"The Internet of Everything"

"The Internet of Everything": Big Data, Small Data, Open Data and the New Field of Data Science

Abstract

The emergence of social networking, sensors, mobile devices, business data warehouses, scientific and government records creates an abundance of information. We like to call it ?Big Data.? Big Data comes in all forms: sound, video, images, symbols, measurements and natural language. It is changing the way we live and work, the way businesses operate and the way governments are run. And it is fundamentally changing the Information Technology landscape, giving rise to a new generation of cognitive applications and systems that sense, predict, infer, recommend, hypothesize, and in some ways, reason. In her talk Saška will provide an overview of the work at IBM Research focused on next-generation technologies and solutions founded in data analytics, with applications to smarter cities, healthcare, energy, agriculture, education and public good. She will also talk about the evolution of Signal Processing and related disciplines into the emerging field of Data Science, what it means and what it takes to be a Data Scientist. (The talk will be in English.)

Biography

Aleksandra (Saška) Mojsilović manages Data Science Group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Saška received her PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1997 from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. She has worked at Bell Laboratories (1998-2000) and IBM Research (2000-present). Her main research interests include multidimensional signal processing, pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications to business analytics, healthcare, financial modeling, multimedia, social and biomedical systems. Saška is one of the pioneers of business analytics at IBM and in the industry; throughout her career she championed innovative uses of analytics for business decision support. At IBM she has built mathematical models in support of customer relationship management, sales & marketing, risk assessment and talent management. For her technical contributions and the business impact of her work, Saška was appointed an IBM Fellow, the company?s highest technical honor. Saška is the author of over 100 publications and holds 14 patents. She received a number of awards for her work, including the IEEE Young Author Best Paper Award, INFORMS Wagner Prize, IEEE International Conference on Service Operations Logistics and Informatics Best Paper Award, European Conference on Computer Vision Best Paper Award, IBM Gerstner Award, IBM Market Intelligence Award and several IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards.