The University of Alberta's Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology (LKSIOV) and the Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP) are pleased to announce their partnership to support advanced research using high-performance ...
Hardware
Apr 6, 2016
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As more personal information is collected up by ever-more-powerful computers, giant sets of data – big data – have become available for not only legitimate uses but also abuses.
Security
Mar 23, 2016
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The Internet of Things promises to improve our lives by connecting sensors in the objects that surround us - buildings, appliances, gadgets, and vehicles - and the data that they collect. But to realize that potential, programmers ...
Engineering
Mar 11, 2016
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Hitachi announced the development of technology to securely anonymize encrypted personal data. Anonymization converts information related to individuals, personal information, to a form which cannot identify the individual. ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 11, 2016
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Big data may soon make buildings greener. With a recent major acquisition, MIT alumni-founded Retroficiency, which has assessed hundreds of thousands of buildings, is poised to bring its advanced energy analytics platform ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 17, 2015
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A Massey University PhD student is delving into the decision-making processes of companies to understand whether judgement calls based on big data produce better outcomes.
Economics & Business
Aug 18, 2015
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In the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, the state of the art of materials science defined technology's zenith and accelerated economies. Now, in the Information Age, data is beginning to drive the development of advanced materials, ...
Materials Science
Aug 13, 2015
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Statisticians have combined state-of-the-art analytical techniques from the academic and business worlds to tackle the Big Data challenges confronting astrophysicists and astronomers as they explore the mysteries of our universe, ...
Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2015
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People talk about 'data being the new oil', a natural resource that companies need to exploit and refine. But is this really true or are we in the realm of hype? Mohamed Zaki explains that, while many companies are already ...
Business
Jul 7, 2015
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Big data gets much attention from media, industry and government. Companies and labs generate massive amounts of data associated with everything from weather to cell phone usage to medical records, and each data set may involve ...
Mathematics
May 18, 2015
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