The Palantir Scholarship for Women in Engineering Finalists Are Here
Virtual labs where doctors and prosthetic designers can collaborate in the same “room.” Touch screen interfaces for cars. Robots that work with autistic children. Sequencing the genome of cancer cells....
View ArticleGoing International with the Palantir Council of Advisors on Privacy and...
In 2012, our PCL team assembled the Palantir Council of Advisors on Privacy and Civil Liberties (PCAP), a body of experts in the privacy and civil liberties field who help us understand and address the...
View ArticleHow Many Years a Slave?
Each year, human traffickers reap an estimated $32 billion in profits from the enslavement of 21 million people worldwide. And yet, for most of us, modern slavery remains invisible. Its victims, many...
View ArticleNew Office for NCMEC, New Possibilities
We officially welcomed our long-time partner The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to Palo Alto last Thursday. Since 1984, NCMEC has worked tirelessly to protect children...
View ArticleAnnouncing three open source projects for developing with TypeScript
Although Palantir is mostly known as a Java Swing shop, we have quietly (or not so quietly) been building for the web for a while now. From D3 for stunning graphics to Backbone and Angular for...
View ArticleHow we’re building an information infrastructure for Typhoon Haiyan response...
Typhoon Haiyan has claimed the lives of thousands and displaced millions more. Along with other aid organizations from around the world, our disaster response partners Team Rubicon and Direct Relief...
View ArticleC4ADS and the Odessa Network: Understanding Illicit Networks Using Palantir...
C4ADS has been in the spotlight lately. A front-page story in a recent Sunday edition of the Washington Post highlighted the D.C.-based organization’s data-driven research into illicit networks...
View ArticleOne year after Sandy, revolutionizing disaster response with CGI, Team...
This week marks the one year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy’s landfall on the eastern seaboard of the United States. It’s an occasion to remember those who lost their lives to the storm, and to be...
View ArticleDatafication and You
“This overturns centuries of established practices and challenges our most basic understanding of how to make decisions and comprehend reality.” –Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live,...
View ArticleDetecting Human Rights Violations Using Medium Resolution Imagery
Dr. Andrew Marx of the US Department of State and a fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide, developed a novel method for analyzing archived data from NASA’s...
View ArticlePalantir Product Design Says Hello!
In the past year our product design team has added over a dozen amazing designers with a mix of skills spanning interaction design, information architecture, visual design, and user research. Together,...
View ArticleHuffPost Live: fighting human trafficking through better data analysis
Human trafficking is a global problem involving the deception, enslavement, labor and sexual exploitation of vulnerable people. While human traffickers are avid users of technologies like social...
View ArticleHack Week 2013
Team Pegasus’s quadcopter gathers on-the-scene damage assessments via aerial imagery for better disaster recovery. Hack Week: a Palantir tradition Now in its fifth year, Hack Week is an annual...
View ArticleDiscussing technology and atrocity prevention in Tanzania
Our Philanthropy Engineering team is proud to support a number of non-profits that are working to prevent atrocities. Our partners are contributing to real-time early warning and prevention of violence...
View ArticlePalantir Sync brings together investigative, regulatory, and prosecutorial...
Last month we hosted Palantir Sync: Investigate, which brought together members of the investigative, regulatory, and prosecutorial communities for a discussion of how technology and data are...
View ArticleNexus Peering: solving the inter-organizational data sharing problem
When we first started developing our data fusion platforms, we wanted to create a way to integrate data for secure, collaborative analysis at scale. We knew that achieving this outcome would not be a...
View ArticleHow the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children uses data to find...
We’ve been working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for three years now, and their tireless dedication to protecting children continues to inspire us every day. We recently...
View ArticleGovConUK II Presentations Now Available
In late May, we held GovConUK II at the Renaissance St. Pancras Hotel in London. The event highlighted our expanding global footprint and the technical advances we’ve made since our first conference...
View ArticleTeam Rubicon: using Palantir to improve disaster recovery
Team Rubicon’s William Gauntner uses Palantir Mobile client to provide immediate data to relief agencies in tornado-ravaged Oklahoma. Time’s Nation blog just published a piece describing the work of...
View ArticleLawrence Lessig on Technology as a “Protector of Liberty”
Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, has long been at the forefront of thinking about how law and...
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