Date: Friday, February 28, 2014, Tomorrow! Location: Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Speaker: Stratos Idreos, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvard SEAS Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm. Talk, 1:00pm Title: Soon everyone will be a “data scientist” or a “data explorer”. What data systems will they be using? Abstract: How far away are we from a future where a data management system sits in the critical path of everything we do? Already today we need to go through a data system in order to do several basic tasks, e.g., to pay at the grocery store, to book a flight, to find out where our friends are and even to get coffee. Businesses and sciences are increasingly recognizing the value of storing and analyzing vast amounts of data. Other than the expected path towards an exploding number of data-driven businesses and scientific scenarios in the next few years, in this talk we also envision a future where data becomes readily available and its power can be harnessed by everyone. What both scenarios have in common is a need for new kinds of data systems which are tailored for data exploration, which are easy to use, and which can quickly absorb and adjust to new data and access patterns on-the-fly. In this talk, we will discuss this vision as well as recent and on going advances towards systems which are tailored for data exploration. Speaker bio: Stratos Idreos is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He works in the area of data management with emphasis on designing systems for big data exploration. For his doctoral work on Database Cracking, Stratos won the 2011 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation award which recognizes the best thesis internationally in the field of data management. In addition, he won the 2011 ERCIM Cor Baayen award as "most promising European young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics" from the European Research Council on Informatics and Mathematics. *********************** UPCOMING SEMINARS 3/7 John Bollen (Indiana University) 3/14 Raul Jimenez (University of Barcelona) 3/28 Devavrat Shah (MIT) 4/4 Yaron Singer (Harvard SEAS) 4/11 Hadley Wickham (R Studio & Rice University) 4/25 Spiros Mancoridis (Drexel University) Please visit http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/events to subscribe to our Google calendar, manage your subscription to this mailing list, or access video and audio recordings of previous seminars. _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events