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An interview with Surajit Chaudhuri

An interview with Surajit Chaudhuri

Surajit Chaudhuri, Distinguished Scientist and head of the Extreme Computing Group (XCG) at Microsoft Research, Redmond provides valuable insights for revisiting data analytics in the context of big data.

By Aditya Parameswaran, September 2012

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Tags: General, Occupations, Systems

Big data platforms: What's next?

Big data platforms: What's next?

Three computer scientists from UC Irvine address the question "What's next for big data?" by summarizing the current state of the big data platform space and then describing ASTERIX, their next-generation big data management system.

By Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey, Chen Li, September 2012

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Tags: Information Search and Retrieval, Systems

Propagation and immunization in large networks

Propagation and immunization in large networks

Many interesting research questions can be explored by studying processes running over networks.

By B. Aditya Prakash, September 2012

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Tags: Systems

Parallel machine learning on big data

Parallel machine learning on big data

On algorithms for parallel machine learning, and why they need to be more efficient.

By John Langford, September 2012

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Tags: Parallel algorithms, Systems