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Presentations Coordinator: Demetris Zeinalipour

Invited Course Lecture: Big Data - What Is It?, Dr. Demetris Zeinalipour (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 16:30-18:00 EET.

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus cordially invites you to the Invited Course Lecture entitled:

Big Data - What Is It?

Speaker: Dr. Demetris Zeinalipour
Affiliation: University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Category: Invited Course Lecture
Location: Room 148, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences (FST-01), 1 University Avenue, 2109 Nicosia, Cyprus (directions)
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Time: 16:30-18:00 EET
Host: Yannis Dimopoulos (yannis-AT-cs.ucy.ac.cy)
URL: https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/colloquium/presentations.php?speaker=cs.ucy.pres.2013.zeinalipour

Abstract:
Big data refers to data sets whose size and structure strains the ability of commonly used relational DBMSs to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Big data sizes commonly range from a few dozen terabytes to many petabytes in a single database and their underlying data model might be anything from structured (relational or tabular) to semi-structured (XML or JSON) or even unstructured (Web text and log files). Big data architectures are highly parallel and distributed in order to cope with the inherent I/O and CPU limitations. Such systems typically perform on mid-scale private clouds, offering higher privacy, to large-scale public clouds, both exposing operational and analytic functionality stand-alone or as-a-Service. This talk aims to overview the current big-data management landscape, the underlying technologies and their provenance, the latest NoSQL and NewSQL trends, possible applications of big-data management systems for online and offline processing of sensor data, text data, social data and medical data in enterprise environments. The talk will also overview ongoing big-data research and teaching activities at the University of Cyprus.

Short Bio:
Demetris Zeinalipour (PhD, University of California, Riverside, 2005) is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus. Before that he was a Lecturer at the Open University of Cyprus, a Visiting Lecturer at his current department and a Visiting Researcher at the network intelligence lab of Akamai Technologies (MA, USA). Demetris has served as the PC Co-Chair of ACM MobiDE'09, IEEE MDM'10 and VLDB's DMSN'10, the General Chair for ACM MobiDE'10, the Contest Chair of IEEE ICDM'10, the Demo Chair for IEEE MDM'13 and the Organization Chair of HDMS'10. His primary research interests include Data Management in Systems and Networks, in particular Distributed Query Processing, Storage and Retrieval Methods for Sensor, Smartphone and Peer-to-Peer Systems, Mobile and Network Data Management, Energy-aware Data Management. For more information, please visit: https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/ or http://dmsl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/

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