Date:
Monday, May 23, 2016, 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Location:
CGIS Knafel K354
The Role of Data Science in Cyberspace Governance
In this talk I discuss problems related to cyberspace governance. I show how data-oriented techniques can be used to analyze public and private policies for different platforms, such as Uber and Facebook. Data analysis can be an important tool for policy-makers to evaluate and propose evidence-based policies for cyberspace governance.
Speaker: Virgilio Almeida is a full professor of the Computer Science Department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. His areas of research interest include large scale distributed system, Internet governance, social computing, autonomic computing and performance modeling and analysis. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, an MS in Computer Science, from the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro and a BS Electrical Engineering from UFMG, Brazil. He was a visiting professor at Boston University, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona, Polytechnic Institute of NYU and held visiting appointments at Santa Fe Institute, Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratory and Xerox Research Center.
He is a former National Secretary for Information Technology Policies of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil (2011 to 2015). He is the chair of the Brazilian Internet Governance Committee (CGI.br). He was the chair of NETmundial, Global Multistakeholder Conference on the Future of Internet Governance, that was held in Sao Paulo in 2014.
He published over 150 technical papers and co-authored five books on performance modeling od computer systems, including "Performance By Design" (2004) "Capacity Planning for Web Services" (2002), and "Scaling for E-business" (2000) published by Prentice Hall. He has supervised more 50 PhD theses and MSc dissertations. Prof. Almeida is a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
He is currently a Visiting Professor at School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University and a Fellow at Berkman Center for Internet & Society.