Author: Roberto Zicari

Tom Deutsch, IBM

Tom Deutsch serves as a Program Director on IBM’s Big Data Team. He played a formative role in the transition of Hadoop-based technology from IBM Research to IBM Software Group, and he continues to be involved...

Dr. John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey

Dr. John Goodwin, Principal Scientist, Ordnance Survey John is currently one of the principal scientists in Ordnance Survey’s research department where he leads research in data delivery and data management. Over the last twelve...

Chris Anderson, Couchbase.

Chris Anderson is a co-founder of Couchbase and architect of the company’s mobile technology. Chris has a personal obsession with bending the physics of the web and giving control back to users. Chris is...

Ryan Betts, VoltDB

Ryan Betts is CTO at VoltDB and was one of the initial developers of VoltDB’s commercial product. In his current role, Ryan closely collaborates with customers, partners and prospects to understand their data management...

Daniel Abadi, Yale University

Daniel Abadi Associate Professor of Computer Science Yale University Prof. Abadi’s research interests are in scalable systems, with a particular focus on the architecture of scalable database systems. Before joining the Yale computer science...

Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce

Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce Jimmy Lin University of Maryland Chris Dyer University of Maryland Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies 2010, 177 pages, (doi:10.2200/S00274ED1V01Y201006HLT007) Morgan & Claypool Publishers. Abstract Our world is being...

Foundations of Data Quality Management

Foundations of Data Quality Management Wenfei Fan University of Edinburgh Floris Geerts University of Antwerp Synthesis Lectures on Data Management July 2012, 217 pages, (doi:10.2200/S00439ED1V01Y201207DTM030) Morgan & Claypool Publishers Abstract Data quality is one...

Data Management in the Cloud: Challenges and Opportunities

Data Management in the Cloud: Challenges and Opportunities Divyakant Agrawal,University of California, Santa Barbara Sudipto Das, Microsoft Research Amr El Abbadi, University of California, Santa Barbara Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, December 2012, 138...