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Winning cities get IBM expertise, consulting and recommendations to use to solve municipal problems through technology.
Storm surge map will alert coastal residents at risk
The National Hurricane Center's Potential Storm Surge Flood Map will be available online within 60 minutes of a hurricane warning, showing where flooding could occur and how deep the water could be.
Crime center kit boosts predictive policing capabilities
The Real-Time Crime Center Starter Kit from Motorola integrates systems so that municipal police departments can improve their effectiveness.
Big data: Will you know it when you see it?
IDC offers criteria for identifying the volume, variety and velocity of big data so that growth, changes and technology preferences can be measured and analyzed.
Social media flu tracker gets local filter
Researchers have developed an algorithm to help track local cases of influenza through social media.
DARPA to mine 'big code' to improve software reliability
By combining principles of big data analytics with software analysis, DARPA wants to make significant advances in the way software is built, debugged, verified, maintained and understood.
Wearable camera for police gets video up close and personal
Lightweight wearable cameras gather high-quality video for police in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and a secure database on the back end provides evidence-grade management.
Maryland Transit opts for video surveillance system
The MTA plans to install an advanced video surveillance program that is expected to improve security and cut costs.
LEDs light the way… and collect city data
Sensors in LED streetlights can track power consumption, temperature, movement of the fixture, vibrations and ambient light – a data bonanza for cities.
Agencies experiment with software-defined networks
Software-defined networking is giving agencies looking to upgrade their enterprises opportunities to program and virtualize complex networks.
Forecast warms for El Niño monitoring system
After reports surfaced that El Nino forecasts were losing accuracy due to lack of data, the National Weather Service announced it would repair 70 towering buoys used to track El Niño and La Niña patterns.
USGS to merge National Atlas and National Map programs
The National Atlas of the United States and the National Map will be combined into a single platform.
System to continuously scan behavior of cleared workers
U.S. intelligence agencies are planning to thwart insider threats with a system for automated, continuous monitoring of the background and behavior of government workers with secret clearances.
Sensor-sized big data storage scales down for the enterprise
BAE Systems' TeraStar system delivers government and military big data storage solution at smaller size and cost.
What data architects can learn from food labels
When the FDA and the First Lady recently proposed revised food labeling, they were refactoring information – a low-cost mission multiplier government IT managers can replicate.
A trip through the Ozone
Long a proponent of big data analytics, the intelligence community has worked with private contractors and the Government Open Source Software Board to build the Ozone Widget Framework.
Big data is just a stepping stone
Government IT managers need to shift the focus from the data producer to the data consumer and zero in on information extraction.
Scientists develop chips for super fast cloud data transfers
The technology could download an ultra-high definition 4K movie or 40,000 songs from the cloud in seconds at speeds of 200 to 400 gigabit/sec, IBM said.
How MassHealth cut Medicaid fraud with predictive analytics
Predictive analytics system based on NetReveal fraud detection protects MassHealth from fraud and unnecessary expenditures.
AT&T, IBM to help cities build out Internet of Things
AT&T, IBM join forces to help cities, utilities and commercial firms develop and capitalize on the Internet of intelligent devices.
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