First 'Research Horizons' event to welcome Pinterest CEO, NSF leader to IU

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IUB Newsroom »First 'Research Horizons' event to welcome Pinterest CEO, NSF leader to IUFirst 'Research Horizons' event to welcome Pinterest CEO, NSF leader to IUSept. 6, 2016FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing will welcome leaders from the public and private global technology sectors to IU on Sept. 8 and 9.
Ben Silbermann, CEO of Pinterest, and Jim Kurose, assistant director at the National Science Foundation, will visit campus for "Research Horizons." The event will spotlight faculty efforts at the school and spark conversations about how research drives innovation.
Kurose, assistant director of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at NSF, and Silbermann, co-founder of the social media platform recently valued at $11 billion, will deliver keynote addresses from 9 to 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. to noon, respectively, Sept. 9.
Also delivering a keynote is Thomas Sterling, director of the IU Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies, who will speak from 1:45 to 2:45 p.m. Sept. 8.
The school's research will be represented with over 35, five-minute, lightning-round-style presentations from IU School of Informatics and Computing faculty.
Talks are closed to the public, but a livestream will be available. All lectures are open to the media.
"This event is designed to celebrate our school’s research and to facilitate new collaborations," said Martina Barnas, assistant dean for research and director of research collaborations at the IU School of Informatics and Computing. "Research Horizons will be a showcase for a plethora of exciting projects, and it will give a snapshot of the broad spectrum of work being done at our school."
The event also marks the start of another year of remarkable growth at the school, with a record enrollment of 2,878 total students and 14 new tenure-track faculty positions in the 2016-17 academic year. The school also boasts the largest master’s degree program at IU, with 580 students enrolled in ...

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