QED – Goodbye Doha, Hello Adventure!
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I joined the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) well over 3 years ago with a very specific mission and mandate: to develop and deploy next generation humanitarian technologies. So I built the Institute’s Social Innovation Program from the ground up and recruited the majority of the full-time experts (scientists, engineers, research assistants, interns & project manager) who have become integral to the Program’s success.
During these 3+years, my team and I partnered directly with humanitarian and development organizations to empirically prove that methods from advanced computing can be used to make sense of Big (Crisis) Data.
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ROBERT STEELE: Dr. Patrick Meier is one of the pioneers around whom an entire new global information system and an entire new global socio-economic system could be built around.
