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One of the most important responsibilities University employees have in their jobs is to stay up-to-date with training. This page will serve as a repository of Research-related training sessions, providing Michigan Tech employees a convenient, one-stop-shop for training presentations and their associated educational handouts. Additional training sessions will be added as they are presented to the campus community.
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Explore the basics of research at Michigan Tech: internal funding, proposals and awards, graduate programs, partnerships, accounting and reporting, intellectual property, ethics, security, and publicity and promotion.
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Former Lazio midfielder Roberto Rambaudi has hit out at Tottenham Coach Andre Villas-Boas calling him 'average'.
The 46-year-old, who played for the Biancocelesti between 1994 and 1998, believes Vladimir Petkovic's side will be up against it when they face Spurs in the Europa League this evening.
But the former Latina boss has criticised the Portuguese tactician for his work so far in England.
"Villas-Boas is an average Coach," he told Radio Mana Sport. "He proved that with Chelsea and at the moment with Tottenham.
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"He is unable to give clear instructions to the team, and only with Porto has he done a good job – and even then he had the best players available to him.
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Shakespeare Ugly Stik Sets Facebook Mark
Popular fishing page surpasses 500K fans
There is no doubt Shakespeare Ugly Stik is one of the most recognizable rods in the fishing community. This is evident on the store shelves, on the water and now online. A popular site for anglers to share success stories, the Ugly Stik Facebook page has recently eclipsed over 500,000 fans.
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Judge orders MLK's Bible, Nobel Peace Prize stored in safe deposit box
The judge made the ruling in a case that pits King's daughter against his two sons
Marlena Baldacci and Chelsea J. Carter | 2/20/2014, 3:12 p.m.
ATLANTA (CNN) A judge in Georgia on Wednesday ordered the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Bible and Nobel Peace Prize to be stored in a safe deposit box that only the court will access until litigation over the items between the slain civil rights leader's children can be worked out.
Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney ordered King's daughter, Bernice, to turn over the items but did not set a timeline.
The judge's order is the latest development in a feud between King's daughter and two sons -- Dexter King and Martin Luther King III -- over control of the Bible and Nobel Prize.
Bernice King alleges her brothers want to sell the objects.
The slain civil rights leader's estate -- controlled by his sons -- sued King's daughter to force her to turn over the items.
The judge ordered the items placed in a safe deposit box in the name of the King estate, but said only the court would hold the keys.
McBurney based his decision on "the likelihood the estate will show the Bible and peace prize are possessions of the estate." The items are "in a safe deposit box in an unknown location," the judge said.
They are among a longer list of items cited in an affidavit filed Tuesday by Martin Luther King III in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia. It quotes from a June 18, 2007, e-mail from Bernice King entitled "Inventory" that divides the items potentially for sale to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights into four categories:
-- Items Bernice King would be willing to sell for the estate;
-- Items she would not be willing to sell, but might consider loaning, such as the Nobel Peace Prize and their father's Bible;
-- Items that have questions associated with them, including a Steuben glass bowl;
-- Items Bernice King wanted to see before deciding, including an Admiral color television.
Bernice King, who was 5 when her father was assassinated in 1968, is acting as the "gatekeeper" to her father's property, said attorney William Hill, who represents the King estate.
He said she has no individual claim to the property that belongs to the estate controlled by her brothers.
According to the complaint, King's heirs agreed in 1995 to give up their inheritance to the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Inc., but Bernice King has "secreted and sequestered" the items in question.
The estate wants the civil rights leader's 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and his traveling Bible, which was used by President Barack Obama when he was sworn in for his second term. The Bible used to be on display at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta.
Bernice King has said her brothers told her on January 22 that they wanted the items so they could sell them.
Her attorney, Eric Barnum, argued in court that the items in question should be left in the custody of the King Center.
Barnum called the attempt to sell the items a "money grab," saying there's a history of the King sons taking money made from selling possessions to line their own pockets. He said Bernice King wasn't interested in selling "critical, sacred items," no matter the price.
The judge compared Bernice King's stance against the sale of her father's possessions to Coca-Cola not wanting to sell its secret soft drink recipe. He later noted he was not trivializing the value of King's possessions with the comparison.
This is not the first time the family has been at odds over King's legacy. Over the years, the siblings have sued and countersued one another.
Bernice King and Martin Luther King III sued Dexter King in 2008, accusing him of converting "substantial funds from the estate's financial account at Bank of America" for his own use. They agreed to a settlement, thereby avoiding a trial.
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As you may already know, TouchMyApps keeps track of lite app releases at the App Store and rounds up those that are noteworthy and possibly worth your while. Recently, Gameloft let loose two of their hit games for you to try: Castle of Magic,one of the most polished and fun platformer the iDevice currently offers and Rise of the Empire, a well received RTS that will have you playing as both humans and orcs. Eliss, one of the more unique and challenging multi-touch puzzlers, also has a lite version with 3 playable sectors. With the release of the amazing Real Racing and not to be left in the dust, I-Play now invites you to 'test drive' their Fast and Furious The Game. There is certainly a range of games to try out below, from airline sim to casual puzzle titles. So be sure to have a look; you may very well find a few that will tickle your fancy (and credit card).


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U.S. Men's Olympic Event Page - Press Kit
LONDON (Aug. 1, 2012) – The U.S. Olympic Men's Volleyball Team have won 10 consecutive Olympic Games matches dating back to 2008, but the streak will be put to the test Thursday as it plays 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist and No. 1 Brazil at 8 p.m. local time (noon PT) at Earls Court in London.
Both teams enter the match with six points and 2-0 records in Pool B. To date, neither team has played a mutual opponent. USA has opened with sweeps over Serbia and Germany, while Brazil has topped Tunisia and Russia in straight sets.
The U.S. Men won the only match between the two teams in 2012, that being a four-set victory at the Pan American Cup when neither team utilized their Olympic Games roster. Before the 2012 meeting, Brazil had won five straight head-to-head matches in 2011. Team USA did split four matches during the 2011 FIVB World League Intercontinental Round with each team winning one match on foreign soil. Brazil defeated the U.S. in the FIVB World League Final Round pool play.
