The benefits of big data for our society are vast – but a digital world also comes with challenges. Find out how McMaster researchers are driving a digital path to a more enlightened and prosperous future.
The students are putting Agriboost, a device that tracks temperature, moisture, wind speed and solar radiation in real time, through its paces at the McMaster Museum of Art, where all those conditions are tightly controlled to keep artifacts safe.
Paul McNicholas, director of McMaster’s MacData Institute, is leading the way in developing new, cutting edge methods of analyzing data – methods that are playing an increasingly significant role in accelerating research across campus and beyond.
Because it's a slippery concept to define, people don't always realize the smart city exists all around us, in various forms and spaces. McMaster researchers are part of a team that has mapped out smart city tech around the country.
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