Eight Tech Pioneers Who Will Change Your Life

Time has a feature on eight tech pioneers from the World Economic Forum that will deliver technology that will change the world. From water-treatment technology that cut 90% out of the traditional facility footprint to super-fast information analysis, these people are making a difference.

[Complex Event Processing] allows users to analyze information as it streams in, a huge step up from relational databases, in which data first need to be stored before being processed. Whereas most databases can handle hundreds of bits of data per second, StreamBase's platform can process hundreds of thousands of pieces of info, or "events," per second: e-mails, Facebook posts, signals intelligence, audio and video streams — or a combination.

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