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The Naturejobs career expo journalism competition, London, 2016!

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Enter for a chance to work as a Nature journalist for the day!

 

NJCE-2016-(London)

 

Here we go again!

Following the success of the Boston and San Francisco Naturejobs career expo journalism competitions this year, we’re launching the competition for our tenth career expo in London, to be held on September 16th.

The London Naturejobs career expo is our flagship event, so we are looking for five budding science writers to help us with our coverage of the conference sessions, workshops and general ambience of the event for those who cannot make it. The conference will explore career paths in industry, academia and science communication, finding funding, and much more.

The five winners will have the opportunity to attend the expo and write up at least two of the sessions or workshops for our readers, sharing the advice and expertise of the speakers with our worldwide audience. Winners will also have the opportunity to work closely with Nature editors, and their articles will be published on the Naturejobs blog. Continue reading →

Finding job satisfaction in high performance computing

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Cristiano Malossi first came to IBM Laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland as a postdoc and was then promoted to researcher. He has applied his mathematical simulation skills to a variety of projects, specializing in ‘cognitive technologies’ capable of powerful algorithms.

 

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Tell me about some of your work at IBM.

I started on a project for energy-aware computing. The goal here was not to boost operations per second but to make a more efficient use of computational resources for the same result but at a lower power per energy cost. Very soon I got exposed to many other projects, which span deep learning, graph analytics, and high-performance computing. Whatever the assignment is, you must adapt what you know, put together experience from another fields, and at the same time, find a new way to advance the problem. You never get tired of it, every day you learn something new. Continue reading →