The University of Arkansas at Little Rock was the only higher-education institution in the state chosen to take part in a national effort to develop a Big Data Regional Innovation Hub.
UALR will be a part of the South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub, which serves Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
The Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of North Carolina's Renaissance Computing Institute will direct the Southern hub -- one of four that the National Science Foundation named Monday.
"Data science touches all aspects of the human experience and the Hub will enable us to bring data together in a complementary way for better problem solving in our communities," Srinivas Aluru, co-principal investigator at Georgia Tech and professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, said in a prepared statement.
The hubs will work to create big data goals for five areas: health care, coastal hazards, industrial big data, materials and manufacturing, and habitat planning. The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.25 million for the South Big Data Hub for the next three years.
At UALR, the director of the George W. Donaghey UALR Emerging Analytics Centers, Carolina Cruz-Neira, will work on visualization and interactive analytics tools for big data, she said in the news release. Cruz-Neira, who will serve on the Southern hub's steering committee, said visual analytics can affect many things, including corporate decisions and national security.
Metro on 11/07/2015