Team USA and Brazil have split 10 matches in past Olympic Games competition. The U.S. won the most recent Olympic meeting, that being a four-set victory in the 2008 Olympic Games. During the 2004 Olympics, Brazil won the semifinal showdown after the Americans won the pool play meeting. Brazil defeated the U.S. in 1996 Olympic pool play and in 1992 in the semifinal round. The U.S. Men topped Brazil in straight sets during the 1988 Olympic semifinals. At the 1984 Olympic Games, the U.S. gained revenge over Brazil in with a straight set victory in the gold-medal match after being swept in pool play. Team USA won the 1968 Olympic Games pool match, while the Brazilians captured the first-ever Olympic Games meeting in a five-set thriller during the 1964 Olympics.
Overall, Team USA trails Brazil 74-63 in the all-time series since 1981.
Team USA, ranked fifth in the world and the defending Olympic Games champion, is focused more on its side of the net and not what is in the past in preparations for the next meeting against Brazil.
"We're going to go back and it's going to be video on us, not on Brazil," U.S. Olympic Men's Volleyball Coach Alan Knipe said following the team's win over Germany. "Both these teams have a pretty good feel for each other. We saw each other five times last summer. It's not going to come down to any surprises. It's going to come down to execution."
According to outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.), the team is not looking too far into the future, which proved to be a winning formula at the 2008 Olympic Games.
"We are taking it all day by day, taking it as it comes," Priddy said. "We'll have to just wait and see what happens. That's why we did so well in Beijing (the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games)."
Outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.), a first-time Olympian, leads the Team USA offense during the 2012 Olympic Games with 33 points for a tie for fourth place in overall scoring. He ranks second in Best Spiker with a .465 hitting efficiency (27-7-43). Opposite Clay Stanley (Honolulu), the MVP of the 2008 Olympic Games, ranks eighth in scoring with 29 points. He holds a .390 hitting efficiency (22-6-41) for sixth in Best Spiker.
Blocking has been a key area for the U.S. Men in the 2012 Olympic Games with three players ranking among the top seven. Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) ranks third with a 1.17 block average, followed right behind by David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) with a 1.00 block average for fourth place. Stanley ranks seventh in blocking with 0.83 per set.
Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania) ranks as the third best setter in the Olympics through two matches with 10.33 running sets average. Anderson and Priddy are tied for fifth in Best Server with a 0.50 ace average. Anderson adds a 78.1 excellent reception percent for fourth place in Best Receiver. Priddy is the team's leading digger with 1.50 per set for 14th place in Best Digger.
Brazil has employed a balanced offense through the first two matches of the 2012 Olympic Games. Murilo Endres has a team-leading 22 points for 17th in overall scoring. He ranks eighth in Best Spiker with a .368 hitting efficiency. Lucas Saatkamp is the next leading scorer for the South American team with 15 points. Bruno Rezende is 10th in Best Setter with 6.83 running sets average. Brazil libero Sergio Santos averages 2.83 digs per set for fourth place in Best Digger.
In other Pool B matches, Serbia (3 points, 1-1) takes on Germany (0 points, 0-2) at 9:30 a.m. (1:30 a.m. PT) and Russia (3 points, 1-1) looks to get back on track against Tunisia (0 points, 0-2) at 2:45 p.m. local time (6:45 a.m. PT). On the opposite side of the bracket, Bulgaria (6 points, 2-0) plays Australia (3 points, 1-1) at 11:30 a.m. local time (3:30 a.m. PT), Poland (3 points, 1-1) and Argentina (3 points, 1-1) look to rebound after losses in a 4:45 p.m. local time (8:45 a.m. PT) contest and Italy (3 points, 1-1) faces host Great Britain (0 points, 0-2) in the day's final match at 10 p.m. local time (2 p.m. PT).
2012 U.S. Olympic Men's Volleyball Team
# - Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 - Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
2 - Sean Rooney (OH, 6-9, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
4 - David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 - Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6 - Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
7 - Donald Suxho (S, 6-5, Korce, Albania, USC)
8 - Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
11 - Brian Thornton (S, 6-3, San Clemente, Calif., UC Irvine)
12 - Russell Holmes (MB, 6-8, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
13 - Clay Stanley (OPP, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawaii)
16 - David McKienzie (Opp, 6-4, Littleton, Colo., Long Beach State)
20 - David Smith (MB, 6-7, Saugus, Calif., UC Irvine)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Team Manager: Rob Browning (Newport Beach, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: John Speraw (Irvine, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Gary Sato (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Ron Larsen (Lafayette, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Medical Support: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
Scout Coach: Andy Read (Garden Grove, Calif.)
Scout Coach: Mike Sealy (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Pool A
Bulgaria (6 points, 2-0)
Argentina (3 points, 1-1)
Poland (3 points, 1-1)
Australia (3 points, 1-1)
Italy (3 points 1-1)
Great Britain (0 points, 0-2)
Pool B
USA (6 points, 2-0)
Brazil (6 points, 2-0)
Russia (3 points, 1-1)
Serbia (3 points, 1-1)
Germany (0 points, 0-2)
Tunisia (0 points, 0-2)
July 29: Bulgaria def. Great Britain 25-18, 25-20, 26-24
July 29: Russia def. Germany 31-29, 25-18, 25-17
July 29: Argentina def. Australia 25-21, 25-22, 25-20
July 29: USA def. Serbia 25-16, 25-22, 25-21
July 29: Poland def. Italy 21-25, 25-20, 25-23, 25-14
July 29: Brazil def. Tunisia 25-17, 25-21, 25-18
July 31: Serbia def. Tunisia 25-15, 25-21, 20-25, 25-18
July 31: Bulgaria def. Poland 25-22, 29-27, 13-25, 25-23
July 31: Italy def. Argentina 25-17, 21-25, 25-17, 25-23
July 31: USA def. Germany 25-23, 25-16, 25-20
July 31: Australia def. Great Britain 25-15, 25-18, 25-20
July 31: Brazil def. Russia 25-21, 25-23, 25-21
Aug. 2: Serbia vs. Germany, 9:30 a.m.
Aug. 2: Australia vs. Bulgaria, 11:30 a.m.
Aug. 2: Russia vs. Tunisia, 2:45 p.m.
Aug. 2: Poland vs. Argentina, 4:45 p.m.
Aug. 2: Brazil vs. USA, 8 p.m. (noon PT)
Aug. 2: Great Britain vs. Italy, 10 p.m.
Aug. 4: Germany vs. Tunisia, 9:30 a.m.
Aug. 4: Great Britain vs. Poland, 11:30 a.m.
Aug. 4: Australia vs. Italy, 2:45 p.m.
Aug. 4: Russia vs. USA, 4:45 p.m. (8:45 a.m.)
Aug. 4: Argentina vs. Bulgaria, 8 p.m.
