Category: Networking and Communication

Credit: University at Buffalo Like a teenager’s bedroom, big data is often messy. Malfunctioning computers, data entry errors and other hard-to-spot problems can skew datasets and mislead people—everyone from data

Edward K. Wong, an associate professor in the NYU Tandon Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Yi Fang, a research assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer

We’d like to believe that our opinions are nuanced, balanced, high-minded, wise and above all, unique, but alas they are not—or so says Twitter. Most often, those we engage with

Raw image data collected from dGEMRIC MRI protocol at an inversion time of 1600 milliseconds (left). The T1 map computed from seven different inversion times using the automated, real-time, quantitative

Credit: CC0 Public Domain When you browse online for a new pair of shoes, pick a movie to stream on Netflix or apply for a car loan, an algorithm likely

Partial map of the Internet based on the January 15, 2005 data found on opte.org. Each line is drawn between two nodes, representing two IP addresses. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Algorithms

Watching children on the playground, we see them run, climb, slide, get up, and do it all again. While their movements are continuous, we language-users can easily divide them up

Credit: Public Domain Modern forensic DNA analyses are crucial to crime scene investigations; however the interpretation of the DNA profiles can be complex. Two researchers from the Forensics and National

Credit: Salk Institute Although we spend a lot of our time online nowadays—streaming music and video, checking email and social media, or obsessively reading the news—few of us know about