Big Data - Tim Smith
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There is a mind-boggling amount of data floating around our society. Physicists at CERN have been pondering how to store and share their ever more massive data for decades - stimulating globalization of the internet along the way, whilst 'solving' their big data problem. Tim Smith plots CERN's involvement with big data from fifty years ago to today.
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- Animation Artist Celeste Lai, Lisa LaBracio
- Composer Corey Allen Jackson
- Sound Designer Jennifer Lewis
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