Big Data

Yesterday, I wrote about science publishing profiteer Elsevier's legal threats against Citationsy, in which the company claimed that the mere act of linking to Sci-Hub (an illegal open-access portal) was itself illegal. You'll never guess what happens next. …

Billionaire Silicon Valley investor and Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel doubled down on his attack on Google conducting AI research in China on Thursday. Thiel first started banging the drum against Google in a speech at the National Conservatism conference l…

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…

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…