Author: Roberto Zicari

Zen of Cloud: Learning Cloud Computing by Examples on Microsoft Azure

Title: Zen of Cloud: Learning Cloud Computing by Examples on Microsoft Azure Authors: Haishi Bai Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 978-1-4822-1580-9, © 2015, 507 pages Features Shares insights gained by the author while...

Bursting the Big Data Bubble: The Case for Intuition-Based Decision Making

Title: Bursting the Big Data Bubble: The Case for Intuition-Based Decision Making Authors: Jay Liebowitz Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 978-1-4822-2885-4© 2014, 351 pages Features Outlines methods to complement big data (data-driven decision...

Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement

Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement, Julia Lane, Victoria Stodden, Stefan Bender, and Helen Nissenbaum (editors),  Cambridge University Press, 2014.  ISBN 9781107637689. On May 1st, 2014, the White House released two landmark reports on Privacy...

Prof. Geoff Webb, Monash University

Geoff Webb is a Professor of Information Technology Research in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, where he heads the Centre for Research in Intelligent Systems. His primary research areas are machine...

Dr. Christopher Olston, Google

Dr. Christopher Olston is a staff research scientist at Google, working on infrastructure for “crunching big data.” He previously worked at Yahoo! (principal research scientist) and Carnegie Mellon (assistant professor). He holds computer science...