For the last year or
so, we've been telling you about educational and research partnerships resulting form our
Academic Cloud Computing Initiative. We've shared educational
material resulting from our extensive partnership with the University of Washington
and partnered
with the National Science Foundation to directly engage the research community and provide
access to a large scale, data intensive computing cluster.
Why? Because big data is cool; it drives nearly everything we do here at
Google and provides unprecedented opportunities for understanding science in new ways. It's
been an exciting year learning how to work with the academic community in this space, and we'd
like to start sharing that with other passionate educators.
To that
end, we've worked with our academic partners to offer a two and a half day NSF-sponsored
workshop, hosted at UW, which will focus on providing material and curricular support to
undergraduate computer science educators seeking to address big data in the classroom. This
will largely focus on material that can be found on Google Code University, but will include
practical lab components so educators can get their hands dirty with the open source platforms
and the tools necessary to offer a class.
Interested faculty should
feel free to apply for
attendance here. The NSF has provided support to cover expenses for those selected
to attend.
