UCL and Elsevier launch the UCL Big Data Institute

UCL and Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific,
technical and medical information products and services, today announced they
will establish the UCL Big Data Institute. It
is a new collaboration to explore innovative ways to better serve needs of
researchers through the exploration of new technologies and analytics as
applied to scholarly content and data.Elsevier
believes linking analytics and scientific content is one of the key […]

Big Data Competencies | Strategic Planning & Execution content …

At the Annual Members Meeting of the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, there was considerable discussion of the new competencies that were going to be required of U.S. manufacturing firms. This was not surprising, given the meeting’s focus on the most significant emerging challenges that businesses were likely to face. And, given the breadth of participants from industry […]

Big turnout for launch of big-data center

BERKELEY — It was standing room only in Sutardja Dai Hall’s Banatao Auditorium, with many more watching monitors in the overflow section, at Thursday’s high-energy launch of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.On hand to celebrate (left to right): Vice Chancellor for Research Graham Fleming, Moore Foundation’s Vicki Chandler, Chancellor Dirks and BIDS director Saul Perlmutter (Peg Skorpinski photo)Right […]

Big turnout for launch of big-data center – UC Berkeley NewsCenter

BERKELEY — It was standing room only in Sutardja Dai Hall’s Banatao Auditorium, with many more watching monitors in the overflow section, at Thursday’s high-energy launch of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.On hand to celebrate (left to right): Vice Chancellor for Research Graham Fleming, Moore Foundation’s Vicki Chandler, Chancellor Dirks and BIDS director Saul Perlmutter (Peg Skorpinski photo)Right […]

NYC think-tank devoted to critical analysis of Big Data seeks fellows …

Outstanding social scientist danah boyd has founded a new thinktank (or “think/do-tank”) called The Data & Society Research Institute, based in New York City, and devoted to critical analysis of big data, and “social, technical, ethical, legal, and policy issues that are emerging because of data-centric technological development.” It’s well-funded, with an exciting mission, and they’re hiring.

Data & Society is […]

Historical Perspective: How Today's U.S. Stock Market Stacks Up …

By David Larrabee, CFAAs the bull market for U.S. stocks approaches its fifth anniversary, we are starting to see signs typically associated with the latter stages of a multi-year advance in equities. Bearish sentiment, widely seen as a contrarian indicator, has dropped to levels not seen in a generation, retail investors are returning to stocks, and the IPO market has […]

Stock Market News for November 29, 2013 – Zacks Investment …

Better-than-expected earnings from Hewlett-Packard along with a couple of encouraging domestic reports guided benchmarks higher on Wednesday. Initial claims numbers and the Michigan consumer sentiment report boosted investor confidence. Meanwhile, manufacturing activity in Chicago declined in November from the previous month but came in above market expectations. The technology sector was the biggest gainer among the S&P 500 industry groups […]

Inside the DNA of Big Data: The future of medicine & storage …

As Big Data gets even bigger, we’re going to need more elaborate ways of storing it than current technology allows. One idea that’s been floated about before is using DNA as a means of storing data, but it’s no longer just a theory – scientists at Harvard University say that doing so is a foregone conclusion, and it’ll soon be […]

Micron's Automata Exploits Parallelism to Solve Big Data Problems …

DENVER — Micron unveiled what it claims is a fundamentally different new processor architecture at Supercomputing 2013 that speeds up the search and analysis of complex and unstructured data streams. The sneak peak of its Automata Processor (AP) architecture was accompanied by the establishment of a Center for Automata Computing at the University of Virginia.In an interview from the conference […]

Big Data Meets Tiny Storage! | Britannica Blog

Our thanks to The Why Files for permission to republish this post.Data can be a drag. Whether you work in weather, satellite surveillance, astronomy, or particle physics, data is stacking up. Even as hard disks get larger and cheaper, some say DNA, the information reservoir of life, could offer a dramatically better storage mechanism.Because DNA contains four letters—A, C, G, […]