Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC)

About us

Mission of the IIC

The Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) was launched as 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.

As of July 2009, a subset of IIC projects have been moved to the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Information on other projects is available through individual project websites.

Feature

Scientists' Discovery Room Lab

The Scientists’ Discovery Room Lab is an exploration of the ways people can understand and do science using the senses of vision and touch. SDR research staff are collaborating with scientists to design richly interactive visual tools that facilitate collaboration and cooperative learning. This work has recently been featured in the Harvard Gazette.

More on the SDR’s work can be found here. A current staff opening is described here.

Upcoming event

“IIC Colloquium - TBA”

Nov 18, 2009 4:00pm

Joe Futrelle, Cyberenvironments and Technologies, National Center for Supercomputing Applications