Whatever Happened to …? Collaborations and Career Paths

Joseph S. Virzi

TrackademiX

ATLAS Collaboration • Who IS this guy?

• Do I know him?

• Should I know him?

• Look at records in the ArXiv database – Correlate to information in additional commercial databases (NASA

ADS/INSPIRE/PubMed,…)

• Necessary information available

– Scattered (not in the same place/site) – Need to scrape - not intended to be “harvested”

• Merge disjoint databases, filter and

visually display relevant information

• Approach applicable to wide

class of real-world problems

Application Programming Interface • author list / number of authors • citations + dates / references + dates • institutions / collaborators • citation history

DEMO!

PIPELINE

ArXiv INSPIRE

NASA ADS

KAFKA

CUSTOM CRAWLER

REAL TIME

BATCH

WEB-BASED DATABASES

STORM

MR Job

• 12+ yrs hardware/software and embedded design experience • Ph.D. Physics, U.C. Berkeley • Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Purple Belt • I tinker and make things work

GPS + Sensor Data Acquisition

1024-port Non-Blocking Conferencing

Joseph S. Virzi

Custom ARM Motherboard + RTOS