Charlotte Nash (Yr10 student) from The Herts and Essex High School was interested in the process of how athletes secured funding to enable them to 'go for gold' at the World Championships and Olympics. Whilst on work experience she decided to research the topic further.
Research shows that one in five UK firms were affected by a cyber-attack last year. Whilst on work experience Toluwa Alabi (Yr10 student) from The Bishop's Stortford High School explored the importance of cyber-security in light of the recent WannaCry ransomware attack.
Facial recognition is often being talked about as one of the next big things but where can it be used and how secure is it? While on work experience, Sam Shelton (Yr10 student) from The Bishop's Stortford High School looked into the subject.
Quantum computing will be a catalyst for some of the most revolutionary advancements in technology. However, academics and businesses must first overcome a myriad of obstacles before we can see its commercialisation. We explore the realms of quantum computing, explaining the features of the technology, the outlook and why it could be so important.
Here we share a link to an article written by Professor Sucheta Nadkarni who leads the Women's Leadership Initiative at Cambridge Judge on the challenging top of finding a gender balance at board level.
Bill Gates once said, “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten”, this is likely to be the case with blockchain in financial services.
For a short introduction to blockchain see our previous article “Will blockchain continue to disrupt?”
‘The digital revolution is the new industrial revolution’. Digital disruption continues to shape our world of today and our future of tomorrow. Following on from our research on Ten Technology Themes to watch in 2016, here are the ten tech trends we shall be tracking in 2017.
Still baffled by bitcoin and bemused by blockchain? Here's a link to a series of 7 short videos that expand on the subject: Trust Disrupted: Bitcoin and the Blockchain
The ‘Internet of Things’ has become a 21st century talking point with the increased growth of ‘smart device connectivity’. We previously explored this in 2014 in 'Internet of Things' - From cars to cookers, it's a connected revolution.
The Cambridge Judge Business School has recently released its list of Fellows and Associates in Entrepreneurship that will inspire the University's new generations.
Here we share CJBS's Entrepreneurship October newsletter featuring the Niume Founders discussing how their Entrepreneurship diploma provided a platform for their company's success.
Big data on big Data
Big data is a term that is used to describe the large volume of digital data that is created daily. Growing exponentially, it is estimated that we create on a daily basis at least 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, of which 90% has been created globally in the last two years. In 2015 according to IDC the estimated value of the big data market was $59bn and by 2019 it’s expected to roughly double to $102 billion. Companies are able to process, transmit and store more data than ever before and are understanding the valuable insights it can provide.
