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Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia October 26, 2007 -- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Interim (KAUST) (http://itsummit.kaust.edu.sa/bio-alghaslan.aspx) answered a variety of questions about the KAUST IT Summit (http://itsummit.kaust.edu.sa/biographies.aspx) to discuss the digital infrastructure needed to support world-leading research (http://itsummit.kaust.edu.sa/location.aspx) on Sunday, October 28, 2007.
Q&A with KAUST Interim CIO Majid Al-Ghaslan about the KAUST IT Summit taking place on Sunday, October 28:
What is the KAUST IT Summit and what is the goal of the event
Al-Ghaslan: The KAUST IT summit will bring together 17 of the world's experts in computer science, e science, data intensive supercomputing, and Internet scale systems to Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia to envision technological solutions to address the problem of efficiently connecting data, computers, and people with the goal of enabling derivation of novel scientific theories
and knowledge essential to the conduct of 21st century science and engineering research and education (http://www.itsummit.kaust.edu.sa/default.aspx or