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Dream applications of verifiable computational results

Dream applications of verifiable computational results

A new system allows researchers to discover, reuse, cite, and experiment upon any computational result that is published with a Verifiable Result Identifier.

By Matan Gavish, David Donoho, Amos Onn, March 2013

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Tags: Information Search and Retrieval, Library Automation

Sketching and streaming algorithms for processing massive data

Sketching and streaming algorithms for processing massive data

The rate at which electronic information is generated in the world is exploding. In this article we explore techniques known as sketching and streaming for processing massive data both quickly and memory-efficiently.

By Jelani Nelson, September 2012

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Tags: Database applications, Information Search and Retrieval

Taming big probability distributions

Taming big probability distributions

New algorithms for estimating parameters of distributions over big domains need significantly fewer samples.

By Ronitt Rubinfeld, September 2012

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Tags: Information Search and Retrieval

Big data platforms: What's next?

Big data platforms: What's next?

Three computer scientists from UC Irvine address the question "What's next for big data?" by summarizing the current state of the big data platform space and then describing ASTERIX, their next-generation big data management system.

By Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey, Chen Li, September 2012

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Tags: Information Search and Retrieval, Systems

Interactive analysis of big data

Interactive analysis of big data

New user interfaces can transform how we work with big data, and raise exciting research problems that span human-computer interaction, machine learning, and distributed systems.

By Jeffrey Heer, Sean Kandel, September 2012

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Tags: Database applications, Information Search and Retrieval, Picture/Image Generation

Big data in computational biology

Big data in computational biology

An invitation to the digital science of life.

By Cliburn Chan, September 2012

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Tags: Database applications, Information Search and Retrieval

Web search

Recent ideas for circumventing internet filtering

Recent ideas for circumventing internet filtering

Technical solutions can provide a skeleton key to unlocking the Internet.

By Dan Boneh, December 2011

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Tags: Information Search and Retrieval, Internet, Security and protection

Fighting censorship with algorithms