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Yahoo’s Vespa Takes a Whack at CORD-19 Data
Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) is giving its new Vespa search engine a chance to show what it can do against CORD-19, the collection of scholarly articles about COVID-19. The company is inviting the public to try using V Read more…
AI Called on to Mine Massive Coronavirus Dataset, CORD-19
Working with a coalition of government, academic, and industry leaders, the White House this week released COVID-19 Open Research Data (CORD-19), a massive collection of 29,000 scholarly articles about the ongoing corona Read more…
Big Data and the White House’s Cancer Moonshot
The White House wants to invest $1 billion in a new Cancer Moonshot aimed at accelerating research into ways to detect, treat, and prevent the debilitating series of diseases. It's not the first time the government has a Read more…
Privacy Protections Needed as Big Data Advances, White House Says
The Obama administration continues to see big opportunities as well as potential pitfalls in big data. In a report released this week that addresses growing data privacy issues, administration officials also sought to li Read more…