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Dec. 18, 2009
Data Mining in the Mobile World
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| Data collected from mobile electronics such as cell phones has the potential to aid research in a wide variety of fields -- from predicting traffic patterns to studying air quality. But how can researchers balance personal privacy and the desire to take full advantage of real-time data analysis technologies? In this segment, we'll talk about the potential benefits offered by such data collection, and about the risks to privacy. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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Deborah Estrin
Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
Professor, Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California -
Tom Mitchell
E. Fredkin University Professor
Chair, Machine Learning Department
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
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