Anne C. Elster's Dissemination/Media Page

I personally much prefer to work with my students on research projects rather than expose myself to the media. However, as an educator in science and technology, I realize how important it is to reach out to the press to let the rest of the world know about how exciting and interesting our fields are, and how important our work is for everyone.

Here is a collection of recent mass media interviews I have given, and articles I have written, mostly in Norwegian.

Most recent:

• Kronikk (main debate article contributions that was almost 2-pages in print-verion) in Dagbladet (one of 3 main newspapers in Norway), May 7, 2010, "Forbigått av Kina og Saudi-Arabia" on why and how Norway should invest more in research and infrastructure. Well received and lead to meeting with policy makers.
• Adressa (Trondheim's main newspaper), June 23, 2009 article and phone describing the IBM award received by two of Dr. Elster's Master students, Eirik Ola Aksnes and Daniele Spampinato. See also NTNU's local news links from June 11 and 22, 2009: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/news/index.php#n215
• NTNU paper "Universitetsavisa"'s article "Med kurs for webbens vugge" on May 28, 2009, featuring interview with Elster and two of her Master students who will spend their summer at CERN this year.
• "Spillkort gir superkraft til folket" , published on April 29, 2009 on http://www.forskning.no , the on-line research publications by The Norwegian Research Council. The article describes Elster and her HPC-lab's research on using gaming technology (GPUs) as computational devices. The title can be translated into something like: "Gaming (Graphics) Cards Give People Super(computing) Power".
• "CERN: Nordmenn vil ikke reise ut", Universitetsavisa , Feb 6, 2009. Elster is interviewed in the article where CERN hopes for more Norwegians wanting to go to CERN since she has advised several students in collaboration with CERN.
• "GPU Computing is about massive data parallelism", InfoWorld, Jan 22, 2009. The article contains longer quotes from Dr. Elster.
• "Imponerten NVIDIA med snøsimulering" on digi.no, Thursday Dec 4, 2008.
• HPC-Lab Members Robin Eidissen and I were interviewed by the NVIDIA video crew at their SC'08 booth, Nov. 2008. Link
• "Vant topplassering på programmering" on digi.no, Tuesday Oct. 7, 2008. Article describes the NCPC and NEWRC programming contest for wish I am the national faculty sponsor this year.
• "NTNU vil lage de kuleste pc-ene" -- HPC-lab opening article on digi.no, Oct. 29, 2008. This article was also renference on NTNU's main page under Aktuelt and can still be seen reference at http://www.ntnu.no/aktuelt/
• "NTNU vant topplassering blandt 149 nordiske lag i helgens mesterskap" , digi.no article, Tuesday Oct. 7, 2008.
• Our HPC-Lab was used as a back-drop for a TV story on NTNU, Fast and Microsoft: Midtnytt, Sept 30, 2008 Only our keyboards are from Microsoft (we paid for them), but our custom-built PCs with high-end NVIDIA cards are really cool. ;-) My graduate student, Daniele Spampinato, is also in the clip, working aw ay on CUDA (for using graphics cards as extra compute devices), as is Ola Natvig , IDI student and son of colleague Lasse Natvig.

TV interviews w/ Elster

• Streamed from TV Trøndelag , regional TV station about our new supercomputer, Njord.
• A shorter version of above was on TV Norges (National channel) "Bymagasinet", Thursday Nov. 30 around 6:20pm.

Radio interviews w/ Elster

• NRK Trøndelag -- "live" 11:16- 11:21 Monday Nov 27, 2006 aboiut Njord.
• Kanal 24 (national channel) -- "live" 08:15, Thursday, Nov 30, 2006, about Njord
• NRK P3 (national channel)-- "teaser" interview Dec 1, 2006. May come back to make a longer segment of our "cool" superomputer monster. ;-)
• NTNU student radio, (FM 104.2), May 2006: Telephone interview and in-line article:
  "NTNU kjøper ny datamaskin" incl. quote by Elster.

National media -- print

• Digi.no, June 8, 2004: "Fire NTNU-studenter til IT-sommerjobb hos CERN: Det er CERNs arbeid med samkjørt datakraft («grid computing») som tiltrekker NTNU-studentene. (Bassed on similar article in Universitetsavisa (see below)

Articles based on Elster's interview about the Njord Supercomputer with Avisenes nyhetsbyrå (ANB)

• ANB, Nov. 30, 2006: http://www.siste.no/Innenriks/itmagasin/article2443080.ece
• Dagsavisen, Nov. 30. 2006: http://www.dagsavisen.no/innenriks/article2443080.ece
• Se og Hør (National bi-weekly), Dec. 2006: http://www.seher.no/cm/SeHer/1.319890.1164896702

Adresseavisen -- Trondheim's regional paper sold nationally

• Large article on page 13, Monday Nov.27, 2006, entitled "Nordens Sprekeste Maskin" by Svein Inge Meland (951 98 688, svein.inge.meland@adresseavisen.no) incl. photo of Elster in front of Njord with caption "Kry: Anne Cathrine Elster, daglig leder ved Program for beregningsvitenskap og visualisering, er stolt over den nye superdatamskinene som kommer i drift 30. November."
• "Dagens Navn" ("Today's Name"), Økonomiseksjonen, Thursday Nov. 30, 2006

Local papers

Articles based on Elster's interview about the Njord Supercomputer with Avisenes nyhetsbyrå (ANB) on Nov. 30, 2006, all published within the following week:

