Randal Burns

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Randal Burns

www.cs.jhu.edu/~randal, randal(at)cs.jhu.edu, 410.516.7708

Randal Burns is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the Whiting School of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University.  He directs the Hopkins Storage Systems Lab, serves on the advisory board of the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science, and writes code for the Open Connectome Project.

His research focuses on the management, performance, and security of large data sets, particularly for scientific and archival applications.  His recent results address query processing for data-intensive science applications, remote data checking for outsourced storage services, and adaptive performance management for network data protocols.

Randal was formerly a Research Staff Member in Storage Systems at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose.  He earned his Ph.D. in 2000 and M.S. in 1997 from the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Cruz.  He earned his B.S. degree from the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University. Randal is on the Editorial Board of ACM Transactions on Storage.


 

Piazza

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We're trying out Piazza as a course discussion, moderation, and collaboration tool. The enrollment link is piazza.com/jhu/spring2012/en600420 and the course page for enrolled users is http://piazza.com/class#spring2012/en600420. Cool tool.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 07 February 2012 17:39
 

openconnecto.me

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The Open Connectome Project has a new home (aka base URL).  We have not physically moved to Montenegore (suffix: .me) although that seems like a good idea.

We are happy to be hosting 15TB (raw images) of EM image data representing 1154 slices of a mouse brain at a resolution of 3nm x 3 xnm x 40 nm.  Explore the data at openconnectomeproject.org. Soon we will provide a Web service to help researchers develop algorithms that automatically annotate neural structure and visualize those annotations.  A presentation on this service is also available at http://prezi.com/yj6psr8b9-35/the-open-connectome-project/.  This data set was featured on the cover of Nature on March 10, 2011.

 

EyeWire

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A team at MIT, including Sebastian Seung, has released Eyewire (http://eyewire.org/) a collaborative environment for the manual annotation of the retinal connectomes. Very cool.  This defines a crowd-sourcing approach to building connectomes in contrast to our efforts that use computer vision to automate connectome building in the Open Connectome Project (openconnecto.me).

(image from eyewire.org)

Last Updated on Tuesday, 07 February 2012 17:38
 

DSSG

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Randal Burns was nominated to serve as a member of the Defense Science Study Group's Class of 2012-2013.  This should be fun.  http://dssg.ida.org/
Last Updated on Monday, 30 January 2012 20:45
 
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