[UCI-Calit2] The Digital Hour, featuring Michael J. Carey: May 2, 2012

Shellie Nazarenus snaz at calit2.uci.edu
Thu Apr 12 15:10:36 PDT 2012


The Digital Hour

 



 

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

11:45 am - 12:50 pm

UC Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business, Room 117

 

 
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Michael J. Carey, UC Irvine

 

"O Sole Mio"

Orographic implications of SOcial, Local, Event and Mobile Information
Observing

 

RSVP to Maureen Vasquez: mbvasque at uci.edu

 

Join us for this casual & informative speaker series. A light lunch will
be provided at 11:45 am. He will talk about the unprecedented and
ever-increasing mass of information in the world around us.

 

Abstract 

According to Wikipedia, "Orographic lift occurs when an air mass is
forced from a low elevation to a higher elevation as it moves over
rising terrain. As the air mass gains altitude it quickly cools down
adiabatically, which can raise the relative humidity to 100% and create
clouds and, under the right conditions, precipitation." 

 

Through social media and mobile devices, a mind-boggling fraction of the
world's population is now contributing on a daily basis to an
unprecedented and ever-increasing mass of information about the state of
the world around us. This talk, inspired by attending a recent NSF
Workshop on Social Networks and Mobility in the Cloud, will try to
examine: 

 

-The orographic forces related to social networks, mobility, and "the
cloud" - namely, the impact of this new mass of information, originating
from people on the surface of our planet, as it rises and leads to the
formation of various kinds of clouds. 

-The commercial and research sectors are responding to these forces so
far, in terms of their current work on software platforms for tackling
the resulting "Big Data" problems. 

-The ASTERIX project at UC Irvine as an attempt to respond more directly
to today's orographic information forces, briefly reviewing the
capabilities of the ASTERIX software stack and the opportunity that it
will present for others to participate as it moves into its planned
open-source phase later on this year. 

-Some of the things we might want to try doing across departments at UCI
in response to these orographic forces 

 

Biography 

Michael J. Carey is currently a Bren Professor of Information and
Computer Sciences at UC Irvine. Prior to rejoining academia in 2008,
Carey worked at BEA Systems, Inc. as a chief architect and engineering
director for the BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform team. Prior to
BEA, Carey spent a number of years as a Professor at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, at IBM Almaden as a database researcher/manager, and
as a Fellow at e-commerce software startup Propel Software. Carey is an
ACM Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a
recipient of the ACM SIGMOD E. F. Codd Innovations Award. Carey's
current research interests are data-intensive computing and scalable
data management. 

 

Upcoming Talk:  Wednesday, June 6, 2012, featuring Alladi Venkatesh, UC
Irvine's Professor of Management, "Making of the Digital Household:
Current and Future Trends" (SB 117)

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