Monthly Archives: October 2015

MIT algorithm emulates human intuition in big data analysis

Max Kanter, who created the algorithm as part of his master’s thesis at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), entered the algorithm into three major big data competitions. In a paper to be presented this week at IEEE International Conference … Continue reading

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Online Dating Made This Woman a Pawn in a Global Crime Plot

According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, American victims of online romance scams lost more than $87 million in 2014 (compared with just $50 million in 2011). The intimate details of one woman’s foray into an online relationship that resulted … Continue reading

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If you counted all the bits in one petabyte at one bit per second, it would take 285 million years.

nuff said!  it’s all about the data! http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/What-does-a-petabyte-look-like

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