SPEAKER SERIES
Computational Knowledge Synthesis
speaker series

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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IN THE NEWS

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>

CI NEWSLETTER
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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Current News

May 15, 2013

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. read more »

April 16, 2013

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. read more »

April 13, 2013

Gifts to boost University of Chicago as hub for biomedical 'big data'

Two major gifts will build momentum behind the University of Chicago's leadership in biomedical computation by assembling experts in the field and furnishing them with the tools to use "big data" to understand disease and solve today's health-related challenges. read more »

April 8, 2013

Globus Online among 2012 R&D 100 Award winners

Globus Online, a collaborative effort by the University of Chicago's Computational Institute and Argonne, won an R&D 100 Award as one of the best high-technology inventions of 2012. read more »

February 26, 2013

Computational Center Will Study The Past and Future of Knowledge

With a $5.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, a new research initiative based at the University of Chicago and the Computation Institute will use the latest computational tools to scrutinize this how knowledge is created... read more »