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SUMMARY:Turing and Darwin: Saving the environment by combining computation
  and human insight - Gareth Russell\, New Jersey Institute of Technology
DTSTART:20110426T083000Z
DTEND:20110426T093000Z
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:The fundamental discipline for protecting the environment is e
 cology\, but while some areas of ecological theory are quite advanced\, th
 ere are large gaps in our basic understanding. Some of these arise because
  it is very difficult to collect suitable data to develop and test hypothe
 ses and models. Using a series of case studies\, I will illustrate how dif
 ferent computational approaches\, combined with parallel developments in h
 ardware\, can help fill in some of these gaps\, focusing on measuring spec
 ies' distribution\, abundance\, and dispersal movements. I will also be bu
 ilding that case that computation is only truly powerful when it is guided
  by the large body of knowledge and insight that ecologists have built up 
 over the last 150 years\, and only useful if the results we obtain are\, i
 n turn\, made available in a straightforward\, digestible manner to those 
 same ecologists so that they can take them and test them against the real 
 world.
LOCATION:Small lecture theatre\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomson Av
 enue (Off Madingley Road)\, Cambridge
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