To get the greatest business value from Big Data, companies are looking for multi-skilled experts who understand programming, large-scale mathematics, statistics and business.

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Experts say if hospitals don't act now to correct computer programming, an alarming number of pieces of medical equipment may malfunction -- all because computer makers failed to plan for the next century.

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Although the fledgling platform has some speed and stability problems, and its application programming interface (the means by which other bits of software plug into it) is not yet complete, collaboration experts are excited.

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