Join the Federal Highway Administration for the first in a series of webinars on Tuesday April 5th from 1:00PM-2:30PM (ET) on their program SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) Pooled Fund, which will conduct ground breaking research in the areas of Highway Safety, Operations, Planning, and Safety. This first webinar will provide an overview of the data and discussion of the Pooled Fund. Future webinars will be more closely aligned to potential research questions based on the data, including video analytics. The solicitation for this pooled fund can be found here. The SHRP 2 NDS data and complementary Roadway Information Database (RID) will provide unprecedented data to the highway community collected over a […]

The Office of the Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) invites you to attend Got Data? Building a Sustainable Ecosystem for Data Driven Research as part of its Frontiers in Science webinar series. The Frontiers in Science series brings ideas at the forefront of data science to the NIH and biomedical science communities. Lectures, webinars, and workshops in this series are intended to inspire biomedical data science innovation and exploration. TITLE:  Got Data? Building a Sustainable Ecosystem for Data Driven Research DATE: Thursday, November 5, 2015, 4 – 5PM LOCATION: NIH Main Campus, Building 35A Room 620/630. The event will be broadcasted live here. SPEAKER:  Dr. Francine […]

The Office of the Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has launched a new “Frontiers in Science” webinar series.  This series brings ideas at the forefront of data science to the NIH and biomedical science communities. Lectures, webinars, and workshops in this series are intended to inspire biomedical data science innovation and exploration. Many of these events are co-sponsored by individual NIH Institutes and Centers in order to highlight areas of data science that are of relevance or interest to particular biomedical domains. The next speaker is Dr. Martin Fenner from DataCite, who will speak on Data-level Metrics on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 from 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM EST. Martin […]

The National Academies’ Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) is hosting a webinar with Dr. Bradford Tousley, Director of the Tactical Technology Office (TTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on Thursday, October 22nd, from 1-2 PM EDT. The TTO of the DARPA develops system and subsystem level technologies that enable revolutionary improvements to the efficiency and effectiveness of military platforms. Specifically, TTO focuses on Ground Systems, Maritime and Undersea Systems, Air Systems, and Space Systems. As a part of the process, the office is soliciting executive summaries, white papers and proposals for advanced research, development and demonstration of innovative systems for military missions in those focus areas. The webinar will […]

The National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) is hosting a webinar on Friday, September 25, at 12:30 PM EST on Revealing knowledge bases of educational research, presented by Kristine Lund. Dr. Lund is a CNRS Senior Research Engineer in the ICAR language sciences laboratory at the University of Lyon and served as the vice-director of ICAR for 4 years (2007-2010). An English-French-Finnish trilingual, she is also currently Chief Scientific Officer at the www.Cognik.net company and one of its three co-founders. CogniK personalizes and adapts multimedia content for specific audiences. Abstract: Educational research covers a diverse area of topics ranging from psychological principles of learning and the role […]

The National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) is hosting a webinar on Thursday, April 9, at 11:00 AM ET on The Science of Learning, Technology, Big Data, and Transformation in Education, presented by Candace Thille. Dr. Thille is the founding director of the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University. Her focus is in applying the results from research in the science of learning to the design and evaluation of open web-based learning environments and in using those environments to conduct research in human learning. Abstract: Using intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations, and frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback, The Open Learning Initiative […]