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To get its new 160-node Xanadu cluster up and running, the Texas Learning & Computation Center partnered with cluster-management specialists Bright Computing. The cluster was installed in less than a day, and is in use for high-performance computing research by University of Houston researchers. More information...

The Qatar National Research Fund recently awarded University of Houston researchers two separate grants, including one to TLC² affiliated faculty member David Zimmerman for work in structural health monitoring.

Dr. George Zouridakis, TLC²2 affiliated faculty member and director of the Biomedical Imaging Lab, welcomed two Japanese researchers to his lab at the end of the spring semester for on-site work on their investigation into the development of a unique brain-mapping device that promises to deliver more comprehensive and accurate insights into the brain at a fraction of the cost of current technologies.

As part of its Lenses of Our Perception lecture series, the University of Houston’s Visual Studies program will host Donna De Cesare on Tuesday, April 28, at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston's Brown Auditorium. De Cesare has won national and international awards and acclaim for her photography, journalism, and videography, documenting such topics as the spread of U.S. gang culture to Central America documentaries in the United States, civil war in Central America and elsewhere, and the impact of civil unrest and gang culture on youth identity.

The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, the longest-running premiere showcase for international documentaries in the United States, will be presented at the University of Houston on Saturday, April 18, by the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Visual Studies, hosted by the Texas Learning & Computation Center (TLC²). Screenings will run from 2 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the TLC² Visualization Theater in PGH 216.

To celebrate the opening of its newly equipped Visualization Theater, the Texas Learning & Computation Center announces the inauguration of VisVid Fest, a celebration of video and 3D visualization projects from students and researchers in all University of Houston departments. Student films are particularly sought from the science and engineering fields, in addition to the traditional arts and humanities fields. The deadline for submission is Monday, April 20. More information and the rest of the story...

One of the first iPhone apps to come from an academic lab was produced on the 2nd floor of UH's Philip G. Hoffman Hall, where Computational Physiology Lab researcher Pradeep Buddharaju developed Walk n Play, a free fitness app that lets users track their activity and movements and also compare it with other users. CPL director Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis calls the app's development "a paradigm shift," noting that in addition to health benefits for the user, it could provide research benefits as well.

Portuguese Mapping of Coastal Africa (PMOCA) a collaboration project between TLC² at UH and University of California-Irvine. A collaborative funded project from National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities between University of California-Irvine Professor Pat Seed and TLC², to create a database of all the places that the Portuguese first encountered nearly six hundred years ago.

World Plone Day is a worldwide event to promote and educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using Plone in Education, Government, NGOs, and in Business. The event in the Texas area was hosted by Enfold Systems and the Texas Learning and Computation Center at the University of Houston on November 7th, 2008. World Plone Day 2009 is April 22.