New York City has spent the past 18 months developing a database on four million residents, most of them the city's neediest, which officials say will enhance social services but which advocates for the poor say could put their privacy at risk.
George C. Halvorson, chief executive of Kaiser Permanente, the large health care provider, extols the benefits of its growing database on nine million patients, tracking treatments and outcomes to improve care, especially in managing costly chronic and debilitating conditions like heart disease, diabetes and depression.
The study was also advertised in an online ADDISS newsletter and was also emailed out to the member database on two occasions.
The first (automatic) stage involved seeking identical matches between police and hospital databases on three key casualty variables: age, gender and date of collision (on police records)/date of admission (on hospital records).
Figure 3 depicts the conceptual organization of the database based on three general categories: neuron types, neuron properties, and published evidence.
(Late count from the Nexis database on that one: 295 articles).
Last March, AlphaGo, a program created by Google DeepMind, was able to beat a world-champion human player of Go, but only after it had trained on a database of thirty million moves, running on approximately a million watts.
Barry Bearak (NYT) THE AMERICAS CANADA: VAST PERSONAL DATABASE -- The privacy commissioner, Bruce Phillips, disclosed that the government has compiled a database on 33 million Canadians, living and dead.
We estimated these proportions epidemiologically from the nationwide Swedish Family-Cancer Database on 9.6 million individuals.
For all the light the database sheds on four centuries of ecclesiastical history, its true significance may be its role in opening up the raw material of scholarship to the widest possible audience.
