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August 13, 2015 – “Last month, Bloomberg Law surveyed 80 librarians from large and medium sized law firms about their respective roles. The result? Law firm librarians feel underutilized as analysts and underpaid for the analytical work they’re already doing. Ninety-three per cent of respondents said their library resources and training could be put to greater use servicing …
NYT and ProPublica investigative reports: “The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T. While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly …
“The Centre for Study of Existential Risk is an interdisciplinary research centre focused on the study of human extinction-level risks that may emerge from technological advances. We aim to combine key insights from the best minds across disciplines to tackle the greatest challenge of the coming century: safely harnessing our rapidly-developing technological power.” One of …
WSJ.com: “You can learn a lot about a candidate by looking at where he or she draws the most contributions. Campaign-finance reports are always studied for who raised the most money and who is struggling for support. But looking at a campaign’s fundraising footprint tells a tale all its own. The Wall Street Journal took …
CDC – A strategy for improving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s activities in public health surveillance. February 24, 2014 “Public health surveillance guides efforts to detect and monitor disease and injuries, assess the impact of interventions and assist in the management of and recovery from large-scale public health incidents. Today’s ever – present, …
“The Path a Book Takes – August 14, 2015 by Erin Allen (The following story is featured in the July/August 2015 issue of the LCM, which you can read in it’s entirety here. The story was written by Susan Morris, assistant to the director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access.) Follow the journey taken by each …
A Benchmark Of Federal Government Agencies, Highlighting The Drivers Of Great Federal CX August 13, 2015 By Rick Parrish with Harley Manning, Carla O’Connor, Kara Hartig. “Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™), US Consumers Q1 2015, shows that federal agencies are still providing substandard experiences — and their poor CX performance is hurting both agency …
“How do we ascertain truth on the web? That’s a question being pursued by researchers at Google who have articulated a flow of data that generates discrete statements of fact from countless web sources, relates those statements to previously assembled stores of knowledge, and fuses these mathematically to identify which statements may be more “truthful” …
Pratt, Gill A. 2015. “Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics?” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 29(3): 51-60. DOI: 10.1257/jep.29.3.51 “About half a billion years ago, life on earth experienced a short period of very rapid diversification called the “Cambrian Explosion.” Many theories have been proposed for the cause of the Cambrian Explosion, one of the …
Google Research Blog – [July 28, 2015] “we announced that the Google Translate app now does real-time visual translation of 20 more languages. So the next time you’re in Prague and can’t read a menu, we’ve got your back. But how are we able to recognize these new languages? In short: deep neural nets. When …
As cybercrime has had a significant impact on tens of millions of our lives, whether we are: in the federal work force and all (yes all) of our personal (the definition of the word ‘personal’ needs to be modified soon) data was compromised (or more accurately, it was stolen, siphoned off, hacked…over days, weeks, months, …
NYC Open Data – 1300+ data sets are available – users may search by type, category, agency and source – an example as follows: “Neighborhood Tabulation Areas – data: Boundaries of Neighborhood Tabulation Areas as created by the NYC Department of City Planning using whole census tracts from the 2010 Census as building blocks. These …
