Jeff Hawkins - creator of the Palm Pilot - tells how his passion for neuroscience resulted in building brains in software and hardware. This creation of software that uses brain-like techniques can learn from streaming big data, predict the future and detect anomalies. The engine that drives it is now an open source project called NuPIC that you can use to add brain science to … [Read more...] about Can Big Data Predict The Future? Video
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The Arms Race For Big Data Continues – Video
The arms race for data continues with the NSA building the largest data centre in the world. Experts say that the data centre is capable of holding up to a yottabyte of data. That is 1 trillion terabyte of data or compared to a 16 gigabyte iPhone, the facility can store the data of 64 trillion iPhones. Laid end-to-end, that amount of iPhones could stretch to the moon and back … [Read more...] about The Arms Race For Big Data Continues – Video
Innovation From The Quantified-Machine Movement – Video
GEs Industrial Internet will result in devices that will have lots of sensors, the internet of things, and the challenge is how to analyse that data. It will lead to a quantified-machine movement, next to the quantified-self movement, where we will be swarmed with sensors all over the products that we use. These trillions of sensors will generate vast amounts of data that, when … [Read more...] about Innovation From The Quantified-Machine Movement – Video
Testing the San Francisco Open Data Initiative – Video
San Francisco's Open Data Initiative allows the government of San Francisco to share open data with its citizens, who can use the data to develop innovative mobile application that are of benefit for the citizens as well as the government. Adam Shaw, from BBC Horizons, tests a few of these apps while on the road in San Francisco. He tests an app that can rate restaurants in … [Read more...] about Testing the San Francisco Open Data Initiative – Video
How To Draw Value From The Big Data Tsunami – Video
In order to understand the challenges and opportunities from the big data tsunami, the French business school ESSEC brought together a group of professionals. Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences, and Dean of Faculty at ESSEC Business School; Nicolas Glady, professor of Marketing at ESSEC Business School; and Patrick Luciano, Market … [Read more...] about How To Draw Value From The Big Data Tsunami – Video
