Statewide Academic Conversation with Tony Hey Live Streamed Feb. 24

February 12, 2016

The live conversation with Tony Hey, CBE, will be held in the Oklahoma Memorial Union Meacham Auditorium, OU Norman Campus. Following Hey's address, Oklahoma State University Vice President for Research Kenneth Sewell will moderate a discussion panel that includes OSU chemistry's Christopher Fennell. The event will be streamed live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auxQwkn8Dok. The live stream will also be archived for 60 days.

Hey has written extensively on a number of topics, especially relating to big data, open access, and reproducibility of research in the context of computer software and data.

Organizers hope the event can be this a statewide conversation about the ways in which open data can empower research.

Tony Hey is a fellow of the AAAS and of the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering, who began his career as a theoretical physicist and later moved into parallel computing & computer science. Hey co-wrote the first draft of the successful MPI message-passing standard and led the U.K.'s ground-breaking 'eScience' initiative in 2001. From 2005-2014, Hey was a Vice President at Microsoft responsible for their global university research engagements. He is now a Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. In 2005, he was awarded a CBE by Prince Charles for his 'services to science.'

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/archived-news/spring-2016/heystream

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