g) Professor Paul Alexander (Department of Physics, Cambridge)
Duration: 22 mins 52 secs
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| Description: | The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in South Africa |
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| Created: | 2014-11-11 16:35 | ||||||
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| Collection: | Cambridge-Africa Day 2014 | ||||||
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||||||
| Copyright: | Cambridge-Africa Programme | ||||||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||||||
| Keywords: | Africa; SKA; Square Kilometre Array; South Africa; Big Data; | ||||||
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| Abstract: | The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the next generation radio telescope which will be built in Southern Africa and Australia. In Cambridge we have a close collaboration with colleagues in South Africa to realise this incredibly ambitious project and in this talk I will discuss some of these challenging technologies we are developing. The SKA is also one of the main Big Data challenges for science for at least the next decade and we have started a number of pilot projects in which we hope to use the SKA to promote data sciences more broadly in Africa and I will outline how we hope that the SKA can be used to promote training in data-science and ICT in Africa and Europe, as we all embark on this exciting new field. |
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