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The Cost of Privacy: Destruction of Data-Mining Utility in Anonymized Data Publishing

Re-identification is a major privacy threat to public datasets containing individual records. Many privacy protection algorithms rely on generalization and suppression of "Quasi-identifier" attributes such as ZIP code and birthdate. This paper asks whether generalization and suppression of quasi-identifiers offer any benefits over trivial sanitization which simply separates quasi-identifiers from...

Tags: Generalization, Privacy, Re-identification, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2008-08-27

Generalization of Single-Carrier and Multicarrier Cyclic Prefixed Communication

This paper describes a cyclic prefixed communication structure that is a generalization of both the Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing OFDM system and the Cyclic Prefixed Single-Carrier (CP-SC) system. By exploiting the fact that a Circulant Matrix CM is also a Block Circulant Matrix BCM, the proposed Generalized Cyclic Prefixed GCP communication...

Tags: University Of Southern California, Generalization, Allocation, OFDM, Wireless

White papers 2005-09-01

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Dissertation cheats: the dark, corrupt slice of the Internet

Dissertation cheats: the dark, corrupt slice of the InternetCheating existed prior to InternetEssay writing services existing prior to the Internet. In my city, Toronto, there was a company at a major intersection of the city and next to our huge reference library offering this service with a huge sign. Plus...

Tags: essay, Internet, Dissertation

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

MoveCM 1.0.12 (Mac)

MoveCM is a contextual menu item for moving, copying and archiving zip compressing files and folders quickly into common folders. i.e. without the need to drag and drop them, use aliases, etc. It is a generalization of the Finder's "Move to Trash" contextual menu item, you can apply it to...

Tags: Folder, Apple Macintosh, Limit Point Software, MoveCM, Menu Item, Destination Folder, Updates, Business Intelligence, Desktops, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-11-06

Verizon's story on McCain cell tower full of holes

Verizon's story on McCain cell tower full of holesMore idle speculation and inuendo.I can't wait for your hard hitting articles about Rezko and Obama or Acorn and Obama.Um...this from the same people...who talk about how great it is that we can erect cell towers in sparsly-populated areas in Africa, because...

Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., cell tower, U.S. Secret Service, John McCain, tower

Discussion threads 2008-10-17

Business change failures: 9 success tips

Business change failures: 9 success tipsPlan for changeI have written about this topic frequently in the past and have discussed it with you in a podcast about the Human Side of Change. Companies must plan for and manage change initiatives. The following presentation (http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/madgreek/soa-and-change-27387)is how I recommend planning...

Tags: Operational planning, success tip, non-IT, organizaiton, Business change failure, Business Change, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-17

And your point would be?

And your point would be?Given up on buying CDs from RIAA and NOT stealing.Your generalization about music theft is only partially true. Some of us have given up buying CDs from RIAA companies specifically and are NOT stealing. Many of us are either buying independent music or depending on XM/Sirius/FM...

Tags: RIAA

Discussion threads 2008-08-23

Should the Empire strike back?

Should the Empire strike back?Proof that Apple pays astro-turfers![i]When I was at Apple, one the competitive team’s central goals was to goad Microsoft and Intel into targeting us in public. ... [b]We hounded them in online discussions.[/b][/i]Well, that explains many of the talkbacks! I've always suspected that Apple paid these...

Tags: UNIX, apple ad, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Empire Strike Back

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Do problems with Wikipedia presage social networking's end?

Do problems with Wikipedia presage social networking's end?Comparison to democracy very apt.When I look at the modest level of education, intelligence, and self-centered approach to life of many of my fellow citizens, the fact that I live in a democracy seems scary.But what would we have instead - the fabled...

