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eScience
*Jim Gray-Turing award winner-database metadata
- SDSS SLow guided tours of the heavens. Data rich & tagged
- worldwide telescope (allows students to develop paths thru the heavens by themselves)
- users want the government/science database and develop tools that let me create the report my way
- the incredible amount of data that is being produced daily, from Point of Sale to science
- eScience is working with this data and making sense of it. analyzing it
- There is simply too much information to process it by hand
- sensors& networks
- databases
- data mining
- eSience capabilities must be broadly available in any organization. if not, the organization will simply cease to be competitive.
- top faculty across all disciplines understand the coming data tsunami. Computational science focused faculty will help identify what
- How do we track the IT needs of our college's leading researchers?
- what extent are we meeting those needs
- How well do we understand?
- map/reduce to relevant results
- eScience using the cloud, renting compute cloud
- animoto's use of amazon's cloud
- Universities getting out of the computing business. stop processing email and stop providing computing services
broadband and the role of higher education
- * it is ed's access to broadband that is bringing it to the underserved areas
- * everyone needs access
- , even Microsoft gets that social good must rule on the use of these funds
Once upon a time the content of the goods we produced was predominately physical. Now it is predominately intellectual.
- What is the chart of how we distribute our faculty/departments vs projected growth for jobs.
- if we train our students in low-growth, low paying jobs, we prepare them to remain poverty.
- we hurt our local businesses by not preparing the local students to stay. Not everyone can afford to recruit nationally. Don't gamble with the future of our young.
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