Advanced computing and networks. Real-world impact in global science and research.
http://www.isgtw.org/visualization/world%E2%80%99s-first-digital-ocean-floor-map
From George Washington to Barack Obama, US presidents have been delivering the State of the Union address for the last 225 years. Mining nearly 2 million words, researchers at Columbia Universit...
http://www.isgtw.org/feature/text-mining-strikes-gold-political-discourse
Big data has been making a lot of headlines, but it's more than a fad or a mere academic exercise: It's about saving lives. Rice University bioengineers have pioneered an algorithm that helps do...
http://www.isgtw.org/spotlight/big-data-gives-doctors-another-tool-leukemia-fight
Researchers in Africa are hunting for a different kind of treasure. This treasure comes in the form of archived weather records tucked away in remote meteorological offices, and they just may fo...
http://www.isgtw.org/feature/digging-data-africa%E2%80%99s-climate-future