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18 September 2013

Big data, big opportunities — for science and for enterprise

iSGTW speaks to CERN openlab’s Sverre Jarp, ahead of this month’s inaugural ISC Big Data conference in Heidelberg, Germany. Jarp, who is the general chair of the event, picks his highlights from the conference program and tells us why big data presents exciting opportunities, but also poses challenges, for enterprise and HPC alike. 

Andrew Purcell
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Extreme scale video image retrieval and research

Virginia Kuhn is an associate professor in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, US. She joined USC in 2005 after successfully defending one of the first born-digital dissertations in the country. Kuhn challenges academic conventions borne of print literacy, integrating multimedia literacy into courses across the academic spectrum and inspiring new research and teaching practices.

Kuhn is the principal investigator on the Large Scale Video Analytics Project.  Read about her research and use of novel visualization tools, like Movie-cube, developed by Dave Bock at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, in Urbana, Illinois, US.

Amber Harmon
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Discover big data at CERN
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Supercool simulation

'Icephobic' research has the potential to improve everyday products like ice cream scoops, car windshields, and metal roofs, but it will also have a broad impact across industry (for example, in studying ice buildup on turbine blades, airplanes, and oil and gas rigs). Read about the sophisticated equipment advancing this unique research.

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