
According to
Computing News, Secerno, a UK company involved in security, databases main weakness concerns inside attacks. The problem is related to the overabundance of people that have access to confidential data. To counter this weakness, Secerno has developed a program that mine standard usage of the database over a period of time. Once…
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Connexor, a Finnish provider of information management and semantic technologies proposes a new version of MMD, an "
industry strength information management solution" according to
ThomasNet. Always according to TomasNet, MMD is the most "
powerful text analytics and metadata extraction solutions on the market". MMD can be used by companies, governments or researchers to find trends and extract knowledge from huge masses of data…
To continue an older post, here are three websites containing conferences somehow related to data mining or machine learning:
I think the three most important in the field of data mining are the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), the ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) and the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)…

Google Story (Vise, 2006).Google is nowadays known by a large percentage of people surfing the web. Surveys usually put Google as the first search engine in the world (before other Yahoo!, MSN and Ask Jeeves). Two journalists, D. Vise and M. Malseed, tell the whole
Google story from its very beginning (even before Google starts in 1998). Their…
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Nuclear research and more specifically nuclear weapons are always subjects to many discussions on the web through blogs for example. They are nearly always related to a specific country. The picture below, obtained by BlogPulse, shows how the word
nuclear goes from one country to the other.

As you can see on the plot, the…
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Google code search is one of these new functionalities that Google proposes. The main idea is to avoid reinventing the wheel each time you program, but rather reusing existing code somewhere on the web. If you are a programmer, then you know how important it is to comment your code. As pointed out by…
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Australian retailers are starting to mine customer data to get consumer shopping habits.
Autralian IT writes that Coles, an Australian supermarket, has started to use data mining techniques 18 months ago. Australia is late comparing to US or UK in this domain. Mr Eales, working in David Jones, another Australian store, says
"we
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