Prof Randal E Bryant
An emerging framework for collecting, organising and analysing massive amounts of data is to be discussed in a new distinguished lecture series in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q).
Prof Randal E Bryant, dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, is to speak on ‘Data-Intensive Scalable Computing,’ tomorrow from 4.30pm to 5.30pm.
In the open-to-the-public event, he will discuss issues in computer systems in handling the massive data sets that are being produced every day by millions of digital devices around the world, ranging from mobile phones to weather sensors to cash registers to medical scanners, cameras and telescopes.
Named after Professor A Nico Haberman, head of the Computer Science Department between 1980 and 1988 and founding dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, the lecture series enables the students at the Qatar campus to engage with prominent faculty and well-known leaders in the field of computer science.
Prof Bryant has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon since 1984. His research focuses primarily on methods for formally verifying digital hardware.
Prof Kemal Oflazer, co-ordinator of the Computer Science Programme at CMU-Q, recalled “Prof Bryant has been at forefront of computer science research and education for three decades and has been leading the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon since 2004. He has been tremendously supportive of the computer science programme in
Qatar.”
Deep and timely analysis of such data with massive arrays of servers could lead to breakthroughs in business, science, and
medicine.
“Qatar can benefit from advances in this area as it will be very dependent on the analysis of data that needs to be collected in many areas such as weather and air quality analysis, traffic behaviour, personal health information and most importantly, gas and oil exploration,” Prof
Oflazer said.
“Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science is a top ranked learning institution for computer science research and education,” said Prof Ilker Baybars, dean of CMU-Q.
“This new lecture series offers students and faculty, as well as the wider community in Doha, access to our scholars from the Pittsburgh campus and leading researchers and prominent figures in technology and computer
science.”
The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, established in 1965, is one of the first such departments in the US.
It has been consistently ranked among the top computer science programmes over the decades. US News & World Report currently ranks the graduate programme as tied for the top slot with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and University of California, Berkeley.
The lecture will be held in the Moot Board Room (room no.1131) at CMU-Q, Education City.
A welcome reception will take place from 4pm to 4.30pm and a light reception will follow.