Big Data Dubiety Awareness

The game-changing idea that came from an accident that will be discussed is Smart Dust.  The accident which occurred involved a graduate Chemistry student by the name of Jamie Link.  She was working with a silicon chip, which dropped, and the chip shattered.  However, she noticed that the silicon chip pieces, even in their shattered state, were yet continuing to transmit signals.  With the help of her professor, Jamie realized that the shattered pieces of the silicon chip emulated as miniature sensors.  Together, they conceived to dub the silicon chip's shattered miniature pieces 'Smart Dust' (Orf, 2013) .  The rest of the discussion will surround functional applications of Smart Dust and examples, advantages and disadvantages, as well as the forces involved concerning Smart Dust. The description of Smart Dust has evolved to be recognized as a passive nanoscale device that consists of the four properties: "the ability to position itself, sense its environ...

Think tanks are organizations which perform functions of public policy research, analysis and advice, and typically but not always, are non-profit and act separately from governments and political parties (McGann, 2005).  The make-up of think tanks is that of a divergent mix of size, financing, structure, and breadth of endeavor.  The deliberate roles that facilitate innovation are: Playing a mediating function between the government and the public that helps builds trust and confidence in public officials; Serving as an informed and independent voice in policy debates; Identifying, articulating, and evaluating current policy issues, proposals and programs; Transforming ideas and emerging problems into policy issues; Interpreting issues, events and policies for the electronic and print media thus facilitating public understanding of domestic and international policy issues; Providing a constructive forum for the exchange of ideas and information between key stakeho...

The Delphi technique is an iterative process involving subject matter experts (SMEs) on a topic at hand where the SMEs provide their thoughts and ideas concerning the topic via a survey or interview.  The most critical elements of the Delphi method are recursion and the prospect of near immediate feedback and appraisal of one’s own thoughts or ideas (Lilja, Laakso, & Palomäki, 2011).  Application of the Delphi technique for data collection can be used in either qualitative or quantitative research.  When first devised, the Delphi process was through multiple iterations, resulting in consensus of experts, characterizing the outlook of the phenomenon under study (Lilja et al., 2011).  According to Delbecq, Van de Ven, & Gustafson (1975) the following objectives can be accomplished through the Delphi technique: 1.      To determine or develop a range of possible program alternatives; 2.      To explore or expose underl...

The technology to be discussed is preserving data authenticity/integrity.  The capacity to verify data is not corrupt following its creation is data authenticity (2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report® | Information Security Edition, 2021) .  It has been pointed out that for the raw data to be of use, usually the process of cleaning the data, in a technical sense corrupts it.  The cleaning of data doesn't change what it originally portrayed, so the data's authenticity is not questionable.  Data integrity is considered intact when the data is cleaned by authorized personnel or systems, though as related earlier, technically the raw data authenticity is now in question (2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report® | Information Security Edition, 2021) .  The most common data integrity issues are human-based.  There are also data integrity issues that result from system failures and natural disasters.  Future efforts to secure and preserve data authenticity/integrity rest on ne...

  An innovation idea that is not possible today, but most likely in 15-20 years will be possible is brain-to-brain interfaces.  Today, rudimentary pieces that ultimately will make up brain-to-brain interfacing are being developed.  Essentially, brain-to-brain interfacing will be composed of neural lacing, brain-machine interfaces (BMI), and artificial intelligence (AI).  Currently, BrainNet (B2B) is a novel system that allows three human brains to communicate, one sender and two receivers (WAHAL, 2019) . Neural lacing has been advanced by Elon Musk and Neuralink.  Neuralink creates a link between neurons in the brain and a machine, such as smartphones and computers, helping people with clinical disorders like dis-functional sensory and motor function issues (Kulshreshth, Anand, & Lakanpal, 2019) .  The neural lace is an ultrathin rolled up mesh that is implanted in the skull at which time it spreads out and forms a body of electrodes that is able to mon...

 Hello Everyone!   My name is Certitude and I am enjoying my current journey in the Computer Science, Big Data Analytics doctoral program.  I am enjoying this journey because on several levels it is very satisfying.  In the deepest depths of my imagination when I was young, I could not have ever conceived, that in the future I would be in a doctoral program.  When I pursued my master's degree, it was for career advancement.  This doctoral journey is personal.  It is learning, for the love of learning, proving to myself that I can do this!  This blog's title is ' Big Data Dubiety Awareness’.  It will deal with more than that, everything though will have the basis of computer science interweaved in the topics that are posted.    I look forward to posting and receiving any feedback, or kernels of information that can further enhance the blog posts! Cheers Certitude!                ...