Maintaining compliance with laws and regulations in a complex IT environment is difficult. The vast array of regulations a company must comply with is constantly increasing and changing.  Each state has its own set of laws and regulations that indicate who is covered by the law & what event triggers consumer notifications.  Laws which require notifying consumers of data breaches are a good example of conflicting […]

 The mathematician Conway imagined a game, called game of life, which considered cells that are susceptible to reproduce, disappear, or survive when they obey certain rules. These cells are represented by elements on a grid of squares, where a grid has an arbitrary size. Thus, each cell (except those on the boundaries of the grid) is surrounded by eight squares that contain other cells. The […]

The article “A Review of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Used for Smart Machine Tools” (attached) discusses many different algorithms used in AI. What makes some algorithms better than others? What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of choosing one algorithm over another? Select a method and discuss why you would choose using one method over another. 

 The following paper does a variety of interesting probabilistic analyses: P. Flajolet et.al., “Birthday paradox, coupon collectors, caching algorithms and self-organizing search”, Discrete Applied Mathematics 39 (1992), 207-229. ( http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/FlGaTh92.pdf ) It includes the following formula, which provides the expected number of coupons needed under a general discrete probability distribution P for m coupons:  (14b) where For m=3 and , the paper simplifies (14b) to: […]

  1. Consider running the Perceptron algorithm on a training set S arranged in a certain order. Now suppose we run it with the same initial weights and on the same training set but in a different order, S 0 . Does Perceptron make the same number of mistakes? Does it end up with the same final weights? If so, prove it. If not, give […]

 Read the bottom of p.160 through the top of p. 161. Now take a road trip.  If you don’t drive, ride with a friend, or ride the bus.  Think about what you are feeling as the vehicle starts, speeds up, moves, slows down, and stops.  Considering the position of the vehicle as the function, explain what you notice in terms of the function and its […]

Your instructor will assign you to a group. Within your group you can set up a group WebEx, chat, skype, or other communication tool to determine how best to complete this case study. Each person will contribute to the collaboration portion to complete this case study. Include the Names of each member on your team and a brief description as to how they participated.

New technologies may lead to a series of unintended consequences. However, fear of those consequences may slow changes that can be beneficial. However, fear may slow beneficial change. Jasanoff asserted we should combine the “can do” of science and engineering with the “should do” of ethical and political analysis (Winston & Edelbach, 2014). Take a specific example of technology and explain how these two have been […]

List the two most important diagrams in one of the three modeling spaces. The three modeling spaces are: the problem space, the solution space, and the architectural space. Some of the diagrams include: Use case, activity, package, class, sequence, interaction overview, and state machine diagrams. More information can be obtained from chapter three of the book: Software engineering with UML by Unhelkar, B., ISBN 9781138297432. […]

a. For your Cloud Computing Final Project, complete a case study to provide a practical reference to help enterprise Information Technology (IT) and business decision-makers adopt cloud computing to solve business challenges. The case study provides a way to evaluate the market from the point of view of your organization to select a cloud architecture and an implementation approach through the use of house staff, […]