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GenomeHubs–Life Science Informatics & HPC
11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Chris Dagdigian
Bioinformaticist-gone-bad Chris Dagdigian has spent the last 15 years as a high performance research IT specialist focusing on building, fixing, growing and optimizing IT systems designed to support & accelerate life science research. As a consultant, Chris gets to see how different organizations...
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On Safari in nanoHUB: The Hunt for Prototypical Users
11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael Zentner
nanoHUB annually produces a wealth of data about users interacting with the site. These data have a meaning that goes well beyond number of visits, download counts, and other simple metrics available from web analytics tools. These data more importantly have the potential to indicate how users...
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Cyberinfrastructure for the Materials Genome Initiative
11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Meredith Drosback
In June 2011 President Obama launched the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), a multi-agency federal initiative designed to accelerate the discovery, manufacture, and deployment of advanced materials. The current materials R&D paradigm can take 20 years or more to move a new material from...
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Predictive science and engineering of materials & devices: towards cyber & computationally enabled decision-making
11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan
The synergistic integration of predictive, physics-based modeling and experiments within a decision-making framework has the potential to revolutionize design and certification of materials and devices, reducing the cost and time involved in discovery and deployment. The impact of this approach...
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The New Logistics of Knowledge
11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Gerry McCartney
Just as technology has transformed businesses that deal in information delivery, such as journalism and book publishing, many experts also expect that electronic technologies will transform higher education. While agreeing, Gerry McCartney believes the digital transformation won’t soon happen in...
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State of the Hub: 2013
11 Sep 2013 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan
The HUBzero Platform continues to grow. The latest release supports data management through the “projects” component, database publication through the DataStore component, publications with digital object identifiers, a learning management system for online education, a Pinterest-style mechanism...