Professional Reading (and Listening) Shelf
Data Mining
Source: The Kojo Nnamdi Show/WAMU
Radio Program Discusses Data Mining (RealAudio)
From the description, “Data mining searches large databases for unexpected patterns of data – and it’s used by everyone from Amazon to political campaigns to government and law resources. But some say the technology crosses the lines of public versus private information.” Guests:
+ Usama Fayyad, Founder and president, DMX Group, a business and technology consulting group
+ Lee Strickland, Visiting Professor and Director, Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland, College Park
+ Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief, Reason magazine
+ Angelique Waller, artist, author “Data Mining the Amazon”
The program was broadcast on WAMU, a public radio station in Washington, DC, and runs about one hour.
–
Scholarly Communication
Source: C&RL News
New Article, Information Access Alliance: Challenging anticompetitive behavior in academic publishing
This intro to the IAA was written by Mary M. Case, Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the Association of Research Libraries.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 26th, 2004 and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.