DECEMBER 10, 2008ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYMPOSIUM 2008 • PHOENIX, ARIZONA

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A Session By:CSC, Google, Image Matters, ManTech

INFORMATION RELEVANCE

Making Information Meaningful

Introduction By: Joe Greer – CTO CSC

DECEMBER 10, 2008ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYMPOSIUM 2008 • PHOENIX, ARIZONA

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Leveraging the Power of Cloud Computing in Answering the Call

for Information RelevancePrepared By:

Joe Greer (CSC), Sung Nguyen (Google) and Muhannad Kanaan (CSC)

DRAFT

Reality - We’ve Got a Little Work Yet To Do

The Linear Anvil !

World Information Factory

294,000,000,000,000,000,000 new bytes a year

294 Quintillion !!!

< 10% Searchable

Weakly described

To The Sun and Back 12 Times !!

Survive Tidal Wave of Information and Information Complexity

Serve Today’s Cyber Citizen

Google Confidential5

Cell/Camera Web/IM/YouTube

Hands offAnti-virus / Spam

Protection

WorkstationIntel Duo-Quart

SpeedBroadband

Video ConferencingWebCam, gVideo

Federated SearchPersonalized News

ReputationManagement (EBay)

Collaboration(Netmeeting, gDocs, blogger, wiki, sites)

Wireless LaptopAlienware

Immersive Virtual EnvironmentsVoice over IP

TIVO PVR500 Hrs

DirectTV Sat

MP3 PlayerPortable Digital

Library

Iphone /Wireless PDA

gMail, SpreadSheets