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Augmented reality may not have taken over the world (yet), but the smartphone-filtered version of reality complete with "3D media, whether graphics or audio, tightly registered with the world," as described by Associate Professor Blair MacIntyre of Interactive Computing, is available now through several mobile applications. Here's how to get started. Source: eHow.com

Valerie Summet, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, has been awarded a Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship by the National Academies in Washington, D.C. Run out of the National Academies' Policy and Global Affairs Division, the program is designed to engage its fellows in the analytical process that informs U.S. science and technology policy. Source: Office of Communications

P.K. Yeung, adjunct professor in Computational Science & Engineering, is principal investigator of a project that's received 20 million processor hours on the Cray XT supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The project, "A Petascale Study of Turbulent Mixing in Stratified and Non-Stratified Flows," is one of 69 proposals awarded a record total of 1.6 billion processor hours by the Department of Energy's Office of Science. Source: HPCwire.com