Category: summer2017

Importance of Big Data to Companies

The world of business and intelligence rely heavily on data storage and utilization for efficient and timely decision making. Data analytics has always formed the backbone of a great decision to the extent that most companies have concluded that the best ways of ensuring that competition is always combated effectively are through the use of… Read more Importance of Big Data to Companies

Spear Phishing

PHISHING EMAILS. We’ve all had them. “Enter your bank details at *insert link here* for a tax rebate/PPI claim/windfall from your long lost great-great-uncle’s savings. We are become more and more aware of these attempts to rob us, especially now that millenials, who are wiser to these threats, are starting to become so prevalent in… Read more Spear Phishing

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

As we collect, store and process more and more data, the internet of things (IoT) gets a bigger role in our lives. Before you know it there is no need to bring your wallet to the groceries store anymore , you can simply use your phone (apple pay, venmo etc). Or even when you arrive… Read more Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

Emotion recognition – a deep dive into human emotions

Emotion recognition has a long body of research starting from 1960s. One of the pioneers of the field is Paul Ekman who is a well-known American psychologist who studied the relationship between emotions and facial expressions. (1) Ekman created a catalog of over 5,000 muscle movements to indicate that how small facial micro-gestures such as… Read more Emotion recognition – a deep dive into human emotions

Security Concerns with Public WiFi Hotspots

Last week, I asked Mr. Herrod about the concerns in cyber security with growing adoption and push towards public wireless hotspot connections and he expressed deep concerns. Steve Herrod is the Managing Director at General Catalyst and ex-CTO at VMware. “In our generation Wi-Fi is a necessity and its required to have a social life” In this era of connectivity,… Read more Security Concerns with Public WiFi Hotspots

For students, by students - New way to Venture Capitalize

Last week, Steve Herrod, Ex-CTO at VMware and Managing Director at General Catalyst, came to our class to talk about cyber security and big data. Cyber security applied to big data is one of the hottest topics in modern technology right now, and as a software engineer, I need to be aware of these concerns.… Read more For students, by students - New way to Venture Capitalize

The Limits and Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence

The term Artificial Intelligence is somewhat misleading as it conveys that machines have the power to possess “intelligence”, of the human kind, which is not perfectly accurate. While AI and Machine Learning systems have had immense success in finding patterns when they ingest significant chunks of data, this intelligence is not generalizable. Hence, the pattern… Read more The Limits and Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence

A game of cat and mouse

Let’s face it: Cybercriminals are constantly looking for new ways to tunnel into your network or disrupt your business. According to The State of Cyber Security 2017 survey, by ISACA, 53% of cyber security professionals reported an increase in the overall number of attacks in 2016 compared to 2015. In terms of the specific kinds… Read more A game of cat and mouse

BIG DATA AND MODERN SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS

One could define Big Data as “the growth in the volume of structured and unstructured data, the speed at which it is created and collected, and the scope of how many data points are covered.”[1] According to Jeffrey Welser Vice President and Lab Director at IBM Research, unstructured data volume grows exponentially. Today, in just… Read more BIG DATA AND MODERN SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS

Big data: Computer vs. Human Brain

The amount of digital data continues to double every two years (https://www.economist.com/news/business/21717430-success-nvidia-and-its-new-computing-chip-signals-rapid-change-it-architecture). Digital data is growing so fast that computers and existing storage techniques are not able to keep up (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602156/the-big-deal-with-big-data-isnt-just-the-data/). Data is produced at a rate at which government organizations and companies do not know how to analyze it, and a lot of the… Read more Big data: Computer vs. Human Brain