N°28I quarterlyI JaNuary 2013 Contents | 3 4I5 In the News 28 I30 In Images 38 CNRS Facts and Editorial 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics Serge Inside France’s prestigious center Figures Haroche, Earth Sciences Summit, for heritage preservation. Latest data on the largest tops international rankings. 31 Insights institution in Europe.fundamental scientific anniversary, CNRSth The ESO’s 50 Shale gas extraction: alternatives 17 Innovation needed. 39 Snapshot Bioelectronic sensors for diabetes patients and a new 32 I37 CNRS Networks How plants grow roots. ITELMAN DNA sequencing method. CNRS and MIT joint research on © J. M porous materials, Microfluidics, By Markasch, MatheMatIcs &hPc scIeNtIfIc and research in Australia and New Zealand. OffIcer at thefreNch MINIstryOfhIgher Big Data is a new scientific discipline PHOTOTH 6I16 Live from the LabsèquesearchErdN aIONducat e with enormous societal challenges CNRS The Elysée Treaty turns 50, Writing with your (including genomics, health, global ENS eyes, SPIPOLL, Taming nitrenes, New cosmic/u warming, smart cities) that acts as a ESCO rays, Electronic tongues that can see, data can be considered to be a shared AET Scarring cells, Better cancer treatments, D. D driving force for research. In this sense, infrastructure facilitating research at © J. B and Bio-inspired computing memory.gRA national, European, and international levels. The European Commission has E within the framework of the European Anthropologist TIER/CNRS PHOTOTHèquProfile19I18Philippe Descola is recently funded four pilot projects Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) to form “data tal sciences, and particle physics. The CNRSgold Medal. C. ANAYA-gawarded the 2012uA- clusters” in the life sciences, environmen Research Data Alliance is an attempt to © federate these efforts around digital in- formation at the international level. The aim is to set up working groups and a plenary that will advise on certification, standards, and best practice. CNRS plays an active role in the “Big Data revolution.” In May 2012, it laun- chedMastodons, a dedicated interdisci- plinary grand challenge planned to run for five years, which will fund crosscut- ting research projects that tackle the emerging field of large data masses, its methods and applications. With its far-reaching multidisci- plinary expertise, CNRS is uniquely po- sitioned to take up the challenge. As such, we expect to become a world leader in LE this exciting albeit complex domain. OOg © g 20I27 Focus The Big Data Revolution 24 I Coping with a Data Deluge the online versionTo receiveA New ChallengeI 21 of CNRS International 26 I Data Storage: a Teething Problem Magazine thesepictograms indicate in your inbox, email us at: extra content (pictures or videos) that can be accessed on the online version of the magazine. >www.cnrs.fr/cnrsmagazine
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