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Ivan R. Medvedev, Robert Schueler, Jessica Thomas, Kenneth O, Hyun-Joo Nam, Navneet Sharma, Qian Zhong, David Lary, Philip Raskin (2016), Analysis of Exhaled Human Breath via Terahertz Molecular Spectroscopy, IRMMW-THZ 2016, 41st International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, 25-30 September 2016, Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.

https://bigdata.eventos.cimat.mx

BIG DATA IN SERVICE OF SOCIETY

Machine learning and multiple massive Big Data sets can be of great use for a wide variety of scientific, societal and business applications. The World Health Organization issued a report stating that seven million people died in 2012 from pollution related issues. Each year there are an estimated 219 million cases of Malaria. Eleven states have recently made drought declarations. Every year the US spends between $1 and $2 billion fighting fires. Issues such as these are of massive societal and personal relevance. Big Data and machine learning can provide invaluable tools for both improved understanding and making data driven decisions and policy.

This workshop will give an introduction to a wide range of Big Data applications of major scientific and societal importance such as environmental health, drought and water issues, fire.

The practical tools introduced can be readily used in a wide range of applications from research to real time decision support. The data used comes from a wide variety of sources including scientific instrumentation, social media, remote sensing, aerial vehicles and the internet of things.

US Ignite & GENI, Mar 23 – Mar 25, 2015 held at Hilton Crystal City at Washington Reagan National Airport and at the Marvin Center, The George Washington University 2009 Service Awards, The George Washington University, 800 21st Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20052, USA

Unmanned airborne networks (ANs), as a representative but highly challenging mobile complex information system (CIS), have recently attracted significant interest across a multitude of agencies. This growing interest is stimulated by the advantages of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as transportability, wide coverage and unmanned maneuvering, and also by direct flight-to-flight communication schemes such as small delay, high throughput and flexibility. These advantages give rise to broad novel applications including next-generation air traffic control, search and rescue, surveillance, cargo transportation, and on-demand creation of communication network infrastructure after disasters, among others.

Despite these advantages and broad applications of unmanned ANs, the research is still at its very early stage, due to the highly complex, mobile, and varying AN structure, heterogeneous communication environment, and very limited power and computation resources. In order to overcome these difficulties, it is crucial for academia, industry, and international researchers to cohesively collaborate and share multi-source information and test-beds.

This international seminar will serve as a starting point to propel research progress in this emerging field. We expect that a series of such events will lead to strong international collaboration, funding opportunities, and fruitful research outputs.

Talk on Applications of Aerial Networks

Workshop Agenda

Invited to speak at Symposium on Healthcare and Analytics in Research and Practice (SHARP 2014) as part of a panel on Analytics Powering Smart Cities and a session on Smart and Connected Cities. The use of big data and analytics approaches in the fields of science, technology and business is promising and set to grow over the next several years. The adoption of such approaches should lead toward the development of next-generation innovation that is widely adopted in organizations and localized communities but are also sharable over high-speed, gigabit cyber-networks such as the government’s Geni initiative. Analytics-driven developments in various spheres such as healthcare, smart grid, public health, consumer, etc. can strongly influence the technological evolution, guide policy making, while reshaping the future and catalyze the innovation culture at the global, regional and metropolitan levels. Various private and public open-data initiatives will be key drivers for this change. Such an approach requires a new thinking blended with state-of-art new business, technology and analytics skills and strong scientific research.

Invited Lecturer at the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Observation Summer School

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The NTx Apps Challenge launches with a bang at our Challenge Kickoff on July 24th at The DEC. Join us for an evening of great ideas and dynamic speakers, including Calvin Carter, CEO of Bottle Rocket, Dr. David Lary, Professor at University of Texas at Dallas, and Scott Harper, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Dialexa.

Come learn about this year’s Challenge Verticals, check out some cutting-edge product demos, network with our amazing Challenge Mentors, and start building your dream dev team for your shot at $80k in prizes.

Whether you are a hacker, a designer, an entrepreneuer, or just someone with a good idea, you will not want to miss this spectacular night!

US Ignite fosters the creation of next-generation Internet applications that provide transformative public benefit. By engaging diverse public and private leaders we “ignite” the development and deployment of new applications with profound impact on how Americans work, live, learn and play. To learn more visit www.us-ignite.org.