[talks] Graham Cormode visiting

[Vivek Pai]

Reminder - this talk is today at noon

On 1/25/13 12:13 PM, Ariel Rabkin wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Here's another in our series of data and database talks.  Talk will be
> on Weds Jan 30, Room 302 at noon.
>
> NOTE THAT THERE WILL NOT BE A REMINDER THE DAY-OF, BECAUSE MAILING
> LISTS WILL BE DOWN DUE TO MIGRATION!!!
>
> Let me know if you want to meet with the speaker; should be of
> interest to both theory and systems people.
>
> Talk:  Small Summaries for Big Data
>
>   In dealing with big data, we often need to look at a small summary to
> get the big picture. Over recent years, many new techniques have been
> developed which allow important properties of large distributions to
> be extracted from compact and easy-to-build summaries. In this talk,
> I'll highlight some examples of different types of summarization:
> sampling, sketching, and special-purpose. Then I'll outline the road
> ahead for further development of such summaries.
>
>
>
> Graham Cormode is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the
> Database Management Group at AT&T Shannon Laboratories in New Jersey.
> Previously, he was a researcher at Bell Labs, after postdoctoral study
> at the DIMACS center in Rutgers University from 2002-2004. His PhD was
> granted by the University of Warwick in 2002. His work considers
> aspects of managing and working with large amounts of data, with
> particular emphasis on privacy and anonymization, and large scale
> analytics.
>
> --Ari
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