Ecology and environment
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Idea Date Science – Session 1
Modeling Ecosystems from Genome to Society – A symposium presenting how an international consortium that is working to build the first full-scale simulation of a complex social-ecological system. The Island Digital Ecosystem Avatar (IDEA) is…
Publication
Project Florence: A Plant to Human Experience
Publication
Dunking the data center
Video
Fukushima Daiichi – Six Years Later
Following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunamis off the northeastern coast of Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant personnel encountered extraordinary challenges in managing the loss of electrical power, control, and instrumentation at…
Video
Microsoft’s underwater datacenter: Project Natick
Introducing Microsoft Project Natick, a Microsoft research project to manufacture and operate an underwater datacenter. The initial experimental prototype vessel, christened the Leona Philpot after a popular Xbox game character, was operated on the seafloor…
Project
Food Futures
We believe that the future of food will be supported by the infrastructure of the information age paired with new agricultural movements like aquaponics and urban farming. A world of connected devices, made intelligent and…
Project
Natick
Transitioned | Project Natick seeks to understand the benefits and difficulties in deploying subsea datacenters worldwide — we designed, built, and deployed our own prototype subsea datacenter in the ocean, all in about a year.