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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>MIT Enterprise Forum of Texas presents<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>BIG DATA</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>February 19, 2014</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>5:30-8:30 PM <br><b>Petroleum Club</b></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>800 Bell St., 43rd Floor <br>Houston, TX 77002</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>In 2012, Nate Silver used statistics to perfectly predict the results of the presidential election, Brad Pitt starred in a movie on how data has transformed baseball and the cover of the Harvard Business Review heralded the arrival of “the age of big data.” With the cost of data storage now immaterial, sensor technology becoming ubiquitous, and modern machine learning techniques able to pull signals out of large and complex data sets, we’re fast approaching a world where data and algorithms make many of our most important business decisions. Our February 19 event will offer a primer on big data and machine learning and some thoughts on its potential in upstream Oil & Gas.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Antony Goldbloom</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>, </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Founder & CEO of Kaggle <br></span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Ken Tubman</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, Vice President, Geosciences and Reservoir Engineering at ConocoPhillips<br></span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Allen Gilmer</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Drillinginfo<br></span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Harold Walters</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>, </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Chief Technical Advisor -- Production Enhancement, Halliburton </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt'> </span><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Register at <a href="http://www.miteftexas.org/"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>www.MITEFtexas.org</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>