Developing new computing approach to materials science
Monday, September 10, 2012 - 16:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Krishna Rajan of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory thinks there's more to materials informatics than plotting a thick cloud of colorful data points. As he sees it, managing computing tools to discover new materials involves harnessing the key characteristics of data: volume, velocity, variety and veracity (the four V's).