Phys.Org (Isle of Man, Oct. 9) -- In 2012, the National Institutes of Health created the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative to enable efforts to harness the potential of this flood of information. As part of the first wave of BD2K funding, Illinois and Mayo Clinic have now received a $9.34M, four-year award to create one of several new Centers of Excellence for Big Data Computing. Also: Chronicle of Higher Education (Oct. 10). Also: News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, Ill., Oct. 10), ASEE FirstBell (Oct. 13), The Pantagraph (from The Associated Press; Bloomington, Ill., Oct. 14).
NIH Awards to tackle Big Data in Medicine
10/9/2014