Category «Internet»

Two Factor Auth

Two Factor Auth (2FA): “Two-step verification, abbreviated to TSV (not equal to two step authentication TSA nor to Two-factor authentication, abbreviated to TFA) is a process involving two subsequent but dependent stages to check the identity of an entity trying to access services in a computer or in a network with just one factor or secret, …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, ID Theft, Internet

IBM’s New Processor Uses Little Energy and Functions Mimic Human Neural Networks

New York Times – John Markoff: “Inspired by the architecture of the brain, scientists have developed a new kind of computer chip that uses no more power than a hearing aid and may eventually excel at calculations that stump today’s supercomputers. The chip, or processor, is named TrueNorth and was developed by researchers at IBM and …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing

Research at Google – “Mesa is a highly scalable analytic data warehousing system that stores critical measurement data related to Google’s Internet advertising business. Mesa is designed to satisfy a complex and challenging set of user and systems requirements, including near real-time data ingestion and queryability, as well as high availability, reliability, fault tolerance, and …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Command & Control: Understanding, denying, detecting

UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure report: “Modern computer usage has seen an ever-increasing use of the Internet. More and more business is being conducted on or over the Internet, communication via the Internet is the norm for many transactions, and many people now socialise via sites on the Internet. This is generally …

Subjects: Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

New York Times Launches Enhanced Archive Search and @NYTArchives Twitter Account

PressRun: “Today The New York Times launches search on its interactive digital archive: TimesMachine.  With this newly-developed search technology, users can now use both free text and subject headings from the Times Index to search the 11,298,320 Times articles published across 46,592 issues between September 18, 1851 and December 31, 1980. Unlike previous iterations of search …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

An introduction to the Congress.gov legislative information website

“Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation, Libraries

Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduates

2013 Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communication Graduates. Lee B. Becker • Tudor Vlad • Holly Anne Simpson. James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research. Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication. August 6, 2014. “The vast majority of graduates of journalism and mass communications programs leave the university with at least one job offer. …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Internet

AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs

Pew Report – “The vast majority of respondents to the 2014 Future of the Internet canvassing anticipate that robotics and artificial intelligence will permeate wide segments of daily life by 2025, with huge implications for a range of industries such as health care, transport and logistics, customer service, and home maintenance. But even as they …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management

Consumer Privacy Organizations Oppose Farcical Class Action Settlement

“EPIC, along with a group of consumer privacy organizations, has asked the Federal Trade Commission to object to an unfair class action settlement in California federal court. In 2010, Google was sued for sharing user web browsing information with advertisers. Under the proposed settlement agreement, Google will distribute several million dollars to a handful of organizations, many of …

Subjects: Courts, E-Commerce, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

McKinsey – China’s digital transformation

“As individual companies adopt web technologies, they gain the ability to streamline everything from product development and supply-chain management to sales, marketing, and customer interactions. For China’s small enterprises, greater digitization provides an opportunity to boost their labor productivity, collaborate in new ways, and expand their reach via e-commerce. In fact, new applications of the Internet …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Internet

Integrating Approaches to Privacy across the Research Lifecycle: Long-term Longitudinal Studies

“The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce a new publication from its Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project team, titled Integrating Approaches to Privacy across the Research Lifecycle: Long-term Longitudinal Studies [available for download at SSRN].  This paper explores interdisciplinary approaches to privacy in long-term longitudinal studies of human subjects. …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy

DOE Public Access Plan

[Via Tim Byrne – DOE/Office of Scientific and Technical Information] DOE/Office of Scientific and Technical Information] “The U.S. Department of Energy has released its Public Access Plan in response to the OSTP Memorandum of February 22, 2013, “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research.”  The Plan outlines the Department’s approach to implementing the objectives of …

Subjects: E-Government, Energy, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management