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Big data and cyber-physical systems could become federal priorities

Legislation set for consideration on the floor of the House this week would affix big data and "cyber-physical" systems to priorities of federal networking and information technology research funding.

White House highlights big data innovation

Big data is an administration priority, said John Holdren, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, during the March 29 unveiling of the White House’s “Big Data Research...

White House highlights big data innovation

Big data is an administration priority, said John Holdren, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, during the March 29 unveiling of the White House’s “Big Data Research...

DARPA will fund offensive cyber capability R&D

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will increasingly fund research on offensive cyber capabilities, a top DARPA official told a Feb. 29 House panel. Cyber research has consumed an

NSF says high-performance computing shouldn't fixate on FLOPS

Declaring that high-performance computing can't be measured just in floating point operations per second, or FLOPS, the National Science Foundation says in an advance computing infrastructure

Google pays fine in France for autocomplete suggestion

Google must pay a €50,000 fine in France following a Paris court's Dec. 14 decision to side with a local insurance company upset that the search engine's autocomplete function appeared to

EU agency warns of voluntary surveillance society

The executive body of the European Union should consider a new regulatory framework in anticipation of an socialized world of ubiquitous devices that gather personal data from nearly every aspect of

NIST Smart Grid roadmap calls for common data semantics

Smart Grid implementation requires a common semantical understanding of data elements, says the National Institute of Standards and Technology in a draft version 2.0 of its framework and roadmap for

Big data will transform healthcare, says ONC

Big data will revolutionize healthcare, says a new five-year strategic plan from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The plan, released for public comment on