From: "Clifford Lynch" <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:51:00 -0400
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Subject: Administration "Big Data" Research and Development Program and
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The Obama Administration is holding an event at 2-3:30PM Eastern to 
announce the rollout of a major new multi-agency research and 
development program based on "big data". The event will be streamed at

http://live.science360.gov/bigdata/

(I don't know if it will be archived for later replay)


There are a fact sheet and a press release at the OSTP site,

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/big_data_fact_sheet.pdf

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/big_data_press_release.pdf

The fact sheet has links to agency specific sites for more details.

Among the press coverage, see today's New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/technology/new-us-research-will-aim-at-flood-of-digital-data.html?_r=1

(Steve Lohr, the author of the piece, is scheduled to moderate a 
panel at today's session.)


Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI