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Professors Find Ways to Keep Heads Above ‘Exaflood’ of Data
By admin | February 26, 2010
Professors Find Ways to Keep Heads Above ‘Exaflood’ of Data
San Diego–“We may already be in the red in terms of our ability to store information,” said Christopher L. Greer last week to an interested, and vaguely intimidated, audience of scientists and other academics. Gene sequences, distant pulsar signals, YouTube videos, e-mail — it’s all too much to keep track of.
Or perhaps not. Mr. Greer, who works on networking policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, was addressing a session called “Managing the
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