new grant

Melbourne eResearch Group are involved as the technology/platform providers for the Department of the Environment funded $8.8m Clean Air and Urban Landscapes project. See http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/hunt/2014/mr20141210.html for details of the announcement.

Peru...

Cool paper on A Cloud-based Exploration of Open Data: Promoting Transparency and Accountability of the Federal Government of Australia by Cloud Computing student Edwin Salvador (and myself) has been accepted for the International Symposium on Information Management and Big Data, September 2014 - in Cusco, Peru! Tempted to go, but work / time pressures prohibits such fun stuff and I did promise Edwin. Great stuff Chalo!!! (And thanks for the bus...! ;o))

Talks

Three extended abstracts for presentations accepted for eResearch Australia 2014:

R.O. Sinnott, Y. Fang, E. Salvador, Exploring the Transparency of Government through Big Data on the Cloud, eResearch Australasia conference, Melbourne, Australia, October 2014.

R.O. Sinnott, Explorations of Big Data Analytics on the NeCTAR Research Cloud and RDSI Infrastructures: Global Twittering, eResearch Australasia conference, Melbourne, Australia, October 2014.

L. Bruns, R.O. Sinnott, An Australasian-wide Registry of Juvenile Diabetes Patients in the Cloud, eResearch Australasia conference, Melbourne, Australia, October 2014.