How are materials related to big data? We speak with Dr. Ian Foster from the University of Chicago and Dr. Klara Nahrstedt from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign about data science. Dr. Nahrstedt is a Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Dr. Foster is the Director of Argonne National Laboratory’s Data Science and Learning Division and a Distinguished Service Professor for the Department of Computer Science.

Songs included in this episode are “Jack” by Podington Bear, available under creative commons, and “Also Sprach Zarathustra'' by Richard Strauss. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/