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On Wednesday afternoon, before a standing-room-only audience in downtown DC, IBM Corp. held a briefing titled "Big Data: The New Natural Resource." During it, David McQueeney, vice president for software at IBM Research, described how corporate leaders increasingly appreciate the move toward ‘big data’ -- but the field itself has not yet reached a point at ...

