[Colloquium] [TTIC Talks] Colloquium at TTIC: Dr. Flavio Villanustre

[Tamir Hazan]

Hi

Students that will attend the talk will get some giveaways such as Starbucks cards etc. 

Tamir




On Jul 11, 2013, at 4:17 PM, Dawn Ellis wrote:

> When:    Tuesday, July 16th at 11am-12:00pm
> Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room #526
> Who:      Dr. Flavio Villanustre, Vice President of Technology Architecture and Product for LexisNexis and leads HPCC Systems
> 
> HPCC (High Performance Computing Cluster) Systems from LexisNexis is an open source massive parallel-processing computing platform that solves Big Data problems. Included in the platform is an extensible set of fully parallel Machine Learning and Matrix processing algorithms to assist with business intelligence; covering supervised and unsupervised learning, document and text analysis, statistics and probabilities, and general inductive inference related problems. ECL, the high level declarative data oriented programming language used with the HPCC Systems platform along with the associated Machine Learning toolkit, offer effortless linear scalability across entire clusters. A set of fully parallel linear algebra operations, written in ECL, provides extensibility, allowing for the quick implementation of new high level algorithms.
> 
> Flavio will present an overview of the existing capabilities and algorithms of the HPCC Systems platform and ECL language and share our latest developments in distributed machine learning and how to leverage the most appropriate algorithms to quickly extract knowledge from big data to help make critical decisions.
> 
> Open discussion to follow.
> 
> Speaker bio
> Dr. Flavio Villanustre is the Vice President of Technology Architecture and Product for LexisNexis and leads HPCC Systems. In this position, Flavio is responsible for Information and Physical Security, overall infrastructure strategy and new product development. Prior to 2001, Dr. Villanustre served in different companies in a variety of roles in infrastructure, information security and information technology. In addition, Dr. Villanustre has been involved with the open source community for over 15 years through multiple initiatives. Some of these include founding the first Linux User Group in Buenos Aires (BALUG) in 1994, releasing several pieces of software under different open source licenses, and evangelizing open source to different audiences through conferences, training and education. Prior to his technology career, Dr. Villanustre was a neurosurgeon.
> 
> -- 
> Dawn Ellis
> Administrative Assistant
> 773-834-1757
> dellis at ttic.edu
> 
> TTIC
> 6045 S. Kenwood Ave.
> Chicago, IL. 60637

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