Last week caBIG had their annual meeting. Unfortunately, none of us were able to make it to DC but I did hear some reports from the Population Sciences SIG about one particularly interesting presentation by Noshir Contractor of Northwestern University. His group has been working on population research using the grid focused on population level tobacco data , tobacco data collection intstruments and caGrid. The powerpoint from Dr. Contractor is posted here: http://www.iknowinc.com/~nosh/2008%206%20PopSciGrid.ppt
It seems that some of the benefits of Grid technology for pop sci highlighted by this presentation focus more on some of the things we’ve been focusing on (data sharing and security) and not as much on sharing of computational resources.
-Becky
July 7, 2008 at 8:33 am
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