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The Obama Administration this morning unveiled details about its Big Data R&D Initiative, committing more than $200 million in new funding through six agencies and departments to improve “our ability to extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data.” The effort, spearheaded by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and National Science Foundation (NSF), along with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Department of Energy (DoE) Office of Science, and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), seeks to “advance state-of-the-art core technologies needed to collect, store, preserve, manage, analyze, and share huge quantities of data; harness these technologies to accelerate the pace of discovery in science and engineering, strengthen our national security, and transform teaching and learning; and expand the workforce needed to develop and use Big Data technologies.”
The first wave of commitments to support the Big Data Initiative features a new joint solicitation of up to $25 million supported by NSF and NIH – Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science and... – that will advance foundational research in Big Data. The solicitation aims to (after the jump):
extract and use knowledge from collections of large data sets in order to accelerate progress in science and engineering research. Specifically, it will develop and evaluate new algorithms, statistical methods, technologies, and tools for improved data collection and management, data analytics, and e-science collaboration environments.
Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director for NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (C..., noted:
“The Big Data solicitation creates enormous opportunities for extracting knowledge from large-scale data across all disciplines. Foundational research advances in data management, analysis, and collaboration will change paradigms of research and education, and promise new approaches to addressing national priorities.“
For the solicitation, NIH is particularly interested in imaging, molecular, cellular, electrophysiological, chemical, behavioral, epidemiological, clinical, and other data sets related to human health and disease.
In addition to the BIGDATA solicitation, NSF is also issuing several new awards today in support of the initiative:
Meanwhile, DoD is “placing a big bet on big data,” launching “Data to Decisions” – an investment of $250 million annually, with $60 million available for new research projects, in a series of programs that will
- harness and utilize massive data in new ways, and bring together sensing, perception, and decision support to make truly autonomous systems that can maneuver and make decisions on their own; and
- improve situational awareness to help warfighters and analysts and provide increased support to operations.
[DoD] is seeking a 100-fold increase in the ability of analysts to extract information from texts in any language, and a similar increase in the number of objects, activities, and events that an analyst can observe.
To accelerate innovation in Big Data, DoD will initiate a series of open prize competitions in this space in the coming months.
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