May 2014
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Thursday, May 29, 2014
To its proponents, big data offers a big promise: insight into complex—and critically important—questions in health care, science, business and more. But its detractors say it poses big risks for individual privacy. Enter Dal’s new Institute for Big Data Analytics, poised to explore this challenging new field of study.
Friday, May 16, 2014
Dalhousie’s Stan Matwin is helping train Canada’s next generation of highly skilled innovators.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Faculty of Computer Science Professor Derek Reilly and collaborators have created your future kitchen. Or, at least, a digitally interactive version of how that kitchen may appear twenty years from now.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
If you've spent time in the Faculty of Computer Science lately you’ve probably heard a lot of Portuguese. Among the many cultures within the Faculty, Computer Science has welcomed Brazilian students into the mix. Research projects involving Brazilian companies and universities have been springing up all year, and the ongoing relationship with our counterparts down south has been getting stronger.