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2013/04/302014/01/14

Dan Zak: Prophets of Oak Ridge – Activists as Terrorists — Conscience vs. Courts

This is the story of two competing worldviews, of conscience vs. court, of fantasy vs. reality, of history vs. the future. The Prophets of Oak Ridge Dan Zak Washington Post, 30 April 2013 Last summer, in the dead of night, three peace activists penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most …

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2013/04/242013/04/24

Neal Rauhauser: DataScienceCentral, LinkedIn, Wrong Tool

DataScienceCentral Users – No Klout Via LinkedIn The retrieval of 11,712 DataScienceCentral profiles completed earlier today. I found about 2,600 instances of ‘linkedin’ when I checked the extract dt/dd files. I rigged up a bunch of awk statements and distilled that down to about 900 DSC userids and the associated plain text LinkedIn userids. I skipped …

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2013/04/23

Graphic: Data Science in Context

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2013/04/222013/04/22

Patrick Meier: Data Science for Social Good

Data Science for Social Good and Humanitarian Action My (new) colleagues at the University of Chicago recently launched a new and exciting program called “Data Science for Social Good”. The program, which launches this summer, will bring together dozens top-notch data scientists, computer scientists an social scientists to address major social challenges. Advisors for this initiative …

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2013/04/202013/04/20

Neal Rauhauser: Mining Data Science Central

Mining Data Science Central I was browsing LinkedIn a little while ago and I noticed the Data Science Central group. One of my contacts had shared something from it and the charter looked interesting, so I clicked ‘join’. Data Science Central is the industry’s online resource for big data practitioners. From Analytics to Data Integration to …

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2013/03/072013/03/26

Berto Jongman: Defense Science Board Report on Baby Steps Toward Resilient Military C4I Systems

Defense Science Board Task Force Report: Resilient Military Systems and the Advanced Cyber Threat EXTRACT After conducting an 18-month study, this Task Force concluded that the cyber threat is serious and that the United States cannot be confident that our critical Information Technology (IT) systems will work under attack from a sophisticated and well-resourced opponent …

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2013/03/022013/03/02

Chuck Spinney: Kelly Vlahos on the Militarization of Yale Neuroscience

.. Or Escalating the Old Boot On Campus Game Below is an important, excellent and scary report by Kelley Vlahos. But the MICC’s infiltration of elite campus’s is even worse that Ms. Vlahos says, because it builds on deep historical roots and tradition. Yale, a main focus of her report, has a long history of its …

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