Big Data for Research in the Campus Landscape

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 | 11:40AM–12:30PM | Meeting Room 204C, Level Two
Session Type: Breakout Session
Delivery Format: Multi-Campus Perspective Panel, Talk Show
The ECAR Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group published a series of white papers exploring how big data in research fits into the IT environment of a university. This session will convene a panel of authors from those papers to interactively discuss the challenges and opportunities for research big data on campuses.


Outcomes: Understand the impact and challenges of accommodating big data within the existing cyberinfrastructure on campus *Understand the special challenges surrounding the security and privacy of big data on campus *Understand the challenges of curating big data on campus

Presenters

  • Mike Corn

    Consultant, semi-retired., National Science Foundation

  • Curt Hillegas

    Associate CIO, Research Computing, Princeton University

  • Cliff Lynch

    Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

  • Ralph Zottola

    AVP – Research Computing, University of Alabama at Birmingham