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Security Weaknesses: The Many Ways to Hack Software

By Dick Weisinger

How many ways are there to hack software? Unfortunately, too many. Recently a list of top software security vulnerabilities was published. It’s known as the Top 25 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). For years, SQL Injection ranked as the most common…

Alternative Data: Using Analytics to Mine Complementary Data Sources

By Dick Weisinger

‘Alternative data’ has become very popular in the financial industry. Unrelated to ‘alternative facts‘, alternative data refers to complementary or support data which isn’t core to what’s being measured, but which can be mined for insights. In the finance industry,…

Process Mining: Discovering Hidden Workflows

By Dick Weisinger

Process Mining combines business process management with algorithms that mine the data and event logs collected from those processes. That information can help provide insights into those processes and is useful for improving process performance, quality, and compliance. Process mining…

Contract for the Web: Guidelines to Tame the Beast

By Dick Weisinger

Tim Berners-Lee, often recognized as the “inventor” of the internet, has done some recent soul searching. The path of the internet has recently veered away from his original concept and he wants to try to bring it back closer to…

Exascale Computing: HPC Targets AI and Modeling

By Dick Weisinger

How many FLOPs can your computer do? FLOP = Floating Point Operations per Second. As of 2017, the fastest computer was benchmarked at 93 PetaFLOPs or 93×1015 operations per second. Vendors are shooting for ten times that to get into…