Sunday, April 8, 2012

US Unveils $200 Million Big Data Initiative, The Burrill Report

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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