May 15, 2014
Chris Anderson at the MIT Technology Review recently looked at how farmers are deploying cheap, easy-to-use drones armed with cameras to fly over their fields.
May 12, 2014
Thirteen years ago, Gartner (then META Group) coined the famous “three V’s” to characterize the emerging big data revolution.
May 8, 2014
Thanks to smart technologies and cloud storage, patients can take advantage of medical services anywhere (such as in the home) and share their records and diagnostics in real time. Medical decision-making is less beholden to the physical and figurative medical bureaucracy.
May 6, 2014
The excitement over healthcare Big Data is not just about improving length and quality of life; there are also big potential economic benefits.
May 5, 2014
When it comes to opinions on Big Data, there are many camps. They are all right, but may also all be wrong.
April 30, 2014
With the forthcoming release of the long-awaited Big Data report by White House Counselor John Podesta, it’s easy to get lost in the politics and other distractions that come from any type of Washington report. Regardless of what the report ultimately says, it touches on the largest unfolding economic frontier this country (and the world) has discovered in generations: the data-driven economy.
April 29, 2014
Public and private sectors have different responsibilities when it comes to how they use data.
April 25, 2014
Data, no matter how massive, will not produce any results by itself. The fruits of intellectual property make that happen.
April 24, 2014
After three tours of duty in Iraq as an Army medic, Will White came back stateside with a business idea.
April 24, 2014
Numerous examples from history show that sometimes the greatest breakthroughs happen by accident