Egyptian Chief Scientist and Technical Manager of the IBM Innovation Exchange in Dublin Haytham Assem has been named in Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 in “Technology” sector. Assem, IBM Master Inventor, has developed a new technology that he dubs “Temporal Functional Regions”. He used Manhattan borough in the United States (US) as his laboratory and machine learning technique to mine massive amounts of social media data, according to IBM. “I am incredibly honoured to be representing my home country Egypt on the Forbes 30 under 30 prestigious list which includes 30 [people] that are considered the most influential and change-makers in the Technology sector across Europe,” Assem tells Egyptian Streets. The new technology was developed by collecting a huge amount of data from popular applications including Twitter and FourSquare. “Every region in the city has a dynamic functionality through time, and for the first time, we can show this,” Assem tells IBM, “In the morning it might be education, then in the evening, it might be an area rich in restaurants and nightlife. This is a new level of granularity we’ve achieved in the big data era.” He further adds that Temporal Functional…
Egyptian IBM Chief Scientist Haytham Assem Makes Forbes 30 Under 30 in Europe For Technology
January 27, 2018
