Centre for Eye Research Australia - Swinburne Uni's Prof Matthew Bailes on Big Data, and possible collaborations with CERA

Swinburne Uni's Prof Matthew Bailes on Big Data, and possible collaborations with CERA

09/04/17 • 8 min

Big Data is one of the latest science buzzwords, but what does it mean for health, vision and ophthalmology? What kind of collaborations could there be between astrophysicists and vision science researchers? On 21 July researchers from the Centre for Eye Research Australia and Swinburne University spent the morning discussing the importance of big data and super computing power in their research The following is an interview with Professor Matthew Bailes, an astrophysicist at the University's Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, and the Director of OzGrav, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery.

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