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Smart Machines and Data: From ALMA to Zetabytes

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  • Duration: 1 hr 31 mins
  • Publication date: 19 Jan 2017
  • Part of series The Appleton Lecture Series, IET Prestige Lecture Series

Abstract

Delegates attending this lecture will learn about the latest work on the next generation of instrumentation for Radio Astronomy, The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and The Square Kilometer Array (SKA), and it can help solve the engineering grand challenges of the 21st century.

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