It may now cost less to sequence the three billion DNA base pairs of a human genome than to do a brain scan. But how does all that genomic data translate into treatment? Life scientists are bringing ...

Geisinger Health System, Penn State University and Penn State Hershey have teamed up in a $2.4-million program to train the next generation of biomedical scientists in the use of big data. The ...

Stanford Medicine is holding its fourth Big Data in Biomedicine Conference today and Thursday. From the website: "Now in its fourth year, the event provides a forum for experts to discuss ways to use ...

Oxford University is marshaling money and scientists to explore massive datasets to uncover knowledge about diseases and treatments. And Li Ka-shing, known as Asia's richest man, has backed the Big ...

John Bantleman is CEO of RainStor, which sells database software used for big data projects. We’ve entered the age of Big Data where new business opportunities are discovered every day because ...

Big data is not a fad. We are just at the beginning of a revolution that will touch every business and every life on this planet. But loads of people are still treating the concept of big data as ...

Taiwan's National Development Council (NDC) has relaxed regulations on applications for funding under its jurisdiction to better support and encourage investments in AI (artificial intelligence), big ...

Editor's note: This article was originally published in 2016 and has been updated for 2018. We practitioners of the technological arts have a tendency to use specialized jargon. That's not unusual.