| Hello! All the talks from the "Here be Dragons" event at the MIT Media Lab last month are now online! You can watch all of them, including mine, at this link. I discuss how big data can answer big questions and how these models can apply to problems facing the ocean, touching on trends observed from my doctoral research, NASA's Frontier Development Lab and CERN's openLab.  | Video^ Speaking in the "Deep Data" session at "Here be Dragons", MIT Media Lab.  |
Talk highlights:
| "If you don't come in with a predefined problem, then there is this unfortunate phenomenon where engineers just make up problems to solve. I hate seeing this, especially in the ocean space, where there are so many genuine, pressing problems to solve." | "I've shared some success stories of how big data has been used to solve big problems. These models are ready for us to use, we just need to know what our big question is." |
Huge thanks to Dr Katy Croft Bell for leading the Open Ocean Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, and to her and her team for organizing this fantastic event. Thanks also to Professor Dava Newman for the wonderful introduction to my talk! Newman was a role model for me while I was at MIT. She is former Deputy Administrator of NASA.
Also special thanks to Victoria and Stephen White who let me crash their Sustainable Sea Products International booth at the Boston Seafood Expo the following week. The Whites have several amazing innovative businesses geared toward sustainable and scalable aquaculture with the potential to take massive pressure off the oceans now (learn more here). They're also well on their way to achieving sustainable US-based chitin production from shrimp shells.
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