Leonor Sierra

Leonor Sierra is press officer for science and engineering. She covers computer science, electrical and computer engineering, laboratory for laser energetics, optics, mechanical engineering, physics and astronomy, and the Office of the Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

lsierra@ur.rochester.edu

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IBM Blue Gene computer

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Bringing “All Hands on Deck” on Big Data

October 3, 2012

Modeling future climates or using genomic analysis to understand the mechanisms of cancer both require analyzing vast or very complex data, and exploiting the opportunities of "big data" is one of the biggest challenges in computing.

David Williams

Williams awarded for ‘major breakthrough’ in vision science

September 14, 2012

The $630,000 Champalimaud Award goes to Professor David Williams for his work on adaptive optics technologies.

Science & Technology

How Much Gulf Spill Oil Was Consumed by Bacteria?

September 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Rochester and Texas A&M University have found that naturally occurring bacteria that exist in the Gulf of Mexico consumed and removed at least 200,000 tons of oil and natural gas after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill.