Mining of Massive Datasets
(T) I was delighted to take Mining of Massive Datasets MOOC on Coursera this quarter from Professor Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman from Stanford University. The course goes […]
Another Military-Grade Malware – Not a Good Thing!
(T) Both Symantec and Kaspersky have disclosed their findings of Regin – the latest discovered military-grade surveillance malware. Symantec has published a good white paper about the capabilities and the […]
Let’s not Kill Software Defined Networks with Standards but Let it Grow with Open Source Software
(T) I was interested to receive this month IEEE Computer Magazine “special edition” about Software Defined Networks (SDN). Unfortunately, the Magazine focused on describing the present efforts to standardize the […]
Understanding the Ebola Virus
(E) Excellent article from Ars Technica for: “Understanding the Ebola virus”. As the title mentioned it: “The virus itself is really nothing special – until it gets inside a human”. […]
Why Don’t We Stop Greenhouse Emissions Today?
(E) The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has just released today its latest Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report. Please read the press release, the report and watch the press conference: Press […]
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