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Megan Rolfes commented on the post, Augmented Reality as Driving Force in Business, on the site Information Systems Integration 4 days, 3 hours ago
The concept of being able to try on a shoe with augmented reality is definitely innovative and interesting but I have hesitations as to whether customers would ultimately feel comfortable making a purchase without actually trying shoes on. I feel this way about AR in general as more and more companies are using the technology to provide customers…[Read more]
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Megan Rolfes commented on the post, Google is trying to tackle “Fake News”, on the site Information Systems Integration 4 days, 4 hours ago
I think that this is an interesting initiative for Google to be taking on and agree that it is questionable as to whether the non-profits doing the fact checking will be able to conduct their work without any bias. It certainly raises some questions about violations of the first amendment, but the concept that there could be a system to sift…[Read more]
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Megan Rolfes wrote a new post, AI for Text Generation Continues to Get Smarter, on the site Information Systems Integration 4 days, 12 hours ago
OpenAI is a company that has recently made significant advancements in terms of AI text generation. The company’s language modeling program wrote an extremely convincing essay on a controversial topic, […]
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Megan Rolfes wrote a new post, Apple’s “FacePalm”, on the site Information Systems Integration 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Over the past few days, Apple has been receiving criticism in the media for a bug in the FaceTime application that recently came to light when a teenager from Arizona discovered it. He found that when initiating […]
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After I read your piece about Apple’s inability to quality test and questions surrounding whether or not new bugs were present, I was reminded of a quote that is similar to “Programming is a race between the engineers attempting to make better programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots.” I think that there are clearly more bugs present and no matter how much quality testing is done, a new user will always come along and find a potential exploit.
What I think is much more concerning is the fact that Apple took so long to fix the bug. If the bug/exploit was even more potentially dangerous, one would hope that Apple would act immediately, but it seems that the firm chose not to. In the wrong person’s hands, one could begin to track people by using the aforementioned exploit – extremely dangerous. I think that Apple and other large technology giants are also forced by the public to push out software as quickly as possible to recoup money spent on the research and development of those products. As a result, often times, you get faulty software, just like in this instance. Great article!
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Megan Rolfes commented on the post, Discussion Question #7: So how did it go?, on the site INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE IN MIS-SUM18 6 months, 2 weeks ago
I have had a great experience this summer with Cigna. I still have two more weeks left, and will spend the last week in Connecticut where the interns will be presenting our projects to senior leaders. The internship ends on the 17th, and I will find out if I will be offered a full-time position shortly after, but I am considering staying on…[Read more]
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Megan Rolfes commented on the post, Discussion Question #5: Classroom Knowledge…., on the site INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE IN MIS-SUM18 7 months, 1 week ago
Over the past few years, I have learned a lot from the different classes in Fox and the MIS program, and have been able to leverage so much of what I’ve learned in the classroom during my internship this summer. Two classes that I would say have been especially helpful were Business Communications and MIS 3506. I have applied lessons from BizComm…[Read more]
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Megan Rolfes commented on the post, Discussion Question #4: How do you do it all???, on the site INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE IN MIS-SUM18 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Throughout the month of June, I was honestly struggling to balance a 40 hour work week with summer classes. Initially, I tried putting everything in the calendar app on my phone, but after struggling for a few weeks to balance it all, I decided to actually hang a dry erase calendar on the wall in my room. Now that it’s the beginning of July, over…[Read more]
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Megan Rolfes commented on the post, Discussion Question #2, on the site INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE IN MIS-SUM18 8 months, 1 week ago
Cigna held a two-day orientation at the headquarters in Connecticut for all interns, which was jam-packed with information and allowed us to start at our home offices feeling confident and prepared. Beyond that, there have been multiple training sessions for interns to attend together and we usually have to call in through WebEx from conference…[Read more]
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Megan Rolfes commented on the post, Question #1: Internship Discussion, on the site INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE IN MIS-SUM18 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Hi everyone! This summer I will be interning in Center City Philadelphia at Cigna. My internship is within the Technology Early Career Development Program (TECDP) and I will be working as a Production Support Systems Analyst in Group IT. In this role, I will be learning how to utilize various applications by understanding their different access…[Read more]
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Megan Rolfes commented on the post, Weekly Question #11: Complete by December 7, 2017, on the site MIS2502: Data Analytics (Fall 2017) 1 year, 2 months ago
For me, the most important takeaways from this course were the technical skills I learned with using MySQL, R, and Excel, and also just gaining a better understanding of how you can look at a business’ data in various ways. I would explain to an employer that I can take what I’ve learned from this class, like clustering, decision trees,…[Read more]
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Megan Rolfes commented on the post, Weekly Question #10: Complete by November 30, 2017, on the site MIS2502: Data Analytics (Fall 2017) 1 year, 2 months ago
A Thanksgiving question that can be answered using clustering is how many seats a family might need to have for the infamous “kids table”. In my family, all of our cousins and relatives usually get together for Thanksgiving, and the younger cousins tend to be at a separate table from the older cousins and adults. The data gathered would include…[Read more]
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Megan Rolfes commented on the post, Weekly Question #9: Complete by November 16, 2017, on the site MIS2502: Data Analytics (Fall 2017) 1 year, 3 months ago
Decision trees could be used by any business that is taking on a new project. In making the decision about whether or not to accept the project, I would observe things like the cost of the project, its length, the amount of employees needed to work on it, etc. Collecting this data allows the business to determine if the project is a worthy…[Read more]
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Megan Rolfes commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by October 26, 2017, on the site MIS2502: Data Analytics (Fall 2017) 1 year, 4 months ago
You might use a data cube to organize information for a singer/performer going on tour. Dimensions could include the different venues where they will perform, the time period/date of the concert, and location. The measured fact would be the number of tickets sold and would allow the artist to figure out how big their fan base is in different places.
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Megan Rolfes commented on the post, Weekly Question #6: Complete by October 19, 2017, on the site MIS2502: Data Analytics (Fall 2017) 1 year, 4 months ago
An example of data that could be stored in two different formats could be student grades. One data source might represent a student’s grade in a class using the letter grade, while another source might use the specific number grade. For example, while one database would show a student’s grade as 95, the other would show it as an A. I would…[Read more]
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I agree that there is definitely an aspect of threat coming with these new advances in technology. A few years computers did not have any capabilities of consuming unstructured data such as texts and images. Today we have artificial intelligence, which can creatively build new human faces or create new argumentative texts, which are barely distinguishable from the ones written by humans. Especially, your mention of nonsensical, made up information is scary. We have already experienced that fake news and purposefully placed misinformation influenced the U.S. elections, what will be happening when the content will be even more convincing? I believe the biggest issue is that these fake news could be created at a speed no human could ever achieve and thus reach a great enough audience to cause significant damage.
That is very interesting to me that AI is capible of writing a realistic article like this. This leads to many important questions. For example, if AI can be used to write an article, could it eventually be used to make new discoveries? I’ve heard of theories where scientists believe that they can import the brain “data” of some of the smartest scientists to attempt to make new discoveries. While this seems like a good thing, it does raise some ethical questions about AI and how it should interact with us.
Unfortunately, I do think AI is somewhat blurring the lines between conversations. For example, most customer service applications use a chat bot to gather initial information. While this does speed up the process, some people do not like the feeling of talking to a computer. Overall, AI will definitely change how we communicate with each other.