Prof. Narayan Rangaraj and Vishal Rewari made a presentation on April 9, 2014, at the workshop on Urban Freight Transport: A Global Perspective. This workshop was organized by Transportation Systems Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay and VREF Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

The 12th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2014) was held from May 12-16, 2014 at  Diar Lemdina Hotel in Yasmine, Hammamet Tunisia.

Title: Much Ado About Big Data
Speaker: N. R. Srinivasa Raghavan, Data Science and Big Data, Reliance
Industries Ltd.

Time and Date: 3:00 pm, Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering

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Data science and her big brother Big Data have been ringing the corporate board rooms for a while now and 
are touted by pundits and brokers alike, as the harbingers of innovation and profitability. This talk will
try to do justice to the hubris as well as to the ground realities.

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