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L21. 11/1 Interactions in Organizing Systems; Introduction to IR and NLP

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"Open Source Medical Devices: When code can kill or cure"

Mon, 2012-09-03 09:10 — dgreis
I thought this piece from The Economist did a good job of tying two of our readings together from the last lecture. The article explains that as medical devices have grown more capable, they have also grown more complex. With increasing complexity comes an increased potential for something to go wrong. However, the "resources" these devices manage aren't stuffed animals in a natural history museum--they are biometric data where a software bug in a device that accidentally delivers an overdose of chemotherapy can result in the death of a patient.

Password Security and Hackers

Wed, 2012-08-29 10:59 — syh

This Ars Technica article about password security has numerous examples of leaked passwords hashes (essentially an encrypted version of your website password), both historically and recently--a good example would be the LinkedIn breach in June this year. In this article, the passwords and the hashes they generate are the information being organized.

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