En esta charla se presentarán los prinicipales conceptos asociados al término "big data", y se hará un breve repaso de las razones que generaron su irrupción, discutiendo si estamos frente a un nuevo paradigma o frente a aplicaciones novedosas de técnicas conocidas.
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Alejandro Vaisman
Departamento de Informática,Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alejandro Vaisman received a BE degree in Civil Engineering, and a BCS degree and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada in 2003, and visiting researcher at UoT, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad de Chile, University of Hasselt, and Université Libre de Bruxelles. He has been a professor at UBA, and the Universidad de la República, in Uruguay. Between 2005 and 2010 he chaired the master's program in data mining at UBA. In 2013 he joined the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, where he is currently a full-time professor. His research interests are in the field of databases, geographic information systems, business intelligence, and the semantic web. He has authored and coauthored many scientific papers published at major conferences and in major journals, and co-authored with Prof. Esteban Zimányi the book "Data Warehouse Systems: Design and Implementation", published by Springer in 2014.