The Impact of Big Data on Business and Life
时 间：2016年11月14日（周一）上午 9:30-11:30
地 点：体育外围平台APP紫金港校区行政楼1102会议室
主讲人：Professor Alan Barrell， University of Cambridge
主持人：陈熹教授，体育外围平台APP
题 目：The Impact of Big Data on Business and Life
摘 要：Big Data is Big Business, and reaches into every corner of life these days – often uninvited. The talk ranges from distinguishing between data and information and suggesting what we really mean when we use the term Big Data. In the current Age of Science and Technology it helps to look back at how communication technology has developed and made the modern world a very different place to that of a short time ago. We discuss the importance of connectivity and ask the question “whose data, is it?” and ethical and moral issues which cause concern. The power of data and information is explored and in a business sense the ability of businesses to monetize it can be discussed. The talk seeks to explore good and bad manifestations of Big Data. We look at the importance and helpfulness of Big Data in Healthcare and other areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and IoT -The Internet of Things. Examples of new companies exploiting Big Data with Innovation will be discussed – from the UK and one from China. Conclusions will be reflections on where the future lies for Big Data and people. The impact of people is a key issue for consideration.
Alan Barrell DBA FRSA is the Entrepreneur in Residence at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning within the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. He has spent almost 30 years in senior executive positions in technology based industries and has become one of Cambridge's most articulate promoters of entrepreneurship. He was a founder shareholder in Library House Ltd, and is now a Visiting Professor of Enterprise at the University of Bedfordshire School of Graduate Business Studies. He is also Distinguished Guest Professor at Xiamen University, He has taught at Tsinghua University Beijing, Fudan University in Shanghai and Minjiang University, Fuzhou City. He acts as Consultant to the China (Shanghai) Public Practicing Base for Entrepreneurs. His interest in China, its history, people and culture has become a major feature of his life and work. Other appointments include Senior Enterprise Fellow, University of Essex, International Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge, and International Research Fellow, Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki. Alan was instrumental in launching the Cambridge Gateway Fund, a €70 million fund, to support early stage technology businesses in the region and became its Managing Partner, and he has been involved with a number of charities including the Papworth Trust, the Royal Society of Arts, the Centre for Tomorrow's Company and The Prince's Trust.
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数据科学与管理工程学系
2016年11月08日
