by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 13, 2016 | Future Tech, Information Management, Security & Public Policy |
Artificial Intelligence has achieved breakthroughs that directly affect documentary and investigative reporting, or any video where participants need anonymity. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI), standard methods of cloaking identities through...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 8, 2016 | Future Tech, Information Management, IoT, Security & Public Policy |
Big data will overwhelm artisanal science. That’s what I conclude from a recent paper that lays out the stark statistics: Science is a growing system, exhibiting 4% annual growth in publications and 1.8% annual growth in the number of references per publication....
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 26, 2016 | Information Management, Off-Topic, Security & Public Policy |
Over on ZDNet I’ve been doing a series looking at the issues we face incorporating Big Data into our digital civilization (see When Big Data is bad data, Lying scientists and the lying lies they tell, and Humans are the weak link in Big Data. I’m not done...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 7, 2011 | Enterprise, Management, Security & Public Policy |
Wild. Cisco, with the aid of pliable government officials – do corporations know any other kind? – had a guy arrested and held in jail for 28 days in Vancouver, BC. He was arrested as he testified at a special hearing for the case! Cuff ’em, Danno...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 30, 2011 | Architecture, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
The performance increase in individual CPUs is slowing to a crawl. All the easy wins – higher clock speeds, wider datapaths, more DRAM, larger registers and caches, 2-4 cores – have been exploited. Doctor, is there any hope? In the recent PCAST report on...
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 9, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy |
Given how hard it is to save data you want (see The Universe hates your data) to keep, losing data on the web should be easy. It isn’t, because it gets stored so many places in its travels. Problem But the power of the web means that silliness can now be stored...
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