Aug. 4: Brazil vs. Serbia, 10 p.m.
Aug. 6: Australia vs. Poland, 9:30 a.m.
Aug. 6: Russia vs. Serbia, 11:30 a.m.
Aug. 6: Italy vs. Bulgaria, 2:45 p.m.
Aug. 6: Great Britain vs. Argentina, 4:45 p.m.
Aug. 6: USA vs. Tunisia, 8 p.m. (noon PT)
Aug. 6: Brazil vs. Germany, 10 p.m.
Aug. 8: Quarterfinal Matches at 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m.
Aug. 10: Semifinal Matches at 3 p.m., 7:30 p.m.
Aug. 12: Men's Bronze Medal Match, 9:30 a.m.
Aug. 12: Men's Gold Medal Match, 1 p.m.
Aug. 12: Men's Gold Medal Ceremony, 2:50 p.m.


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Never mind Ali-Frazier – Blue Bomber vs. Red Rocker is the greatest fight rivalry ever
Before there was "Real Steel" and "Transformers" there was "Blue Bomber" and "Red Rocker," the Rock'em Sock'em robots. If you're like me, you recall getting your block knocked off on rainy afternoons with the coolest joystick-operated dueling mechanical robot boxers ever invented. These were the days before video games, when men were men and robots were made of plastic.
The game debuted for the Marx Toy company in 1964, and they're still around, now produced by Mattel. Anyway, I hadn't thought of Rock'em Sock'em robots much until this past Halloween, when I was wandering through Harrah's Lake Tahoe and, lo and behold, there were life-sized versions of Red Rocker and Blue Bomber. And they were passing the time exactly as I imagined that battling robots would during down time: enjoying a couple of beers.
Of course they were drinking them through straws, as the helmets were kind of restrictive.
I took a few pictures with my cell phone, but I never got a chance to talk to the men behind the costumes. Until now.
Turns out that one of them is from South Lake Tahoe. The other, Sean Nichols, is from Santa Rosa, and he's the one who actually built them. Below he explains how.
Please be aware that this interview includes one of my favorite quotes ever: "In 2010, I sewed together a skunk costume, but was unable to create a spraying mechanism in time for Halloween."
Sad, really.
Lake Tahoe Action: I assume that you are in one of the costumes – which one? Who is the other guy?
Sean Nicholls: I manned the "Red Rocker," while my buddy Bobby K. controlled the "Blue Bruiser."
Q Did you build them together? Anyone else in on the project?
A Unfortunately, we live pretty far away from each other, so I had to do the construction alone. I turned my garage into a robot laboratory, and spent all of my free time working on these costumes. I tried to keep it simple and use any recyclable materials I could find. I got some help with the glowing LEDs from a local electronics shop, and had to buy over a hundred dollars of colored duct tape. Working on lunch breaks and after work, it took me about two months to complete. Luckily my buddy is the same build as I am, so I was able to simply duplicate all of the body parts I made for myself.
Q Where do you live? Were you both just visiting Tahoe?
A I live in Santa Rosa, California. Bobby lives up in Lake Tahoe. Two years ago he invited me to the "Freakers Ball" Halloween party, and that's what started the whole process.
Q Why did you decide to do this? Just for the contest?
A We spent our Halloween at Harrah's in 2011, and decided to enter a few costume contests. Our costumes were good, but not good enough to win. There was one group of costumes that won every contest that we entered, and I wanted a piece of the prize. I made it a goal of mine to win the costume contests the following year, so I got to work. It was time-consuming, but in the end, we won first place in two costume contests.
Q Do you have an engineering background? Or are you just creative?
A My friends would tell you I'm creative. I do not have an engineering background, it would be nice, but math is not my strong suit. I did take a 3-D design class at Santa Rosa Junior College, but mostly I just enjoy a good challenge. Nothing beats that feeling of accomplishment.
Q What do you do for a living?
A I work full time selling appliance parts, not my ideal career choice, but it pays the bills. I run the shipping and receiving department, and that is where I collected all the cardboard to build these suits. I do a lot of painting, illustrating, and airbrushing on the side, and I am currently working on a clothing line called Hella Gnarly Apparel.
Q Have you built any other costumes?
A Over the years past, I have constructed a few other costumes. In 2008, I constructed three proton packs using cardboard and old broken parts I found lying around the workplace, then got some jumpsuits, ironed on names, and two friends and I were the Ghostbusters. The following year I decided to be Shredder from The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I made the shoulder pads, shin guards, gauntlets and spikes all out of cardboard and paper mache. I then painted them silver and airbrushed on the detail. I also wore that costume to Bay to Breakers in San Francisco. In 2010, I sewed together a skunk costume, but was unable to create a spraying mechanism in time for Halloween. Two years after the release of "Where the Wild Things Are," I bought a ton of faux fur from a local craft shop and sewed together a "Max" costume, and wore it to the Freaker's Ball. Which brings us to 2012, the year of the robots.
Q What do you like most about Rock'em Sock'em Robots?
A After this build I could go the rest of my life without seeing another Rock'em Sock'em Robot, but hey, nobody can hate robots. My favorite part of the game would be the spring-loaded heads of course. I had plans to make our helmets pop up, but I didn't start the project early enough to complete them.
Q What was the reaction from people at Harrah's? Did you wear them anywhere else, like to the grocery store?
A People's reactions at Harrah's were priceless. We could barely walk for more than six feet before someone stopped us to get a picture. When one person stopped us, more people would start lining up to snap a photo. I told my friends, with a paparazzi following like that, I now know what it feels like to be famous. We couldn't even go to the bathroom without people asking to get their pictures taken with us. At one point we got surrounded by four security guards, and they made us remove our helmets for "security reasons." You wouldn't believe how many people would walk past us and scream "Transformers!" or "Real Steel!" Luckily I only had one drunk guy come up to me and hit my helmet, he didn't do any damage, so I didn't have to knock his block off.
I've walked around town in them, but I haven't worn them to the store yet. As clumsy as I am, I'd knock over expensive wine, or trip over an old lady.A few of my friends are planning a photo shoot with the costumes, and my band will be using them in an upcoming music video.
Q Plans for next Halloween?
A Next year I definitely want to go bigger and better, but these costumes are going to be hard to beat. I have a few ideas up my sleeve. Let's just say, I plan on going back to Tahoe for Halloween 2013, and I plan on winning.
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Message From the Area Coordinator
Welcome to our Summer 2013 MIS Newsletter of the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas. We would like to share some new activities in the area with you.
