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Rory A. Cooper, who uses a wheelchair, shakes hands with President Biden in the East Room of the White House. A uniformed man stands next to them holding a National Medal for Technology and Innovation to be presented to Cooper. — President Joe Biden presents the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Rory A. Cooper, of the University of Pittsburgh and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House Oct. 24 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Biden’s tech and innovation medal recipients include those with VA, Energy, NIH ties

Federal government awardees honored for their innovations in mobility devices, cancer treatments, and drinking water technologies.

Oct 24, 2023 By Madison Alder

Network routers of ISP. Many wires connect to the network interfaces of powerful Internet servers. Racks with computer equipment in the server room datacenter. (Image credit: Getty Images).

Department of Energy launches ESnet6 high-performance data-sharing network

ESnet6 increases the Energy Science Network's bandwidth to more than 46 terabits per second for handling data from experiments, models and simulations.

Oct 11, 2022 By Dave Nyczepir

UC Berkeley Campanile and campus (Photo by Berkeley Lab via Flickr)

Berkeley Lab quantum testbed aims to accelerate work of physicists, researchers

Pandemic-related supply chain delays of specialized components could prove the biggest hurdle.

Sep 3, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

Energy awards $28M to 5 supercomputing projects

Winners will research quantum information science and chemical reactions with clean energy applications.

Jul 19, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

data center, cloud, backup — (Getty Images)

Select data centers should specialize in shared services, says director of consolidation effort

Archiving or mainframe-as-a-service should be housed in a single data center, says Thomas Santucci.

May 20, 2020 By Dave Nyczepir

Post-doc fellows Meenakshi Singh and Jose Pacheco stand in front of Sandia’s ion beam generator in 2016. Project PI Meenakshi holds a sample qubit structure embedded in silicon. (Sandia National Laboratories / Randy Montoya)

The message for national labs: Advances in quantum computing are about people, too

It's not enough to help develop quantum computers, experts told a Senate panel. National labs also need to train the incipient workforce that will support them.

Sep 26, 2018 By Carten Cordell