About Science

Science

When tools for collecting, sharing, and analyzing data improve, science advances faster. But many of today’s tools are reaching their breaking points—they fail in the face of growing workloads and increasing complexity, and they have seldom been designed with sustainability in mind. Within IST, we are developing new systems that handle today’s work easily and scale up well. We study the fundamental mathematics and physics of information and apply what we learn to build better tools from the ground up.

Research thrusts

• Energy-saving, high-performance ways to exchange, process, and store data
• Tools and methods for extracting vital information from massive datasets
• Simulations and 3-D visualizations that allow scientists to make accurate predictions even in the presence of uncertainty
• Tools that help researchers collect and classify data, using machine-learning and machine-vision technologies.