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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: Making Sense of Fast Big Data
DTSTART:20190131T141500
DTEND:20190131T151500
DTSTAMP:20260920T053044Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:By: Anne-Marie Kermarrec - Mediego\nIC Faculty candidate\n\nAb
 stract:\nComputing systems that make human sense of big data\, usually c
 alled personalization systems or recommenders\,  and popularized by Amaz
 on and Netflix\, essentially help Internet users extracting  informati
 on of interest to them. Leveraging machine learning techniques\, research 
 on personalization has mainly focused on improving the quality of the in
 formation extracted\, according to some measure of quality. Yet\, buildin
 g an operational recommender goes far beyond\, especially in a world where
  data is not only big but also changes very fast. This talk will discus
 s system challenges to scale to a large number of users and a growing vol
 ume of fastly changing data to eventually provide real-time personalizati
 on.\n\nBio:\nAnne-Marie Kermarrec is a senior researcher at Inria\, France
  where she led a research group on large-scale distributed systems from 20
 06 to 2015. She is currently the CEO of the Mediego startup that she found
 ed in April 2015. Mediego provides content personalisation services for on
 line publishers\, and directly builds on her recent research. She got a Ph
 D thesis from University of Rennes in 1996\, and has been with Vrije Unive
 rsiteit\, NL and Microsoft Research Cambridge\, UK. Anne-Marie received an
  ERC grant in 2008 and an ERC proof of Concept in 2013. She received from
  the French Academy of Science both the Montpetit Award  in 2011 and th
 e Innovation Price in 2017. She has been elected to the European Academy i
 n 2013 and named ACM Fellow in 2016. Her research interests are large-sca
 le distributed systems\, peer to peer networks and system support for mac
 hine learning. She published more than 200 academic papers and received se
 veral best papers awards including the Test of time award for her work on
  gossip-based peer sampling. 
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