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Gathering expertise 
to fight data overload

Big data competence centres are being built in Berlin and Dresden.

12.08.2014
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Germany is realigning its research on big data and IT security. Big data competence centres are being built in Berlin and Dresden in 2014. Techni­sche Universität Berlin is masterminding the Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC), and Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) is at the helm of the Comp­etence Center for Scalable Data Services and Solutions (ScaDS). The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the centres with a total of roughly 10 million euros. The BMBF 
is investing a further 20 million euros 
in promoting a number of dif­ferent 
research projects on how to deal with big data not only in industrial production, but also in the life and earth 
sciences. Data-protection issues are being intensively monitored in these research projects.

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