RIT to Host NYSGrid Meeting, Jan. 24-25

The members of NYSGrid will be meeting at the Rochester Institute of Technology Inn & Conference Center, 5257 West Henrietta Rd., Jan. 24-25. NYSGrid is a 21st century cyberinfrastructure initiative that provides RIT and 17 other higher education institutions from across New York state with unprecedented resources for research, education and community outreach.

Sessions will take place from 12-5:30 p.m. Jan. 24 and 8 a.m.-noon Jan. 25.

“The advantages to consolidating New York’s centers of expertise through the NYSGrid initiative are significant to both researchers and students,” states Diane Barbour, RIT’s chief information officer. “Users can more easily collect, manage, organize, analyze and visualize data without having to focus on the logistics associated with how that data is processed. This has the potential to expedite important advances in areas related to science and engineering.”

Joining RIT as founding institutions for this grassroots initiative are the University at Albany, Alfred University, Binghamton University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University at Buffalo, Columbia University, Cornell University, SUNY Geneseo, the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Marist College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Niagara University, NYSERNet, New York University, the University of Rochester, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stony Brook University and Syracuse University.