ACM organizes second talk on ‘Big data analytics with spark as next generation hadoop

ACM Student Chapter, Chitkara University, organised its second talk in the Distinguished Speakers Program (DSP) series on ‘Big Data Analytics with Spark as Next Generation Hadoop’.

The talk was delivered with precision by Dr Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran, Director Technology/Principal Architect as Head of the Big-Data R&D at Impetus, Bangalore.

He was the distinguished speaker as sponsored by ‪ACM‬ headquarters, USA.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world ‘s largest educational and scientific computing society, provides colleges and universities, corporations, event and conference planners, and agencies, in addition to ACM local Chapters, with direct access to top technology leaders and innovators from nearly every sector of the computing industry.

These speakers deliver compelling and insightful content to audience. The program features renowned thought leaders in academia, industry and government, speaking about the most important topics in the computing and IT world today.

The speaker enlightened the participants with introduction to Machine Learning, Big Data, and how Spark has taken place in the era of Hadoop. The session was informative in a way that even a newbie has an idea of this latest technology.