Category Archives: Big Data History

How Computer Graphics and Big Data Gave Birth to Today’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Posted on March 31, 2020 by

The explosion of breakthroughs, investments, and entrepreneurial activity around artificial intelligence over the last decade has been driven exclusively by deep learning, a sophisticated statistical analysis technique for finding hidden patterns in large quantities of data. A term coined in … Continue reading →

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A Very Short History of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Posted on February 12, 2017 by

1308                                  Catalan poet and theologian Ramon Llull publishes Ars generalis ultima (The Ultimate General Art), further perfecting his method of using paper-based mechanical means to create new knowledge from combinations of concepts.  The nine most fundamental principles of the … Continue reading →

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Big Data Timeline

Posted on January 29, 2016 by

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What’s the Big Data? 12 Definitions

Posted on September 8, 2014 by

Last week I got an email from UC Berkeley’s Master of Information and Data Science program, asking me to respond to a survey of data science thought leaders, asking the question “What is big data”? I was especially delighted to … Continue reading →

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From 10MB Hard Drive to Big Data

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Big Data in 1956: IBM Launches the Disk Drive Industry

Posted on September 14, 2013 by

Today in 1956, IBM announced the 305 and 650 RAMAC (Random Access Memory Accounting) “data processing machines,” incorporating the first-ever disk storage product. The 305 came with fifty 24-inch disks for a total capacity of 5 megabytes, weighed 1 ton, and could … Continue reading →

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The Evolution of Big Data, At CERN and Everywhere Else (Animation)

Posted on September 4, 2013 by

Lesson by Tim Smith, animation by TED-Ed. “But if big data has been around for so long, why do we suddenly keep hearing about it now? Well, as the old metaphor explains, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and it … Continue reading →

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The OED, Big Data, and Crowdsourcing

Posted on August 17, 2013 by

The term “big data” was included in the most recent quarterly online update of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). So now we have a most authoritative definition of what recently became big news: “data of a very large size, typically to the extent that its … Continue reading →

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Keeping Up With The Quants May Prevent the Next Big Data Crisis

Posted on August 6, 2013 by

Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics, by Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim, is an accessible and timely introduction to the data mining work of quantitative analysts. Aimed primarily at a business audience, it was … Continue reading →

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Big Data Arrives at the Oxford English Dictionary

Posted on June 15, 2013 by

From the new quarterly update of the Oxford English Dictionary: big data n. Computing (also with capital initials) data of a very large size, typically to the extent that its manipulation and management present significant logistical challenges; (also) the branch of computing involving … Continue reading →

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