Tags: Wiki, network, Wikipedia, social networking

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Apple caught neglecting iPhone security

Apple caught neglecting iPhone securityApple doesn't really care.I believe that Apple puts security of its products at the bottom of the list, with cool design at the top. All this stuff just proves me right, that sure they have a neat casing and a touch screen, but underneath it...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, security, iPhone security

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Developers criticize Nvidia, other holdouts for hindering Linux desktop

Developers criticize Nvidia, other holdouts for hindering Linux desktopInteresting[i]We have repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses and the greater Linux ecosystem,” the letter stated. “Such modules negate the openness, stability, flexibility and maintainability of the Linux development model and shut their users off from the expertise...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Desktops, Linux desktop, Nvida, desktop, EXT, NVidia Corp., Linux, ATI Technologies Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Sabotage and the cost of change

Sabotage and the cost of changeNot doing a very good job......of keeping the confidentiality of your clients. From what you have written, it's easy to guess that there is only one provincial political party that you would even consider doing work for, and it's not the Liberals.Only question is...

Tags: Operating systems, Servers, I.T, Only Question, Office 07, Sun Microsystems Inc., HP-UX, Unix, Microsoft Office, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

UC Law bans classroom web access

UC Law bans classroom web accessLeave it up to the teachersA blanket policy strikes again. If the teacher wants to disallow classroom internet access then that is fine. Making a generalization that it is banned in all classes is just silly.

Tags: Channel management, web access, Web

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

Four Reasons To Skip Web Conferences

Four Reasons To Skip Web Conferencesthis is the problem with forks in general"...can hiccup for all sorts of reasons."When we don't all pick one way to do things, we, at best, over complicate the task. All too often we end up just not using the technology and we lose all...

Tags: Channel management, Web conferencing, Web

Discussion threads 2008-05-02

Boosting Inductive Transfer for Text Classification Using Wikipedia

Inductive transfer is applying knowledge learned on one set of tasks to improve the performance of learning a new task. Inductive transfer is being applied in improving the generalization performance on a classification task using the models learned on some related tasks. This paper shows a method of making inductive...

Tags: Transfer, Knowledge, Classification, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications

White papers 2008-04-29

Efficient Evaluation of Generalized Path Pattern Queries on XML Data

Finding the occurrences of structural patterns in XML data is a key operation in XML query processing. Existing algorithms for this operation focus almost exclusively on path-patterns or tree-patterns. Requirements in flexible querying of XML data have motivated recently the introduction of query languages that allow a partial specification of...

Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, XML-Data

White papers 2008-04-25

Security metrics and issues

Security metrics and issuesGeneralizingThe problem is, the populations are self-selected and different.An example: people who decide to use Linux tend to be more technically sophisticated than people who use Windows. Technical sophistication increases the likelihood that the necessary steps will be taken to improve security. Therefore, Linux...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux Flaws, Microsoft Windows, security, Unix, Anton, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-03-25

Google should close down "evil" Performics business

Google should close down "evil" Performics businessChange in search has been noticeableI definitely noticed a change in search behavior in, say, the last 6 months with Google's search results. I agree the paid inclusions are polluting my search results. Alas, I still find it leaps and bounds better than the...

Tags: SEARCH, Marketing research, search engine optimization, Google Inc., Performics

Discussion threads 2008-03-18

How to tap into the largest SOA in the world

How to tap into the largest SOA in the worldSOA vs. WOAPer Dion Hinchcliffe, of ZD Net.."Essentially, WOA describes a core set of Web protocols like HTTP and plain XML as the most dynamic, scalable, and interoperable Web service approach".And they are..Since these are the core of Web services, why...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, endpoint, WOA

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

Researcher: Critical vulnerability found in VMware's desktop apps

Researcher: Critical vulnerability found in VMware's desktop appsShared Folder are enabled by default ?On my VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 build-59824 setup, the option "Shared Folders" is set to DISABLED. I have not changed it, it came that way by default. This contradicts the statement that it is ENABLED by default.what do...

Tags: Shared Folder, desktop, VMware Inc., CoreLabs

Discussion threads 2008-02-25