Over the last five years, the amount of digital information worldwide has increased almost 2,000 percent, exceeding 2.8 trillion gigabytes—perhaps as many bits of information as there are stars in the universe. Few modern trends have greater capacity to transform our economy and society than “big data,” a topic hundreds of Columbia faculty members and students, industry leaders and technological visionaries gathered to discuss in a daylong symposium April 5 in Low Library sponsored by the University’s new Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering.
In this excerpt from a recent panel discussion moderated by SEAS alumnus Hitoshi Tanaka, find out what IDSE Director Kathleen McKeown and Interim Dean Donald Goldfarb have to say about the significance of data sciences and Big Data’s impact on the way we do science and engineering from now on.
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