The Coolest Cybersecurity Software You've Ever Seen
This Startup Recruited a Hollywood Designer to Create the Coolest Cybersecurity Software You've Ever Seen. Thanks to virtual reality, Denver-based ProtectWise is changing what security looks like. Cybersecurity is perhaps more important than ever, yet its aesthetic hasn't changed much over the past two decades. That inspired Scott Chasin, the former CTO of security software firm McAfee, to start a new company. "Most cybersecurity systems have the same interface as the cable m
Why “Big Data” Is a Big Deal
Information science promises to change the world Data now stream from daily life: from phones and credit cards and televisions and computers; from the infrastructure of cities; from sensor-equipped buildings, trains, buses, planes, bridges, and factories. The data flow so fast that the total accumulation of the past two years—a zettabyte—dwarfs the prior record of human civilization. “There is a big data revolution,” says Weatherhead University Professor Gary King [6]. But it
Data Visualization: Telling the story of data
What does your data look like? In the era of big data, information comes from an astonishing array of sources. Structured data from within relational databases. Semi-structured documents in various forms of markup. Lightweight data structures stored as JSON, data coming from Twitter and Facebook status messages, along with an explosion of data coming from smartphones and other “sensors.” Natural language processing and big data scoops like Hadoop are also making legacy log da
