Professor Dave Cliff (Plenary) –The View from an Ivory Tower/Cloud & Big Data at Uni.of Bristol
Channel: Voxxed Days Bristol
Date: 2016-03-28

Dave Cliff is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, where he is also Head of the Merchant Venturers School of Engineering (home to the University’s departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Engineering Mathematics).

Prior to joining the University of Bristol, he had worked as a professor at the University of Southampton and at MIT, and also spent seven years working in industry: first for Hewlett-Packard Labs, and then for Deutsche Bank.

The University of Bristol is home to a large number of researchers working on big data, data science, and data analytics projects, and also a large number of students who are taught specialist units on topics such as Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing, and Machine Learning.

The University has formed a joint-venture partnership with Bristol City Council to work on the world-leading “Bristol is Open” smart cities project; and it has recently established the Bristol Institute for Data Intensive Research (BIDIR), a cross-university activity intended to bring together academic researchers, students, and practitioners from industry.

This talk is a fast-paced overview of all that is going on at the University in Cloud and Big Data, intended for anyone who would like to know what they're up to, or who would like to get more involved.

Link to Prof Cliff's slides on Dropbox: https://goo.gl/LSVDba