Date: Friday, April 10, 2015 Time: Talk: 12-1pm (lunch will be provided during seminar) Location: Harvard SEAS, Maxwell Dworkin Bldg. Room G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Speaker: Budhendra Bhaduri, Corporate Research Fellow & Leads the Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Title: Big Data, Geospatial Computing, and My 2 Cents in an Open Data Economy Abstract: In this rapidly urbanizing world, unprecedented rate of population growth is not only mirrored by increasing demand for energy, food, water, and other natural resources, but has detrimental impacts on environmental and human security. Much of our scientific and technological focus has been to ensure a sustainable future with healthy people living on a healthy planet where energy, environment, and mobility interests are simultaneously optimized. Current geoanalytics are limited in dealing with temporal dynamics that describe observed and/or predicted behaviors of entities i.e. physical and socioeconomic processes. With increasing temporal resolution of geographic data, there is a compelling motivation to couple the powerful modeling and analytical capability of a GIS to perform spatial-temporal analysis and visualization on dynamic data streams. However, the challenge in processing large volumes of high-resolution earth observation and simulation data by traditional GIS has been compounded by the drive towards real-time applications and decision support. The ability to observe and measure through direct instrumentation of our environment and infrastructures, from buildings to planet scale, coupled with explosion of data from citizen sensors, brings much promise for capturing the social/behavioral dimension. Additionally, it provides a unique opportunity to manage and increase efficiencies of existing built environments as well as design a more sustainable future. This presentation will explore the intriguing developments in the world of Big Data, geospatial computing, and plausible ways citizens can all become part of the open data economy for advancing science and society. This talk is also part of the Geography Colloquium<http://gis.harvard.edu/events/seminar-series/colloquium> hosted at the Center for Geographic Analysis. Speaker Bio: Dr. Budhendra (Budhu) Bhaduri is a Corporate Research Fellow and leads the Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is the founding director of the Oak Ridge Urban Dynamics Institute and holds professorial appointments with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests and experience include novel implementation of geospatial science and technology in sustainable development research, including population dynamics, urbanization and watershed impacts, energy resource assessment, and disaster management. He has served on the Mapping Science Committee of the National Academy of Sciences, Geographic Information Science and Applications and on a Strategic Highway Research Program, Expert Task Group of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies. He is a founding member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Geospatial Sciences Steering Committee and a recipient of the Department’s Outstanding Mentor Award for his dedicated service for developing future workforce for the nation. Free and open to the public. No registration required. *********************** UPCOMING SEMINARS 4/24 Christian Rudder<http://www.okcupid.com/about> (OkCupid) on "<http://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/82896>Data: A Love Story: How data science, and a great deal of tinkering, created the biggest dating site in the U.S."<http://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/82896> Click here<https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events> to subscribe to our events list. _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events