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‘Critical computing’: Understanding the social and humanistic dimensions of technology

November 26, 2025

Yale students touring MGHPCC get an eye-opening look at the engineering challenges associated with maintaining a massive computing facility

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Research projects
A Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Yale Budget Lab
Volcanic Eruptions Impact on Stratospheric Chemistry & Ozone
Towards a Whole Brain Cellular Atlas
Tornado Path Detection
The Kempner Institute - Unlocking Intelligence
The Institute for Experiential AI
Taming the Energy Appetite of AI Models
Surface Behavior
Studying Highly Efficient Biological Solar Energy Systems
Software for Unreliable Quantum Computers
Simulating Large Biomolecular Assemblies
SEQer - Sequence Evaluation in Realtime
Revolutionizing Materials Design with Computational Modeling
Remote Sensing of Earth Systems
Quantum Computing in Renewable Energy Development
Pulling Back the Quantum Curtain on ‘Weyl Fermions’
New Insights on Binary Black Holes
NeuraChip
Network Attached FPGAs in the OCT
Monte Carlo eXtreme (MCX) - a Physically-Accurate Photon Simulator
Modeling Hydrogels and Elastomers
Modeling Breast Cancer Spread
Impact of Marine Heatwaves on Coral Diversity
IceCube: Hunting Neutrinos
Genome Forecasting
Global Consequences of Warming-Induced Arctic River Changes
Exact Gravitational Lensing by Rotating Black Holes
Evolution of Viral Infectious Disease
Evaluating Health Benefits of Stricter US Air Quality Standards
Ephemeral Stream Water Contributions to US Drainage Networks
Energy Transport and Ultrafast Spectroscopy Lab
Electron Heating in Kinetic-Alfvén-Wave Turbulence
Discovering Evolution’s Master Switches
Dexterous Robotic Hands
Developing Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Energy Future
Detecting Protein Concentrations in Assays
Denser Environments Cultivate Larger Galaxies
Deciphering Alzheimer's Disease
Dancing Frog Genomes
Cyber-Physical Communication Network Security
Asteroid Data Mining
Analyzing the Gut Microbiome
Adaptive Deep Learning Systems Towards Edge Intelligence
Accelerating Rendering Power
ACAS X: A Family of Next-Generation Collision Avoidance Systems
Computation + Machine Intelligence | Wu Tsai Institute
Computational Modeling of Biological Systems
Computational Molecular Ecology
Social Capital and Economic Mobility
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Collaborative projects
Open Storage Network
CAREERS Cyberteam
Northeast Research and Education Network
Ecosystem for Research Networking
AI Jumpstart
New England Research Cloud
Red Hat Collaboratory
The US ATLAS Northeast Tier 2 Center
Open Cloud Testbed
Northeast Storage Exchange
Northern Crossroads
UMass NET
Internet2
Energy Science Network
Northeast Cyberteam
FABRIC Testbed
Campus Research Computing Consortium
Satori
Northeast Big Data Hub
MGHPCC Supercloud
The Mass Open Cloud Alliance (MOC Alliance)
Supercomputing Conference Virtual Booth
Unity HPC and AI Platform
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CSTA - Western MA
Girls Inc. Eureka!
Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance
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