“Big Data” Challenges & Opportunities

Administration “Big Data” Research and Development Program and Event

The Obama Administration is holding an event at 2-3:30PM Eastern [today, March 29] to announce the roll out of a major new multi-agency research and development program based on “big data”. The event will be streamed at

http://live.science360.gov/bigdata/

(I don’t know if it will be archived for later replay)

[Note, added 3/30/12, after original posting: “An archive of this webcast will be available on nsf.gov within two days of this event.”]

There are a fact sheet and a press release at the OSTP site,

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/big_data_fact_sheet.pdf

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/big_data_press_release.pdf

The fact sheet has links to agency specific sites for more details.

Among the press coverage, see today’s New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/technology/new-us-research-will-aim-at-flood-of-digital-data.html?_r=1

(Steve Lohr, the author of the piece, is scheduled to moderate a panel at today’s session.)

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI