Models and algorithms for analyzing complex networks are widely used in research and affect society…
UH Law Center Professors Urge Tighter Controls on Data Held by Health Tech Companies
In an article published in Science magazine, University of Houston Law Center Professors Jim Hawkins and Jessica L. Roberts call for stronger consumer safeguards to protect the privacy of personal information collected online…
Mapping the Landscape of Citizen Science
Science has moved beyond the lab. Researchers are using non-scientists more and more to help conduct their research and expand their reach. Everyday people are contributing their data, helping researchers learn more…
Computer Servers Now Able to Retrieve Data Much Faster
Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo have found a novel approach that significantly improves the storage efficiency and output speed of computer systems. Current data storage systems use only one storage…
Rice, Amazon Report Breakthrough in ‘Distributed Deep Learning’
Online shoppers typically string together a few words to search for the product they want, but in a world with millions of products and shoppers, the task of matching those unspecific words…
Data Lakes: Where Big Businesses Dump Their Excess Data, and Hackers Have a Field Day
Machines and the internet are woven into the fabric of our society. A growing number of users, devices and applications work together to produce what we now call “big data”. And this…
