To meet its potential for driving discovery and knowledge acquisition, data science must address the key challenges posed by “Big Data,” assert Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professors James Hendler and Peter Fox in a commentary appearing in the June edition of the journal Big Data.
Tracking data provenance using Semantic Web technology offers a solution for decision makers considering results contained in such science-based documents, argue a group of researchers in a commentary published in the June edition of Nature Climate Change.
This summer, 48 area middle school students are curing the summer “brain drain” with a heavy dose of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fun.
Lighting Research Center (LRC) scientists John Bullough and Leora Radetsky have co-authored a report entitled "Analysis of New Highway Lighting Technologies."
The new Center for Deep Listening will spread Pauline Oliveros’ teachings about the practice of deep listening through events including workshops, conferences, lectures, retreats, and webinars.
Troy, N.Y. – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today named Shekhar Garde as dean of the School of Engineering. The appointment is effective July 1.
Troy, N.Y. – Whether it’s a glass of water, a bathtub, or the surface of a lake or ocean, interesting things happen where water meets air. From Benjamin Franklin to Irving Langmuir, scientists have long been interested in the air-water interface.
A new protein engineering technique developed at Rensselaer gives researchers a powerful new tool for fighting potentially harmful toxins and pathogens.
Research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes it possible to predict how subjecting metals to severe pressure can lower their electrical resistance.
The Lally School of Management is among the schools that will help prepare students for the 4.4 million jobs that will be created worldwide to support Big Data by 2015.