The interview with Colonel Shaffer on Monday was arranged for The New York Times and Fox News by Representative Curt Weldon, the Pennsylvania Republican who is vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a champion of data-mining programs like Able Danger.
Colleagues remember him as a tireless champion of data-driven decisions.
Promote champions of data: "Many times the use of a data-centric approach is stopped by "blockers" at senior level because of a lack of understanding".
There are many committees, boards, overseers and champions of data; but no easily understood, easily accessed, influential mechanism for making things happen.
Policymakers in the post-Snowden era want to be seen as champions of data privacy, and they're willing to enact tough legislation to make that happen.
While it's important to have champions of data privacy and encryption in the private sector, the fact remains that the policy making that safeguards digital rights in America is not going to come from Silicon Valley.
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, a champion of unstoppered data flow, is honored in a line of scarves and T-shirts produced by the Dutch collective Metahaven.
An outspoken member of Congress on military and intelligence questions, Mr. Weldon, a champion of military data mining like Able Danger, has helped arrange interviews for reporters with the former military intelligence official.
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Although still speculative, novel statistical and/or mathematical approaches that allow the incorporation of the information of biological network and genomic structure will likely champion the field of data analysis.
EMC, the stalwart of on-premise enterprise storage, and VMware, the creator of virtualization and champion of server and data center consolidation – two of the most successful companies in data center infrastructure over the past decade – are on the block with their best days clearly behind them.
