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Partnerships Intended to Establish Massachusetts as a World Leader in Big Data

May 30, 2012
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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced the creation of the Massachusetts Big Data Initiative, a number of steps and initiatives that will help turn the state into a world leader in big data — the collection and analysis of data that is too big, growing too fast or is too complex for existing information technology systems to handle. To achieve this goal, the state will partner with several private partners and research institutions to establish several new initiatives including:

  • The Massachusetts Big Data Consortium, with an organizing committee led by academia and industry, to be facilitated by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative;
  • The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke, a $163 million collaboration between the state, several top research institutions and industry partners;
  • A research and development matching grant program devoted to big data;
  • A big data internship program; and,
  • Hack/Reduce, an innovative nonprofit community "hackspace" in Boston, where people working with big data can share infrastructure resources and knowledge funded by several big data companies and venture capital firms.

Read the press release...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Intel corporation also unveiled a five-year, $12.5 million partnership creating the bigdata@CSAIL, an industry-sponsored research group focused housed at MIT"s The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The bigdata@CSAIL initiative will bring together leaders from academia, industry and government to develop sophisticated techniques for capturing, processing, analyzing, storing and sharing big data, with the overall goal of making it more useful for society as a whole. Their work will focus on key domains such as finance, medicine, social media and security. Additionally, Intel Corporation announced today that it is establishing the new Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Big Data at CSAIL. Read the press release...

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