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·January 30, 2013·3 min read

IBM’s Watson to Join Research Team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer becomes the first university of receive a version of IBM's Watson system. Rensselaer hopes to find new uses for Watson and develop its cognitive capabilities, as well as using the system for Big Data research.

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·February 18, 2013·4 min read

Could a Computer on the Police Beat Prevent Violence?

New research shows how police forces might be able to target efforts to reduce violence and raise officer attention to dangerous areas with the help of high-powered computers. Using real police data, researchers were able to demonstrate the promise of computer models for targeting violent areas.

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·July 27, 2014·8 min read

New Tools Help Neuroscientists Analyze Big Data

New neuroscience software helps speed analysis of large scale, complex data sets.

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·August 24, 2014·3 min read

Neuroscience and Big Data: How to Find Simplicity in the Brain

A new paper describes the scientific motivations for studying neural activity, along with a class of machine learning, called dimensionality reduction, for interpreting the activity.

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·October 9, 2014·2 min read

Mining Big Data Yields Alzheimer’s Discovery

Analyzing big data, researchers identify a new gene linked to Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.

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·December 19, 2014·4 min read

A Standard for Neuroscience Data

A new computational framework for standardizing neuroscience data on a global level has been developed by researchers.

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·January 21, 2015·2 min read

Global Consortium Attempts to Crack the Brain’s Genetic Code

Crowdsourced project identifies eight common genetic mutations which appear to age the brain by an average of three years, a new study reports.

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·February 13, 2015·2 min read

Network Dynamics with BrainX3

Researchers have developed a new platform which combines computational power with human intuition. The system also serves as a hypotheses generator for big data.