The undergraduate program moved up in the Bloomberg Businessweek 2013 ranking of graduate schools to No. 9 among information systems programs nationwide. During the 2012-13 academic year, the masters students obtained a record number of internships, and statistics reveal that almost every student eligible for and interested in an internship obtained one. Dr. Dawn Owens joined the information systems area as a clinical professor and the director of the undergraduate MIS degree program. On the research side, our faculty members have continued to be prolific in publishing their research in top MIS and other journals. Dr. Sumit Sarkar, Professor and Charles and Nancy Davidson Chair, gave the keynote address in the recent China Summer Workshop on Information Management which took place June 29-30 at Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. We are pleased to announce that the third annual MIS academic leadership conference, which was launched in 2011 at UT Dallas, will be hosted by the Indiana University in October. Conference program details will be announced soon. Please visit our website to learn more about MIS@UT Dallas. We welcome your comments.
Srinivasan Raghunathan
Area Coordinator, Information Systems
Recent Happenings
Information Systems Undergrad Program Ranks 9th in U.S.
The UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management's undergraduate program has been named in the top 10 in the Bloomberg Businessweek's 2013 ranking of undergraduate programs at business schools across the nation. The school's Information Systems undergraduate program ranked 9th. The list is based on responses to an on-line survey of 27,000 students at 123 business schools. To find more information and additional undergraduate program rankings, see the UT Dallas News Center story.
Record Year for Number of Internships of MS Information Technology and Management Students
MS in Information Technology and Management students obtained more than 250 internship positions with reputable companies throughout the U.S. during the fall, spring and summer semesters of the 2012-2013 academic year. Their average salary was more than $20 an hour, and the interns worked an average of 37 hours a week. The internships came from a wide variety of businesses, but consulting, telecom and computer/software industries have continued to account for a large fraction of these. Internships often are extended for more than a term, and several result in full-time positions for students. This fact sheet provides more specific information about the 2012-13 internships. Separately, a recent survey of students who graduated in 2013 spring and summer semesters revealed that close to 90 percent of students complete at least one semester of internship or are employed in a full-time position. More than 30 percent of students achieve two or more semesters of internship prior to graduation.
Student Spotlight
Two PhD Graduates Begin Faculty Careers
Congratulations to the following two doctoral students who begin their academic careers in fall 2013.
Yasin Ceran defended his dissertation in July 2013 and will join Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.
Young Kwark will join the University of Florida, Gainesville, and will return to UT Dallas in October 2013 to defend her dissertation. We wish them the best.
Alumni Highlight
Javiaur Harmon Designs his Future at TI
Q: What is the name of the company you work for, and how long have you been working there?
Texas Instruments, and I have been working for them three months.
Q: How did you find the opportunity?
UT Dallas' Spring 2013 Career Expo last March.
Q: Briefly describe your job duties and responsibilities.
Texas Instruments manufactures processing chips called wafers. The manufacturing department, which is dispersed throughout five locations worldwide, produces millions of chips a day so there is a huge need for applications to support those functions. My job is to design those applications to support the functions of the manufacturing.
Q: Describe your typical day at work.
A typical day for me would include meetings with the manufacturing department, meetings with the developers, and then meetings at night with co-workers who work overseas, all in an attempt to align everyone on the same page to drive execution for whatever project I am driving at that time for the manufacturing department.
Q: What do you enjoy most about your job?
I enjoy knowing that I am making a difference in something that is bigger than myself. To know that I bring value to a Fortune 500 company gives me the internal satisfaction that I need to keep doing my job.
Q: How did your education and experience at UT Dallas prepare you for your job?
Before going to UT Dallas, I did not know what the letters "MIS" stood for, let alone what I could do in IT to launch a career. I got involved in the SAP Users Group (SUG) as well as the MIS Club. I did a lot of networking and thinking outside the box. Last, but not least, I took the classes as a junior and senior very seriously because they did not come easy to me as a person without any IT background. Compiling all of those together gave me the momentum I needed to propel myself into a great job opportunity all stemming from going to UT Dallas.
Q: What advice will you give to current students to make the most of their time at UT Dallas?
Use all available resources. UT Dallas gives all students a lot of resources to use. When we have resources readily available, oftentimes we do not think to use them. There are many students who are not fortunate enough to go to a really good school like UT Dallas and who do not have the resources that UT Dallas has. Make the most of your resources because they could be gone tomorrow. However, if you are a student who is ahead of the game and is already maximizing these resources, then go one step further and broaden your range of knowledge. Information technology is very wide. The greater your foundation of knowledge, the higher the percentage you have to qualify for more jobs as a new college grad.
Q: What are some things you enjoy doing in your time away from work?
I coach youth basketball to give back to the community and also to make a difference in the lives of our youth.
Faculty News
European Research Paper of the Year at CIONET Summit
Information Systems faculty member Dr. Indranil Bardhan co-authored a paper entitled "Information Technology and Firm Profitability: Mechanisms and Empirical Evidence" with Jie Mein Goh (IE Business School in Madrid, Spain), Sunil Mithas (University of Maryland) and Ali Tafti (University of Illinois). Published in MIS Quarterly 2012, it won the European Research Paper of the Year award at the CIONET summit, an association of European CIOs. It was selected based on all papers published in the information systems top two journals: MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research. For more information, please see the CIONET website.
Data Revolution, Model Evolution
Dr. Sumit Sarkar was a keynote speaker at the China Summer Workshop on Information Management which took place June 29-30 at Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. The title of his talk was "Data Revolution, Model Evolution." The presentation dealt with research opportunities that have emerged with the veritable explosion in the amount of information that businesses are able to collect about their customers, partners, and competitors. The phenomenon is often referred to as Big Data, and is characterized by enormous growth in the volume of data, the diversity in types of data, and the speed at which data regarding the different entities of interest to a firm are captured across multiple channels. The presentation showcased using examples how extant modeling techniques used in data-driven research are often inadequate, and ways in which information systems academics can use their modeling skills to leverage the data revolution that is under way. It also discussed how the continuing growth of e-commerce, and the imminent emergence of the Internet of Things, will result in even more data in the future, thereby providing further avenues for developing new models for business research in general and information systems research in particular.
So What Are Data Scientists Anyway?
