Author Archives: Chelsea Lang
Chelsea Lang
Can Biology Handle Big Data?
October 11th, 2013
When the Human Genome Project began in 1990, it was one of the most ambitious scientific endeavors to date. But today sequencing a human genome is considered old hat compared to those of microorganisms in our own bodies, which ...
UNC Health Care Selects IBM Analytics for Patient Care
October 11th, 2013
IBM today announced that UNC Health Care (UNCHC) has turned to Smarter Care big data analytics to offer its patients more effective and individualized care. With stacks of physicians notes, registration forms, discharge papers and phone calls, it’s easy ...
GE Finds New Partners to Drive Industrial Internet
October 10th, 2013
At this week’s Minds+Machines summit in Chicago, General Electric (GE) announced 14 new predictives tools that will sit atop the Web-connected machines making up the Industrial Internet. Although networks sensor-laden machines have has already made a home for themselves ...
Georgia Tech Brings Big Data to Materials Design
October 10th, 2013
As part of the effort to reduce the time to bring advanced materials to market, Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded $2.8 million from the National Science Foundation to train new data scientists for the job. The five-year ...
Big Data to Stall Heart Disease
October 10th, 2013
After partnering in 2008 to develop data analytics to help physicians detect heart disease sooner, IBM, Sutter Hearth and Geisinger Health System have been awarded a $2 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Heart failure ...
Frost & Sullivan: Cloud Will Reign over Healthcare
October 9th, 2013
According to market research by Frost & Sullivan, the cloud is expected to be the single most important enabler to healthcare trends of the future, from electronic medical records to remote patient monitoring. As healthcare providers throughout the globe ...
EU Scientists Kick Off $1.6 Billion Human Brain Project
October 9th, 2013
This week the Human Brain Project, a ten-year, $1.6 billion project co-funded by the EU that will bring together scientists from 135 institutions to better understand the human brain, has begun. The effort will result in a database of ...
Biosciences Bring New Supercomputing Lab to Belgium
October 9th, 2013
Computing and biotechnology experts from industry and academia alike are coming together in Belgium to create the ExaScience Life Lab, whose goal will be to advance supercomputing for applications in genomics to cell and tissue simulations. The lab, which ...
Pantex Turns to Data Virtualization for Nuclear Security
October 9th, 2013
Pantex Plant, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) facility where nuclear weapons are dismantled or modified for the Department of Defense, has developed a new program designed to secure the weapon product lifecycle information that is sent to engineers ...
Definiens Defines Tips for Bringing Data Mining to Medical Imaging
October 4th, 2013
Definiens, a German healthcare company specializing in personalized medicine, has released tips for bringing data mining together with image analysis to fine tune patient treatment. The company is known for its software for both data mining and the imaging ...
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