Berlin – 2018-04-11
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The
Big Data Days 2018, organized by BMBF, BMWi and Smart Data Forum, took
place in Berlin on April 11 and 12. At the event, Prof. Wolf-Dieter
Lukas, head of department for key technologies at BMBF, gave an overview
of recent year’s successful investments together with the Big Data
competence centers DFKI / BBDC, ScaDS and SDIL. Afterwards, the
respective centers briefly introduced themselves and their range of
services according to the maxim “Big Data made in Germany”. Prof. Beigl –
the SDIL speaker presented SDIL and it’s Big Data platform. >> more
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Berlin – 2018-09-10
On
September 10, Berlin Big Data Center organizes "Big Data All Hands
Meeting" at the Smart Data Forum, at which the two national Big Data
Competence Centers ScaDS and BBDC will present their current research
and discuss future challenges. >> more
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Berlin – 2018-06-01
© Bundesregierung / Jochen Ecke
On
May 29 Chancellor Angela Merkel invited AI experts to the chancellery
for consultations in preparation of a German AI strategy. With Prof. Dr.
Volker Markl (DFKI, TU Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller (TU
Berlin) two members of Berlin Big Data Center joined the talks about
potentials and challenges of Artificial Intelligence. >> more
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Karlsruhe – 2018-19-04
Potential
analysis for the use of big data analytics technologies in the context
of your own company and with your own data – this is exactly what is
possible with the help of the Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL). However,
what is missing until now is the prototypical operationalization. For
this purpose, it is necessary to use the data-driven model to fully
leverage the service.
The current and future partners of the SDIL now
can do this using the IBM Cloud with a so-called Academic Account: they
receive a virtual project area and can use all the services from the
IBM Cloud. >> more
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Amsterdam – 2018-21-06
© ABIDA
On
June 21-22 the ABIDA expert workshop on the in-depth study of online
media and social networks took place at the University of Amsterdam
under the title "The Tracked Society – Interdisciplinary Approaches on Online Tracking". After an
introductory debate about the definition and basic effects of tracking,
ten previously selected papers regarding online tracking were presented
and critically commented on – including topics like the advantages or
disadvantages of different ways to generate data for social science
purposes. Furthermore, additional relevant questions like the use or
abuse of web tracking for political purposes were discussed. >> more
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Berlin – 2018-06-07
Alexander
Renz-Wieland and Bonaventura Del Monte, PhD students in the research
group of Prof. Dr. Volker Markl have been awarded a 2018 Software Campus
grant.
Alexander’s project, "Structure-Aware Parallel Machine
Learning", aims to enable efficient parallel training of machine
learning models by exploiting sparsity among data, models, and parameter
updates.
The goal of Bonaventura’s project, "Efficiently Managing
Large Distributed State for Scalable Stream Processing", is to enable
efficient execution of stateful streaming pipelines for complex data
analytics when the execution engine handles very large state. >> more
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Sofia – 2017-05-16
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On
May 16, 2018, the SDIL traveled to Sofia in Bulgaria to attend the Big
Data Value Meet-up organized by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA).
After two days of workshops and parallel sessions for PPP projects and
BDVA members, the European, Bulgarian and Eastern European Big Data and
AI community and ecosystem gathered in the Meet-up day to strengthen
collaborations. Our colleague Dr. Nhung Ngo shared SDIL
experiences on data innovation in a panel discussion on existing
capacities in Europe and innovation initiatives. >> more
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Leiden, oslo, saarbrücken – 2018-06-18
In
June 2018 CLAIRE, the “Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial
Intelligence Research in Europe” launched. CLAIRE is a coalition of
leading research institutes and researchers for artificial intelligence
in Europe with the goal to foster and pool AI expertise in Europe. The
initiators soon garnered the support of more than 1000 AI experts and
can build upon a letter of intend, signed by 25 European countries,
which agreed to strengthen research and foster collaborations. Although
CLAIRE is not a formally structured organization yet, the strong support
from the European research community shows that it hast the potential
to become a major hub for AI research in Europe. >> more
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Heraklion – 2018-06-03
The
research paper "Using Link Features for Entity Clustering in Knowledge
Graphs" has received the Best Research Paper Award of the 15th Extended
Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) held in June 2018 in Heraklion, Greece.
The paper, authored by Alieh Saeedi, Eric Peukert and Erhard Rahm,
describes the CLIP algorithm for entity clustering that substantially
outperforms previous approaches and that can also be applied for
repairing entity clusters. >> more
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Berlin – 2018-09-21
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On
September 21, Turing Award winner Michael Stonebraker (MIT) will visit
the BBDC and give a lecture on "Big Data, Technological Disruption and
the 800 Pound Gorilla in the Corner".. >> more
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Berlin – 2018-06-10
Prof.
Dr. Tilmann Rabl, Dr. Sebastian Schelter, and Clemens Lutz from TU
Berlin’s Database Systems and Information Management (DIMA) Group
recently presented their research at SIGMOD 2018 (the 2018 International
Conference on Management of Data), which was held in Houston, TX, USA,
on June 10th - June 15th, 2018. DIMAs senior researcher Sebastian Breß
even earned the SIGMOD 2018 Distinguished PC Member Award. >> more
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