Vikram Pudi
April 21, 2020
Simulating Infection Spread
It might seem obvious that reducing social movement will reduce the spread of infection. However, it is not obvious how much it will reduce. Will it be enough to stop the virus? Will it only slow it down? How long do we expect the virus to last in regions with differing population densities? While there […]
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bigvis2020
March 20, 2020
Big Data Visualization and Analytics: Future Research Challenges and Emerging Applications – Part 1
Data visualization and analytics are nowadays one of the cornerstones of Data Science, turning the abundance of Big Data being produced through modern systems into actionable knowledge. Indeed, the Big Data era has realized the availability of voluminous datasets that are dynamic, noisy and heterogeneous in nature. Transforming a data-curious user into someone who can […]
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Alon Halevy, Arun Kumar and Nesime Tatbul
February 10, 2020
Scalable Data Science: A New Research Track Category at PVLDB Vol 14 / VLDB 2021
This post introduces and explains the newly created category of “Scalable Data Science” within the Research Track of PVLDB. This category comes into effect for volume 14, i.e., submissions starting April 1, 2020, which will be evaluated by the Review Board of PVLDB vol 14 for presentation at VLDB 2021. The Growth of Data Science […]
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Magda Balazinska, Carlo Curino and Avrilia Floratou
January 7, 2020
The Diversity of Diversity & Inclusion
The importance of diversity and inclusion has been widely recognized by now and efforts toward this goal are commonplace in almost all settings. Diversity and inclusion, however, remains challenging, and even well-intentioned efforts do not always work. In this blog post, we report on our experience with the ACM SOCC’19 conference that recently took place […]
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FoWParticipants
September 23, 2019
Imagine all the People and AI in the Future of Work
Shonan Village Workshop on FoW Sep 8-12, 2019 We envision the Future of Work (FoW) to be a place where humans are empowered with the ability to rely on AI machines in an on-demand fashion, with ability to juggle diverse job opportunities that provide intellectual self-actualization, and enhance their capabilities by continuous knowledge and skill […]
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