DIMACS/CCICADA Workshop on Systems and Analytics of Big Data

March 17 - 18, 2014
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:
Joseph Gonzalez, UC Berkeley
Daniel Hsu, Columbia University
Li Erran Li, Bell Labs, erranlli at gmail.com
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Information Sharing and Dynamic Data Analysis and The Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA).

Workshop Program:

Monday, March 17, 2014

 8:15 -  8:45  Registration and Breakfast - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building
 
 8:45 -  9:00  Opening Remarks
               Welcome Message from the organizers: Joseph Gonzalez, Daniel Hsu, and Li Erran Li

 9:00 - 10:00  Low-latency Distributed Analytics in Naiad
               Derek Murray, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Lab 

10:00 - 11:00  Counterfactual Reasoning and Learning Systems
               Leon Bottou, Microsoft Research

11:00 - 11:30  Break

11:30 - 12:30  Large Scale Graph-Parallel Computation for Machine Learning: Applications and Systems
               Joseph Gonzalez, Berkeley

12:30 -  1:20  Lunch Break

 1:20 -  1:30  DIMACS Welcome 
               Gene Fiorini, Associate Director of DIMACS

 1:30 -  2:30  Beyond Jeopardy! Adapting Watson to New Domains Using Distributional Semantics
               Alfio Gliozzo

 2:30 -  3:30  Machine Learning Meets the Crowd
               Justin Moore, Facebook 

 3:30 -  4:00  Break

 4:00 -  5:00  CloudCV: Computer Vision as a Cloud Service
               Dhruv Batra, Virginia Tech

 5:00 -  6:00  Panel on Systems and Analytics of Big Data
              
 6:30 -  8:30  Dinner:  
               Panico's Restaurant
               103 Church Street
               New Brunswick, NJ
               (732)545-6100


Tuesday, March 18, 2014

 8:30 -  9:00  Registration and Breakfast 

 9:00 - 10:00  MLbase: A User-Friendly System for Distributed Machine Learning
               Ameet Talwalkar and Evan Sparks, Berkeley

10:00 - 11:00  Better Living with Randomness
               Alex Smola, CMU

11:00 - 11:30  Break

11:30 - 12:30  The Thorn in the Side of Big Data: Too Few Artists
               Christopher (Chris) Re, Stanford

12:30 -  1:30  Lunch 

 1:30 -  2:30  Computing on JetStream: Streaming Analytics in the Wide-Area
               Matvey Arye, Princeton University

 2:30 -  3:30  Posters and Lightening talks
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