Articles Tagged: Data management systems
Articles & Features
SECTION: Features
Mapping organized ignorance in environmental health
How data collection and reporting standards have shaped what we know and do not know about water contamination in Hoosick Falls, NY.
By Laura Rabinow, Lindsay Poirier, April 2017
Biological obstacles and technological leaps
Technology can address biological threats like viral epidemics and bioterrorism that could put humankind on the brink of biological disaster.
By Ketaki Katdare, April 2017
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
Coordination When Information is Scarce: How privacy can help
There is something to be gained by borrowing the tools of differential privacy and applying them to solve problems in seemingly unrelated fields.
By Aaron Roth, September 2013
SECTION: Features
Understanding the Data Environment
Protecting data privacy and anonymity requires a better understanding of the conditions and mechanisms under which they may be threatened.
By Elaine Mackey, Mark Elliot, September 2013
An Illustrated Primer in Differential Privacy
The vast amounts of data that are now available provide new opportunities to social science researchers, but also raise huge privacy concerns for data subjects. Differential privacy offers a way to balance the needs of both parties. But how?
By Christine Task, September 2013
SECTION: Features
An interview with Surajit Chaudhuri
Surajit Chaudhuri, Distinguished Scientist and head of the Extreme Computing Group (XCG) at Microsoft Research, Redmond provides valuable insights for revisiting data analytics in the context of big data.
By Aditya Parameswaran, September 2012
Introduction to the database issue
By Suzie Allard, March 2001
Objective viewpoint
By Kevin Henry, March 2001
Knowledge discovery in databases
By Peggy Wright, November 1998