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10.00 Am Daniel Austin, Head, Research and Development, Smart Services – CRC Welcome and Introduction 10.30 Am Gordon Bell R 10.00 am Daniel Austin, Welcome and Introduction Head, Research and Development, Smart Services – CRC 10.30 am Gordon Bell Big Data: A Contact Sport? Researcher Emeritus, Microsoft Research Like many information technologies, Big Gordon Bell is a Microsoft Researcher, Data, is one of those phrases aka buzzwords Emeritus, and former Digital Vice President that computer science eventually has to deal of R&D, where he led the development with and adopt as systems and the resulting of the first mini- and time-sharing applications become just too “big” to computers. Digital introduced VAX Clusters ignore. In a September CACM note Michael as a scale out architecture. As the first NSF Stonebraker summarized BD, or the 3Vs-- Director for Computing (CISE), he led the volume, velocity, and variety that drive NREN (Internet) creation. Bell has worked interesting technologies that are ripe for on and written articles and books about computer science: Big Volume/Small computer architecture, high-tech start-up Analytics; Big Volume/Big Analytics; Big companies, and life logging. He is a Velocity (real time for trading, commerce, member of the American Academy of Arts surveillance), and Big Variety (fusion of and Sciences, National Academy of multiple databases). Engineering, National Academy and Science, the Australia Academy of Stories of the misuse of data using all sorts Technological Sciences and Engineering and of analytics, is almost enough to inhibit work received The 1991 National Medal of on actual data and just support efforts on Technology. He is a founding trustee of the the downside e.g. how you assure anonymity Computer History Museum, Mountain for personal health data. The biggest View, CA. concern for computer science should be “just any data”—this requires working http://research.microsoft.com/en- collaboratively WITH fields that actually have us/people/gbell/ data--social and physical sciences, medical and health, and environment applications. This is an especially interesting period as another decade-old buzzword, the “Internet of Things”, comes into existence driven by the plethora of sensors and low cost, wireless, sensor networks. 11.30 Emeritus Professor Margaret Jackson De-identified Data, Identifiable Data and RMIT University Data Protection Regulations Emeritus Professor Margaret Jackson, RMIT University, researches and Data protection principles originated in the publishes in the areas of protection of late 1970s, before the WWW and the electronic information and privacy. She is internet. Their developers did not foresee currently a senior research fellow of the the growth of massive global databases, nor Smart Services Co-operative Research the phenomena of social media. Centre, leading research in the area of online privacy and the use of social media This presentation examines how current by courts. data protection principles apply to big data and discusses whether the data protection principles are still relevant today. Data She is the author of three books: ‘Electronic protection laws do not generally apply to Information and the Law’ (2011) (with unidentifiable or anonymous personal data Marita Shelly), ‘Practical Guide to the and one of the concerns about big data is Protection of Confidential Business that unidentifiable data can, when mixed Information’ (2006) and ‘Hughes on Data with other data, become personally Protection in Australia’ (2001), all published identifiable again. How should the data by Thomson Reuters. ‘Identity, Anonymity protection principles be applied in such and Privacy’ being co-authored with Dr cases? Gordon Hughes, will be published by Thomson Reuters in late 2014. Also discussed is the possible impact of the proposed European Union ‘right to be erased’ which is likely to come into effect in early 2015. While it will have no significance in Australia, it may impose new obligations on data collectors in Europe and the US. 12.00 pm Professor Timos Sellis Big data infrastructures: Exploiting the RMIT University power of big data Timos Sellis is a Professor at RMIT A revolution is going on these days in University in the School of Computer Computer Science around the Big Data Science and Information Technology, with theme. Many state that big data computing an expertise in Data Management. is perhaps the biggest innovation in computing in the last decade. Big data is not His research interests include data streams, only referring to large volumes; the number peer-to-peer database systems, of data sets, diversity and arrival rates are personalization, the integration of Web and also challenges to data-driven science and databases, and spatio- temporal database engineering. Our ability to process data, to systems. He has published over 200 articles store it and, most of all to understand it and in refereed journals and international drive decisions and discoveries is in the heart conferences in the above areas and has of research. The Australian Academy of been invited speaker in major international Science in its recently published report on events. He has also participated and co- "Future Science - Computer Science" sets the ordinated several national and European general theme "Meeting the scale challenge" research projects. and notes that "we need to develop new paradigms to address the needs of the data- Prof. Sellis is a recipient of the prestigious rich society. In particular, computer Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) award scientists need to develop theory and given by the President of USA to the most algorithms that will lead to the production of talented new researchers (1990), and of new tools and techniques that are required the VLDB 1997 10 Year Paper Award in to advance the state of the art in managing 1997 (awarded to the paper published in and making sense of data." the proceedings of the VLDB 1987 conference that had the biggest impact in In our work we look at novel means of the field of database systems in the decade managing, analyzing, and extracting useful 1987-97). He was the president of the information from large, diverse, distributed National Council for Research and and heterogeneous data sets in order to Technology of Greece (2001-2003), and in advance the development of new data November 2009, he was awarded the analytic tools and algorithms, and facilitate status of IEEE Fellow, for his contributions scalable, accessible, and sustainable data to database query optimization, and spatial infrastructures. In this talk we will emphasize data management. on our view on how to build such big data infrastructures and the interesting research problems that arise. 12.30 Dr Heather Horst Ethnographic perspectives on big data Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow RMIT University The emergence of 'big data' has led researchers within and beyond the academy Dr Heather Horst is a VC Senior Research Fellow to reconsider what, how and when to relate and Director of the Digital Ethnography Research to the 'big data' phenomenon. Chris Centre in the School of Media and Communication Anderson’s famously declared big data ‘the at RMIT University. Prior to joining RMIT, she held end of theory’. Corporations began research positions in interdisciplinary research imagining new forms of market research and centres at the University of Southern California, understandings of users through the University of California, Berkeley and University of collection, collation and connection of California, Irvine where she worked on large, metadata collected about users through collaborative research projects. She currently sits their everyday ‘behaviors’ and practices. on the editorial boards of New Media & Society, Governments focused upon the potential of Mobile Media & Communication, Information big data to glean new information on issues Technologies & International Development and the ranging from healthcare, economic activity Emerald Studies in Media and Communication. and security. Academics and others hurriedly developed new visualization software and An anthropologist by training, Heather's research other conceptual tools to keep pace with the focuses upon understanding how digital media, speed and scale of the new data ecology. technology and other forms of material culture Yet, the hype around big data has also mediate relationships, communication, learning, garnered critics who question the impact of mobility and our sense of being human. Her books big data in the everyday lives of people examining these themes include The Cell Phone: across the globe who remain excluded, the An Anthropology of Communication (Horst and ability of big data to capture everyone’s Miller, 2006, Berg), Kids Living and Learning with experience and the uncritical positivism of New Media: Findings from the Digital Youth big data proponents who posit big data as Project (Ito, Horst, et. al. 2009, MIT truth or reality which discredits other forms Press), Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking of knowledge production. Out: Kids Living and Learning with Digital Media (Ito, et al. 2010, MIT Press) and, most This talk reflects upon the ways in which recently, Digital Anthropology (Horst and Miller, ethnographers across a range of disciplinary Eds., 2012, Berg). Her current research, supported contexts are engaging with the idea and by an ARC Discovery Grant, two ARC Linkage practice of ‘big data’. Rather than posit big Grants and the Smart Services CRC, explores data as antithetical to qualitative and transformations in the telecommunications interpretive approaches, I will compare industry and
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