Prisons turn to analytics software for parole decisions
Risk assessment programs weigh factors beyond the traditional considerations of parole boards and seem to be having an effect.
Why IBM thinks it's a contender in the Great Cloud Battle
The company is putting a lot of resources into its effort to attract government cloud customers. Does it have an advantage over the competition?
Army finds its own way to build a big data system
The Enterprise Management Decision Support System draws on 3,500 database systems to create a picture of military readiness.
Fort Lauderdale fights crime with data analytics
IBM researchers are working with the Florida city to develop an application that detects patterns and activities from a variety of data sources.
SEC website offers window into stock market analytics
The Security and Exchange Commission's Market Structure Data and Analysis website will act as a central location for the SEC to publicly share data, research and analysis.
Teradata platform helps big-data analysts ask the right questions
Teradata Aster Discovery platform snaps multiple analytical tools together to help business users "uncover things they didn't know they needed to know," according to company officials.
Does the 'big data' hype hold water?
It makes for a great catch phrase -- and it does really exists -- but don't get carried away with the hype.
IT managers: The biggest threat to infrastructure isn't cyber
Reducing costs, improving security, boosting efficiency are the top priorities for federal, state and local agencies, according to a Cisco survey.
Investigative tools equip Treasury agents to fight financial crime
The Bank Security Act IT modernization added analytics and forensic tools to help Treasury agents and regulators sift millions of records and chase down high-tech financial crimes.
Splunk's newest version offers easy access to machine data
Enterprise 6 ramps up the speed of its analytics, with an interface made for non-technical users.
EPA's How's My Waterway app delivers transparency, environmental awareness
EPA's How's My Waterway web application was designed to conserve technology, operate across multiple devices and maintain a bond of information transparency to the public.
Austin police boost transparency, data management with digital video
The Austin Police Department's digital video recording system in its police car fleet that gives officers total confidence that their interactions with the public will be recorded, uploaded and archived.
iPlant delivers free big data tech to the bioscience community
Science collaborative offers IT and collaboration tools to help “crack the toughest problems in modern biology,” say its founders.
Analytics will help cities manage water supplies, repair aging infrastructure
IBM Smarter Cities software offers advanced cloud-based analytics to help cities run more efficiently and offer better citizen services.
Rice University researchers take "BOLD" approach to big data
With NSF-backed funding, researchers will create energy-efficient optical network -– with silicon photonic switches –- to handle massive amounts of data.
New chips could power the Internet of Things
Intel hopes to put its Quark X1000 processor family into the sensors and smart devices that will drive intelligent systems.
New York redirects E-ZPass data for traffic analysis
The city's Department of Transportation has been reusing RFID data from E-ZPass readers to manage city’s traffic nightmares.
Quantum computing explained: D-Wave on NASA's system
D-Wave's Eric Ladizinsky explains how "we are harvesting the parallel worlds to solve problems in this one."
A better way for supercomputers to search large data sets
Scientists at Berkeley lab develop "distributed merge trees" that let researchers take advantage of massively parallel architectures to sift through the noise and find what they're looking for.
Watch lists: How do you find Abdul Rasheed when you're looking for Abdul Rashid?
Tracking names that originate in different cultures, traditions and alphabets pose a challenge for analysts. Basis Technology's hybrid approach offers more accurate matching of foreign names against databases.
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