This is a graduate-level course on theoretical aspects of Big Data. We will examine algorithms and data structures for dealing with massive data sets. We will discuss such topics as streaming ...

As computing power has increased and data science has expanded into nearly every area of our lives, we have entered the age of the algorithm. While our personal and professional data is being compiled ...

New book explores how content recommendation systems confirm our biases by showing us only what they predict we want to see Human attention is in the highest demand it has ever been. In contrast to a ...

The global oil producing industry spends millions of dollars every week on preemptive well monitoring—sending technicians to remote sites to check wells for operational faults. Though the idea of ...

Switzerland-based UBS Group AG (UBSG:SW), a multinational investment bank and financial services company co-headquartered in Basel and Zürich and Basel with nearly $1 trillion in total assets, has ...

TWO YEARS ago, when Elinor Lobel was 16, a “smart” insulin pump was attached to her body. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), it tracks her glucose levels and administers the right dose of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The data-driven revolution is prefaced upon the idea that data and ...

As big data takes a larger role in healthcare analytics, healthcare organizations may come to rely on algorithms, but some experts are questioning whether the algorithms should be overseen. A new ...