SAFL faculty, staff, and students
Monday, January 23, 2012 - 3:00pm

Dan Fay, Director, Earth, Energy, and Environment, Microsoft External Research Yan Xu, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research

NOTE: This special seminar will begin at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, January 23, in the SAFL Auditorium.

How to effectively share, discover, access, and consume data from heterogeneous sources is one of the outstanding challenges in today's environmental research. Environmental informatics is about innovatively using computing technologies to solve the data problems and advance the transformation of environmental data to information, to knowledge, and to social impact. This talk will showcase Microsoft Environmental Informatics Framework (EIF), which defines the role that Microsoft Research plays in contributing to the advancement of environmental research worldwide. Interactive discussions with the audience is expected to be a main part of this presentation.

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