The Obama Administration has launched a Big Data Research and
Development Initiative in conjunction with six federal departments and
agencies, making a $200 million commitment to improve the tools and
techniques needed to access, organize, and glean discoveries from the
huge volumes of data being generated around the world.
“In the same way that past federal investments in information technology
R&D led to dramatic advances in supercomputing and the creation of
the Internet, the initiative we are launching today promises to
transform our ability to use Big Data for scientific discovery,
environmental, and biomedical research, education, and national
security,” says John Holdren, assistant to the President and director of
the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation
will be among the top recipients of funding, along with the Departments
of Defense and Energy, and the U.S. Geological Survey. Besides advancing
the development of technologies needed to collect, store, preserve,
manage, and analyze the growing volume of digital data being generated
on a daily basis, the initiative aims to harness the knowledge gleaned
to advance scientific discovery, strengthen national security, and
transform teaching and learning. Money will also be allocated to expand
the skilled workforce needed to make sense of it all.
for more:
http://www.burrillreport.com/article-us_unveils_200_million_big_data_initiative_.html
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