in the NYU Tandon News
NYU HPC’s OpenStack Brooklyn Research Cluster is “being used…in such areas as machine learning, web crawling, data analytics, and in complex applications like genomics browsers and sign-language translation.”
Updates on NYU Digital Library Technology Services Research and Grants
The NYU Library and Digital Library Technology Services have received a number of grants from charitable organizations which further the mission of cataloging, digitizing, and making available a wealth of information, including recent projects around academic “Git” services and university press monographs.