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Beyond Property Rights: Thinking About Moral Definitions Of Openness
It is hard for Westerners to realize just how much we take for granted about intellectual property, and in particular, how much the property owner’s perspective--be it a corporation, government or creative artist--is embedded in our view of the world as the natural order of things. Read More »
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Beyond SOPA: Rep. Darrell Issa's Big Plans For Digitizing Democracy
Over the past six months, Issa's launched an interactive subcommittee livestream, produced a new form of online polling, and sponsored a bill to make government spending trackable. Read More »
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Bhoreal: RGB Grid As Open Source Hardware – Kit or Ready-Made, Wired or Wireless
Grids are suddenly everywhere – in music control, but also in visuals and art. And they’re lighting up in RGB. But Bhoreal promises to do some things other grids aren’t. Read More »
BI & Analytics Tools Will Put The Meaning In Meaningful Use
Meaningful Use (MU) entered our lexicon over the last few years centered on EHR software as if the usage of an application was important. Read More »
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Biased Buyers Blocking Open Source
A recent report shows that 17% of ICT procurement across Europe is biased, with the UK the 4th most common offender. Read More »
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Bid Protests: Useful Tool Or Abusive Practice?
The bid protest that has put a temporary halt to NASA’s plans to move from a proprietary content management system to open source architecture is just the latest example of how procurement disputes can delay agency initiatives for months. Read More »
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Biden Gives a Peek at What’s to Come for Cancer Moonshot
A corporate-government partnership to improve U.S. veterans’ access to personalized cancer treatments will highlight a nationwide series of gatherings and events Wednesday detailing of Vice President Joe Biden’s “Cancer Moonshot” program. IBM Corp. will donate access to its “Watson” supercomputer -- best known for beating human champions on the television game show “Jeopardy!” -- to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The supercomputer will help provide facilitate oncology treatment for those who have served in the U.S. military, according to a statement from the White House...
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Big Companies Open Up To Open-Source Software
The use of open-source software is becoming more prevalent at big companies for reasons including ease of innovation and cutting the time to get products to market. More than 50% of the software acquired in the next five years will be open source, according to the sixth annual Future of Open Source Survey published by North Bridge Venture Partners and Black Duck Software Inc.
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Big Data 2013: Industry Players’ Forecasts
There’s no shortage of year-ahead predictions in the tech industry. This is especially true in the Big Data world [...]. As it turns out, however, a number of companies in the space sent me their opinions on what’s going to happen next year. So I thought a roundup of some of these Big Data 2013 predictions, along my opinions of them, might be fun. Read More »
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Big Data And Analytics: The Hero Or The Villain?
As the NSA PRISM debacle continues to unfold and spreads across continents it’s probably good to stop and think about the technology and philosophy behind it all. Because this is big data and analytics in its most potent and controversial form, and it’s certainly not the last time we’ll see this hit the headlines. Read More »
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Big Data Impacting Healthcare
It is generally agreed that bigger is better. When it comes to data, big data can be a challenge as well as a boon for healthcare. As Meaningful Use drives electronic documentation and technologies grow to support it, big data is a reality that has to be managed to be meaningful. Read More »
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Big Data in Healthcare’s True Promise: Better Individualized Care
Frank X. Speidel, MD shares his insights on how big data in healthcare can be harnessed for better, faster and more individualized patient care. Read More »
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Big Data Is Coming, But When Will It Be Really Useful?
One of the many promises of EHRs is that, in fairly short order, they’re going to make an ever-growing amount of data available in the quest for better population health management. Read More »
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Big Data Reaches The Hill: A Guide To Making It More Actionable
Big data, which has been the hot topic for conferences this year, has also received a good deal of attention on Capitol Hill in recent weeks, most notably with two recent events... Read More »
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Big Data Skills Give Job Applicants Winning Edge In Almost Any Field
Job applicants with big data skills have the edge in securing employment these days. And, no, I'm not just talking about those looking for work in the analytics and IT fields. Big data is on its way to being every bit as pervasive as the Internet in almost every job... Read More »
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