The National Security Agency might be tracking your phone calls. But private industry is prying far more deeply into your life.Commercial data brokers know if you have diabetes. Your electric company can see what time you come home at night. And tracking companies can tell where you go on weekends by snapping photos of your car’s license plate and cataloging […]
Australia: The government of Victoria has ordered an additional Bombardier VLocity three-car DMU for A$17m, taking the order to 43 cars.
Metro Trains Melbourne has awarded Alstom a contract to install GSM-R digital radios on 82 trainsets.
The EDI Rail Bombardier JV which maintains Perth’s commuter fleet has awarded Gemco Rail two four-year bogie and wheelset maintenance contracts totalling A$5m. […]
Credit: JD Hancock / photo on flickrIn January, the Obama
administration put together a “working group” to analyze how huge
swaths of Americans’ data are being gathered and stored and what
sort of privacy issues need to be addressed. The group’s report was
just released this week.Before you ask: No, it’s not about the National Security Agency
(NSA) sweeping up huge amounts of metadata from […]
A three-month White House review of how business and government mine massive data sets sees big public and economic benefits from the practice — along with new dangers — but sketches out a murky path towards enforcing privacy protections in the booming tech sector.The White House closed its so-called “big data” review Thursday, including in its findings a set of […]
Benchmarks finished Monday’s choppy run mostly higher as investor sentiment following new deals in the health care sector, positive pending home sales data and intense selling pressure on internet stocks. While merger and acquisition activity in the health care sector helped the S&P 500 and Dow close in the green, the Nasdaq ended in negative territory due to decline in […]
APRIL 29, 2014Big Data in Biomedicine conference set for May 21-23 at StanfordBY RUTHANN RICHTERRelated News » Li Ka Shing Foundation gives $3 million to Stanford for ‘big data’ initiative
» Scientists consider potential of abundant biomedical data
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Analysis of people’s perception on Robert Vadra
Robert Vadra has been in the center of jibes by opposition parties, particularly BJP for almost an year now.However since Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has actively joined the election campaign for Indian National Congress party, the attacks have become more frequent, intense & personal. Lets gauge the people sentiment over Robert Vadra in […]
BigCHat: KDD 2014 Workshop on Connected Health at Big Data Era
August 24, 2014
New York, NY, USA
https://tinyurl.com/bigchat2014
Key Dates
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Paper Submission Due: June 23, Monday, 11:59PM PST
Acceptance Notification: July 8
Camera Ready Due: July 31
Workshop Date: August 24
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Submission
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Manuscripts should be in English and must not exceed 8 pages using the standard ACM format found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates in PDF format. Papers should be submitted from […]
A White House review of how the government and private sector use large sets of data has found that such information could be used to discriminate against Americans on issues such as housing and employment even as it makes their lives easier in many ways.
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SummaryBanco Popular, a regional bank serving Puerto Rico and portions of the mainland United States, is in the process of repositioning itself.
An outstanding issue of the company’s Trust Preferred Securities offers nearly an 8% yield with […]
