Summary: <p>It’s all in the numbers. The trick is, finding what you’re looking for. But that’s the name of the game with big data. We have a giga-gigabyte of information, and combing through it will lead to new cures for disease, new discoveries about the cosmos, or clues to our social and economic behavior.</p> <p>But is big data Big Brother? You leave a little bit of yourself behind with each mouse click. Discover how surveillance and privacy issues bubble out of the mix, as the terabytes keep flowing in.</p> <p>Plus one man’s quest to know himself through the numbers as he records everything – and we do mean everything – about his body.</p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Atul_Butte">Atul Butte</a></strong> – Associate professor, division chief, systems medicine, Stanford University</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://lsmarr.calit2.net/">Larry Smarr</a></strong> – Professor of computer science, University of California, San Diego, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, (Calit2)</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.jcvi.org/cms/about/bios/knelson/">Karen Nelson</a></strong> – Microbiologist, director of the Rockville Campus of the J. Craig Venter Institute</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.seti.org/users/gerry-harp">Gerry Harp</a></strong> – Physicist, and Director of the Center for <span class="caps">SETI</span> Research at the <span class="caps">SETI</span> Institute</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyProfile.php?facID=1018">Deirdre Mulligan</a></strong> – Assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information and faculty director of the Berkeley Center of Law and Technology </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/index-flash.html">Ken Goldberg</a></strong> – Professor of engineering, information and art at the University of California, Berkeley</li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/podcast-instituto-seti-mucha-informacion/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p>
