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  • Dec
    4

    CS Distinguished Lecture: Enabling Diverse and Interconnected Data Ecosystems with Lakehouses, Open Formats and AI (Michael Franklin)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    CS Distinguished Lecture: Enabling Diverse and Interconnected Data Ecosystems with Lakehouses, Open Formats and AI (Michael Franklin)

    Wednesday / CS Distinguished Lecture
    December 4th / 12:00 PM
    Hybrid / Mudd 3514

    Speaker
    Michael Franklin, University of Chicago

    Talk Title
    Enabling Diverse and Interconnected Data Ecosystems with Lakehouses, Open Formats and AI

    Abstract
    Data and AI are driving innovation across industry, science and society. At the same time, data management technology has changed dramatically, due a combination of factors such as cloud-based data lakes, the development of open standards for data formats and catalogs, and the opportunities presented by generative AI and other AI technologies. The result of all of these changes is an increasingly vibrant data ecosystem that has the potential to span traditional information silos and data incompatibilities to enable people and organizations to leverage all of their data in ways that have until now, simply have not been possible. In this talk I'll survey this new landscape and give an overview of some of the (to my mind) most promising directions for research and innovation in this rapidly advancing area.

    Biography
    MICHAEL J. FRANKLIN is the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science and Founding Faculty Co-Director of the Data Science Institute at the University of Chicago. He is also a Founding Advisor and Visiting Researcher at Databricks, Inc. At Chicago he served as Liew Family Chair of Computer Science, overseeing the department's rapid expansion in scope and stature. Previously he was the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley where he directed the Algorithms, Machines and People Laboratory (AMPLab), and was part of the original team building Apache Spark, a popular open source data processing framework initiated at the lab. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a Fellow of the ACM and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served on the Board of the Computing Research Association and the NSF CISE Advisory Committee as well as the ACM Fellows Selection Committee. He received the 2022 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award, and is a two-time recipient of the ACM SIGMOD “Test of Time” award. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the Univ. of Wisconsin (1993).

    Research/Interest Areas: Data systems, Data Science, Systems and AI/ML, Data Markets
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    TIME Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Dec
    14

    Northwestern Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Recognition Ceremony

    McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

    4:00 PM Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

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    TIME Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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    CONTACT Andi Joppie    andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL

    CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  • Jan
    13

    CS Seminar

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, January 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Jan
    15

    CS Seminar

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Jan
    17

    CS Seminar

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Friday, January 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Jan
    22

    CS Seminar

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Jan
    24

    CS Seminar

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Jan
    27

    CS Seminar

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, January 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Jan
    29

    CS Seminar

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    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Jan
    31

    CS Seminar

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    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Friday, January 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Feb
    3

    CS Seminar

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, February 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Feb
    5

    CS Seminar

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    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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