{"id":37726,"date":"2015-08-25T14:22:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T00:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=37726"},"modified":"2021-08-05T09:47:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T19:47:35","slug":"uh-manoa-hosts-big-data-and-big-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/25\/uh-manoa-hosts-big-data-and-big-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa hosts Big Data and Big Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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David Lassner and Daniel Goldin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education<\/a> (C-MORE<\/abbr>) and a UH<\/abbr>-based National Science Foundation<\/a> (NSF<\/abbr>) Research Coordination Network ECOGEO<\/abbr> will host the NSF<\/abbr> Science and Technology Center’s directors meeting in August. The meeting will begin on Thursday, August 27 with a morning conference on Big Data and Big Ideas<\/em> which is open to the public.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> President David Lassner<\/strong> will open the session, followed by a one-hour plenary talk by Dan Goldin, the longest-serving administrator in NASA<\/abbr><\/a>’s history.<\/p>\n

About the speakers<\/h2>\n

David Lassner<\/strong>
\nDavid Lassner was appointed University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> President on July 1, 2014, and has been at UH<\/abbr> since 1977. Lassner is an internationally respected leader in information technology for higher education. He earned a MS<\/abbr> degree in computer science at University of Illinois at Urbana and a PhD<\/abbr> in communication and information sciences from UH<\/abbr> at Mānoa.<\/p>\n

Daniel Goldin<\/strong>
\nDaniel Goldin holds the distinction of being the longest-serving administrator in NASA<\/abbr>’s history. He presided over the agency from 1992–2001, at the pleasure of Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He is credited with transforming NASA<\/abbr> through aggressive leadership, improvements in scientific and technological productivity and visionary investments. Following his retirement from NASA<\/abbr>, Goldin founded the Intellisis Corp. in San Diego to develop transformational pattern recognition and information processing systems for industrial, government and humanity’s needs.<\/p>\n

Event schedule<\/h2>\n