From Communications of the ACM
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
Filippo Gualtiero Blancato| March 1, 2024
For all the talk about using big data and data science to solve the world’s problems—and even all the talk about big data as one of the world’s problems—it seems...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | August 28, 2014
Big data has evolved a lot of the past few years; from a happy buzzword to a hated buzzword, and from a focus on volume to a focus on variety and velocity.GigaOm From ACM Opinion | March 13, 2014
Sebastian Thrun was instrumental in building Google's self-driving car and Glass projects, and helped launch the company's Google X wing to spearhead "moonshot"...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | January 28, 2014
The White House announced via blog post on Thursday that it's forming working group focused on understanding the promises and pitfalls of big data (with a heavy...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | January 24, 2014
Google rocked the smart home market Monday with its intention to purchase connected home thermostat maker Nest for $3.2 billion, which will force a much-needed...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | January 17, 2014
Smartphone screens across the globe are embracing clean design in an effort to feature content on high-end pixel real estate.GigaOm From ACM Opinion | August 20, 2013
Phil Zimmermann might be a technologist, but he tends to get philosophical when it comes to the issues of privacy and security and how they intersect with our society...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | August 12, 2013
When Facebook first launched its platform strategy in 2007, it seemed as though a new world of opportunity had opened up for anyone interested in the social web—a...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | July 24, 2013
Last week I attended what was, I think it is fair to say, the oddest conference I have been to yet. It was the first world congress of the Digital Olfaction Society...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | April 15, 2013
Google has long pushed the envelope of data center infrastructure design, particularly when it comes to renewable energy, efficient cooling, new power electronics...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2013
The potential benefits of "big data" have been well described, both by us and others: the ability to spot flu trends earlier and potentially save lives, for example...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | February 4, 2013
Virtually any article today about big data inevitably turns to the notion that the country is suffering from a crucial shortage of data scientists.GigaOm From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2012
Big data is going mainstream, but there are still plenty of lessons to be learned from Silicon Valley data scientists whose businesses depend on data to survive...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | September 19, 2012
The science world was rocked Wednesday by the discovery that the 80 percent of the human genethat scientists throught was "junk" actually contains genetic regulators...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | September 6, 2012
After being on the receiving end of a truly awful hacking attack, Wired writer Mat Honan explained how it happened in detail. And he was very clear about two of...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | August 9, 2012
Hadoop is everywhere. For better or worse, it has become synonymous with big data. In just a few years it has gone from a fringe technology to the de facto standard...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | July 12, 2012