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Why Data Security Is An Issue For Business Phone Systems In 2023
A discussion of the most common phone scams, how they work, and how to protect yourself from them.
From BLOG@CACM
Inorganic Growth In Tech: Getting Shredded with Acquisitions
Acquisitions happen quite often in the tech industry and are far more complicated to pull off successfully than popping a pill.
From BLOG@CACM
On the Evolution of Languages: Natural, Mathematical, and Computational
Comparing the evolution of natural languages, which are used by people all over the world, with two artificial languages: the language of mathematics and programing...
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AI's Jurassic Park Moment
New systems like chatGPT are enormously entertaining, and even mind-boggling, but also unreliable, and potentially dangerous.
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Logical Beats Sequential
Often, "we do this and then we do that" is just a lazy way of stating "to do that, we must have achieved this."
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Data Loss Prevention vs. Data-Centric Audit and Protection: What Is the Difference?
A look at the typical tasks solved by DCAP systems, and how they differ from those solved by DLP systems.
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Common Mistakes When Building BI Dashboards
Business Intelligence is not only about reporting; you should be telling a story through data.
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A Standard Plan for Modern Requirements
The ambitious systems that we develop today need a proper requirements structure. The plan defined here organizes requirements specification along four books, the...
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Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Document
Document databases are particularly useful in app development.
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NoSQL: A Beginner's Guide
What exactly is NoSQL, and why should it matter in today's hyper-connected society?
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Closing the 'Trust Gap' in Contact Tracing/Exposure Notification Technology
The digitization of contact tracing presents an array of challenges.
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Automatic Translators are Not Really Capable of Learning
One does not get the impression the Google Translate and DeepL translation programs are self-learning and have made real progress.
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Hacking the Axis
The role of early high-performance computing capabilities in World War II.
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Google Translate Does Not UÂnderstand the Content of the Texts
How well do translation programs translate?
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What Went Wrong? Facebook and 'Sharing' Data with Cambridge Analytica
The road to the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal is strewn with failures.
From BLOG@CACM
Student Liaison Program Debuts at SIGIR 2017
The SIGIR Student Liaison Program supports an environment in which all students thrive.
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Keynotes at SIGIR 2017
This article summarizes the keynotes in the main session and from the Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval.
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SIGIR 2017: Diversity and Inclusion
This article describes activities to support diversity and inclusion at SIGIR 2017 in Tokyo, Japan.
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