Information Systems faculty member and director of the Center for Information Technology and Management Dr. Kelly Slaughter was an invited speaker at the Ft. Worth IT Symposium on data scientists on August 1st. Here is an abstract of his speech: "The introduction of the Big Data meme has led to the generation of a host of new ancillary terms, chief among them the term 'data scientist.'" Is the data scientist role a simple relabeling of more familiar positions such as business intelligence analyst or statistician? Or is there something new to the data scientist role? Through interviews with those organizations sponsoring these data scientist positions, we identified two aspects novel to the role of data scientist. The first is a reverse "extent of the market" phenomenon. As the data collected and available continues to grow, rather than increasing functional specialization (e.g., specializing in cluster analysis, econometric modeling, and natural language processing), an individual specializes in the lifecycle of data processing, thus addressing a breadth of responsibilities including database technologies, statistical methods, user interface principles, context specific business opportunity identification, and even epistemological insight. The second new aspect is the "critical mass of need" across organizations for these combinations of skills through which labeling facilitates the matching of talents with roles in the marketplace." For more info on this event, see the Ft. Worth IT Symposium website.
Dr. Dawn Owens Joins the Faculty as the Director of BS MIS Degree Program
Dawn Owens is the new Director of Undergraduate MIS Programs in the Naveen Jindal School of Management. She received her Ph.D. in Information Technology from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she also received a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems. Dr. Owens' research interests are in the areas of virtual teams, project management, virtual world technology, software quality assurance, and retention of IT employees. She is particularly interested in how information technology can be used to enhance work practices on a global scale. Her most current research explores the use of virtual world technology and its effect on developing trust in virtual teams.
Prior to joining UT Dallas, Dawn was an Associate Professor in the College of Science and Technology at Bellevue University in Bellevue, Nebraska. She was also the Director of IS programs at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She has taught in both traditional and online learning environments and has experience in curriculum and program development. During her time at Bellevue University she developed several new course offerings and program updates.
Dr. Owens' industry experience encompasses both technical and management expertise. Her background includes executive IT management and all aspects of software development – analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, maintenance and project management. She frequently draws on her industry experience in the classroom to help reinforce ideas and add context to the concepts.
In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and conducting research, Dr. Owens will oversee the undergraduate MIS degree program which has seen a significant increase in the enrollment in recent years and currently has more than 300 students.
Research Corner
Listed below are papers published or accepted for publication in journals and conference proceedings from some of our IS faculty for the spring and summer 2013. Interested readers can contact the authors regarding a copy of forthcoming papers.
- Bardhan, Indranil, Sezgin Ayabakan, Kirk Kirksey, and Zhiqiang Zheng, "Patient Migration and Duplicate Procedures: A Longitudinal Study of Congestive Heart Failure Patients in Texas," presented at the Second INFORMS Healthcare Conference, Chicago, IL, June 2013.
- Bardhan, Indranil, Shu Lin and Vish Krishnan "Business Value of Information Technology: Testing the Interaction Effect of IT and R&D on Tobin's Q," Information Systems Research, forthcoming 2013.
- Bardhan, Indranil, V. V. Krishnan and S. Lin (2012), "Team Dispersion, Information Technology, and Project Performance," Production and Operations Management, doi: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2012.01366.x.
- Bardhan, Indranil and Mark Thouin, "Information Technology and Quality and Cost of Healthcare: A Longitudinal Study of US Hospitals," Decision Support Systems, May 2013, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 438-449.
- Bardhan, Indranil, Kristin Jenkins and Jingyun Li, "Hospital Characteristics, Health Information Technology, and Stage One Meaningful Use," presented at the Second INFORMS Healthcare Conference, Chicago, IL, June 2013.
- Ghoshal, A. and S. Sarkar, "Association Rules for Recommendations with Multiple Items," forthcoming in the INFORMS Journal on Computing.
- Jayanth, Rajiv, Varghese Jacob and Suresh Radhakrishnan, Kutsal Dogan, "The Antecedents of Co-Developer Participation in Open Source Projects: An Empirical Analysis," IEEE Transactions in Software Engineering, forthcoming.
- Lee, C., X. Geng, S. Raghunathan. "Contracting Information Security in the Presence of Double Moral Hazard," Information Systems Research, June 2013, pp. 295-311.
- Li, Xiao-Bai and Sumit Sarkar, "Class-Restricted Clustering and Microperturbation for Data Privacy," Management Science, April 2013, 59:796-812.
- Raghunathan, S., M. Ganesh and C. Rajendran, "Distribution and Equitable Sharing of Value From Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment Across Supply Chain Firms," forthcoming in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
- Zheng, Zhiqiang, Sumit Sarkar and Jing Hao, "How Do Advertisers Compete in Sponsored Search Auctions? Evidence from the Digital Camera Industry," presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-13), January 2013.


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The Flight of the Pringle
Tom Lange knows more about flying Pringles than probably anyone alive.
As director of modeling and simulation at Procter & Gamble Co., it's Lange's job to use finite element analysis to predict what something will smell like, whether a bottle will break, and if a Pringles chip will take flight.
"We break things into a million little parts and then write simple math equations about how each little part affects the other parts," says Lange, who is responsible for the economic, as well as structural, analysis of different materials.
His latest challenge was to analyze airflow around the unique double-saddle design of Pringles chips. "Air flow over Pringles has some very unusual behavior," says Lange. "It sheds vortices and creates lift that causes the chip to be unstable." In English that means the chips will fly off the conveyer belt if production is throttled up.
Though he won't say what modifications they made, "we were able to speed things up," says Lange, who adds, "I have the coolest job."
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COZY YET NOT: When one thinks of a traditional harvest festival, one might think of a yard near a school, done up in pumpkins and candy apple booths, or perhaps a town square. (Yep, those are pretty cinematic visuals, but ask anyone and those will likely be the pictures that spring to mind.) It's also a one-night-only party, or perhaps the sale will last for a full weekend. All in all, it presents a cozy picture, scented with spice, and it is well-lodged in our heads as symbolic of a harvest crafts affair. But the Harvest Festival, which is billed as the Original Arts & Craft Fair, is kind of on the opposite side of the spectrum from this scene. How so? It runs for thirty days in a total of ten cities in three states. Hundreds of artisans and cooks and woodworkers and knitters and photographers helm the booths. And the items for sale reach toward 25,000 in all. Nope, it isn't the town square, one-night-only fest, but it is a fine way to shop for the holidays and holiday-type stuff during the fall.
