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Institute for Complex Scientific Software (ICSS)

Director: Gene D. Cooperman, Professor of Computer Science

ICSS is a collaborative of 20 computer scientists and engineers, natural scientists and electrical engineers working together to improve the ways in which a broad range of software expertise can be combined with groundbreaking scientific applications. ICSS is creating reliable, efficient software and hardware tools for scientific computing of data gathered from grand-scale projects, such as the mapping of the human genome, studying the composition of the earth's surface, and medical imaging of the human body. Massachusetts General Hospital, the European Center for Nuclear Research, Sun Microsystems and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute have partnered with the Institute on its myriad research projects, which have received significant funding from the National Science Foundation. Founded in 2002.