Nathan Segal

Dr. Usama Fayyad is a data mining pioneer who began working in the field in 1989. He got his start at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, compiling data on astronomical phenomena such as volcanoes, star systems, etc. From there, he went on to work for Microsoft research and then, frustrated by problems he was seeing in […]

Data is omnipresent. Everywhere we go, we encounter it, in our business transactions, subscription lists, email, etc. To put the growth of data in perspective, every 18 months the processing capacity of the world doubles, but at the same time data has been doubling every nine months. So if an enterprise uses a straightforward approach […]

E-Commerce can be a tricky business, especially if your site sells a popular downloadable software product that requires registration before you can download it. Often, people enter a bogus email address on the site in a hurry to get to the download page. While that’s works for them, you wind up with unusable email addresses […]

For business professionals, spam is a huge problem that causes clogged in-boxes and wastes many hours of productive time to sort through it. Once you have an email address, it’s only a matter of time before you start getting unwanted email. Even with email blocking software, it might be necessary to close the account and […]

When dealing with streaming media, allocating and purchasing bandwidth is an important issue, as is cost. Many companies are locked into long-term, fixed-price contracts for bandwidth, which is expensive for customers of IP service providers, and does not accommodate fluctuations in bandwidth needs. “The big problem that they’re trying to solve is that the bandwidth […]