[Carolinas_asist] RENCI Program Sept 27: Carolinas_asist: 2013

[Deborah Swain]

You are cordially invited by the ASIST Carolinas
Chapter  and NCCU “Friends of MIS” for a
program of speakers and lunch at the RENCI  (Renaissance Computing Institute) in
Chapel Hill, NC on September 27, 2013.
The title of the program is: "Using Big Data: Challenges and the Role of
Information Science." Speakers representing various research and
analytical tools at the RENCI will present. The program begins at
11:00am, includes lunch, and ends at 1:00pm.


 Topics
by RENCI staff will provide overviews of data management and analytics for big
data, decision support, and cybersecurity, along with example projects in
healthcare and other domains. The agenda is below. Please RSVP by September
24 to akamyab at eagles.nccu.edu
or leave a phone message with Dr. Deborah Swain (919-530-7502).



The RENCI develops and deploys advanced technologies to enable research
discoveries and practical innovations. RENCI partners with researchers, policy
makers, and technology leaders to engage and solve the challenging problems
that affect North Carolina, our nation and the world. An institute of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, RENCI was launched in 2004 as a
collaborative effort involving UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University and North
Carolina State University.



Directions/location: RENCI Anchor Facility, 100 Europa Drive Suite 540, Chapel
Hill, North Carolina. Contact number: 919- 445-9640. Directions and link: http://www.renci.org/about/locations/renci-anchor-at-europa-center


AGENDA


"Using Big Data: Challenges and the Role of Information
Science"


September 27, 2013 – RENCI – Chapel Hill


11:00 Ashok Krishnamurthy: Intro and welcome remarks
(RENCI's organization, how it is working on big data, supporting research,
etc., and other strategic stuff (NCDS mention?))

11:10 Arcot Rajasekar: "Keynote style" overview about big data and
the field of Info Sci, mention/intro to iRODS

11:30 Erik Scott: Genomics, Hadoop, other NoSQL, etc.

11:45 Ketan Mane: Healthcare, medical decision support

12:00 Howard Lander: DataBridge research project overview ("applying
socio-metric models to opaque, long-tail data")

12:15 Lunch and networking

12:45 Discussion and closing


 Regards, Deborah Swain, Treasurer, cc: ASIST***Pardon any duplicate postings. Hope to see you Sept. 27***


  		 	   		  
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