Machine Learning Meets Star Trek

Dateline: October 6, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. There is a lot of hype about the brave new world possible with machine learning, and it's getting harder to separate the hype from reality.  Machine learning is a lot of things, and it's been around (in various other forms) for a very long time.  Today we see a convergence of … [Read more...]

Cybersecurity Basics

Dateline: July 7, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Next week I'm leading a session on building a cybersecurity culture at of the annual meeting of the Cybersecurity Consortium at MIT's Sloan School (Full disclosure: I am the Executive Director of the Consortium, you can learn more about (IC)3 activities and membership here).   In … [Read more...]

Butterfly Effect Implications of IoT

Dateline: March 4, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend.  The Internet of Things (IoT) discussions are heating up and senior IT leaders are asking deeper, more thought provoking questions.  Recently, I ran across an interesting discussion about the impact of IoT on predictive analytics.  James Kobielus, IBM's Data Evangelist, suggested … [Read more...]