Professor Tony Hey - Data Intensive Scientific Discovery and Open Science - Research Programming Technical Social - May 2016

Professor Tony Hey, Chief Data Scientist at STFC, former Microsoft Vice President of Research Connections and one of the original inventors of the MPI Parallel Computing standard, will speak in the May UCL Research Programming Technical Social.

Abstract:

"There is broad recognition within the scientific community that the ongoing deluge of scientific data is fundamentally transforming almost all areas of academic research. A wide variety of researchers —from scientists and engineers to social scientists and humanities researchers – now require tools, technologies, and platforms that seamlessly integrate into standard scientific methodologies and processes. Turing Award winner, Jim Gray, suggested that researchers need to learn new “Fourth Paradigm” skills by which he meant the data management techniques, statistical and machine learning methods needed to manipulate, analyze, visualize, and manage large amounts of research data. This talk will illustrate the challenges researchers will face, the opportunities these changes will afford, and the resulting implications for data-intensive researchers. In particular, the talk will focus on the issues of open access, open data and open science and research reproducibility. One major challenge for universities is to find appropriate career paths for scientific software engineers and data scientists."

The series brings together UCL researchers who write computer programs for their research, in an informal context to learn about new technologies and approaches in research technology and discuss matters of common interest.

See http://research-programming.ucl.ac.uk/involved/ for more about the UCL Research Programming Hub.