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19-870: (Redirected from Birns ) Birn or variants may refer to: BIRN [ edit ] Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN), a geographically distributed virtual community of shared resources relating to diagnosis and treatment of disease Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Berklee College of Music Internet Radio Network Birn or Birns [ edit ] Alex Birns (born 1907–1975), Jewish American mobster Jack Birns (born 1919-2008), American photographer Jerry Birn (born 1923-2009), American television writer Laura Birn (born 1981), Finnish actress Laura Bryan Birn (born 1965), American actress Other uses [ edit ] Dál Birn Lóegaire Birn Búadach , Óengus Osrithe's son Nem Moccu Birn (died 654), Irish saint Topics referred to by

38-591: A BIRN member or WG for more in-depth conversations. BIRN seeks to aid universities and institutional based researchers with complex, distributed projects, technologically or geographically. Such as multi-site clinical trials. Working Groups (WGs) evaluate candidate projects based on their unique characteristics and use cases. There are no specific project criteria or required sizes, although WGs may consider factors such as research goals, potential impact, technical challenges, host institution and sponsor funding. WGs typically discuss whether BIRN's capabilities will address

57-471: A central place for data to a means of supporting efficient data transfer. As a result, BIRN no longer provides hardware, offers or maintain servers (previously called “racks”) for storing user information, or uses participants’ computers as network interchange. The user-driven, software-based approach instead supports data sharing on participants’ existing hardware and software. Each user group retains control over, and responsibility for, its own hardware—and for

76-709: A key component. He is currently Director of the Data Science and Learning Division at Argonne National Laboratory , a unit established to tackle advanced scientific problems where data analysis and artificial intelligence can provide critical insights and accelerate discovery. Foster's honours include the Gordon Bell Prize for high-performance computing (2001), the Lovelace Medal of the British Computer Society (2002), an honorary Doctor of Science from

95-464: A plug-and-play, off-the-shelf product, the network seeks prospective users who are committed to conceiving, designing, building and implementing the best solution for their circumstances. Ian Foster (computer scientist) Ian Tremere Foster (born 1 January 1959) is a New Zealand-American computer scientist. He is a distinguished fellow, senior scientist, and director of the Data Science and Learning division at Argonne National Laboratory , and

114-775: A professor in the department of computer science at the University of Chicago . Foster was born in Wellington , New Zealand, in 1959. He was educated at Wellington College and the University of Canterbury , followed by the Department of Computing , Imperial College London . From 2006 to 2016, he was director of the Computation Institute (CI), a joint project between the University of Chicago , and Argonne National Laboratory . CI brings together computational scientists and discipline leaders to work on projects with computation as

133-567: A social level, BIRN looks for groups that understand users’ data-sharing problems and can articulate how those issues affect them in day-to-day, real-world ways. Groups aren't expected to be technical wizards, but do need to be able to articulate specific data-sharing needs and problems. BIRN contributes technical expertise, while users provide the knowledge specific to their fields. For instance, BIRN can advise on how to go about defining user needs and requirements, but only users can determine specifically what those factors should be. Because BIRN isn't

152-420: A website, wiki and mailing lists to help users stay current on up to date news and information. The best practices and topics related directly to their data-sharing considerations. Its experts can help biomedical teams select software, data and metadata community standards; set up security mechanisms and sharing protocols to create multi-institutional policies from a potentially overwhelming range of options. BIRN

171-737: Is a collaborative effort between the NIGMS and a variety of nationwide leadership associations: Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California , University of Chicago , Massachusetts General Hospital , University of California at Irvine , and the University of California at Los Angeles . Its interdisciplinary team consists of computer scientists, engineers, physicians, biomedical researchers and other technical experts, including grid computing developers Carl Kesselman of USC ISI, and Ian Foster of Argonne National Laboratories. Co-Principal Investigators are: Users range from small research groups to larger researching groups. Like

190-443: Is designed to be consistent with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) privacy and security guidelines. BIRN also offers documented best practices, expert advice, data-sharing, and query and analysis software tools specific to biomedical research. Its researchers develop authorization capabilities and new data-sharing and engineering tools to assist researchers in making sense of new information. BIRN

209-471: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Biomedical Informatics Research Network To serve the Biomedical community, BIRN is designed to share significant and intensive data between researchers across geographic distance using user driven base software. Participants can transfer data securely and privately, internal and external. All data transfer

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228-639: The Advancement of Science in 2003, and in 2009, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery , who named him the inaugural recipient of the high-performance parallel and distributed computing (HPDC) achievement award in 2012. In 2017, he was recognised with the Euro-Par Achievement Award. Foster's research focuses on the acceleration of discovery in a network using distributed computing . With Carl Kesselman and Steve Tuecke, Foster coined

247-754: The National consortias such as the Nonhuman Primate Research Consortium (NHPRC) and the Cardiovascular Research Grid (CVRG), both funded by NIH. By using BIRN's capabilities both to access data and perform research, groups can conduct large-scale data analysis while maximizing their existing technical infrastructure and expertise. Users also can participate in BIRN Working Groups that develop and support key functions, operations, security and data-sharing requirements. BIRN offers

266-878: The University of Canterbury in 2005, the IEEE Tsutomu Kanai Award (2011), the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award, (with Carl Kesselman ) the IEEE Computer Society Harry H Goode Memorial Award (2020), the IEEE Internet Award (2023), and the ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award (2022). He was elected Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2001, Fellow of the American Association for

285-466: The group's data usage requirements, which BIRN tools and areas of expertise would fit best, and related issues. BIRN strongly encourages inquiries from biomedical research groups nationwide. Among the characteristics of groups likely to get the most out of BIRN: the need to exchange data between multiple sites on an ongoing basis, not just from one site to another or for a one-time-only project, and/or to make data from multiple sites publicly available. On

304-459: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Birn . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Birn&oldid=1079747226 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

323-480: The security and privacy of its own information. Data is stored on users' systems rather than in a central repository, making possible storage of, and access to, vastly greater data quantities than was possible with BIRN “racks” alone. To become members, groups begin by filling out a contact form on the BIRN website. A BIRN team member responds, and if its services appear to be a good match, s/he typically refers questioners to

342-416: The term grid computing : techniques for data-intensive, multi-institution collaboration that paved the way for cloud computing . Methods and software developed under his leadership advanced discovery in areas as high energy physics, environmental science, and biomedicine. For example, grid computing was credited by CERN director Rolf-Dieter Heuer as one of the elements essential for the 2012 discovery of

361-479: Was initially built around several “testbeds” or selected projects in neurology research and begun as an NCRR initiative. In 2008, its software expanded significantly to including data-sharing support across the entire biomedical research community. The network, being now open to all biomedical research groups is In belief that BIRN will benefit from its services, regardless of a group's specialty, mandate, size or U.S. location. BIRN's mission also has shifted from having

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