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Researcher Says Privacy Concerns Could Limit Benefits From Real-Time Data Analysis. Society will be unable to take full advantage of real-time data analysis technologies that might improve health, reduce traffic congestion and give scientists new insights into human behavior until it resolves questions about how much of a person's life can be observed and by whom, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist contends in a commentary published Friday in the journal science. News Release and Post-Gazette article. ML faculty and Department Head, Tom Mitchell will talk about "Data Mining in the Mobile World" with host Ira Flatow today on NPR's "Science Friday," which airs from 2 to 4pm.

ML Faculty, Stephen Fienberg, the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science, delivered the Pfizer Colloquium lecture on "Statistics in Service to the Nation," Oct. 29 at the University of Connecticut. His lecture was filmed for inclusion in the American Statistical Association Distinguished Statistician Video Series. Fienberg also was honored as Visitante Ilustre at a Nov. 12 ceremony by the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán in Argentina.

ML Ph.D. student, Babis Tsourakakis and CSD Ph.D. student, U Kang, attracted the 'best applications paper award' (runner up), in ICDM '09, one of the top data mining conferences, for their paper, "PEGASUS: A Peta-Scale Graph Mining System - Implementation and Observations." The paper was selected among 70 accepted papers, out of a total of 786 submissions, and it showed how to use 'hadoop' and Yahoo's M45 machine, to analyze one of the largest publicly available graphs (over 100Gb). Moreover, the paper has been invited for fast-track possible publication to the KAIS Journal.