Big Data

Half a century ago, physicians and engineers shared a dream that computers would be able to deduce diagnoses, store medical records, and circulate information. Today, many fundamental problems with realizing this dream remain unchanged.

One big idea that the Survey discusses at length is the creation of a centralised welfare database of citizens that links different government-held data repositories about citizens. By Varad Pande and Subhashish Bhadra Data, data everywhere, and everyone is…

SL Huang got a degree in math from MIT, then became a martial artist, stuntwoman and weapons expert; her debut novel, Zero Sum Game, features an ass-kicking action hero called Cas Russell, who combines all of Huang's areas of expertise: Russell is a ninja-gra…

Microsoft acquired BlueTalon, a company focused on using big data in secure ways (via OnMSFT). The focus of BlueTalon is to "eliminate data security blind spots and gain visibility and control of data" according to the post announcing the acquisition. BlueTal…

Programmatic strategies that are designed to buy or sell stocks like humans, based on specific criteria, are here to stay. Their pervasiveness is often noticed when markets are under pressure, or when a headline triggers a flash crash that's so violent it'…

Microsoft announced today the acquisition of BlueTalon, a leading provider of Unified Data Access Control for big data and new data initiatives. The company which has its headquarters in Redwood City, California, is now part of Microsofts Azure Data Governanc…

When my first couple novels came out, I lobbied to add some kind of notation about "fair use" and "limitations and exceptions to copyright" on the copyright notice page and was told not even to try because legal would never allow even the slightest variance f…

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired BlueTalon, a data privacy and governance service that helps enterprises set policies for how their employees can access their data. The service then enforces those policies across most popular data environments a…

A profile of Ping An, China's second-largest insurer and biggest private-sector company by revenue, which is focusing on inventive uses of AI and big data (Clay Chandler/Fortune)

We’ve seen a big push in recent months to solve AI’s “big data problem.” And some interesting breakthroughs have begun to emerge that could make AI accessible to many more businesses and organizations. What is the big data problem? It’s the challenge of gett…