Big Data Meeting at AAAS

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is hosting a meeting that will discuss several new federal efforts relating to big data. The meeting is is today from 2-3:45pm and there will be live webcast.

Participants include

• John Holdren, Assistant to the President and Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Subra Suresh, Director, National Science Foundation
• Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health
• Marcia McNutt, Director, United States Geological Survey
• William Brinkman, Director, Department of Energy Office of Science
• Zach Lemnios, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering, Department of Defense
• Kaigham “Ken” Gabriel, Deputy Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Daphne Koller, Stanford University (machine learning and applications in biology and education)
• James Manyika, McKinsey & Company (Co-author of major McKinsey report on Big Data)
• Lucila Ohno-Machado, UC San Diego (NIH’s “Integrating Data for Analysis, Anonymization, and Sharing” initiative)
• Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University (Big Data for astronomy)