Q&A: Stephen Wolfram on the Power and Challenge of Big Data
Popular Science editor Mark Jannot talks to the data wizard about big data, human understanding, and the origin of the universe
Popular Science editor Mark Jannot talks to the data wizard about big data, human understanding, and the origin of the universe
Understanding complex systems
Harvard has a world-class trove of valuable astronomical data. But it's in the form of half a million glass photographic plates
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James Gleick asks: as scientists crunch and quantize the world, will they ever reach the end?
By turning its crime problem into a data problem, Santa Cruz is reinventing police work for the 21st century
One man’s noise is another man’s long-sought signal
A permanent archive of the Web--some 200 million sites' worth