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NFL comes to Lab to hear latest on TBI research

June 5, 2019 - 
Officials from the National Football League visited LLNL to hear how the Department of Energy’s national laboratories are using high-performance computing and artificial intelligence to advance scientific understanding of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Read more at LLNL News.

How machine learning could change science

April 29, 2019 - 
Artificial intelligence tools are revolutionizing scientific research and changing the needs of high-performance computing. LLNL has been exploiting the relationship between simulation and experiments to build predictive codes using machine learning and data analytics techniques. Read more at Data Center Dynamics.

DOE fueled AI is transforming the world as we know it (VIDEO)

April 5, 2019 - 
National Labs are home to some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. These powerful machines they have the potential to unlock artificial intelligence, providing scientists and researchers the ability to quickly analyze massive datasets for answers to the world's most complex problems. Watch on YouTube.

Multi-institutional meeting centers on making the 'impossible' possible in cancer research

March 22, 2019 - 
Computer scientists, biomedical engineers, cancer biologists and bioinformaticians from eight Department of Energy national laboratories, health-related government agencies and universities converged at LLNL March 6-7 to discuss ongoing efforts to advance cancer research through computation, identify existing challenges and brainstorm future multidisciplinary projects. Read more at LLNL News...

DSI seminar: data for social good (VIDEO)

Dec. 18, 2018 - 
In this video from a DSI seminar, Dr. Lisa Garcia Bedolla, director of the Institute of Governmental Studies and a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, explores the new possibilities big data has opened up within the social sciences – with tools such as social network analyses and geospatial information systems, among others. Watch on LLNL's...

What is machine learning? (VIDEO)

July 5, 2018 - 
Have you ever been unsure what people mean when they talk about 'machine learning'? What machines? And what are they learning? This video is for you! Watch on LLNL's YouTube channel.