IU informatics researcher earns three federal patents to strengthen user control in the ‘app economy’
“The future is apps” is a phrase commonly uttered by technology experts. Anyone who has ever struggled to find the right app at the right time might not share that opinion, however. Sameer Patil‘s efforts to strike at the heart of this modern dilemma — and also strengthen user privacy in the “app economy” — was […]
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 […]
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 […]
New partnership with Crane strengthens IU’s mission, benefits state’s taxpayers
It’s been shown time and time again that stronger higher education has a direct correlation to a state’s economic, social and cultural health, and at a time when growing attention is being paid to global competition challenging America for science and technology prominence, one would think policymakers would be leaning to invest more heavily in […]
