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JEFF JONAS

Jeff Jonas is the chief scientist at the IBM Entity Analytics group. The IBM Entity Analytics group was formed based on technologies developed by Systems Research & Development (SRD), which was founded by Jonas in 1984 and acquired by IBM in January 2005. Prior to IBM’s acquisition of SRD, Jonas lead the company through the design and development of a number of extraordinary systems, including technology used by the surveillance intelligence arm of the gaming industry. Jonas is a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He periodically testifies on privacy and counterterrorism in such venues as the White House before the President’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee, and other federally convened commissions.

ENTERPRISE AMNESIA AND DATA OVERLOAD

Today, as computing power grows, we are experiencing an unprecedented rise in the amount of data. This unstructured data is generated by social networks, blogs, emails and others. As Eric Schmidt noted, “Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.” This rapid growth of data and the impossibility of keeping up with it presents a challenge for governments, organizations, businesses and individuals and significantly affects fields such as national security, corporate data security or privacy. In order to make better and smarter decisions we need to make sense of what’s happening faster.