Computational Knowledge Synthesis

A 2011 Computation Institute Speaker Series that highlights advances in the use of computation to reason over human knowledge and generate path-breaking insights, hypotheses and conclusions. | read more >

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May 22, 2013
IGSTW
"Science is a voyage -- but we need to travel faster, says Ian Foster" | read more>

May 20, 2013
Chicago Magazine
"The Obama Campaign's Chief Data Scientist on the Future of Civic Data" | read more>

May 16, 2013
Data Center Knowledge
"Bionimbus Applies Cloud Power to Genetic Data-Crunching" | read more>

May 8, 2013
The Atlantic
"What the Obama Campaign's Chief Data Scientist Is Up To Now" | read more>

April 26, 2013
Chicago Maroon
"University, Argonne big on data" | read more>

April 17, 2013
Crain's Chicago Business
"Obama campaign's data expert joins U of C" | read more>

April 17, 2013
ISGTW
"A historic drought yields a harvest of data" | read more>

April 16, 2013
Ad Age
"Obama's Data Scientist Runs Social Good Program" | read more>

Computation News

In the current newsletter, Ian reflects on the status of the Institute and what should be our plans for the coming years.

Additional articles this month feature an Introduction to TeraGrid, an article on Computational Infrastructure for Economic Research, report on the recent DSLWorkshop 2009 and a Q&A with CI Senior Fellow, Mike Wilde.

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