Invited Speech: “Big Data and Future Networks: A Perspective from the United States”

At the 7th New Generation Network Promotion Forum (第７回新世代ネットワーク推進フォーラム), I gave an invited talk entitled “Big Data and Future Networks: A Perspective from the United States” （「ビッグ･データと将来のネットワーク:米国からの展望」）. The forum was held on January 16 (Wed), 2013 at Hotel Floracion Aoyama, Tokyo (ホテル･フラシオン青山), and was attended by 120 people including representatives of the　 Government, IT and networks industry, and academia.

The outline of my presentation was

• How Much Information? How Big is Data?
• President Obama’s Open Government Initiative
• President Obama’s Big Data Initiative
• Big Data in Science and Technology Research
  NITRD Program, NSF, DARPA, DOE
• Big Data in Enterprises
• Call for Data Science and Data Scientists
• Big Data and Networks
• References

To view the slides of my talk, please click here http://forum.nwgn.jp/library/pdf/sokai_07/13_BigDataandNetworks-Jan19-withAppendices.pdf

The website of the Forum can be found by clicking here in English: http://forum.nwgn.jp/english/

日本語はこちら: http://forum.nwgn.jp/meeting/sokai07_repo.html

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