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Institute for Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA)

The Rensselaer IDEA

We increasingly live in a data-driven, web-enabled, supercomputer-powered, globally interconnected world, and this poses significant new challenges to scientists and engineers throughout all of their disciplines. Attacking these problems requires new technologies for sensing the environment, collecting and analyzing this data, using it to simulate engineered, biological and social systems, and applying these results to provide effectors, physical or cyber, that can help solve critical global challenges. The Rensselaer IDEA enables research to access such technologies via the development of critical computational methodologies including data-intensive supercomputing, large-scale agent-based simulation, and cognitive computing technologies.

Our Sponsors

 Jefferson Project at Lake George
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
CASE - Center for Architecture Science and Ecology
Elsevier
Fund for Lake George
General Electric
GlobalFoundries
Greenwich.HR
HBI Solutions
IBM
MITRE Corporation
New York State
NSCI - Neural Stem Cell Institute
Rensselaer
TEL
United Healthcare