NIST will hold a Big Data Workshop [1] 13-14 June 2012 in Gaithersburg, MD (USA) to explore key national priority topics in support of the White House Big Data Initiative. The workshop is being held in collaboration with the NSF sponsored Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research, a collaboration between UMBC, Georgia Tech and UCSD.

This first workshop will discuss examples from science, health, disaster management, security, and finance as well as topics in emerging technology areas, including analytics and architectures. Two issues of special interest are identifying the core technologies needed to collect, store, preserve, manage, analyze, and share big data that could be standardized and developing measurements to ensure the accuracy and robustness of big data methods.

The format will be a mixture of sessions, panels, and posters. Session speakers and panel members are by invitation only but all interested parties are encouraged to submit extended abstracts and/or posters by June 8. The workshop is being held at NIST's Gaithersburg facility and is free and open to all, although online pre-registration is required. A preliminary agenda [4] is available which is subject to change as the workshop date approaches.

[1] http://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/is/big-data.cfm
[2] http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/big_data_press_release_final_2.pdf
[3] http://chmpr.umbc.edu/
[4] http://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/is/upload/BIG-DATA-Workshop-may25.pdf