Month: November 2012
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Techonomy 2012: David Haussler and the ‘digital battlefront’ against cancer
By Dan White David Haussler, director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, spoke eloquently about the front lines of cancer research at the prestigious Techonomy 2012 conference in Tucson, Ariz. The annual conference, which took place November 11-13, aims to change the way leaders think about innovation and technology and…
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UCSC engineers tackle big data
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office “Big data” may have become an over-hyped buzzword, but there is still a growing demand for new ways to store, manage, analyze, and exploit the massive amounts of electronic data being generated by everything from consumer transactions and social media to scientific computing and medical records. At the Baskin…