Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibition to debut new ‘macroscopes’ at Vanderbilt University
Post by IU Newsroom intern Laura Ellsworth: Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, a traveling exhibition founded and curated by IU professor Katy Bӧrner, will debut its 2017 iteration at Vanderbilt University on Jan. 23. This international collection of world-class data visualizations will be on display in conjunction with the theme “Our Lives Online.” Bӧrner is an […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Welcome! It’s Science at Work: The Blog!
And as far as Indiana University’s physicists, anthropologists, informaticists, statisticians, biologists and others of the “hard” or “STEM” sciences go, this blog will presuppose to reflect on the science work that’s already completed, that is still under way, and that is still to be done – the stuff of NSF and NIH pre-proposals – with […]
