Conveners
Thursday Plenary
- Per Oster (CSC)
Sean Hill
(Human Brain Project)
21/05/2015, 09:00
Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an understanding will lead to fundamentally new computing technologies, transform the diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases, and provide profound insights into our humanity. The goal of the HBP is to pull together all our existing knowledge about the human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece...
Mark Parsons
(Research Data Alliance)
21/05/2015, 09:35
In recent years governments and research institutions have emphasized the need for open data as a fundamental component of open science. But we need much more than the data themselves for them to be reusable and useful. We need descriptive and machine-readable metadata, of course, but we also need the software and the algorithms necessary to fully understand the data. We need the standards and...
Wolfgang Gentzsch
(UberCloud)
21/05/2015, 09:55
The benefits for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of using technical computing within their design and development processes can be huge. However, the majority of SMEs perform virtual prototyping just on their desktop computers. But because of the limitations of these systems, many companies can't solve more sophisticated application problems. Therefore, most of these companies have a real...
