Does Donald Trump have a grand strategy?

“ I Have the Best Classifiers ” : Identifying Speech Imitating the Style of Donald Trump

These days, people love to write comments that imitate Donald Trump’s speaking style. But inevitably, a few folks won’t get the joke. It’s tragic how these people end up getting left out of all the fun. This project is an attempt to rectify the situation. If there existed a program where you could give it a comment and it would tell you if the comment is written in Trump’s style, this would sol...

Predicting election trends with Twitter: Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump

Forecasting opinion trends from real-time social media is the long-standing goal of modern-day big-data analytics. Despite its importance, there has been no conclusive scientific evidence so far that social media activity can capture the opinion of the general population at large. Here we develop analytic tools combining statistical physics of complex networks, percolation theory, natural langu...

Does Security Trump Reliability?

D oes security trump reliability, or vice versa? In 2013, the Seventh International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, hosted a panel discussion with representation from industry, academia, and government to answer this question. Neither the panelists nor anyone in the audience took a firm stance. Rather, the discussion meandered from the original ...

Does Consumer Irrationality Trump Consumer Sovereignty?

When Does Fast Recovery Trump High Reliability?

A widely accepted equation for availability is Availability=MTTF/(MTTF+MTTR), where MTTF is the mean time to failure of a system or subsystem (i.e. the reciprocal of reliability), MTTR is its mean time to recovery, and A is a number between 0 and 1. The equation suggests that to improve availability, a 10x decrease in MTTR (for example) is just as valuable as a 10x increase in MTTF, a founding ...