Technology experts and former intelligence officials say the rise of data mining, both as an industry and as a crucial intelligence tool, has created a complex reality.
Internet companies were just the start. Virtually every field, from science to sports to public health, is being transformed by data-driven discovery and decision-making.
Nicole Else-Quest, assistant professor of psychology joins WYPR’s “Midday with Dan Rodricks” to address gender gap in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) industry, and to discuss...
The Federal Trade Commission plans to issue subpoenas to companies that are patent trolls, meaning that they buy large portfolios of technology patents and use them to sue other entities.
Maqetta is an open source initiative of the Dojo Foundation that provides WYSIWYG web development in the cloud or locally. Moreover, it supports drag & drop assembly of live UI mockups,...
BioMosaic, which tracks foreign-borne disease threats in the United States, works by merging three separate data tools into a single app for guiding decisions at the time of an outbreak.
On June 6, Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, Assistant Professor of American Studies, joined Dr. Ivory Toldson, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at Howard University and Jeffrey Menzise of the...
Jasmine.Async is an add-on library for Jasmine that provides additional functionality to do asynchronous testing. Modeled after Mocha's async test support, it brings the done() function to the...
Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google, says some data is essentially worthless in assessing job candidates: G.P.A.’s, for instance, and test scores.