Idea Labs
- 1. NI VER U S E IT TH Y O F H G IDEA lab E R D I U N B a laboratory for informatics development, experimentation & applications Tuesday, 13 October 2009
- 2. user pull NI VER U S E IT TH Y O F H information is our business G E R D I U N B • health, biology • linguistics, economics, education • geosciences, engineering • physics, chemistry • sociology, economics • music, literature, theology ... Tuesday, 13 October 2009
- 3. technology push NI VER U S E IT TH Y O F H informatics – changing the ways we think G E R D I U N B • information retrieval - text mining • data management - data wiki • process modelling, simulation and analysis • pattern-recognition and machine learning • sensing, planning and control • parallel and distributed computation • social collaboration Tuesday, 13 October 2009
- 4. NI VER U S economies of scale E IT TH Y O F H G E R D I U N B • community - themes + workshops • open source toolkit + specialist tools • knowledge, skills and expertise • distributed infrastructure (IS + ECDF ++) • downstream pipeline (PROSPEKT, EPCC) Tuesday, 13 October 2009
- 5. IDEA lab NI VER U S E IT TH Y O F H informatics G E R D I U N B development experimentation applications • open community • research meets application • proof-of-principle prototyping • quick and clean – informed development • open-source open-data open-innovation Tuesday, 13 October 2009
- 6. get involved NI VER U S E IT TH Y O F H idea-lab-edinburgh.blogspot.com G E R D I U N B • community of interest • research meets innovation • developing web presence • information • skills and projects registry • software repository • data repository Tuesday, 13 October 2009