Cyberterrorism is considered a real threat by governments around the world, and many believe that future wars will be fought in this arena. …

According to historical accounts, the Greeks implemented a unique strategy to finally conquer the independent city of Troy. After unsuccessfully laying siege to the city for a decade, with the goal of rescuing Helen (the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, who had been kidnapped by Paris), the Greeks built…

During virtually the entire history of civilization, one of the prerequisites for carrying out a theft has been the presence of the offenders at the scene of the crime. The stolen objects were always part of the physical world — gold bars, paper money, equipment, jewels, vehicles — and there…

In a progressively more connected world, the expansion of the Internet and the falling price of sensors are making it possible for everything and everyone to have an address on the web. …

The word hack (the root of the word hacker) was already a few hundred years old before it became associated with attacks on computer systems. Back in the thirteenth century, in German (hacke) and Nordic languages such as Danish (hakke), the precursors of the English word were associated with cutting…

The inexorable advance in connectivity, linking equipment used daily by billions of people, has led “Information” to the top of modern society’s value chain. Data is the raw material of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the most precious commodity that individuals, universities, industries, governments, and organizations possess. …

The primary objective of big data technology is the extraction of recommendations based on a vast sample set. Sometimes all samples available are taken into consideration; in others, just a subset is used. Imagine a traffic engineer needs to analyze traffic patterns in a certain part of a city between…

The originally French word routine comes from the word route (meaning road). Literally, routine means the road normally taken, and, figuratively, it is the habit of doing something in the same way. So, both literally and figuratively, a routine is a repetitive behavior in our lives. This repetition — our…

In 1979, American historian Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein (1923–2016) published a book titled The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. She proposes that its invention by German-born Johannes Gutenberg (1400–1468) in the fifteenth century created the necessary conditions for the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution — which, together with the…