Today at a briefing on Capitol Hill titled, “Big Data, Bigger Opportunities“, hosted by Tech America, The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced $15 million in funding for Big Data research. These awards come nearly six months after the Obama Administration released it’s substantial R&D initiative in March of this year. The initiative committed more than $200 million in new funding through six agencies and departments to improve the nation’s “ability to extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data.” Subra Suresh, Director of the National Science Foundation: “I am delighted to provide such a positive progress report just six months after fellow […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Archive for October 3rd, 2012
