Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Munging mountains of data

An interesting New York Times piece this week on training today's young minds to comprehend and manipulate the huge (and growing) amount of data available for processing by computer.

IBM and Google are lending a hand to universities so that students can leverage the big processing power needed to even begin to deal with this scale of data.

The article is available at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/technology/12data.html

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