Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC)

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Mission of the IIC

The Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) is an interdisciplinary research and development center at Harvard dedicated to using innovative computing tools to accelerate discovery across all of the scientific disciplines. The IIC's researchers work in close collaboration with scientists and engineers in other fields, fostering a two-way collaborative flow of ideas and inventions between basic science and computer science, academia and industry, professional staff and faculty, teachers and students. The IIC trains the next generation of creative and computationally capable scientists, and communicates with the public at large about the value of computing in science and the science it enables.

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Astronomical Medicine

The goal of the Astronomical Medicine project is to make the specific modifications to existing medical imaging programs that enable their use in astronomical research. In particular, two software packages (3D Slicer and OsiriX) are being modified and used on data from the COMPLETE Survey of Star-Forming Regions, in order to characterize the physical nature of gas that forms new stars in our Galaxy.

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News & Events

IIC scientists participate in WWT development

Microsoft’s new tool for online astronomy has been developed with the participation of scientists at the IIC and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, including Alyssa Goodman, former IIC Director and current Core Member. For more about the IIC’s involvement, see the description of the Space Time Machine.

Felice Frankel featured on PBS's “Wired Science”

In a new interview, the lead investigator of the IIC’s Envisioning Science program describes her work in science photography.

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