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Yearly Archives: 2020

Bad Bots: One Quarter of Web Traffic has Malicious Intent

By Dick Weisinger

Less than two-thirds of all traffic on the network is initiated by humans. The rest of web traffic is attributed to automated algorithms, or bots, some of which are legitimate, but a lot of which is not. Almost a quarter…

Machine Learning and SLAs: Staying on Track by Predicting Usage Trends

By Dick Weisinger

Machine Learning (ML) algorithms spot patterns and trends from past data. Typically, the more data that can be fed into the algorithm, the better the prediction. One example application is how ML can be used to assist IT in more…

IT Resilience: An Insurance Policy against Future Disruptions

By Dick Weisinger

What happens when IT stumbles? Data center outages or damage from fire or weather-related incidents.Are businesses able to recover? Key to a strong response is being able to act before the incident in a preventative and proactive way. That approach…

Algor-ethics: Building Ethical Algorithms

By Dick Weisinger

Trust, ethics, governance. Technology needs to build these qualities into algorithms and their software implementations. A failure to do so is not only a reputational risk to technology companies but also a blow to fairness and decency in society. But…

Artificial Intelligence: AutoML: Self-Evolving Algorithms

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms have been criticized because their developers purposely, but more likely, inadvertently, embed biases and prejudices into the design and workings of the AI. A report by AI Now finds that built-in biases “affect how AI companies…