View of the capitol from the University of Wisconsin Madison campusJEFF MILLER/UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Data-intensive, collaborative research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is safe—at least for now. The Wisconsin legislature amended the state budget, which now allows the university to continue sharing data with other institutions over high speed networks such as Internet2.
The news comes as a relief to many University of Wisconsin researchers, who were shocked when the state's finance committee last week proposed a budget that would have forced the University of Wisconsin to withdraw from such networks, which power many collaborative projects.
“This action recognizes that reliable, high-capacity broadband connections are important to large research endeavors,” said Timothy Donohue, a bacteriologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who leads the Great Lakes Bioenergy Center, which relies on Internet2 to share terabytes of data on biofuel development ...
