Every Datum Tells a Story: The dawning of the age of meta-information – City Journal
computer and software experts gather at conferences to talk about how big and unprecedented the numbers are, how the concept of “big data” changes everything.
WIFIRE project helps firefighters get a jump on wildfires – UC News
Now, thanks to a multi-year, $2.65 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the University of California San Diego, and the University of Maryland have been building a cyberinfrastructure to better monitor, predict, and mitigate wildfires in the future.
Intelligence Too Big for a Single Machine – New York Times
Ever since the computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence in 1955, the field has gone through cycles of boundless optimism and sobering disillusion.