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Pegasus Contributed to New Gravitational-Wave Detector Discovery

Pegasus Contributed to New Gravitational-Wave Detector Discovery

by on October 19, 2017 with No Comments

  A collaboration that began 16 years ago between computer scientists at the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and members of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo projects is opening up a new window onto the nature of the universe. Pegasus, a specialized computer program developed by a … Read More

Nobel Prize-winning discovery on Gravitational Waves came about with contributions from Pegasus

Nobel Prize-winning discovery on Gravitational Waves came about with contributions from Pegasus

by on October 10, 2017 with 1 Comment

  By Emily Gersema, USC News The Nobel Prize-winning discovery that gravitational waves exist in the universe, which in turn further confirmed Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, was made possible in part by a collaboration with USC computer scientists. By developing a specialized computer program called Pegasus, a team … Read More