Panel: The State of Data: Invited Paper from panelists

This panel critically examines the state of data: how its growth and ubiquity have confronted the computer science and particularly the database community, with new challenges. These challenges require practitioners and teachers to learn new skills and engage with other disciplines in ways they had not done before. Panelists will examine the impact of the 'bigness' of data, and its importance for an ever-increasing array of applications, as well as the implications for traditional ideas of privacy and person-hood. By bringing together data specialists with those trained in social and human sciences, this panel aims to initiate discussion about the new social role the computer scientist and the database community have begun to play.