SECTOR: PUBLIC

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — More data is being produced, analyzed, shared, and stored than ever before. Scientific research, particularly biological sciences like genomics, is one of the more prominent examples of this, with laboratories producing terabytes of information every minute. There are many challenges moving forward with large-scale computational research in the biosciences and ... Read more »

Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA) — Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a massive move of its 120,000 employees to communications technology hosted in “the cloud,” the common term for Web-based services like email, instant messaging, and content management. This new initiative is part of a major consolidation of over 20 different email ... Read more »

Sam Khoury (Minneapolis, MN) - In just a short time, the Internet has created huge economies of scale for information dissemination, affecting everything from how news spreads among bloggers, journalists, and average readers to how consumers compare sale prices among stores for their holiday shopping. The dark side of such information efficiency, however, is that global ... Read more »

Kristin Bockius (St. Louis, MO) — These are tough times for governments. Well, for governments that can’t print money, that is. While at the Federal government level there are some, shall we say, creative solutions to financial problems, state governments around the U.S. don’t have so many options. States have to balance their budgets and increasingly need ... Read more »