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Super Computing Meets the World of Biology
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Super Computing Meets the World of Biology

University of Arizona researchers have developed the iPlant Collaborative, a computer cyberinfrastructure that enables biological sciences researchers to process...

Nsf Leads Federal Efforts In Big Data
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Nsf Leads Federal Efforts In Big Data

At a White House event, National Science Foundation Director Subra Suresh outlined efforts to support the fundamental science and underlying infrastructure to...

Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them.
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Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them.

AT 7 years old, Gilad Elbaz wrote, "I want to be a rich mathematician and very smart." That, he figured, would help him "discover things like time machines, robots...

Sdsc's 'big Data' Expertise Aiding Genomics Research
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Sdsc's 'big Data' Expertise Aiding Genomics Research

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, has in the last three years remade itself into a center of expertise on all aspects...

Researcher Aims to Use Social Multimedia For Enhanced Mapping
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Researcher Aims to Use Social Multimedia For Enhanced Mapping

Funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation will support UC Merced Professor Shawn Newsam's work gathering geographic information from user-submitted photos...

What Geography Can Teach ­S About Basketball
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What Geography Can Teach ­S About Basketball

The annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, created in 2006, has become something like Bonnaroo for sports nerds. And if there was a breakout star at this year's...

Why 'big Data' Is a Magnet For Startups
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Why 'big Data' Is a Magnet For Startups

Armies of entrepreneurs are trying to make money sifting through mountains of data from the Web and other sources, but one of the biggest challenges is simply getting...

Big Data Spawns New Breed of 'data Scientist'
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Big Data Spawns New Breed of 'data Scientist'

A new breed of data scientists is in demand as a result of the rise of big data. Government, universities, and industry are looking for people with a rare mix...

The Delivery Guy Who Saw Jeremy Lin Coming
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The Delivery Guy Who Saw Jeremy Lin Coming

The morning after Jeremy Lin sank a thrilling, last-second three-pointer that lifted the New York Knicks over the Toronto Raptors and gave "Linsanity" its latest...

$8.5 Million Initiative Will Study Quantum Memories
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$8.5 Million Initiative Will Study Quantum Memories

The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded $8.5 million to a consortium of seven U.S. universities that will work together to determine the best...

What Dropbox Can Teach ­S About Cloud Computing
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What Dropbox Can Teach ­S About Cloud Computing

Dropbox is the most deceptively simple of services.

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The Age of Big Data

Good with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.

Georgia Tech Develops Computational Algorithm to Assist in Cancer Treatments
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Georgia Tech Develops Computational Algorithm to Assist in Cancer Treatments

Georgia Tech has created a new data analysis algorithm that quickly transforms complex RNA sequence data into usable content for biologists and clinicians.

National Academy of Sciences' Brdi Announces New Members in Digital Data Stewardship Efforts
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National Academy of Sciences' Brdi Announces New Members in Digital Data Stewardship Efforts

The Board on Research Data and Informationof the National Academy of Sciences has announced a slate of new Board members. The goal of BRDI is to improve the stewardship...

Computer Scientist Taps Piloting Know-How To Create Safer Flight Systems
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Computer Scientist Taps Piloting Know-How To Create Safer Flight Systems

Carlos Varela, an associate professor of computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and also a licensed pilot, has received seed funding from the U.S....

Advanced Computational Tools to Help Doctors Make Sense of Their Patients' DNA
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Advanced Computational Tools to Help Doctors Make Sense of Their Patients' DNA

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University say advanced computational tools will be the key to a new research project that, if successful, could enable doctors...

Marc Andreessen: Predictions For 2012 (and Beyond)
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Marc Andreessen: Predictions For 2012 (and Beyond)

Marc Andreessen's view of the world boils down to software.

The Search For Analysts to Make Sense of 'big Data'
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The Search For Analysts to Make Sense of 'big Data'

Businesses keep vast troves of data about things like online shopping behavior, or millions of changes in weather patterns, or trillions of financial transactions—information...

Picture This: Better Decisions Through Data Visualization
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Picture This: Better Decisions Through Data Visualization

Can you visualize data? That’s the question raised by the Data Visualization Student Challenge, a U.S. Department of Transportation competition that invited college...

Cloud Centers Bring High-Tech Flash but Not Many Jobs to Beaten-Down Towns
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Cloud Centers Bring High-Tech Flash but Not Many Jobs to Beaten-Down Towns

Here in this once-thriving town of furniture makers and textile mills, where Main Street businesses have vanished, nearby fast-food joints have closed and unemployment...
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