New Scientist 9 June 2006 Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites (by Paul Marks) Reports that the US National Security Agency is gathering personal data to map social networks for counter-terrorism purposes.
12 May 2006 Covert surveillance of US phone records revealed (by Tom Simonite) Reports on sophisticated data mining of phone records.
6 January 2006 MP3 players to select tunes to your taste (by Kurt Kleiner) Describes a new technology to let your computer recommend new music you might like, based on an analysis of the tunes you enjoy.
15 October 2005, page 44-47 Pets to the rescue (by Janet Ginsburg) Discusses the use of a database of veterinary pet treatments to foreworn of possible human diseases.
29 September 2005 NASA forges alliance with Google (by Maggie McKee) Reports that NASA and Google will cooperate on a number of projects, including one on ways to manage large amounts of data.
5 December 2004 Cyber detective links up crimes (by Duncan Graham-Rowe) Describes a system to spot patterns in criminal activities to solve more crimes.
Science 1 July 2005, page 94 How will big pictures emerge from a sea of biological data? (by Elizabeth Pennisi) Describes an automated search tool that could discover previously unidentified patterns in the growing quantity of biological data.
Scientific American May 2005, pages 70-73 Molecular treasure hunt (by Gary Stix) Describes software used to find previously undiscovered gene or protein pathways by combing through hundreds of thousands of journal articles.
24 January 2005 Seeking better web searches (by Javed Mostafa) Summarises recent developments in web search engines.
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