2 nd Rochester Big Data Forum ROCDATA 2013 Henry Kautz Chair, Department of Computer Science Director, Rochester Big Data Initiative

Data Science Computer Science Statistics Sciences, Humanities, Business

Changes Over Past Two Decades Distributed / cloud computing Explosion of geo-temporal data sources (and data in general) Expansion of applications beyond physical sciences Advances in algorithms and modeling methods National Research Council

Central Challenges Data providence and validation Coping with sampling biases and heterogeneity Leveraging parallel / multicore revolution Enabling real-time analysis and decision-making National Research Council

Schedule Machine Learning Government, Industry, & Business Lunch Life Sciences Physical & Social Sciences Dinner Reception – Eastman Jazz Quartet – Prof. Ehsan Hoque: Computers to Help with Conversations Live Streaming

Thanks Our distinguished speakers UR faculty, students, staff Industry partners – IBM – Xerox Financial supporters – Neal & Naomi Bergman

Welcome Joel Seligman President, University of Rochester