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Summary Sentence: Four campus units sponsor Georgia Tech's first Big Data Industry Forum.
Full Summary: The Institute for Data and High Performance Computing (IDH), Scheller College of Business, Center for Data Analytics (CDA), and Center for High Performance Computing (HPC) sponsor a Big Data Industry Forum on Thursday, March 27, 2014, at the Global Learning Center.
Big Data Industry ForumBig data is transforming society. The explosion of data and its economic importance have been highlighted and publicized throughout industry, academia, and the highest levels of government.
Currently, industry leaders devote large-scale efforts on developing ways to derive value from these data and on designing new technologies that enable its exploitation, while Georgia Tech is a recognized innovator and developer of both big data technologies and its applications.
The Big Data Industry Forum brings together leaders from industry and Georgia Tech’s big data researchers to discuss the vision for big data, the value and opportunities it provides to industries, and the challenges that lie ahead to fully take advantage of the vast amounts of data being produced today.
The forum includes keynote talks by industry leaders, as well as provocative panel discussions, and also showcases research projects and new technologies being developed at Georgia Tech today.
For a detailed agenda of the event, please download a PDF version or visit the Big Data Industry Forum webpage.
