Yearly Archives: 2015

Bringing big data to the social sciences

Much has been said about big data and its potential to improve business productivity, understand risks, and improve medial diagnoses. But first and foremost, data is about people: how they interact with each other and their environment, their beliefs, the choices they make, and the significance of those choices. With so much human-focused data available, […]

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Providing security for a world of distributed data

CHAPEL HILL, NC – Every spring, the UNC-Chapel Hill community showcases its most promising and innovative early-stage startups at an event called the UNC Innovation Showcase. The event illustrates how university research can lead to innovative products that benefit consumers, healthcare professionals, and many business sectors. Over the years, a number of new companies nurtured […]

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Pearl Hacks draws female coders from across the nation

“Every single one of you are makers.” These words from Dona Sarkar kicked off UNC Chapel Hill’s recent Pearl Hacks event. Sarkar is an engineer manager at Microsoft, author, and fashion designer, and this past weekend she was in Chapel Hill inspiring an audience of over 600 high school and college-age women gathered to create […]

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NC FIRST Robotics program grooms science and tech heroes of the future

There has been a growing buzz in the media about the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education and the struggle to ensure students receive enough of it in public schools. Part of the reason for this intense focus is that the U.S. Department of Labor expects there will be 1.2 million job […]

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TR-15-01 Adapting Scientific Workflows on Networked Clouds Using Proactive Introspection

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RENCI to collaborate with UNC Charlotte and NC State on technologies for big data analytics

CHAPEL HILL, NC – Researchers at RENCI (the Renaissance Computing Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill), UNC Charlotte and North Carolina State University will develop advanced technologies and solutions that will position North Carolina as a leader in data science research and applied data analytics and will enable university researchers and business practitioners to use big data […]

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NCDS DataBytes webinars to highlight issues in data science

Throughout 2015, the National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) will host a series of lunchtime webinars highlighting the most pressing and interesting issues in data science. The DataBytes series webinars will take place on or about the first Wednesday of each month. Talks will begin at noon, last 30 to 45 minutes, be followed by Q and A, […]

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Finding common ground in the Social Computing Room

Science, like music, is an international language. No matter their cultural, ethnic, or religious backgrounds, no matter if they conduct fieldwork in the U.S. or run a lab in central Asia, scientists always seem able to find common ground.

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iRODS Consortium welcomes NASA’s Atmospheric Science Data Center

CHAPEL HILL, NC, February 9, 2015 – The Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA has signed an agreement to become the newest member of the iRODS Consortium. The iRODS Consortium is a membership organization of users and service providers that sustains the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) as […]

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RENCI white paper surveys 10 emerging technologies for higher education

The U.S. higher education system faces many challenges, none more daunting than this: How to equip students with the skills they will need to survive in a competitive, globally connected world while keeping costs—especially tuition—from skyrocketing. Proponents of educational reform argue that students are disengaged from the learning process and that traditional lecture-based courses do […]

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