by U-M MICDE | Oct 19, 2017 | General Interest, News
By Patty Giorgio, ITS Communications Research at the University of Michigan is a $1.3 billion enterprise, according to the 2014 Annual Report on Research. An increasing amount of this research involves moving large data sets, between researchers locally, nationally,...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 19, 2017 | Educational, General Interest, News
Aside from maybe a football game, where on the U-M campus can you go to see Sociology, Physics, Communications, Math, Education, Nursing, Economics, and Engineering students all in one place?At least for a week this June, the answer was the third annual Big Data...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 19, 2017 | General Interest, News
Undergraduates working on research that requires high performance computing resources can now use the Flux HPC cluster at no cost. Flux is the shared computing cluster available across campus, operated by Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 19, 2017 | General Interest, News
Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS) has launched a new initiative aimed at facilitating uninterrupted data flow to meet the needs of researchers across campus. Faculty and researchers experiencing problems with data flow to or from their...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 19, 2017 | General Interest, News
U-M researchers who manage and analyze large volumes of data protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) now have a new secure computing tool at their disposal: the HIPAA-aligned “Armis” high performance computing cluster. Armis...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 18, 2017 | General Interest, News
MICDE faculty members Paul Zimmerman (Chemistry) and Michael Cafarella (Computer Science), and MIDAS faculty member Honglak Lee (Computer Science) have been awarded 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships, which seeks to stimulate fundamental research by early-career...
by U-M MICDE | Sep 20, 2017 | Feature, General Interest, Happenings, News, Research
From the Cosmic Frontier to CERN, New Platform Stitches Together Global Science Efforts SLATE will enable creation of new platforms for collaborative science Today’s most ambitious scientific quests — from the cosmic radiation measurements by the South Pole...
by U-M MICDE | Sep 7, 2017 | Educational, Events, General Interest, News, Research
Learn about graduate programs that will prepare you for success in computationally intensive fields — pizza and pop provided The Ph.D. in Scientific Computing is open to all Ph.D. students who will make extensive use of large-scale computation, computational methods,...
by U-M MICDE | Jul 27, 2017 | Data, General Interest, Happenings, News, Research
Five research teams from the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China are sharing $1 million to study data science and its impact on air quality, galaxy clusters, lightweight metals, financial trading and renewable energy. Since 2009, the two...
by U-M MICDE | Jul 19, 2017 | Events, General Interest, News
Please join us for the 2017 Michigan Institute for Data Science Symposium. The keynote speaker will be Cathy O’Neil, mathematician and best-selling author of “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.”...
