Big data could end professor lectures
When Arnecia Hawkins enrolled at Arizona State University last fall, she did not realize she was volunteering as a test subject in an experimental reinvention of American higher…
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Majoring in big data
Big data is now big business and big money, as companies work to translate vast amounts of data into knowledge about their customers and their people, the things…
Higher education struggling to contain data breaches this summer
College students and their professors may be away from campuses, but news of data breaches big and small continue to make headlines at colleges nationwide, including a few…
When Big Data pays
On July 25, the Big Data start-up Civitas Learning closed its most recent round of funding with $8.75 million from investors., the Big Data start-up Civitas Learning closed…
The 5 most important kinds of Big Data in higher education
The storing, management, and security of Big Data is of paramount importance to colleges and universities, with many schools using the reams of student data to stem dropout…
UC Irvine researchers create Big Data management tool
Researchers in California are hoping they can help users manage Big Data with their new technology called AsterixDB.
Engineers: this is how and why you need a free ‘big data’ education
I’ve been a systems engineer and database administrator for fifteen years now, and it’s fair to say that there have been more than a few large-scale shifts in…
Education CIOs: Get involved in big data
Thirty years ago I got in a heated argument with the head of the computer center at a college, where I was director of assessment, InformationWeek reports.
New center allows researchers to ‘stand inside’ Big Data
At the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, students could be attempting a complicated medical procedure. Or they could be taking a tour of a building they are…
MIT researchers hoping to make cloud computing more efficient
Cloud computing can use about 20 times as much hardware as it needs to function properly, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers believe an algorithm could be…