Rensselaer To Train U.S. Navy Officers in IT and Web Sciences

The U.S. Navy is turning to the Information Technology and Web Science (ITWS) Program at Rensselaer to prepare a select group of U.S. Navy officers with skills needed for military cyberspace operations. ...read more

DNA Analysis Unearths Origins of Minoans, the First Major European Civilization

Research published today in Nature Communications—produced with the aid of computer scientist Petros Drineas—used DNA analysis to unearth the origin of the Minoans. ...read more

Scientists Set a New Simulation Speed Record on the Sequoia Supercomputer

Computer scientists have set a high performance computing speed record that opens the way to the scientific exploration of complex planetary-scale systems. ...read more

First Meeting of New Research Data Alliance

Francine Berman co-leads the U.S. delegation, when nany of the world’s leading experts on “Big Data” and related fields will gather for the first plenary session of the new international Research Data Alliance (RDA). ...read more

Student Team Earns First Place in U.S. Health Data Platform Competition

Four graduate students in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently earned the top prize in a national health data platform challenge designed to create new functionalities for the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) repository for open health data: healthdata.gov. ...read more

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  • RPI freshman improving natural disaster response through coding

    November 5, 2018 -

    A freshman at RPI has found a way to improve natural disaster response and recovery through coding.

  • How One University Wants to Teach Students to Use Data

     April 6, 2018 -

    Data is an increasingly pervasive force in American life, with the power to shape perception and policy. And so it makes a certain amount of sense that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently adopted a new "data dexterity" requirement for its students, starting in fall 2019.

  • RPI Adds New 'Data Dexterity' Requirement

     March 27, 2018 -

    TROY, N.Y. (AP) — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be requiring all of its students to be able to use diverse datasets to solve complex problems.

    RPI says its "data dexterity" requirement will ensure that all students graduating for the school in Troy, New York are prepared for an increasingly data-driven world.