Our digital world depends on who we are and what we share whether posting to social media, shopping online, or engaging a government service. Information about us as citizens or consumers range from our identity to hihgly-sensitive information about our identity, health, finances, and opinions. As social media and organizations collect more personal data and the inevitable attacks by malefactors on these systems, we need to define rules on how organizations should protect this information ...

A new client project targets the development of a knowledge management platform focused on modern slavery, forced and child labor. The target users of this system are researchers, policy experts, academics, and staff of government and non-governmental organizations working to address these global challenges. A key objective is to easily manage, publish, and visualize data sets related to these areas of study and policy making. We have therefore defined a system architecture with two major ...

A few weeks ago, Pavel Nabutovsky and I attended a talk on block chains. The Bitcoin currency is an infamous implementation of this technology; however, the underlying approach will likely be important for a range of financial and commercial applications. A block chain is a data structure comprised of a series of data that have been validated by a network of trusted peers. In other words, a bock chain is a distributed ledger of time ...