Neukom Intern Wins Mitchell Scholarship

Neukom Team Wins IBM Cell Challenge

Neukom Funds Winning Dartmouth Team

Neukom Notes — Fall 2007

AUSTIN, TEXAS - 24 Sept 2007: At the 2007 Power Architecture Developer Conference (PADC) today, IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced the winners of its first annual Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) Processor University Challenge.

From the thousands of innovative entries, winning designs featured never-before-seen uses of the Cell/ B.E. technology, including large-scale modeling of the human brain; a system for mapping massive amounts of real-time data; a path to deliver complex, 3-D medical images to a desktop computer; and a new way to detect extremely fast moving objects.

First Place - Cluster of Sony PlayStation3’s used for large-scale modeling of the human brain, Neukom Institute at Dartmouth and UC Irvine.

Full story in EE Times

A team of Dartmouth students has won Google’s Build Your Campus in 3D Competition. Google asked, “How would your campus look in 3D?,” and challenged students to use Google SketchUp and Google Earth software to find out.

The Dartmouth group was funded by the Neukom Institute.

Full story in Vox of Dartmouth.