Fascinating new data use-case alert: Students’ study data can now be used to make them smarter, help them remember more and get better grades. This is according to Alfred Essa (pictured), VP of analytics and R&D at McGraw-Hill Education, an educational publisher. The old textbook company has gone high tech, now calling itself a “learning science” company, ...

Now that businesses have all of this big data, what exactly are they going to do with it? At the Spark Summit East 2017 conference in Boston, Massachusetts, the answer seems to be: Lots. But they need tools that make data more available to applications. To that end, mixing streaming, batch and interactive data for ...

The Stanford Global Women in Data Science Conference 2017 wrapped up last week, leaving attendees clearer on where the young field is maturing and where there is room for improvement. “The softer skills are increasingly even more important for interpretation, evaluating the data — is it good data, bad data, clean data? Maybe it’s too clean,” ...

A forward-thinking keynote from Diane Greene, SVP of Google Cloud, considers a real-world approach to employing those most at risk of losing jobs to machine automation.  At the Stanford Global Women in Data Science Conference, Greene shares two pearls of wisdom to address the data scientist shortage: job security comes with the freedom to take risks in problem-solving, and democratized ...

How does an application know that users are actually whom they say they are? The answer in many cases is still: with a password. But the Internet of Things is exposing new problems with this already inadequate method, as the recent Dyn DDoS hacks demonstrated when they took down large swaths of the Internet for many people last ...

Business have viewed data as a valuable asset for some time, using it to pitch us more relevant content and ads and even selling it to other businesses. But what about the rest of us? That’s a chief question explored by Michael Kaiser (pictured), executive director at the National Cyber Security Alliance. His group put on a Data ...

At the recent Virtualization Technology Users Group 2017 Winter Warmer at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA, discussion covered the future of VMware Inc.’s market dominance, hyper-converged infrastructure and … Super Bowl LI. Stu Miniman (@stu), senior analyst at Wikibon and host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, spoke to Deion Branch (@deionbranch84), Super Bowl XXXIX Champion/MVP, during ...

When it comes to virtualization, VMware Inc. isn’t the only game in the town. For years technologies like containers and hyper-converged infrastructure have competed with VMware for customers. According to Chris Harney, CTO of CyberNorth and founder of the Virtualization Technology Users Group, the market for virtualization has never been hotter; so who will come out ...

The scramble is on to secure huge data streams inundating enterprises from new sources like sensors and the Internet of Things. While that prospect is challenging enough, a simpler logistic problem also looms: Where does a company store those gargantuan data sets? “Everybody’s hitting this juncture, because the data’s growing faster than the [IT] budget,” said Steve ...

The potential for cognitive intelligence in autos includes more than the fully autonomous, self-driving car that gets all the hype. Even now, IBM is collaborating with other companies to add cognitive technology to cars as an assist to the driver, not a replacement. “The big announcement at World of Watson was that IBM and General ...