Tag: Big Data

Technology for social good

As someone with a primarily engineering background, one of the most interesting subjects I learned about through this week’s lectures is entrepreneurship. While the focus of this week was on the technology behind cloud computing, Montse Medina’s summary of lessons learned in entrepreneurship were especially valuable because they highlighted the importance of skills that cannot… Read more Technology for social good

MindSphere – The Internet of Things by Siemens

MindSphere – The Internet of Things by Siemens By Victor Moran Siemens is a German company founded back in 1847 by Werner Von Siemens (1). With over 377,000 employees worldwide and a revenue of €83.0 billion in 2017, the company is a global leader in the fields of electrification, automation and most recently, digitalization (2).… Read more MindSphere – The Internet of Things by Siemens

Do you ever feel like you're being watched?

You start typing something into Google and it finishes your sentence, you ask Alexa to play music and she starts playing your favorite songs, the ads you see on your phone and your computer are the things you’ve been saving up to buy. Suddenly, you realize the internet is your best friend and it knows… Read more Do you ever feel like you're being watched?

Your Cloud Data is Safe...Right?

Last Friday Mr. Paron spoke to us about some of Microsoft’s developments in the cloud computing field. One of the areas he touched on was the security present at the data centers–multiple layers of biometrics, tall fences, scanners, and other methods to protect its customers’ data. These security features are quite impressive, and would protect… Read more Your Cloud Data is Safe...Right?

Wearing IT around the World

I recently returned from a trip around Hungary and Holland with a group of elite athletes as we trained and competed in the sport of water polo. Our schedule contains about 5-7 hours of intense training in and out of the water, a norm for the group I travel with. Although we are focused on… Read more Wearing IT around the World

The Price of Data

In tracking the technological developments over the last half century, the picture that Moore’s law paints drives us to a common conclusion: with companies making headway into quantum computing and artificial intelligence, we are no doubt at the cusp of unprecedented change and growth. Data is collected and processed in massive quantities (thus generating the… Read more The Price of Data

HOW DOES QUANTUM COMPUTER CHANGE BUSINESS?

 [4] BBC “D-Wave: Is $15m machine a glimpse of future computing?” (20/5/2014)   “We’re at the dawn of the quantum-computing age, and it’s really up to us to execute.”, said Vern Brownell, the CEO of D-Wave systems. [1] Since the theory of quantum computer was suggested, many companies such as IBM, Microsoft and D-Wave have… Read more HOW DOES QUANTUM COMPUTER CHANGE BUSINESS?

Big Data and Filter Bubbles

Personalized searches have a lot of benefits – obviously, search engines who have figured out better algorithms attract more users (for example, Google versus Bing or Yahoo!) because they allow the searcher to find what is most relevant to them, what they are most likely searching for, more easily and efficiently. Social networking sites like… Read more Big Data and Filter Bubbles

Future Trend of Entertainment at the age of Internet and Data: a Case Study of Netflix

Netflix is an online media provider located in Los Gatos [1]. The stock price of Netflix has doubled since the beginning of year 2018, which is surprising at a first glance since it is known that Netflix has been suffered with its poor financial condition. Netfilx’s poor financial condition results from its spending a lot… Read more Future Trend of Entertainment at the age of Internet and Data: a Case Study of Netflix

Algorithmic Bias: Challenges and Solutions

A recent article in The Guardian described the issue of discrimination by algorithms with a few examples: “There was the voice recognition software that struggled to understand women, the crime prediction algorithm that targeted black neighborhoods and the online ad platform which was more likely to show men highly paid executive jobs”. When I worked on a fraud analytics project… Read more Algorithmic Bias: Challenges and Solutions