July 2017 – Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing

Computing Resources unavailable starting 8/3/17

Reminder: Resources will be unavailable starting August 3, 2017 at 20:00 for the University of Miami’s data center migration at the NAP of the Americas secure downtown facility. All systems and networks will be affected. The migration will occur in phases, and is scheduled to complete in 2 weeks. Details and updates about migration phases will be posted next week on the Advanced Computing website. Read more “Computing Resources unavailable starting 8/3/17” →

News - Archived

Khoury Levit Fong Honored by CAB

Congratulations to Smart Cities Program Director, and Dean of the School of Architecture, Rodolphe el-Khoury. He and his partners at Khoury Levit Fong aka “KLF”, Robert Levit and Steven Fong, were selected as Official Participants at the upcoming 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB). Incidentally, KLF is the only firm from Canada to receive this distinction. Read more “Khoury Levit Fong Honored by CAB” →

News - Archived

Issue 2 of Catalyzing Transformation is out!

The September 2017 issue of the University of Miami Center for Computational Science’s “Catalyzing Transformation” e-newsletter offering the latest news, events, and research. Read more “Issue 2 of Catalyzing Transformation is out!” →

News

IDSC and Fastrack Institute sign MOU

IDSC and the Fastrack Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding to concentrate on initiatives aimed to accelerate the adoption and implementation of exponential technologies with the potential to improve quality of life by delivering innovation and fostering economic competitiveness and sustainability in Latin America and the Caribbean. It will focus on big data research and analytics in the areas of smart cities, mobility, transformational healthcare technologies, education, energy, and the environment. Read more “IDSC and Fastrack Institute sign MOU” →

News - Archived

Washington Post Quotes Alberto Cairo on Images

In the article “Some of the newest cookbooks look like comics. But does that work for readers?“ that appears in The Washington Post’s Food Section, July 11, 2017, author Charlotte Druckman quotes CCS Visualization Program Director Albert Cairo, PhD. Read more “Washington Post Quotes Alberto Cairo on Images” →

Events - Past

“Big Data in Health” Conference 2017 held in Italy

The “Big Data in Health” Conference was held at the Villa Umbra, in Pila (Perugia, Italy), June 29-30, 2017. The event was sponsored by the University of Perugia and the University of Salerno, and organized by Enrico Capobianco (IDSC Computational Biology & Bioinformatics), Luca Pieroni and Luca Salmasi (Department of Economics, University of Perugia, Italy), Liliana Minelli (Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy), Sergio Pagano and Pierpaolo Cavallo (Departments of Physics and Department of Medicine, University of Salerno, Italy). Read more ““Big Data in Health” Conference 2017 held in Italy” →

pan>July 2017

Computing Resources unavailable starting 8/3/17

Khoury Levit Fong Honored by CAB

Issue 2 of Catalyzing Transformation is out!

IDSC and Fastrack Institute sign MOU

Washington Post Quotes Alberto Cairo on Images

“Big Data in Health” Conference 2017 held in Italy