[Crib-list] SPECIAL Joint CRIBB & NEDB Summit Talk -- Friday, Feb. 1st -- TIME: 11:40 AM -- Room 32-141

[Shirley Entzminger]

 				  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/)


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DATE:		FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2013
TIME:		11:40 AM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 141  (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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