Category: Week5

Internet of Everything

What will we do with all this data?! Continuing the tone from my last post about the future of technologies hinging on how we approach cybersecurity, we’ll now take a look at the exponential explosion in the number of connected devices. IoT or “Internet of Things” is another word being thrown around lately – however,… Read more Internet of Everything

Internet Of Things: How Tech Will Smartly Enhance Our Lives

Among all the current leading trends in technology, the Internet of Things (IoT) is likely the one that most affects a person’s daily life. Indeed, IoT refers to each physical device that is connected to the internet, from headphones to washing machines, from lamps to buildings – and almost anything else you can think of. Hence,… Read more Internet Of Things: How Tech Will Smartly Enhance Our Lives

IoT Taking Over

IoT has not only opened new opportunities for businesses around the world but also enabled individuals to make their life easier. From smart toothbrushes to tables, IoT has changed the functionality of life and connected us to the expanding realm of technology. The global Internet of Things market is forecast to grow at a rate… Read more IoT Taking Over

Why Investors Really Care about Impact Investing

Last week in class Milo Werner spoke about how investors are rapidly becoming more interested in impact investing but didn’t mention more to it other than this type of investing benefits the world as a whole. While this may be true, I will discuss several key reasons why investors are starting to trend toward this… Read more Why Investors Really Care about Impact Investing

Becoming the CEO of our own healthcare

During this past week’s class, Milo Werner said, “The vision is that . . . in 2050 everyone will be the CEO of their own healthcare. In order for all 7 billion people to be healthy and have access to healthcare, they are not all going to be able to see a human doctor. In… Read more Becoming the CEO of our own healthcare

IoT: putting the cart before the horse

Internet of Things (IoT) is about “things” with some form of data connection and remote-control layer on top, all together enabling their synchronization, application execution and orchestration, and basic status analytics. Well, this is quite inexact; in fact, the above definition would apply perfectly to certain industrial environments already back in the 90s. IoT is… Read more IoT: putting the cart before the horse

IoT and AI: Inseparable

Over the past few weeks we have learned about the development of AI and IoT, both of which are promising to dramatically change the way we interact and use technology. AI and machine learning will provide new ways for us to analyze vast amounts of information. IoT will allow us to gather information from a… Read more IoT and AI: Inseparable

Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing in Defence Systems

“An unmanned systems future, really for almost every facet of our life, is inevitable.  It is not going away, so we need to deal with it head-on” says Brigadier General Frank Kelley, and I concur. Kelley, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy’s unmanned systems put forward his idea that the unmanned drones are on… Read more Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing in Defence Systems

Internet of Things (IoT) & Entertainment Industry

This week’s guest speaker, Nick Colsey, VP of Business Development at Sony, made a rather interesting claim: “Smart TV changed the way content was distributed, but it didn’t particularly change the way content was made.”1 I believe his claim is partially true and partially false. It is correct that there are more distribution channels due… Read more Internet of Things (IoT) & Entertainment Industry

The 2016 Dyn Attack and its Lessons for IoT Security

On October 21, 2016, the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack took place, shutting down most of the Internet, including Twitter, Amazon, GitHub, and the New York Times.[1]  The attack targeted Dyn, a company that services a large share of the internet’s domain name system (DNS) infrastructure, and lasted for most of the day.… Read more The 2016 Dyn Attack and its Lessons for IoT Security