Education Musings Some thoughts on AI and Education On AI as a new tool in the classroom, what it changes for students and for faculty, and what stays true about teaching when one sits on every desk. May 19, 2026 · 7 min read
milestone The Long and Winding Road The Department of Energy's Aurora supercomputer enters full production at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, opening to the broader research community. January 27, 2025 · 4 min read
appointment Coming Home to a Special Place The University of Illinois Chicago has named me the fifth Director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, the interdisciplinary research lab that produced the original CAVE virtual reality system. September 26, 2024 · 5 min read
Musings Worlds Colliding at the Lab On hosting Rolling Stones bassist Darryl Jones at Aurora, a lifetime of shows and festivals, and what happens when the music half of your life and the science half finally share a hallway. June 28, 2024 · 3 min read
funding Building an instrument other people get to use On testbeds as research instruments, the Array of Things lineage, and democratizing access to the computing continuum. August 25, 2023 · 2 min read
award Why visualization still matters in the age of AI On the part of the pipeline a model can't do for you. Even when AI generates more candidates than any person can read, someone still has to look, share, and decide. April 19, 2023 · 2 min read
media There is a national lab twenty-two miles from Chicago On who advanced computing is for, why a city magazine feature mattered more than another trade-press piece, and what it means that most Chicagoans haven't heard of Argonne. February 3, 2023 · 2 min read