This document provides a summary of recent talks given by researchers at various institutions on the topic of big data. It lists talks on using publicly available healthcare data for machine learning, exploring applications of robotics and engineering, selecting young engineers for a symposium on emerging technologies, using social media data to forecast events, and leveraging big data analytics in business and government. Several talks addressed healthcare applications, including predicting health conditions, personalized medicine, and leveraging data from sensors.

1. Recent Talks in Big Data
Healthcare Analytics - Using Publicly Available Data for Machine Learning - Keynote Presentation
State University of New York, New York, NY November 2014
SUNY Healthcare Systems Symposium - Accelerating Health Care Improvement through Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Our Researchers Join Top Engineers Exploring Next-Gen Robotics and More
Xerox - Innovation Stories September 2014
Creative Young Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE's 2014 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, June 2014
“Eighty-three of the nation's brightest young engineers have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 20th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium.
Engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together for the 2 1/2 day event. The participants -- from industry,
academia, and government -- were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and chosen from almost 300 applicants.”, National Academy of Engineers.
Algorithms reveal forecasting power of tweets
phys.org September 2014
An article in the media covering PARC’s work on social media analytics and the use of technology for disaster preparedness.
Big Data - Eyes on the Future Radio Program
Clear Channel Communications (WHAM 1180 Rochester NY) August 2014
A radio broadcast and podcast for the greater Rochester and Finger Lakes region along Doug Golub (a entrepreneur), Jiebo Luo (a UR Professor), Staci Henning (Greater Rochester Enterprise radio host).
Understanding behavioral patterns - Big Data Analytics helps Business and Government Gain Insight from Social Media
Industrial Engineer Magazine June 2014
Spatio-temporal analytics and deep learning on twitter data to predict restaurant choices made by people.
Invited Healthcare Panelist - Innovation Day: Big Data
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Partnerships, Research Foundation of New York, April 2014
The panel which consisted of a physician, a professor and healthcare experts from research labs including PARC and IBM Watson discussed various aspects of big data, predictive analytics and personalized
medicine in modern day healthcare delivery.
Healthcare Data Analytics - Dinner Keynote
The Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging Center October 2013
Talk covered health care big data analytics - around high velocity inputs from sensors and communications leading to determination of health conditions of individuals.
Beat the odds in the big data productivity battle
Tech Republic August 2013
Press article based on Xerox experience with Big Data Analytics.
Towards Situational Pattern Mining from Microblogging Activity
Social Web for Disaster Management Workshop (World Wide Web Conference 2012) April 2012
Pattern mining on social media focusing on disaster management and emergency preparedness. Some press and collection of papers focusing on this topic.