OSCAR

Press Info Sheets:

About OSCAR and Participants

Green the Knowledge District and Participants

GKD Status Report and GKD Student Research Reports

Contact:

To contact OSCAR’s media spokesperson, please email media@oscarri.org.

Articles About RI Life Science Showcase and Hub:

Forum showcases city innovators in life sciences (PBM, Kimberley Donoghue)
The room was packed with “rock stars,” though few outside their industries would know them. But to Stephen Lane, CEO and co-founder of Providence-based Ximedica, the speakers’ prominence in the life sciences was a sign of things to come in the city’s developing Knowledge District.

RI Life Science Companies Strut Their Stuff (Victoria Elmore, GoLocalProv Contributor)
Evidence of Providence becoming a fast-growing hub for innovation in the life sciences and a bright spot on the dark horizon that is Rhode Island’s economy.

Articles About the IBM Smarter Cities Challenge:

IBM Youtube on Providence (IBM Smarter Cities Challenge)
IBM Presents Report to Providence (Channel 10)
IBM Executives Arrive in Providence (Office of Providence Mayor Angel Taveras)
Providence Named by IBM as Smarter Cities Challenge Grant Recipient (Office of Providence Mayor Angel Taveras)
Announcing the 2011 Smarter Cities Challenge Grant Recipients (IBM)
Providence to receive IBM Smarter Cities grant (Providence Business News)

Providence Wins Smarter Cities Grant (WBRU)
Can IBM’s Computer Prowess Transform Rhode Island? (WPRI)
Providence ‘Gets Smarter’ with IBM (GoLocalProv)
IBM picks Providence to be a Smarter City (Providence Journal)
Grant Aimed to Help Jewelry District (WPRI)
IBM, Providence to collaborate on computerized land management system (Providence Business News)
IBM and Providence Team Up on Software (Associated Press)

Articles About OSCAR’s Green the Knowledge District:

Green the Knowledge District (RI Science and Technology Advisory Council)
Greening the knowledge district (Providence Phoenix)

Articles and video about “Big Rhody,” the OSCAR supercomputer:

Jan Hesthaven, director of the Center for Computation and Visualization, stands in front of Big Rhody. Photo by John Abromowski, Brown University.

• Brown, IBM Unveil Multimillion-Dollar Supercomputer (Today at Brown)
• Brown, IBM open most powerful supercomputer in RI (WJAR)
• Brown, IBM turn on new supercomputer (Providence Business News)
• Brown’s supercomputer brings tasks down to Earth (Providence Journal)
• Supercomputer already swamped (Brown Daily Herald)
• Brown’s supercomputer already has an impact (PBN)
• Computer continues to attract users statewide (BDH)

Article: Brown and IBM sign MOU, May 14, 2009, to create statewide collaboration:

Provost David Kertzer and IBM Vice President Nicholas Bowen at the MOU signing. Photo by John Abromowski, Brown University

At a ceremony on Thursday, May 14, in University Hall, Brown Provost David Kertzer and Nicholas Bowen, vice president of technology at IBM, signed a memorandum of understanding between the University and IBM.  Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts, Providence Mayor David Cicilline, and numerous stakeholders attended.

The MOU calls for Brown and IBM to involve government, universities, schools, hospitals, non-profit corporations, businesses, and other partners to address “grand challenges” in Rhode Island, such as health care, energy, the environment, and education. Meeting those challenges through a statewide collaboration “could be a defining moment in the rebirth of the [Rhode Island] economy,” Roberts, a Brown alumna, said. (For full article)

Articles about OSCAR’s stakeholders:

OSHEAN receives $21.7 million grant for high-speed internet improvements

OSHEAN (pronounced “ocean”) has been awarded a federal stimulus grant of $21.7 million to bring vastly increased broadband capacity to the community anchor institutions of Rhode Island and Bristol County, Massachusetts. These include schools, libraries, universities, community colleges, hospitals and government agencies. The project will create an estimated 210 direct jobs over the first three years, and is expected to provide the infrastructure for many more “knowledge economy” jobs in the future. (More)