#ALGORITHMS: "Microsoft machine learning takes on 'big data' "

Microsoft distinguished scientist Eric Horvitz, who also serves the company as co-director of Microsoft Research (Redmond, Wash.), has been celebrating data, by describing how corporations – from banks to hospitals to The Weather Channel – are using Windows servers to make more accurate predictions in commerce, healthcare and weather prediction.

Horvitz, who was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his work computational decision making, explains that the streams of mega-data coming into companies today can empower them, but only if they know how to capture, store, interpret and leverage the insights contained in such so-called 'Big Data.'
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