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Security: Ransomware Attacks on US Infrastructure

By Dick Weisinger

5500 miles of the Colonial Pipeline has been shut down due to ransomware. The operation carries refined gasoline and jet fuel along the East Coast up to New York. The pipeline represents 45 percent of the East Coast fuel’s supply.…

Big Code: Software Codebases Explode in Volume and Complexity

By Dick Weisinger

Software technology seems to know no bounds and continues to grow rapidly in almost every field. The result is that the complexity and volume of code is growing dramatically. Similar to ‘Big Data’, the trend is being called ‘Big Code’.…

Digital Transformation: Building a Plan to Move Past COVID

By Dick Weisinger

Digital transformation offers companies the benefits of improved productivity, innovation, and reduced business process costs. But achieving digital transformation is difficult. Digital transformation isn’t a single thing. There are many options — where to begin? A whitepaper from Deloitte identifies…

Organic Bioelectronics: Going Beyond Silicon

By Dick Weisinger

Bioelectronics is typically associated with the use of electronics within living things, particularly medical devices that are implanted in humans. The size of medical device market itself is huge at $6 billion in 2020. But the area of organic bioelectronics,…

Algorithmic Economy: Unintended Consequences from Algorithmic Errors

By Dick Weisinger

Algorithms don’t always get it right. The consequences of errors and bad data in algorithms that manage government welfare and assistance programs have become a target of criticism. Michele Gilman a professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School…