Aaron Loh

Posts by Aaron Loh

Chatbots on the Hype Cycle

by on August 1, 2017 6:59 pm
“Facebook shuts down robots after they invent their own language”[1]. “Facebook AI creates its own language in creepy preview of our potential future”[2]. “Facebook shuts down chatbot experiment after AIs spontaneously develop their own language”[3]. Such were the headlines that flooded the internet just one day ago, titles portending doom as AI threatened to escape… Read more Chatbots on the Hype Cycle

Security in a Brave New World

by on July 24, 2017 1:38 pm
You’re working in a hotel lobby of a conference, connected to a wireless hotspot, comfortably surfing the web. Email is open in one tab, your personal cloud storage in another. You’re logged in to your company portal, checking your paystubs. You hear a beep behind you. You turn, and find yourself face to face with… Read more Security in a Brave New World

What it takes to Connect the World

by on July 20, 2017 11:38 am
Enshrined in Facebook’s Mission Statement are the 3 words “Connecting the World”. They, along with household names like Instagram and Twitter have created platforms that afford us the ability to connect with people across the globe with unprecedented ease. Yet, it is important to remember that these social media giants that have come to dominate… Read more What it takes to Connect the World

Dropbox's Strategic Bet

by on July 11, 2017 11:11 am
“Should I stay or should I go?” This question has no doubt made its way into the boardrooms of many companies wrestling with the options of continuing their dalliance with cloud services, or building up their own infrastructure. Netflix was raised as an example of one of these companies in the previous lecture, as we… Read more Dropbox's Strategic Bet

Fault-Tolerance in Cloud Services

by on July 3, 2017 2:20 pm
On Feb 28 2017, companies such as Quora, Slack, Expedia, and GitHub found themselves inexplicably inaccessible by their customers through the internet. They, along with several other companies, big and small alike, scrambled to find the problem, as each passing second meant significant losses in revenue. It was only 4 hours later that they found… Read more Fault-Tolerance in Cloud Services