Reminder: The opening IIC Colloquium of the 2009-10 academic year is *tomorrow*. Please join us! *********************** Exploiting and Providing Research Data: Finding Strategies to Help Researchers September 9, 2009, 4:00pm 309 Cruft Laboratory, 19 Oxford Street (**NOTE NEW LOCATION**) Malcolm Atkinson UK e-Science Envoy and Director of the e-Science Institute and David De Roure Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton Abstract Data-intensive research is emerging as a new paradigm with the pervasive growth in digital data, communication and devices. Profs. Atkinson and De Roure, who are embarking on a fact-finding mission to the U.S., will illustrate their talk with examples from a range of disciplines. They will report on progress toward understanding how to economically enable a large community of researchers to become fluent in whatever uses of data will benefit their research. Issues include technical and socioeconomic factors as well as the nature, maturity, structure and scale of data. About the Speakers Malcolm Atkinson, FRSE, FBCS, is the UK e-Science Envoy, plays a leading role in the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK, and is on the advisory boards of the National Grid Service and Baltic Grid. He led the EU IST project “International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Education” (ICEAGE). This project organized the International Summer School on Grid Computing 2007 (ISSGC’07). He chaired the ISSGC’06, ISSGC’07 and ISSGC’08 Programme Committees. He is a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee Board and JISC Support of Research Committee. He is a representative of the UK at the e Infrastructure Reflection Group. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST). David De Roure, FBCS, is a professor of computer science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK, where he is a founding member of the School’s "Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia" Group, leads the e-Research activities and is Director of the Pervasive Systems Centre. He has been closely involved in the UK e-Science and e-Social Science programmes with leading roles in a variety of multidisciplinary projects ranging from bioinformatics and chemistry to psychology, environmental modelling, social statistics and computational musicology. He has also been involved with commissioning e-Science projects for multiple UK funding programmes from e Infrastructure and Technology Enhanced Learning to Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and in the formation of European strategy. Currently he directs the myExperiment project, is chair of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK and a co-director of the e Research South consortium. --------------- For more information about IIC colloquia and other events : http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming -------------- Initiative in Innovative Computing Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences_______________________________________________ iic-colloquium mailing list iic-colloquium(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.deas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-colloquium