THE CALIFORNIA CITIES: The Golden State boasts the bulk of the Harvest Festival's tour, with Pleasanton, San Mateo, Ventura, and Pomona all on the list, as well as a couple more, including our capital. It's a ticketed show, so before you go you might want to nab your admission online, or at least check the price. There's usually some food trucks or carts, and some entertainment afoot as well. So, what do you need? A jewelry box for your aunt? Some ornaments for yourself? Some chili mix for your sister? It's probably all somewhere within the fest. Most of all, it truly summons some fall feelings, if you're ready to leave the swelter behind and pretend the leaves are falling.
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There are fires and car crashes; medical emergencies and "code arrests," in which firefighters work to save the life of someone whose heart has stopped.
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Each call carries great responsibility, says Tucson Fire Health and Safety Captain John Gulotta.
"Tucson Fire Department goes and processes a thousand code arrests a year," he said. "That's 1,000 families we deal with, 1,000 lives we see ... and that's not including pediatric or child abuse, that's not including adult abuse, that's not including traumatic events we see."
What first responders see can take an emotional toll, and that's why many police and fire departments use crisis interventions to help their workers cope.
One of the most common interventions is Critical Incident Stress Management, or CISM. It's a highly structured system developed to help people recover from emotionally traumatic events. Although it's sometimes used one on one, it often includes group discussions, called debriefings, to go over the traumatic event.
Tucson Fire paramedic Kevin Chaffee came to know and train in CISM on the job, and says he has seen its benefits firsthand.
"My very first call that I ever went on as a brand-new EMT was a pediatric drowning, and I had the ability to experience the effects of CISM," Chaffee recalled. "At that point in my career, it was all brand-new to me and I did find it very helpful."
Over the 13 years that followed that first call, Chaffee saw more than his share of emotional trauma as a firefighter. But one event changed his life—and his ideas about how best to respond to a crisis.
A year ago, Chaffee's closest friend was killed. His friend was a Nogales firefighter with close ties to his department and to the community.
"It was a huge network of people that needed help," Chaffee said, "and we utilized CISM initially to help us get through that."
Chaffee says the CISM team followed the program's protocol, including a debriefing and some suggestions for self-care—but that the implementation clashed with his and his fellow mourners' emotional needs.
"When you have a group of firefighters who are used to hanging out together on their days off, barbecuing and having a couple of beers watching a football game on Sunday, and you tell them, 'Hey, you should avoid those things you normally do to decompress and make things right in your own mind again,' that didn't go over well with most of the firefighters from Nogales, or for most of his friends, for that matter," Chaffee said. "So we had to take things down a different road."
That different road has led Chaffee, Gulotta and the rest of the Tucson Fire Department to develop their own alternative to CISM.
It's called the Peer Operational Support Team, or POST, and it has grown from a partnership with University of Arizona researchers, including psychologist Patricia Haynes, director of the UA Stress and Trauma Recovery Clinic.
"It's a peer system, where fellow firefighters go and talk with their peers who've gone through really tough calls, and the whole purpose in the short term is to really promote calming," Haynes said.
The trained firefighters who make up POST talk to their peers one-on-one and help them find ways to decompress, whether it's by calling their families or taking a day off.
Haynes says they make themselves available but let the natural recovery process unfold, checking in periodically to catch problems as they arise.
"Where we really emphasize the majority of our intervention is 30 days after the really difficult call," she said. "That's when we actually go in and do a formalized risk assessment for PTSD and depression, so that those individuals who haven't gone through a natural recovery, those individuals who have gotten stuck, can be identified and we can help them."
POST's informal, individualized approach differs from CISM's, and it's gradually gaining favor in certain circles.
Some studies have suggested that CISM's group debriefings have the potential to interfere with natural recovery. That has fueled controversy around the practice, and led the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and some fire departments to move away from CISM.
Tom McSherry is a former firefighter EMT who has implemented CISM all over the country for high-profile disasters including 9/11 and the Yarnell Hill fire. He says he stands by CISM, but understands the impulse to try something different.
"I believe in it, I've seen its value, but I must say I'm anxious still every time I do it because I know, if misapplied, you can do harm," he said. "No different than if you drink too much water, you can end up in the hospital."
McSherry cautions against abandoning all the tools that CISM offers, because one-on-one interventions—like the ones favored in POST-like models—may not be enough when large-scale disasters strike.
"One tool would not have worked for me at Ground Zero," he said. "One tool would not have worked for me in two weeks up at Prescott after the 19 were killed. I had individuals, we had small groups, we had large groups, we had families, we had victims, we had survivors, and to be limited to just that one model would not have sufficed."
Firefighter Kevin Chaffee agrees. As part of the team developing and testing POST, he says he sees himself drawing from CISM to simply offer his fellow firefighters another choice when their burden grows too heavy.
"I feel that by doing what we're doing with POST—taking some of the best things about CISM and tailoring it to what we individually need in our fire department and for the fire service in general—I think that being part of that is a huge thing that is going to go on for the future of the fire department," Chaffee said. "That's why I'm so passionate about being in this program."


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CHAPEL HILL � With 30 seconds left, Giovani Bernard decided to put himself in the game.
�I kind of waved somebody off. I told (teammate Roy Smith), �Let me try to see what I can do with this one,� � Bernard said.
Those words can echo into the history books.
Seventeen seconds later, the North Carolina sophomore sprinted to the right and sent his team�s sideline and the crowd into mass hysteria with a 74-yard punt return, delivering a 43-35 victory against North Carolina State on Saturday at Kenan Stadium.
Bernard entered Tar Heel lore with the return � and stopped a five-game losing streak against N.C. State.
During a timeout, Bernard heard the play called for what he called his �favorite punt return play� and told Smith he would take a chance.
Bernard � briefly injured a couple times in the game � had a nudge from his roommate.
�I was like, �Gio, you�ve got to get in there. We need you,� � quarterback Bryn Renner said. �He was down a little bit and we know he�s a special player, probably the best player I�ve ever played with.�
The emotions and dramatics � going down to a botched hold that resulted in a two-point conversion after Bernard�s touchdown and a recovered fumble for North Carolina (6-3 overall, 3-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) on the ensuing kickoff � had some of Bernard�s teammates in tears after the game.
For the star, his tears came earlier.
�I saw one of my guys (on the punt return), I just starting yelling �Go Go Go!� After that, I started crying. I couldn�t hold my emotions back,� Bernard said. �I still can�t believe it, I�m still shaking right now.�
It was Bernard�s second punt return for a touchdown this season, the other being a 70-yard score against Elon University in the first game of the season. He said the same play was called for both touchdowns.
