Morgan Stanley recently predicted there will be 75 billion connected devices in use worldwide by 2020, a number rapidly approaching the estimated 86 billion neurons in the human brain. We know that ...

Salesforce.com Inc. has found a new application for artificial intelligence. Researchers from the cloud giant on Tuesday released a paper detailing the architectural details of Seq2SQL, an ...

The big health database is at the center of both Presidential campaigns. Whether you're Republican or Democrat, your guy (or gal) thinks that automating health records is a "silver bullet" from which ...

A major challenge the Defense Department and intelligence community face is managing the massive amounts of structured and unstructured data they possess. Many contractors like MarkLogic are helping ...

Picture this: The year is 2030, and you’re living in a world where retailers can predict consumer behavior with uncanny accuracy, healthcare providers are diagnosing diseases before symptoms escalate ...

It’s tempting just to replicate all databases in the cloud, but it’s a much better approach to get your data house in order as part of the move. Last week I discussed database normalization as a best ...

Genotype–phenotype databases contain data on genetic variants and associated phenotypes. In medical contexts, such databases are focused on disease-causing mutations and resulting diseases or ...

One of the great things about the IT industry is that there’s no shortage of innovative companies coming up with a wide range of products to address niche problems. Today’s article covers a compendium ...