Big Data

Data Civilizer system links data scattered across files for easy querying

MIT News 24 Jan 2017

The age of big data has seen a host of new techniques for analyzing large data sets. But before any of those techniques can be applied, the target data has to be aggregated, organized, and cleaned up....

Responsive and Responsible Leadership given prominance at #WEF17 World Economic Forum

Alex Kirkpatrick 20 Jan 2017

The population of the scenic ski-resort Davos, nestled in the Swiss Alps, swelled by nearly +3,000 people between the 17th and 20th of January. World leaders, academics, business tycoons, press and in...

Learning words from pictures

MIT News 16 Dec 2016

Speech recognition systems, such as those that convert speech to text on cellphones, are generally the result of machine learning. A computer pores through thousands or even millions of audio files an...

Making computers explain themselves

MIT News 28 Oct 2016

In recent years, the best-performing systems in artificial-intelligence research have come courtesy of neural networks, which look for patterns in training data that yield useful predictions or classi...

Why we need journalism about machine learning

Talking Machines 25 Sep 2015

[clear] Talking Machines is in the process of raising funds to defray the cost of producing our first season and to help us start production on our second season. On the show we’ve talked about h...

Really really big data and machine learning in business, with Max Welling

Talking Machines 17 Jul 2015

In episode fifteen we talk with Max Welling, of the University of Amsterdam and University of California Irvine. We talk with him about his work with extremely large data and big business and machine ...

DARPA’s Gill Pratt on Google’s robotics investments

Gill Pratt and Robohub Editors 19 Mar 2014

When Google bought Boston Dynamics last December, the news made headlines, but it was not the first time the Internet giant has invested in DARPA-funded robotics. As part of Robohub's Big Deals series...