Data-mining and automated data-analysis techniques are powerful tools for intelligence and law enforcement officials fighting terrorism. But these tools also generate controversy and concern. They ...

This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. What is "Data Mining?" Data mining is the process of extracting useful patterns, correlations and insights from large datasets ...

Over the past four years, Google has admitted ‘scanning and indexing’ student email messages and data mining student users for commercial gain. With little public oversight, Google has ...

Back in 1961, the gradual decline of many city centers in the U.S. began to puzzle urban planners and activists alike. One of them, the urban sociologist Jane Jacobs, began a widespread and ...