In keeping with our industry’s love of acronyms, I suggest that security professionals think in terms of AVCA (Algorithms, Visualization, Context, and Automation) as follows:• Algorithms: With big ...

Algorithms hold a pivotal and particularly mysterious place in public discussions around data. We speak of Google’s and Facebook’s algorithms as wizards’ spells, cryptic things that we couldn’t ...

If you’re under the impression that something as simple as sorting numbers is dull, think again. This visualization lets you see and hear fifteen different algorithms sift their way through a jumbled ...

Vol. 15, No. 2, Navigating in the Digital Era: Digital Literacy: Socio-Cultural and Educational Aspects (April 2012), pp. 115-124 (10 pages) ABSTRACT In this paper we describe the results that we have ...

The importance of algorithms in our lives today cannot be overstated. They are used virtually everywhere, from financial institutions to dating sites. But some algorithms shape and control our world ...

Observing a colony, swarm or similar grouping of creatures like ants or zebrafish over longer periods of time can be tricky. Simply recording their behavior with a camera misses a lot of information ...