Data integration is beginning to replace data mining as the fundamental challenge when working with distributed data. In this talk, we survey some recent work in data integration. We also survey some of the current and emerging service based infrastructures for integrating distributed bioinformatics data. We conclude by discussing some of the mathematics and computational challenges for data integration.

About the Speaker: Robert Grossman is the Director of the National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The NCDM hosts the Data Mining Group, which develops data mining standards, and operates the Tera Wide Data Mining Grid Testbed, a testbed for high performance and distributed data mining. He is also the President of Open Data Partners, which provides consulting and outsourced services focused on data. He has published over 100 papers and edited four books on data mining, business intelligence, grid computing, high performance networking, and related areas.