Melding the Physical and the Virtual with Big Data

Posted by Rob Knies

Many businesses and individuals talk a mean game about how they’re changing the world, catering to customer demands, delivering bold new user experiences.

And why not? It’s easy. Such claims rarely are held accountable. They’re easy to twist into whatever direction is most convenient.

Talk is cheap—sometimes. But not always.

I just had a most fascinating discussion with Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, a researcher in the Sensing and Energy Research Group at Microsoft Research Redmond. He’s at TechFest 2013 this week, discussing a project called Enabling Real-Time Business-Metadata Extraction, his focus for the last six months. I asked him a few questions about the project, and he responded in terms at once sincere, ingenious, and passionate.