Alex Szalay
A Johns Hopkins astrophysicist is spearheading creation of a new tool to manage what he calls the “data deluge” in academic research.
Alex Szalay is heading up a national team to create the Open Storage Network, which will provide a place to store and share scientific data. The National Science Foundation recently awarded the project with a $1.8 million grant, which follows a $1 million seed grant awarded last year by Schmidt Futures, the philanthropic initiative of Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt.
Scientific research is producing massive amounts of data, and it’s led to new efforts to pool resources. According to the JHU Hub, Szalay encountered the supernova of info firsthand through past work on galaxies, and set out to create more efficient infrastructure to handle all of the data as director of the university’s Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science.
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