News ==== For more information on SPIDAL's efforts to promote Research Experiences for Undergraduates, visit the Digital Science Center `website `__. SPIDAL Project on ResearchGate ------------------------------ `SPIDAL: CIF21 DIBBs: Middleware and High Performance Analytics Libraries for Scalable Data Science `_ Launch of Intelligent Systems Engineering - Fall 2016 ----------------------------------------------------- Indiana University has recently launched its new Intelligent Systems Engineering program, offering undergraduate and PhD degrees within the School of Informatics and Computing! See `this video `_ for more details. $450,000 Navy grant fuels IU-NSWC Crane effort ---------------------------------------------- An Indiana University expert in the high-tech field of computer vision will collaborate with U.S. Navy engineers to improve the quality of microelectronic components used in critical military systems like communication and navigation. `Read more... `_ STREAM2015 workshop ------------------- The first workshop in the series STREAM2015 will be held in Indianapolis on October 27th and 28th. It will focus on application features and requirements as well as hardware and software systems needed to support them. More details are available `here `__. Members of the community are invited to submit a 1-2 page White Paper/Statement of Interest in areas of relevance to the workshop's scope and objectives. White papers are due by September 21 and should be sent to workshop organizers. Participants will be selected based upon relevance of submissions as well as strategic balance of expertise. Partial travel support is available IU an Intel Parallel Computing Center ------------------------------------- Indiana University is pleased to host a new `Intel Parallel Computing Center `__ as part of their longstanding tradition blending industry and academia. Prof. Judy Qiu heads this new center which also includes Prof. Steven Gottlieb of the IU Physics Dept. In addition a $320,000 award from Intel will be used in funding research contributing to the SPIDAL project. CINET workshop -------------- A hands-on workshop on the topic of CINET, a web-based network analysis tool, will be hosted by the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech on July 10 and August 11. All those interested in learning more about CINET are invited to attend. More information `here `__. In addition, Prof. Judy Qiu hosted a seminar on data analytics enhancement while attending the CINET workshop on July 9. Information on this seminar is found below: | Agenda: 'Towards HPC-ABDS: An Initial Experience Optimizing Hadoop for Scalable High Performance Data Analytics'. Meeting link: `here `__ Kansas, Crandall collaborate on 3-D imaging ------------------------------------------- Kansas is preparing a 3-D imaging test setup for Dr. Crandall at Indiana University. This test setup is being designed to help ease integration of Dr. Crandall's global optimizer work into our 3-D imaging routines. We are also doing background reading on hidden Markov models and network flow algorithms for global optimization so that we can better support the integration. Qiu named Outstanding Junior Faculty ------------------------------------- In March 2015, co-PI Prof. Judy Qiu received an Outstanding Junior Faculty award from Indiana University, as related in this IU `newsletter `__. DIBBS progam and SPIDAL news ---------------------------- An October 2014 `article `__ from Indiana University addresses the SPIDAL project and IU faculty who will be working on it. Details are given on the DIBBs program, which includes our SPIDAL project, in an NSF `announcement `__ from Oct. 2014. The official NSF award announcement for this project can be found `here `__. Included here is a `link `__ to Indiana University's unveiling of a new Data Science Master's degree program in Oct. 2014. One of the first mentions hinting at the motivations which led to SPIDAL came in an `article `__ in HPCWire newsletter in March 2014.