{"id":1415,"date":"2016-03-03T10:29:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2016-03-03T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:29:16","slug":"seemore-headed-to-sxsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2016\/03\/03\/seemore-headed-to-sxsw\/","title":{"rendered":"SeeMore headed to SXSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kirk Cameron and a group of CS students are heading to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas this month.\u00a0 SeeMore, an animatronic sculpture designed by sculptor Sam Blanchard and computer scientist Kirk Cameron to illustrate the concept of parallel computing, will be featured at the trade show March 13-16. \u00a0The name is a reference to supercomputing pioneer Seymour Cray.<b>\u00a0 <\/b>SeeMore is designed to simultaneously educate and inspire computational thinking, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icat.vt.edu\/funding\/seemore\">SeeMore<\/a> is part kinetic sculpture and part giant parallel computer. Built with 256 single-board computers, called Raspberry Pis, the living sculpture physically demonstrates conceptual elements of computer science, showing how a parallel computer carries out many calculations simultaneously. As a computation propagates and evolves across the surface of the form, it visually represents the architecture modern supercomputers use, helping people understand the abstract concepts involved.\u00a0 Read more about Virginia Tech at South by Southwest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtnews.vt.edu\/articles\/2016\/03\/030316-icat-southbysouthwest.html\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SeeMore was also one of the centerpieces of the 2015 World Maker Faire in New York City. <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2015\/10\/05\/kirk-cameron-illustrates-the-concept-of-parallel-computing-at-the-world-maker-faire\/?preview=true&amp;preview_id=1058&amp;preview_nonce=8ec253e56f&amp;post_format=standard\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1417\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 610px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1417 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/SeeMore-Kirk-Cameron.jpg\" alt=\"Kirk Cameron, Seemore, Sam Blanchard (SOVA), and Ebon Upton (Founder and CEO of Raspberry Pi Foundation).\" width=\"600\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/SeeMore-Kirk-Cameron.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/03\/SeeMore-Kirk-Cameron-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Kirk Cameron, Seemore, Sam Blanchard (SOVA), and Ebon Upton (Founder and CEO of Raspberry Pi Foundation).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kirk Cameron and a group of CS students are heading to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas this month.\u00a0 SeeMore, an animatronic sculpture designed by sculptor Sam Blanchard and computer scientist Kirk Cameron to illustrate the concept of parallel computing, will be featured at the trade show March 13-16. \u00a0The name is a reference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}