Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, April 23, 2008; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President of the External Research Division of Microsoft Research Seminar Title: eScience, Semantic Computing and the Cloud: Towards a Smart Cyberinfrastructure for eScience Abstract: In the next decade, frontier research will require collaborations of globally distributed groups in fields that may have hundreds of terabytes of research data. Addressing the challenges of the “eScience” agenda will require an ecosystem of semantic computing technologies to facilitate information sharing and discovery, enable reasoning and allow us to start thinking about knowledge and how it can be handled by computers. Software+service, with scientific services delivered from the cloud, will become an increasingly accepted model for research. This talk will review this vision and explain the need for semantic-oriented computing by exploring projects that have successfully applied relevant technologies. Upcoming IIC Seminars: Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule. Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars