A boy born in San Marino, a tiny republic surrounded by Italy, will likely live to age 80, the world's longest male life expectancy, but newborn girls in Japan and 30 other countries have even better prospects. Females in Japan, who traditionally...
Google: I want to organise your daily life
Google’s ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they might spend their days off. Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive,...
LifeLog: Professor puts his whole life online
There are already tons of pictures at Tracking Transience. Elahi will post about a hundred today — the rooms he sat in, the food he ate, the coffees he ordered. Poke around his site and you'll find more than 20,000 images stretching back three...
InfoBunker: nuclear hardened data center
InfoBunker is a Cold War era government command bunker converted into a data center. The Department of Defense built it to survive a "Maximum Probably Event," such as a 20-megaton nuclear explosion. The 65,000 square foot, mostly-underground...
"Data storm" blamed for nuclear-plant shutdown
The U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Homeland Security called this week for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to further investigate the cause of excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant. During the...
Workshop on Data Mining in Web 2.0 Environments
Users feel very attracted by currently emerging Web 2.0 environments, that allow to provide content in a simple, unrestricted, and ad hoc way. Providing annotations (such as tags) in a Web 2.0 like way is applicable to a wide range of resources and...
PBS: Spying on the Home Front / Domestic surveillance datalogging
Last night, PBS Frontline aired Spying on the Home Front, devoted to all the ways the US government is spying on us. 9/11 has indelibly altered America in ways that people are now starting to earnestly question: not only perpetual orange alerts,...
IBM Many Eyes: Collective intelligence for insight and analysis
Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely...
Today is America's wiretap the Internet day
May 14th is the official deadline for cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities to finish wiring up their networks with FBI-friendly surveillance gear, to comply with the FCC's...
eBay Launches Feedback 2.0 System
eBay's (EBAY) latest townhall meeting featured Brian Burke, the manager and visionary behind Ebay's recently launched Feedback 2.0 system. Burke explained how the new system improves the buying experience and increases conversion rates (at least in...
How do numbers begin? (The first digit law)
Does your house address start with a 1? According to a strange mathematical law, about 1/3 of house numbers have 1 as their first digit. The same holds true for many other areas that have almost nothing in common: the Dow Jones index history, size...
The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Mayer-Schönberger lays out his idea in a faculty research working paper called "Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing," where he describes his plan as reinstating "the default of forgetting our societies have...
Semantic web: high-speed RDF search engine developed
Irish researchers have developed a new high-speed RDF search engine capable of answering search queries with more than seven billion RDF statements in mere fractions of a second. "The importance of this breakthrough cannot be overestimated,' said...
Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web
The inventor of the World Wide Web explains how the Semantic Web works and how it will transform how we use and understand data. [ Video ] view presentation
Map: Blogosphere as social network
Discover Magazine has an interesting article on mapping the blogosphere, reporting on the work of Matthew Hurst. Hurst put together a 3D map of the blogosphere, with bright spots represent sites with the highest number of links and isolated islands...
CitySense, an urban scale sensor network
CitySense is an urban scale sensor network testbed that is being developed by researchers at Harvard University and BBN Technologies. CitySense will consist of 100 wireless sensors deployed on light poles around the city of Cambridge, MA. Each node...
Grid Computes 420 Years Worth of Data in 4 Months
By running the problem across 5,000 computer for a total of four months, the WISDOM project analyzed some 80,000 drug compounds every hour. The search for new drug compounds is normally a time-intensive process, but the grid approach did the work of...
MyLifeBits: The era of digital memories
New systems may allow people to record everything they see and hear--and even things they cannot sense--and to store all these data in a personal digital archive. Human memory can be maddeningly elusive. We stumble upon its limitations every day,...
Surging internet services buoy Cisco
A surge in demand for bandwidth-hogging internet video services gave Cisco Systems a shot in the arm on Wednesday as the world's biggest maker of data networking equipment reported a 27 per cent jump in quarterly profit. John Chambers, chief...
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Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia
Metadata is "data about data" -- information like keywords, page-length, title, word-count, abstract, location, SKU, ISBN, and so on. Explicit, human-generated metadata has enjoyed recent trendiness, especially in the world of XML. A typical...
Data Blog Modeling
In information system design, data modeling is the analysis and design of the information in the system, concentrating on the logical entities and the logical dependencies between these entities. Data modeling is an abstraction activity in that the...
Data Mining + Data Dredging
Data mining, also known as knowledge-discovery in databases (KDD), is the practice of automatically searching large stores of data for patterns. To do this, data mining uses computational techniques from statistics and pattern recognition. A simple...
Data Blog Statistical Methods
The basic goal of a statistical research project is to make a conclusion on the effect of changes of an independent variable on a dependent variable. There are two major types of statistical studies, experimental studies and post facto or after the...
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