1. Akershus Amtstidene http://www.amta.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
2. Arbeidets Rett (Røros) http://www.retten.no/Innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
3. Aura Avis http://www.auraavis.no/Innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
4. Aust Agder Blad http://www.austagderblad.no/Innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
5. Avisa Nordhordland (Isdalstø) http://www.nordhordland.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
6. Avisa Nordland (Bodø) http://www.an.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
7. Bergensavisen http://www.ba.no/nyheter/irix/article2443080.ece
8. Bygdeposten (midt i Buskerud) http://www.bygdeposten.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
9. Demokraten (Fredrikstad) http://www.demokraten.no/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
10. Finnmark Dagblad http://www.finnmarkdagblad.no/Innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
11. Finnmarken http://www.finnmarken.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
12. Firda (Førde) http://www.firda.no/article2443080.ece
13. Firdaposten (Flora og Bremanger) http://www.firdaposten.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
14. Fremover (Narvik) http://www.fremover.no/Innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
15. Glåmdalen http://www.glomdalen.no/innenriks/article2443080.ece
16. Hadeland http://www.hadeland.net/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
17. Halden Dagblad http://www.haldendagblad.no/innenriks/article2443080.ece
18. Hardanger Folkeblad http://www.hardanger-folkeblad.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
19. Helgeland Arbeiderblad http://www.helgeland-arbeiderblad.no/riksnyheter/article2443080.ece
20. Indre Akershus Blad http://www.indre.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
21. Jarlsberg (Holmestrand) http://www.jarlsbergavis.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
22. Lofotposten http://www.lofotposten.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
23. Moss Dagblad http://www.moss-dagblad.no/Innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
24. Namdalsavisa http://www.namdalsavisa.no/Innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
25. Nordlys (Tromsø) http://www.nordlys.no/nyheter/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
26. Opdalingen http://www.opdalingen.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece?service=print
27. Oppland Arbeiderbald http://www.oa.no/article2443080.ece
28. Porsgrunns Dagbad (PD) http://www.pd.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
29. Rana Blad (Mo i Rana) http://www.ranablad.no/Innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
30. Ringerikets Blad http://www.ringblad.no/aktuelt/article2443080.ece
31. Rogalands Avis http://www.rogalandsavis.no/nyheter/innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
32. Romerikes Blad http://www.rb.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
33. Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad http://www.sa.no/Innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
34. Smaalenenes Avis http://www.smaalenene.no/Innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
35. Sogn Avis http://www.sognavis.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
36. Stjørdalens Blad http://www.bladet.no/Innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
37. TA (tidl. Telemark Arbeiderblad) http://www.ta.no/it___data/article2443080.ece
38. Tidens Krav (Kristiansund paper) http://www.tk.no/Innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
39. Tvedestrandposten http://www.tvedestrandsposten.no/Innenriks/article2443080.ece
40. Østlandsposten (Larvik) http://www.op.no/Innenriks/data_og_teknologi/article2443080.ece
41. Øyene (Oslofjorden) http://www.oyene.no/innenriks/article2443080.ece

New Supercomputer at NTNU, November 2006:

• General info:
  • Link to some info. about Njord we put out in connection with the opening celebration program (mostly in Norwegian)
  • Opening Celebration Program (PDF) .

Articles in Universitetsavisa (NTNU paper)

About/interviews with Elster:

• Umettelig behov for datakraft (1.12.2006, 13:25) ("Insatiable need for compute power") About Njord,NTNU's new supercomputer, and HPC in general. Includes photo of Elster.
• NTNU danket ut av HiST (05.09.2006) mentiones Elster's students at CERN.
• Lars Johan Materstvedt: Om faglig nærhet (09.05.2006) Author quotes one of my previous articles on campus location.
• Fornyet samarbeid mellom NTNU og CERN (4.6.2004, 09:28) Re. Elster's collaboration with CERN, includen photo of her and some of her students.

Articles written by Elster:

• Anne Cathrine Elster: Kvinnefiendtlig samlokalisering (09.05.2006) (Universitetsavisa -- in Norwegian):
  The above article was abstracted in: "Anne Cathrine Elster: Kvinnefiendtlig samlokalisering" on Byggaktuelt online ,
  (http://www.byggaktuelt.no/content.asp?ContentId=11175) on-line site for the building industry in Norway
• LESERBREV: Mange farer med ny styringsmodell! (16.1.2003, 21:39)

Other news articles re. Njord, many based on NTNU's press release :

• NRK Trødelag ?? -- Kari Hag told me she heard a question about our supercomputer in a "quick question round" during the morning program. There was a question whether Njord was Europe's largest supercomputer, and the contenstant had aswered "ja". MareNostrum in Barcelona, has that honor, however.
• http://www.digi.no/bedriftsteknologi/her+er+nordens+kraftigste+forskningsdata/art358712.html Digi.no
• Tjue år med superdatamaskiner (30.11.06, 06:38) (Universitetsavisa)
• http://www.computerworld.dk/art/36749?a=block&i=83 ComputerWorld, Denmark
• http://e24.no/it/article1543545.ece
• http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article32486.ece ComputerWorld, Norway
• http://www.nettavisen.no/it/article813296.ece
• http://www.met.no/aktuelt/nyhetsarkiv/2006/njord.html
• http://www.ba-avis.no/nyheter/article62696.ece

Other reports by Elster of general interest

• Tenure and Tenure-track Women in EE-CS