Data Mining in the Mobile World: Via NPR Science Friday Archive.

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.

Guests

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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