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Room on Campus for Big Data – Bio-IT World

By Aaron KrolNovember 26, 2013 | Since joining the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in 2008, Chris Mentzel has wanted to spur investment in the cause of data science in the American university system. The Moore Foundation is committed to fostering the earliest, most speculative stages of scientific research, the sort of pushing at the barriers of knowledge that is more […]

November 26, 2013 Byunknown california, data-driven, discovery, discovery-initiative, driven, fergus, king, major, mentzel, science, sloan Comments Off read more

New data science institute to help scholars harness 'big data'

BERKELEY In a world awash in data, UC Berkeley is meeting the flood head-on by establishing a new institute to support faculty, researchers and students in their efforts to mine this information in areas as diverse as astronomy and economics, genetics and demography.Berkeley Nobelist Saul Perlmutter describes the new Berkeley Institute for Data Science at a Nov. 12 […]

November 13, 2013 ByRobert Sanders house, king, perlmutter, president, professor, sloan, social, technology, university, washington Comments Off read more