The Silicon Jungle: A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (846 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691169675 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Shumeet Baluja is a senior staff research scientist at Google and the inventor of over 100 patents in algorithms, data mining, privacy, and artificial intelligence
citizens than does the FBI and far fewer restrictions on how to use it. A nod to Upton Sinclair's muckraking The Jungle, which scared its readers into regulating the meat-packing industry, this lively if depressing novel suggests that computer snooping is too seductive to control, despite the consequences."--Publishers Weekly"Frighteningly convincing. A company like Google, Baluja points out, has far more information on U.S. The read is quick, the questions will linger, and the ideas are so intriguing. It's a chilling message in a fun package."--Kathleen Offenholley, Mathematics Teacher. For fans of intelligent thrillers."--Stephen
recommended! XY This book provides a credible description of how corporate, academic, and government cultures mesh to create work environments for early-21st century software engineering / info technology interns. On the negative side, the book didn't generate much dramatic tension. "Fantastic premise, not totally fantastic execution" according to John Armstrong. Google and Facebook - what do they know, what can they find out, who can get access to the information, what will they use it for? These are first-order questions that hang over us all as we live our lives in an increasingly digital and digitally unified world. It i. Fast-paced, and scary ESM517 While as the author notes, no company has all the data and services the corporation he describes in the book has, the art of data mining and analysis is an eye-opener and quite scary nonetheless. Unfortunately, in today's Internet-centric world, if you want to do an
What happens when a naive intern is granted unfettered access to people's most private thoughts and actions? Stephen Thorpe lands a coveted internship at Ubatoo, an Internet empire that provides its users with popular online services, from a search engine and e-mail, to social networking. This need not require technical wizardry--simply knowing how to manipulate a well-intentioned intern may be enough. The Silicon Jungle is a cautionary fictional tale of data mining's promise and peril. Suspicious individuals surface, doing all they can to access Ubatoo's wealth of confidential information. Baluja raises ethical questions about contemporary technological innovations, and how minute details can be routinely pieced together into rich profiles that reveal our habits, goals, and secret desires--all ready to be exploited.. When Stephen's boss asks him to work on a project with the American Coalition for Civil Liberties, Stephen innocently obliges, believing he is mining Ubatoo's vast databases to protect people unfairly targeted in the name of national security. But nothing is as it seems