In recent years, Dr. Gray focused on building vast databases for both scientists and laymen.
Google's vast databases and search tracking, they say, raise the prospect of a corporate Big Brother.
Hospitals, insurance companies, banks and department stores might also appreciate storage that compact for their vast databases.
But, even with these vast databases of information, we came out of that interaction with zero knowledge.
Private firms offer vast databases that allow banks to do background checks on new and existing clients.
Consider: Electronic implants into human bodies; gene-splicing as common as cosmetic surgery; computer networks mining vast databases to discern consumer preferences.
So far in this cycle, Democrats appear to be building vast databases of new individual donors who could be called on by the party for years to come.
The new state surveillance law includes a major extension of powers, including vast databases recording every website visited by the entire population.
Instead, Thomson has focused on building vast databases of material that is dull to most people but of great value to professionals, and the company charges them accordingly.
The systems being developed by companies like Audible Magic and Gracenote make use of vast databases that store digital representations of copyrighted songs, TV shows and movies.
During hearings at the IPT last year, Matthew Ryder QC, for Liberty, had alleged that the intelligence services were constructing vast databases out of accumulated interceptions of emails.
