- NSF announced a Big Data Regional Innovation Spokes initiative for establishing multi-institutional andmulti-sector collaborations (i.e., across academia, industry, government, non-profits, etc.) focused on big data challenges of specific interest to a given region
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505264
Funding is available to extend the existing Big Data (BD) Hubs network: working in concert with the corresponding regional BD Hub, each BD Spoke will work on a particular topic that requires Big Data approaches and solutions. Success guidelines are posted here: http://eepurl.com/bH3TrD (November 5, 2015). - "NSF I/UCRC Planning Grant Received to Create Center for Assured and Scalable Data Engineering", ASU Engineering In the Loop ( October 13, 2015).
- NSF West Big Data Innovation Hub, where we led the "Natural Resources and Hazards" Spoke is up and running (see the twitter Stream)