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Summary video - AI Powered Threat Detection

  Apologies in advance, I have the fashion/design sense of a rock. My boss is ok with that, and I hope you are too. My socio-technical plan involves implementing AI-powered threat Detection at my current employer, Riverbed. The video I created, built on top of a PowerPoint presentation, goes over the objectives, how I envision implementation going, the challenges I can see arising, how to best execute stakeholder engagement, the ethical concerns involved, and how to best evaluate and monitor the system so that future improvements can be implemented. It was more complicated than I care to admit to getting my Individual Project boiled down to 8 slides, but I could do it. Something I wanted to find a way to insert into my plan but wasn’t able to was to find a way to integrate this plan into our products. While that would have been a lot of fun to explore, it would have been WAY more complex and challenging, so I focused on implementing this internally, facing our infrastructure. I...
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From Morse to Malware: Lessons in Technological Knockouts

  Just before a certain fight with Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson famously said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Now, to be sure, Mike was giving his twist on an old says that “no plan survives first contact with the enemy,” but what some people might not realize is what is true in the boxing ring and on the battlefield is also true when it comes to corporate planning. History is replete with companies getting punched in the mouth despite their best planning and intentions. One example of this was back in the 19 th century when Western Union got smacked in the mouth by the invention of the telephone. Western Union had managed to monopolize the telegraph industry and spent a great deal of money and time making sure that they had reached saturation with telegraph wires, stations, and operators, but what they hadn’t foreseen was the invention of a technology that completely devalued their work in the telegraph industry. Telegraph as a technology was revolu...
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Serendipity, Errors and Exaptation oh my!

  Introduction Life is really strange sometimes – we can find success in places we never expected, in ways that seem like failures and more – through means already known but not applied in the way that we would have applied them. This assignment asks that I sit down and look at three words – Serendipity, Error and Exaptation – and break down how innovation has happened as a result of these words. Serendipity How I would define Serendipity is a chance encounter that borders on unlikely without trying to make it happen. The scholarly definition is the phenomenon of making fortunate discoveries by accident, often while looking for something else. (Makri & Blandford) An example of this would be from the Individual Project I wrote a few weeks ago—the discovery of Penicillin by Alexander Fleming. Alexander accidentally left a petri dish uncovered when he went on vacation. When he returned, he found that mold had contaminated the dish and that the bacteria around the mold ...
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