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Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making sense of it… — Ryan Holmes
To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to… — Lene Hau
Incidentally, think about the ramifications of storing data on light waves that can be stopped and started at the speed of light. — Lene Hau
Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected. — George Packer
Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data. — Glenn Greenwald
Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes. — Kevin Mitnick
Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality. — Robert J. Shiller
Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones. — Jeremy Stoppelman
It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology is… — Ruchi Sanghvi
Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. There are 100 million potential customers out there. — Michael J. Saylor
Exactly who does use the safe-haven laws is difficult to discern. Most states make no effort to study the cases or compile any data, and… — Wil S. Hylton
Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity. — Clive Thompson
In general, I found that the more that debates can be about facts and data, the more likely government is to make sound decisions that… — Julius Genachowski
Facebook is by far the largest of these social networking sites, and starting with its ill-fated Beacon service, privacy concerns have more than once been… — Michael Bennet
Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely,… — Stephen Hawking
Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same. — Mary Leakey
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply… — Yochai Benkler
Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists. — Michael Nielsen
The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the… — Seth Shostak

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