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(Scientific Computing) TextOre's licensing of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Piranha is enabling the Virginia-based company to introduce a powerful search and mining tool capable of processing large amounts of text data from the Internet...The technology, developed by a team led by Tom Potok of ORNL's Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, has already been vetted in the scientific community and been used in real-world applications by governmental agencies...4/4
(Physorg.com) Well versed in the history of atom probe imaging, Dr. Michael K. Miller of Oak Ridge National Laboratory spoke on the promises and challenges of atom probe tomography, which provides three-dimensional images of atoms in a sample. The talk was given to a packed room as part of the Frontiers in Chemical Imaging Seminar Series...4/5 |
(Knoxville News Sentinel)
Following the departure of 161 staff members, including two members of the lab contractor's leadership team, in the Voluntary Separation Program, ORNL Director Thom Mason announced some organizational change...4/4
(Knoxville News Sentinel)...The Solar Institute is a collaboration between the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and has a mission to "advance the understanding of solar innovation and to inspire new ideas that speed the development and implementation of solar-based technology in Tennessee."...4/4 |
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DOE
(Oak Ridger) Paul Golan, the SLAC site manager in California, will lead local operations for the U.S. Department of Energy beginning today...4/4
State & Regional
(AP) Ned McWherter, a onetime factory worker who became a millionaire businessman and two-term Democratic governor after two decades as a legislator, died Monday afternoon. He was 80...4/4 |
National
(CS Monitor) In an abrupt reversal, US Attorney General Eric Holder has decided that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will not be tried in a civilian federal court in the US, but instead will face justice before a special military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay...4/4
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Thomas Lovejoy, a renowned expert in the field of biodiversity, said the evidence is empirical that climate change is taking its toll on the world's great ecosystems, including the Great Smoky Mountains...4/3
(Oak Ridger) Students from Oak Ridge were big winners at the Southern Appalachian Science and Engineering Fair in Knoxville.
In addition, nearby Karns and Hardin Valley Academy students also came away winners...4/4 |
Scott Branham new CFO at ORNL; other organizational changes announced
Ned McWherter, former governor, House speaker, dies