[Colloquium] Colloquium at TTIC Tomorrow at 11am!

[Dawn Ellis]

When:    Tuesday, July 16th at 11am

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.

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*Dawn Ellis*
Administrative Assistant
773-834-1757
dellis at ttic.edu

TTIC
6045 S. Kenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL. 60637
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