Kicking off 2012 with EEDP
Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog as we kick off 2012! I released a very short posting last time to point out GE Experts that can be found on Twitter. As 2012 begins, new projects begin, old projects are continued and papers/patents begin taking shape. As a part of the Big Data team, we have been continuing work on our patent and preparing a few papers, hopefully looking at VLDB (Very Large Databases) 2012, while we continue to ramp up for another year of some great research!
Although we keep pushing forward, I thought this would be a great time to reflect on 2011 as well. I’ve done a ton of blogs around my technical work with the Big Data team and our events, so I wanted to focus on our group of Edison Engineers here at GE Global Research. It’s been an exciting 2011 within the program, and we’ve jump started 2012 with the hiring of four new Edison members already!
Last year we had approximately 25 Edison members at any given time, with 18 in our Traditional track, and 7 in our Software track. We graduated two members, Andrea (fellow EdisonsDesk blogger) and Matt (author of the infamous “light saber” blog entry), who have taken full time positions here at the Research Center. Congratulations to both of them!
As a group, the Edison members have been extremely active in writing, producing 46 publications both internally to GE and externally through conferences and journals. We have also helped to drive the future of not only GE, but of the industry with 19 intended and 15 filed patents having an Edison member as either the primary, or co-inventor!
Of course, as the saying goes, we work hard and play hard – the Edison team has had plenty of fun adventures this past year. Usually, we all try to get together once a month, holding pot luck dinners, heading out to movies or just getting together to watch some football. At the end of the 2011, we all took an afternoon to do some charity work for the Habitat for Humanity. This was a great opportunity to get our hands dirty, helping the community while learning more about ourselves.
As we look towards 2012, I can only imagine bigger and better things! We could see a record number of graduations, with the potential for 5-10 graduates this year (myself included) and hope to expand our Software track as well. I hope you all had a successful 2011 as well and are looking forward to an even better 2012! As always, feel free to reach out to me through the comments below, on Twitter (@EdisonsDesk, @CTMcConnell) and remember to check out what our GE Experts are working on at www.ge.com/Experts.
Until next time,
Chris