Bernard racked up 135 rushing yards and a pair of rushing touchdowns and added 95 yards on eight receptions. He has rushed for 717 yards in the last four games and his 304 all-purpose yards is a career high for the sophomore.
�Look, you�ve got to give those other 10 guys (on the return) a lot of credit because I don�t think anybody touched him,� North Carolina coach Larry Fedora said. �He just caught it and ran, so you�ve got to give those guys some credit.�
On the return, freshmen Quinshad Davis and Kendrick Singleton made early blocks to initially spring Bernard to the right side. At the North Carolina 40-yard line, safety Tre Boston made a block that removed two pursuers and Romar Morris blocked punter Wil Baumann at the N.C. State 47-yard line.
The Wolfpack took possession with 1:24 left in a tied game looking for a field goal. But a sack by senior Kevin Reddick on first down forced N.C. State into a precarious situation.
�Coach called a play for me, actually the back was supposed to pick me up and he tried to cut me,� Reddick said. �I got around him and I just made the play. Any time coach calls my number, I try to make a game-changing play.�
N.C. State opted to play conservatively after that and the Wolfpack ran the ball for minimal gains on second and third downs.
Timeouts by North Carolina after each run gave Bernard and the return team the chance they needed.
�I think at that point you just want to kick it and get it out of there,� N.C. State coach Tom O�Brien said. �I think we might have over-kicked it.�
The Wolfpack (5-3, 2-2) were losing the momentum before that drive, as it had surrendered a 35-25 lead in the fourth quarter.
After North Carolina�s defense surrendered 509 yards in the first three quarters, the unit certainly played a key role in turning the tides. The Tar Heels held N.C. State to 25 yards in the fourth quarter.
�You have to play on to the next play,� Boston said. �We tried to do that the rest of the day. We were very upset after (losing to Duke last week), knowing that the defense could have won it just like down at Miami (two weeks ago).�
With North Carolina ineligible for postseason play this season, its sixth victory of the season holds a somewhat hollow meaning.
But for Reddick, Saturday�s game might as well have been the Tar Heels� bowl game.
�If you want to say (it was our bowl game), yeah. It was a great win for us,� Reddick said.
EXTRA POINTS�: In addition to catching four passes for 79 yards, North Carolina�s Eric Ebron worked into the defensive end rotation and recorded a quarterback hurry in the first half. Ebron, who played at Greensboro Smith, said he spent 30 minutes this week practicing with the defense. � With 570 yards of offense, North Carolina crossed the 500-yard mark for the fourth time this season. � Renner, a junior, completed a career-high 30 passes to nine different receivers for 358 yards and a touchdown. � Offensive tackle James Hurst wore No. 73, normally Brennan Williams� number, because Williams was injured and did not play. � Senior receiver Erik Highsmith scored the first rushing touchdown of his career on a 45-yard reverse in the first quarter. � This was the highest-scoring game in the series since N.C. State won a 47-34 decision in 2003.


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Round the Track: Danica Patrick would justify ride with top-20 finishes
Danica Patrick messed up Sunday and ruined a chance at just her second top-10 finish of her rookie Sprint Cup season.
No matter how one looks at it, Patrick has not had a good season. She sits 28th in the series standings. She has only finished better in her second trip to a track at three of the 10 tracks where the series has run twice this year.
She should have shown more progress. Maybe we miss the little things and there will be more tangible signs of progress next year, but it definitely is not easy to see. She does get better during a race weekend, but week-to-week progress appears minimal.
Patrick is learning. She needs to get better. She needs time to get better.
She will get that time. She has a sponsor in GoDaddy, whose CEO told The Associated Press last week that "She's going to be with us for an awful, awful long time."
The question isn't just how much time, but how much better does she need to get for her to gain the respect of the NASCAR fan base. What will it take to have more fans believe she deserves to have one of the 43 seats every weekend?
It's not rare that a rookie will not be great right out of the box.
Of the 13 drivers in the Chase this year, four finished in the top 10 their rookie seasons, 11 in the top 20. The only one outside the top 20 was Kurt Busch (27th), who failed to qualify for a race at Atlanta. Kevin Harvick, in his second season, was 21st while missing one race.
Patrick did make history this year as the first pole winner for a Cup race ever. She also posted the best finish ever for a female in the Daytona 500.
But the fact is that Stewart-Haas Racing is not a place for a 28th-place driver.
As long as she has sponsorship, she'll have a ride. So if she runs as well as, say, Paul Menard, is that OK?
Menard is family-funded and he is 16th in the standings. For the last three years, he's been top 17 in the standings. For his first four years, he was no better than 23rd.
He is not considered the elite of the elite, but isn't a top-20 finish on an annual basis good enough to keep a ride?
It should be. Not every driver is Jimmie Johnson or Kyle Busch or even Greg Biffle. If her funding allows people to have jobs building and working on race cars, does it really hurt the sport all that much?
She can't run 28th every year, but no one should expect her to be even where Ryan Newman is right away. Newman has five wins with two top-10 points finishes and an average points standing of 13.4 over the last eight years (including his current spot of 11th this year).
Yes, she made a mistake on pit road Sunday, but many drivers make mistakes on pit road. Kyle Busch made one on Sunday, too.
If Juan Pablo Montoya, Sam Hornish Jr. and Dario Franchitti prove anything, it's that the transition from IndyCar to NASCAR is extremely difficult. Patrick needs to be given more time.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Danica's boyfriend, won back-to-back Nationwide crowns and won eight Nationwide races in 2011 and 2012. He's 19th in the Cup standings with just three top 10s this year.
So it's not surprising someone less accomplished in stock cars isn't running even close in a rookie season.
If Patrick is still 28th two years from now, then GoDaddy and SHR should consider whether she's still worth the investment.
But there's nothing wrong with allowing her to learn on the Cup level. It's not as if SHR has the door being knocked down with drivers with full-time sponsorship who can finish in the top 25 in Cup.
All sports teams are limited by a salary cap where they have role players and fill-ins. Not everyone is a star.
Patrick gets the star-like treatment because of her popularity. That won't change. What needs to change is the result each week. It doesn't need to change to that of champion, just a driver who can run more consistently in the top 20 than getting lapped in the first half of the race.


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About Innoplexus
Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Germany with offices in India, Innoplexus AG provides artificial intelligence (AI) systems that produce intelligence and insights for businesses such as life science companies.
Leveraging Google Cloud Platform, Innoplexus has built a platform that enables faster decision making for the pre-clinical, clinical, regulatory and commercial stages of drug development.
