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Every Tweet Ever Written Is Now Available to Search and Analyze, Thanks to Gnip
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Every Tweet Ever Written Is Now Available to Search and Analyze, Thanks to Gnip

This morning, Gnip launched its Historical PowerTrack for Twitter, which will give developers the ability to search, find, analyze, and compare all the tweets ever...

Arturo Bejar, Facebook Director of Engineering
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Arturo Bejar, Facebook Director of Engineering

Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar is a numbers guy by training. But he's also in charge of the giant social network's foray into what it calls "compassion...

Nsf Grant Will Create 'big Data' Infrastructure at Ndsu
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Nsf Grant Will Create 'big Data' Infrastructure at Ndsu

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded North Dakota State University a $400,000 grant over three years to create a Data-Intensive Cyberinfrastructure...

NSF Grant to Facilitate Sharing and Streaming of Scientific Visualizations
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NSF Grant to Facilitate Sharing and Streaming of Scientific Visualizations

The San Diego Supercomputer Center has been awarded a $810,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a resource that lets researchers seamlessly...

Researcher Developing New Computing Approach to Materials Science
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Researcher Developing New Computing Approach to Materials Science

Krishna Rajan of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory is using data mining, information theory, and statistical learning concepts to develop a new approach...

Mow Yard. Drop Off Kids. Take a Drive on Mars.
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Mow Yard. Drop Off Kids. Take a Drive on Mars.

Matt Heverly, 36, started a recent workday as any young father might: up at 5:30, gulping coffee, fixing a bottle for the baby. 

­.S. Collaborators to Make Higgs-Hunting Tech Available
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­.S. Collaborators to Make Higgs-Hunting Tech Available

The University of Texas at Arlington is teaming with with two U.S. Department of Energy national labs to develop a universal version of PanDA, a workload management...

Who's the Most Influential in a Social Graph?
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Who's the Most Influential in a Social Graph?

Georgia Tech has developed a new algorithm that quickly determines betweenness centrality for streaming graphs. The algorithm can identify influencers as information...

How Shazam Stayed On Top By Reinventing Itself—twice
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How Shazam Stayed On Top By Reinventing Itself—twice

Naming that tune has been the name of Shazam’s game for more than decade. But should you confuse Shazam for a predictable, tired old company, you're even more clueless...

Cellphone Medical Test Wins Npr's 'big Idea' Contest
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Cellphone Medical Test Wins Npr's 'big Idea' Contest

Most of us would like to make life better for people in developing countries. Most of us don't do anything about it. Catherine Wong is different.

Making Web Applications More Efficient
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Making Web Applications More Efficient

A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast.

Why VMware Paid $1.26B for 70 Software Engineers
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Why VMware Paid $1.26B for 70 Software Engineers

One of the reasons Google and VMware have been so successful over the past decade, says Eric Brewer, is that both companies managed to snatch some of the world's...

Top Five Cities For Big Data Jobs
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Top Five Cities For Big Data Jobs

The Big Data movement is creating a hiring boom, spurring IT departments to find the right people to collect, analyze, and interpret data. Five cities show the...

Identifying Dolphins With Technology
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Identifying Dolphins With Technology

A computer program developed by students at Eckerd College simplifies the process of manual photo identification of bottlenose dolphins and other species.

Why Investors Willingly Pay Speed Traders Extra Billions
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Why Investors Willingly Pay Speed Traders Extra Billions

When high-frequency traders defend themselves against criticism that they're screwing up the stock market by distorting prices or making it more volatile, their...

Columbia ­niversity Creates Data Sciences Institute
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Columbia ­niversity Creates Data Sciences Institute

As part of its Applied Sciences NYC Initiative, New York City will assist Columbia University's plan to create a world-class center for data sciences and engineering...

Visualization Tool Analyzes Large-Scale Data Sets
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Visualization Tool Analyzes Large-Scale Data Sets

A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute has developed a software tool that enables users to perform in-depth analysis of modeling and simulation...

College Degrees, Designed By the Numbers
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College Degrees, Designed By the Numbers

Colleges are starting to tap opportunities inherent in big data, using insights mined from information about students' performance to tailor courses and degrees...

Americans' Information Needs Not Being Met, Study Finds
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Americans' Information Needs Not Being Met, Study Finds

Despite the proliferation of information and communications technology, Americans' lives are still grounded in the communities where they live and require a set...

When Does An App Need Fda's Blessing?
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When Does An App Need Fda's Blessing?

Bernard Farrell obsesses over every bite he eats, every minute of exercise he gets, and everything that stresses him out. And, more than anything else, Farrell...
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