Researchers from Iowa State University and the University of Florida are working on a new system of “bury-and-forget” soil sensors and remote wireless data-collection networks that could help reduce the nitrogen fertilizer that leaves farm […]
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has established the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics (OEDA) to, “provide [their] customers timely, accurate, and bias-free data and information to prevent and remedy unlawful employment discrimination, and […]
Dubai Municipality recently launched a smart training center that provides hands-on training in urban planning and building supervision and control using the Virtual Reality (VR) Environment. The Smart Training Hub, supervised by the municipality’s Geographic […]
Recent crimes involving drones have heightened the need for the study of drone forensics, which enables investigators to retrieve photos and videos taken by the drone, along with GPS coordinates of flight paths and user […]
The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (CI) division’s annual report indicates the IRS has been using data analytics technology to do “predictive policing” to uncover potential tax cases. “We prioritized the use of data in […]
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $895,000 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) through its program, Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAAN). With the funds, WPI will provide six needs-based fellowships to U.S. […]
Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has established the Sherry and John Woo Center for Big Data and Precision Health – a big data analytics center that will support global research to advance precision medicine […]
Benefit fraud, particularly by criminal gangs, costs the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in the United Kingdom almost £2.1 billion (~$2.6 billion US) in 2016 – a rise of £200 million in just one […]
Siemens and Australian data analytics company Interlate have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the goal of delivering productivity gains for the mining industry by better leveraging data across the entire mining value chain. […]
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has partnered with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to conduct a 30-day test of the use of facial recognition technology to screen international travelers at Los Angeles […]
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