Google Cloud Results
- Reduced costs by 80% relative to a hosted physical infrastructure and 20% relative to another cloud service.
- Increased capacity to crawl public life sciences content from 1,000 pages per second to 20,000 pages per second.
- Accelerated training of information extraction models by a factor of 20.
- Supported eightfold increase in scalability.
Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Germany, with offices in India, Innoplexus AG offers Data as a Service (DaaS) and Continuous Analytics as a Service (CAaS) products. These products leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics to significantly reduce drug development time, from synthesis to approval.
Reduced costs by 80% and increased content capture and processing capability by a factor of 20
Innoplexus provides a platform called iPlexus that gives global life sciences and pharmaceutical organisations access to relevant data, real-time intelligence and intuitive insights. These insights span the pre-clinical, clinical, regulatory and commercial stages of drug development.
iPlexus automates the collection, curation, aggregation and analysis, of billions of data points from thousands of data sources, using machine learning, network analysis, ontologies, computer vision and entity normalisation.
"When we started looking at market opportunities, we realised that many businesses were not aware of the volume of data available in the public domain, or were spending heavily on manually developed and manually curated products," says Gaurav Tripathi, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Innoplexus. "They needed access to an automated system that could manage data volumes at scale and apply AI to capture relevant information."
Over two years, Tripathi and his fellow Co-founder (and Chief Executive Officer) of Innoplexus, Dr. Gunjan Bhardwaj, experimented with product development and consulted with C-level executives across a range of industries. By the end of the second year, the pair's activities had sparked interest from leaders in the pharmaceutical industry and they decided to focus on the life sciences sector.
"Myself and my team are very pleased with Google's reliability. We have also created an architecture that scaled easily and enabled us to increase the number of pages per second we cover from 1,000 to 20,000."—Gaurav Tripathi, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Innoplexus
"That's when we started developing the concept that is now iPlexus and looking at the structured and unstructured data that was available," Tripathi says. "Rather than build on existing work, we had to invest time and effort in inventing automated ways of curating life sciences data from sources such as publications and publication abstracts, PDFs and web pages." This process involved connecting all the concepts and categories in life sciences content, and develop systems and ontologies to automate those connections.
"One important point about data from life sciences is that in many cases it's very dense," Tripathi says. "For example, a single sentence in an extract or publication may be backgrounded by 10 papers and 20 years of research. Furthermore, that sentence does not stand alone within the publication or extract itself and has different meanings to people working in different areas in life sciences."
Innoplexus started working with a traditional hosting provider, but as data volumes exploded from the 10TB used during initial experiments to 200TB or more, the business had to look for a more scalable platform. "Another key requirement was the platform was 'always on' and flexible enough that we could vary the resources we were using based on the type of task we were undertaking," Tripathi says. Furthermore the platform had to help Innoplexus reduce the cost and time of 'crawling' public life science information sources.
After experimenting with public cloud services, Innoplexus opted to deploy iPlexus onto Google Cloud Platform (GCP). "The types of services Google offers with GCP—such as the Google BigQuery analytics data warehouse—are not available elsewhere," Tripathi says. Google BigQuery's ease of use enabled Tripathi's team to start working with the product in just one day. The team also advised Tripathi that they had found the interfaces to GCP products to be simple and intuitive. Innoplexus moved to GCP in 2016 and is now running 90% of its workflow and data load on the Google platform. iPlexus now crawls, aggregates, analyses and visualises data from a range of formats and structures from multiple regions and providers. All 'crawled' data is passed through an information extraction pipeline that converts semi-structured and unstructured sources to a structured format. This task is performed by leveraging natural language, computer vision, machine learning and deep learning tools. All the information extraction models are implemented using TensorFlow and the Keras open source neural network library. These models are then trained using Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine before being deployed. Google Cloud Dataflow is used for batch processing and Google Kubernetes Engine API to run iPlexus applications in containers.
"Google has been pushing hard into deep learning and making powerful tools and technologies available on Google Cloud Platform. We really appreciate the stability and scalability of the Google Cloud Platform. As a fast-growing startup, we can scale our platform up and down in minutes without any worries."—Dr. Sven Niedner, Chief Operations Officer, Innoplexus
"Google helped us enormously during the migration process by reviewing and making suggestions that would optimise our architecture," Tripathi says. "For example, we wanted to minimise the costs related to data movement and results. The Google team explained how Google Cloud Bigtable could help us do that."
A 20-fold increase in pages crawled per second
GCP has met all of Innoplexus' key business and technical requirements for iPlexus. "Myself and my team are very pleased with Google's reliability," Tripathi says. "We have also created an architecture that scaled easily and enabled us to increase the number of pages crawled per second from 1,000 to 20,000." Furthermore, Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine has reduced the time needed to 'train' models to extract the right information by a factor of 20 compared to similar services.
Costs reduced by 80%
Using GCP has enabled Innoplexus to reduce its costs by 80%, when compared to hosted physical infrastructures, and by 20% compared to other cloud providers. "Google BigQuery alone enables us to process a terabyte of data in seconds at a cost up to a hundred orders of magnitude lower than performing the same operation on regular instances in the cloud," Tripathi says.
The iPlexus platform running on GCP now generates continuous intelligence and insights across discovery, clinical development and the regulatory and commercial stages of drug development. It includes modules for competitive intelligence, clinical intelligence, regulatory intelligence, gene and intervention landscapes. Researchers can minimise the risk of missing information that may impact their work. Innoplexus' use of Google products extends beyond GCP to G Suite. "It is mandatory for all our team members to retain all their documents on Google Drive—if they experience a hardware malfunction no data is lost. We can simply give them a new notebook and they can get on with it," Tripathi says. The company also runs Google Hangouts groups for its workforce as a whole, as well as for individual teams. "This enables us to build a 'one big happy family' culture at Innoplexus and enables our teams to collaborate effectively," he adds.
In future, Tripathi and his colleagues see GCP as being extremely helpful in making Innoplexus' products more efficient and cost effective. "Google has been pushing hard into deep learning and making powerful tools and technologies available on GCP," says Dr. Sven Niedner, Chief Operations Officer, Innoplexus. "We really appreciate the stability and scalability of the GCP platform—as a fast-growing startup, we can scale our platform up and down in minutes without any worries."
About Innoplexus
Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Germany with offices in India, Innoplexus AG provides artificial intelligence (AI) systems that produce intelligence and insights for businesses such as life science companies.