University of Sydney welcomes IT researchers for symposium
Right now, at the University of Sydney, computer science and information technology experts from across the globe have gathered to discuss how IT developers worldwide are facing challenges of Big Data.
The University of Sydney is hosting the annual international Pacific Visualization Symposium this week, dedicated to understanding massive data sets. According to the IEEE PacificVis 2013 website, the goal of the symposium is foster greater exchange between visualization researchers and practitioners, drawing more researchers in the Asia-Pacific region to enter the rapidly-growing area of research.
The University of Sydney IT researchers who are hosting the annual symposium this week, told the university that as the scale of data increases, the limitations of static 2D and 3D data representations is becoming evident.
Professor Peter Eades, Chair of Software Technology, at the University’s School of IT and Symposium Chair told the university that researchers are looking for more interactive solutions to understanding these data collections.
The event, running from Feb. 26 to March 1, is welcoming international representatives from Japan, Germany and China and other far reaches, who are discussing these massive data sets now common in security surveillance, medical research, biological and other natural sciences.
The Symposium Program Committee Chair, Professor Seokhee Hong, also from the University’s School of IT, told the University of Sydney that technological advances are increasing data exponentially, resulting in massive, complex networks.
“The challenge we are trying to overcome is the design of a central tool with the clarity and definition to carry out analysis, enabling businesses, researchers and other dataset users to explore datasets to identify patterns, associations or trends,” Hong told the university.
Key note speakers at the symposium include Giuseppe Di Battista, Professor of Computer Science at Università Roma Tre, Italy, who will discuss the need for visualising a network whose structure evolves over time.
Di Battista told the university that in the networking field it is often necessary to show how the flow of packets changes according to network modifications. The University of Sydney said he would argue that in the Internet Domain Name System it is useful to study the evolution of the relationship between name servers sending queries and name servers answering such queries. He will also discuss Web crawling during the Web exploration, and how the structure of the visited hyperlinks depends on the actual search strategy.
Also delivering a keynote address is Charles (Chuck) Hansen a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing and an Associate Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah. Hansen told the University of Sydney he predicts we will see the development of exascale computational resources and while these machines offer enormous potential for solving very large-scale realistic computational problems, their effectiveness will hinge upon the ability of human experts to interact with their simulation results and extract useful information.
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