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Talk Canceled -- To Be Re-Scheduled: Big Data Analytics in the Government

Speaker: Andrus D. Calvin, Central Intelligence Agency
Date: Wednesday, November 14 2012
Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM
Refreshments: 3:45PM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Host: Samuel Madden, CSAIL
Contact: Sheila Marian, x3-1996, sheila@csail.mit.edu
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Big Data Analytics in the Government – The lecture will begin with a discussion of the challenges associated with deploying enterprise-scale analytic engines on top of cloud-based big data holdings in a classified environment. The lecture will conclude with a look toward the future at the kind of big data analytic environment the government is trying to create.

Dr. Calvin Andrus works in Office of the Chief Information Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency. Over a 30 year career, he has served as a regional political analyst, an IT program manager, an enterprise applications architect, and now as an innovation officer. He was awarded the Intelligence Community's 2004 Galileo Award for his paper, "The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community." Dr. Andrus received a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University. He is married with 5 children. His general area of interest lies at the conjunction of intelligence analysis, innovation, and information technology. His current work focuses on the Intelligence applications of massive data analytics.

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