The collection of phone metadata (numbers dialed and length of calls), as controversial as it is on general principle, has never really been a subject of significant public backlash as a serious breach of privacy…
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Big Data can be the difference between life and death for cancer patients
At this point, we are used to talking about Big Data having a plethora of applications. We dream about data-driven, IoT-powered smart cities with perfectly optimized traffic, and medical clinics that constantly receive data about our health to not only streamline the process behind treatment…
Read moreDNA ready to serve as a storage drive
Scientists from the University of Washington (UW) worked with a much older technology that has been here for millennia. They have now created a working system, which uses DNA as the storage facility.
Read moreUnlocking the capabilities of everyday technology
Prof. Nenad Filipovic (University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Engineering, Serbia), General Chair of FABULOUS 2016, the 2nd EAI International Conference on[…]
Read moreCloud and Big Data in developing countries
Patrick Valduriez is a senior researcher at Inria and LIRMM, University of Montpellier, France. He has also been a professor of[…]
Read moreModelling and Simulation research challenges
Prof. Theodoropoulos, member of the steering committee at SIMUTools 2015 and Professor at the Durham University, United Kingdom, explains how[…]
Read moreINFOSCALE 2015: Why are scalable systems necessary?
The Sixth EAI International Conference on Scalable Information Systems for Big Data (INFOSCALE 2015) is going to take place on[…]
Read moreBig data analysis for Smart Cities
Improving the quality of life in our cities is a challenge for the next years. To analyze, interpret and understand[…]
Read moreCan cloud-stored data be safe?
IBM creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. In 2012, the US president’s administration announced the Big Data Research[…]
Read moreSAGE2: the next generation of collaborative SRSD middleware
How many times were we wondering how to improve group work collaboration? Of course, all of us are thinking about[…]
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