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Early last Saturday morning, I had the privilege and pleasure of organizing and moderating a symposium at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) 2012 Annual Meeting in Vancouver. The 90-minute session — titled Data to Knowledge to Action: Computational Science in a Global Knowledge Society – sought to describe how advances in computing research are enabling a “data to knowledge to action” pipeline that is increasingly critical for facilitating a 21st-century global knowledge society. Over 70 people packed into a small room in the Vancouver Convention Center to hear the session’s featured speakers, Eric Horvitz, Peter Stone, and Deborah Estrin (slide shows after the jump).
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Big Data at the AAAS Annual Meeting
February 21st, 2012LIVE Video Today: The Impact of NITRD
February 16th, 2012
Beginning at 8:15am EST today, we will be streaming live via the web an all-day symposium – titled The Impact of NITRD: Two Decades of Game-Changing Breakthroughs in Networking and Information Technology – marking two decades of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. Watch it live following the link!
UPDATED: This Thursday, a Symposium on the Impact of NITRD
February 13th, 2012(This post has been updated; please scroll below for the latest!)
Since the dawn of the digital age, fundamental research sponsored by the Federal government has supported U.S. leadership in information technology — from the first supercomputers, to the foundations of high-speed networking, to global positioning systems and wireless technologies. Much of the progress in the last 20 years has been enabled by the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, the oldest and largest of a small number of formal Federal programs that engage multiple agencies.
This Thursday, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), working with the National Coordination Office (NCO) for NITRD, will mark two decades of the NITRD Program at a daylong Symposium to be held at the Newseum in Washington, DC. The Symposium — titled “The Impact of NITRD: Two Decades of Game-Changing Breakthroughs in Networking and Information Technology — Expanding Possibilities Ahead” — will explore how we are “transforming the world, driving the nation’s competitiveness, and leading into the future.” The meeting will be streamed live via the web (no pre-registration necessary).
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