Big Data

How an online real estate company optimized its Hadoop clusters

Every night, Trulia crunches more than a terabyte of new data and cross-references it with about 2 petabytes of existing data to deliver the most up-to-data real estate information to its users. Here's how it ensures consistent quality of service fro

Why machine learning is the new BI

Get ready for artificial intelligence and automation that helps you make business decisions rather than just understanding what happened in the past.

AWS focuses on hard disks for new big data services

Amazon's cloud platform also offers new methods for getting data into the cloud

The platform wars are over

And data won

AI + humans = kick-ass cybersecurity

A new hybrid system from MIT can detect 85 percent of attacks

Thrilled that AI is no longer a dirty word

Tie StartupCon panelists share visions for cognitive computing

IT career roadmap: How to become a data scientist

In this month's Career Roadmap, Tom Walsh and Alex Krowitz, both research engineers for workforce management company Kronos, discuss what it takes to be a data scientist -- one of today's hottest and most in-demand IT careers.

How data science helps Purdue predict student success

Why AI still needs us: To build quantum computers

Looks like there's still some value in good, old-fashioned intuition

EU plan to collect, not share, air traveler data is ‘absurd’

By 2018, anyone flying to or from the EU will have their details logged for five years