Riding Data Waves: from ripples to tsunamis
Thayer's Visionaries in Technology Speaker Series features Brenda Dietrich, The Geoffrion Family Professor of Practice at Cornell's School of Operations Research
Location
Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall
Sponsored by
Thayer School of Engineering
Audience
Public
A quick history of the past six decades of IT—with a focus on the digitization of data and the creation of new data by-products—followed by a brief detour to discuss the technology projections of 1995. The talk will resume with examples of use and creation of data and will conclude with a view of future possibilities, issues that may accelerate or delay the possibilities, and some musings on ways to defend first-principals-driven methods from displacement by purely data-driven approaches.
Brenda Dietrich joined Cornell University in 2017 after a 33-year career at IBM where she led IBM’s mathematical research team in the area now called analytics and/or data science.
Reception follows in GlycoFi Atrium. Everyone welcome.
Location
Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall
Sponsored by
Thayer School of Engineering
Audience
Public
