IU part of $1 million grant from NSF to create country’s first big data “spoke” focused on neuroscience
“The field of neuroscience is transforming,” wrote IU neuroscientist Franco Pestilli in a commentary published last year in the journal Nature Scientific Data. “Brain data from people and institutions around the world are being openly shared — moving from office desks and personal storage devices to institutionally supported cloud systems and public repositories.” This process […]
Women of science, of technology, prepare to be empowered!
I want to be a woman….studying science….at Indiana University….over the next week. If you already meet those prerequisites then prepare to be empowered. IU Bloomington’s Center of Excellence for Women in Information Technology gets things started with this weekend’s Techie Women Have More conference. Poster battle royale gets underway first, beginning at 2 p.m. Friday […]
La traviata vs. Grand Theft Auto: How will scientists referee the cultural cage match?
Last week Clifford Lynch, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information, kicked off an impressive run of technology-oriented speakers here at IU Bloomington that continues next week with Google’s Blaise Agüera y Arcas on Monday and Research Data Alliance chair Fran Berman on Tuesday. It goes to show you timing is everything … like […]
For IU’s job-seeking CS women, a chance to stick your boot in the door
So it’s going to be a skin-sizzling 35 degrees Fahrenheit or so this Thursday – the highest climb the thermometer will make during this winter work week – but if you’re looking for someplace hot, really hot, ground zero will be the Bloomington Convention Center where IU students can immerse in a job market hotter […]
IU’s data science certificate to keep workforce on pace with computing power
The folks over at Indiana University’s School of Informatics and Computing kept seeing the data on data science piling up and the opportunities growing, both for the school and most importantly for a workforce in need of a bigger and better payday. One analysis showed a 15,000 percent increase in data science job postings from […]
IU in the catbird seat: SDN to benefit higher ed, U.S. economy … and who better to lead
The U.S. Department of Defense grant of $900,000 to IU for working on challenges to secure SDN — software-defined networking — isn’t a huge amount of money in itself for a technology that is projected to grow in market value from $252 million in 2012 to as much as $35 billion by 2017. More importantly, […]
Science mentoring at IU Bloomington: An ever-appreciating, unquantifiable investment
Some of you may have missed the news in January about Indiana University Bloomington physicist John Beggs and his long-distance cyber-mentoring of Horace Greely (N.Y.) High School senior Jiayi Peng to a second-place and $50,000 finish in the prestigious Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. The story of Beggs’ mentoring, above and beyond the […]
The disruptive environment at IU Informatics that could improve U.S. health care
Things are starting to get a little disruptive over at IU Bloomington’s School of Informatics and Computing, particularly at the west building. That is where Kris Hauser, an assistant professor of computer science now in his fourth year at IU, and Ph.D. student Casey Bennett have been absorbing the feedback from their paper, “Artificial Intelligence […]
Science at Work: It’s all about you, the citizen scientist
“Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems” is the theme of the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting under way in Portland, Ore., and one thing many of the world’s leading ecologists are making clear here is that the theme may never come to fruition without a little help from their friends. That […]
Science at Work: IU’s IT plan is working … again and again
It wasn’t exactly a shocker when the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy announced last week that IU would receive $3.82 million as the university’s share in a $27 million second round of funding for the Open Science Grid, initiated in 2008 with $30 million from NSF and DOE to advance state-of-the-art […]
