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 […]
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 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 […]
