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 […]

Facebook seeks to get smarter with big data – Phys.org

Facebook is working to become your new best friend, getting to know you better by infusing the billion-member social network’s software with artificial intelligence.

The California-based social network giant is hiring professor Yann LeCun of NYU’s […]

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 […]

1776 – How Big Data Is Changing The Educational Frontier

How Big Data Is Changing The Educational Frontier By Liz ElfmanYear by year, new technologies are changing the landscape for K-12 and higher education alike. To help clarify the landscape, 1776 and Pearson brought together a group of panelists to discuss […]

Main Street Investor Sentiment Monthly Update | MrTopStep.com

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Friday, December 13, 2013 Market participants look at many measures to gauge investor sentiment, even though they don’t always show an accurate picture. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), often referred to as the fear index, shows the market’s expectation of 30-day volatility, but it does not parse out institutional or hedge fund activity. Surveys like the […]

Big Data in Security – Part V: Anti-Phishing in the Cloud – Cisco Blog

In the last chapter of our five part Big Data in Security series, expert Data Scientists Brennan Evans and Mahdi Namazifar join me to discuss their work on a cloud anti-phishing solution.Phishing is a well-known historical threat. Essentially, it’s social engineering via email and it continues to be effective and potent. What is TRAC currently doing in this space to protect Cisco […]