A Fourth Paradigm (J. Gray) is emerging. This data-centric setting requires a new look at computing architectures, algorithms and strategies to exploit the accumulation of data in social networks, Internet archives, physical sciences and genomics. We are soon dealing with Petabytes if not Exabytes of data to harvest information from.

CWI Lectures in Mathematics and Computer Science 2010
DATA INTENSIVE RESEARCH

On Friday 25 June 2010 Hector Garcia-Molina, Stratos Idreos, Alex Szalay and Daan Crommelin will be giving lectures on "Data Intensive Research" at CWI. Below you will find more information about the speakers and the full agenda. The registration form can be completed here.

The opportunities for large scale text analysis is discussed by Hector Garcia-Molina, who brings experience in the analysis of large web archives and the challenges scalability poses for domain specific information extraction. He will survey the research issues on entity-resolution at a world scale.

Data intensive research in numerical data is discussed by Alex Szalay. He brings experience in the development of the pivotal Sloan Digital Sky Server, which enables data intensive research in astronomy. He will explore the consequences and lessons learned for eScience research at large, including the fusion with computational science simulations.

Stratos Idreos and Daan Crommelin complete the grand visions with concrete data intensive research in database architectures and modelling at CWI.

SPEAKERS:

Hector Garcia-Molina is professor at the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (USA). He is author of over 370 papers on distributed databases, digital libraries and social networks. His current interest is to push the technology for knowledge extraction at Internet scale.

Alex Szalay is the Alumni Centennial Professor of Astronomy and Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University. He is a cosmologist, working on the statistical measures of the spatial distribution of galaxies and galaxy formation. He has written over 450 papers, covering areas from theoretical cosmology to observational astronomy, spatial statistics and computer science.

Stratos Idreos is a tenure track researcher in the Information Systems Department at CWI. His interests are algorithms for adaptive database architectures.

Daan Crommelin is a researcher in the Dynamical Systems and Numerical Analysis group at CWI. His research focuses on stochastic methods for multiscale systems estimation of stochastic-dynamical models from data and applications in atmosphere-ocean science.

PROGRAM

13.25
Welcome by Martin Kersten

13.30
Hector Garcia-Molina
Entity Resolution: Identifying Real-World Entities in Large Data Sets

14.15
Stratos Idreos
Database Cracking: Towards Auto-tuning Database Kernels

14.40
Break

15.00
Alex Szalay
Amdahl's Laws and Extreme Data Intensive Computing

15.45
Daan Crommelin
Blending Data with Models in Climate Science

16.10
Wrapup by Jan Karel Lenstra

16.15
Drinks

Location: CWI, Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Turingroom (Z011)

A printable version of the content above can be found in this invitation (pdf).