Author: Roberto Zicari

Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement

Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement, Julia Lane, Victoria Stodden, Stefan Bender, and Helen Nissenbaum (editors),  Cambridge University Press, 2014.  ISBN 9781107637689. On May 1st, 2014, the White House released two landmark reports on Privacy...

Prof. Geoff Webb, Monash University

Geoff Webb is a Professor of Information Technology Research in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, where he heads the Centre for Research in Intelligent Systems. His primary research areas are machine...

Dr. Christopher Olston, Google

Dr. Christopher Olston is a staff research scientist at Google, working on infrastructure for “crunching big data.” He previously worked at Yahoo! (principal research scientist) and Carnegie Mellon (assistant professor). He holds computer science...

Large Scale and Big Data: Processing and Management

Title: Large Scale and Big Data: Processing and Management Authors: Sherif Sakr, Mohamed Gaber Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 978-1-4665-8150-0, © 2014, 636 pages Large Scale and Big Data: Processing and Management provides readers...

Dhruba Borthakur, Facebook

Dhruba Borthakur is an engineer in the Database Engineering Team at Facebook. He has been instrumental in the design and architecture of Rocksdb, a key-value store optimized for storing data in flash and main-memory...