Please share this announcement with your fellow colleagues, students, researchers, etc. This symposium is free and open to the public. Weathering the Data Storm: The Promise and Challenges of Data Science Third Annual Symposium on the Future of Computation in Science and Engineering Institute for Applied Computational Science, Harvard University http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/data-storm Friday, January 24, 2014, 8:30am - 6:00pm Harvard Science Center, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Attendance is free, no registration required Symposium Co-Chairs: Hanspeter, Computer Science Joe Blitzstein, Statistics Pavlos Protopapas, Institute for Applied Computational Science Industry leaders, researchers, and Harvard students will gather for a day of lively conversation about the sweeping advances in data science at the intersection of statistics, computer science, and various domains. Leading experts in data science will talk about the way organizations are using careful analysis of data to address important real-world issues, about the challenges of big data, and about the future of this exciting emerging field. This one-day symposium will bring together data analytics professionals, domain scientists, academic researchers and users, and fosters an exchange of ideas through invited talks, panels, and plenty of audience interaction. Speakers: • Ryan Adams, Harvard University • Luke Bornn, Harvard University • Jeff Heer, University of Washington • Diane Lambert, Google • Fernando Perez, UC Berkeley • Claudia Perlich, Dstillery • Bonnie Ray, IBM • Cynthia Rudin, MIT • Rachel Schutt, News Corp. • Yuan Yuan, Dropbox Symposium Sponsors: Platinum - Liberty Mutual Gold - VMWare _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events