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Carolina Attracts World-Renowned Large-Scale Data Research Team, DICE

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (08/26/08)

The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill is the new home of the Data Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE) group, formerly known as the Data Intensive Computing Environments group of the University of California, San Diego's Supercomputer Center. The research group is experienced in the development of digital data technologies, including open source software for sharing data during collaborative research, the publication of digital libraries, and preserving data for future generations. "The opportunity to recruit an entire group of active researchers with an international reputation for vision, innovation, and accomplishment is rare," says UNC Chapel Hill chancellor Holden Thorp. Thorp says DICE's work is closely aligned with UNC's efforts in digital libraries and archives, databases, institutional repositories, information retrieval, and information management. Hosting the DICE group will give UNC students an opportunity to learn from and collaborate with a world-class research team, Thorp says. Group members will interact with colleagues in the school and other campus units on academic digital library and preservation research efforts, initially focusing on current collaborations, such as the National Archives and Records Administration Transcontinental Persistent Archive Prototype, the National Science Foundation Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure project, and the Library of Congress Video Archiving project. DICE also may work with UNC's computer science department and with the Renaissance Computing Institute on the visualization of large datasets.

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