machine learning

June 20, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Talos Targets Disinformation with Fake News Challenge Victory

This post was authored by Sean Baird with contributions by Doug Sibley and Yuxi Pan   Executive Summary For the past several months, the problem of “fake news” has been abuzz in news headlines, tweets, and social media posts across the web. With historical roots in information warfare and disin…

June 7, 2017

INNOVATION

Distributed AI Development Using Blockchain

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are transforming entire industries because of higher performance and faster time to market. Part of the success is due to researchers creating and open sourcing datasets, frameworks, and algorithms (e.g., ImageNet, Caffe). Current leaders are fo…

June 1, 2017

DATA CENTER

Is Your Data Center Self-Managing?

It’s all about customer experience in the digital world and that experience depends on the performance of your applications and their supporting infrastructure.  At a time when applications and technologies continue to increase in volume and density, how can you be sure your applications are running…

May 24, 2017

SECURITY

The light is green! But is it safe to go? Abusing users’ faith in HTTPS

This post was authored by Anna Shirokova and Ivan Nikolaev John Smith had a lot of friends and liked to travel. One day he got an email that read: “Money has been sent to your PayPal account”. The sender appeared to be a person he met from recent trip to Cape Town. John Smith was curious…

May 18, 2017

COLLABORATION

It’s A Bot Time – and Money

Walk into a party early and suddenly realize that it’s only you and Bill Gates in the room. Congratulations – on average, you are a billionaire! This logical twist underscores how averages can be misleading indicators – how using averages can lead to some poor conclusions. However, Bill Gates and yo…

Changing the Game: Creating Intelligent, Conversational Interfaces

My dad got me my first computer for Christmas when I was 11 years old. It was a Texas Instruments 99-4a. He must have gotten it second hand because it had no box or any form of storage like a tape drive. But that didn’t stop me. I had been obsessed with the movie War Games, so my first program on th…

May 1, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco GPU-Accelerated Data Center

NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, aka GTC, is around the corner and it is a good time to reflect on the rise of GPUs in the data center and what they make possible. When I first attended GTC four years ago, machine learning and deep learning were barely on anybody’s radar outside academic circles an…

November 11, 2016

TECHWISETV

Stealthwatch Learning Network License: The Workshop

As many of you may already know, we do a ‘live workshop’ as a companion to every TechWiseTV episode we release.  These workshops are NOT using video at all..but they do feature a solid hour of demos, explanations and two-way Q&A with some of the best engineers in Cisco. The recent show we did on…