[Crib-list] TODAY: SPEAKER: Dr. Jeremy Kepner (MIT-Lincoln Lab) -- SPECIAL Joint CRIBB & NEDB Summit Talk -- Friday, Feb. 1st -- TIME: 11:40 AM -- Room 32-123

[Shirley Entzminger]

T O D A Y . . .

  				  SPECIAL Joint
  		Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar
  				      and
  			 New England Database Summit Talk

  	(To order a lunch please register at: http://db.csail.mit.edu/nedbday13/)


Note "TIME" and "LOCATION" of talk.
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DATE:		FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2013
TIME:		11:40 AM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 123  (Stata Center)



TITLE:		Transforming Big Data with D4M


SPEAKER:	JEREMY KEPNER	(MIT-Lincoln Laboratory)


ABSTRACT:

The growth of bioinformatics, social analysis, and network science is forcing 
data scientists to handle unstructured data in the form of genetic sequences, 
text, and graphs.  Triple store databases are a key enabling technology for 
this data and are used by many large Internet companies (e.g., Google Big 
Table, Amazon Dynamo, Apache HBase, and Apache Accumulo).  Triple stores are 
highly scalable and run on commodity clusters, but lack interfaces to support 
efficient development of the mathematical algorithms used by many data 
scientists.  D4M (Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Data Model) provides a 
parallel linear algebraic interface to triple stores.  Using D4M, it is 
possible to create composable analytics with significantly less effort than 
using traditional approaches.  The central mathematical concept of D4M is the 
associative array that combines spreadsheets, triple stores, and sparse linear 
algebra.  Associative arrays are group theoretic constructs that use fuzzy 
algebra to extend linear algebra to words and strings.  This talk describes the 
D4M technology, its mathematical foundations, application, and performance.

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