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Introducing the Data Science for Social Good Fellowship
The Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good summer fellowship is a University of Chicago summer fellowship program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, data science projects with social impact.
 
 
University of Chicago launches cloud to analyze cancer data
The University of Chicago is launching the first secure cloud-based computing system that will enable researchers to access and analyze human genomic cancer information without the costly and cumbersome infrastructure normally needed to download and store massive amounts of data.
 
 
Obama Campaign Chief Data Scientist Joins University of Chicago
Rayid Ghani, chief scientist of the highly regarded Obama for America data analytics team, has joined the University of Chicago to explore using data to solve complex social problems.
 
 

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The Discovery Cloud: Ian Foster at TEDxCERN
CERN is known as the current world epicenter of particle physics, the home of the Large Hadron Collider and thousands of scientists expanding our knowledge of the... [read more] - Posted on May 24, 2013 @ 1:45 pm
Rick Stevens on the Race to Exascale
The exascale — one million trillion calculations per second — is the next landmark in the perpetual race for computing power. Although this speed is 500 times... [read more] - Posted on May 23, 2013 @ 12:01 pm
Introducing the Data Science for Social Good Fellows
While you’re planning for a summer vacation on the beach, we’re planning to host three dozen aspiring data scientists for The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Data Science... [read more] - Posted on May 21, 2013 @ 11:36 am
How to Sling-Shot Mobile Computing Beyond Angry Birds
Many of us carry a computer in our pocket that’s as powerful as the supercomputers of the late 1980′s. Many of us also mostly use that revolutionary device to... [read more] - Posted on May 20, 2013 @ 4:24 am