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One of the most important challenges a company faces as it embark on a big data journey is hiring the right people for the right roles. But quite often, companies are faced a dilemma: Should they hire a chief data officer (CDO) or a chief analytics officer (CAO)? During a one-day summit next month, the International Institute for Analytics will give you clues to the answer.
Creating Competitive Advantage From Analytics
Jun 26, 2015
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[Tom] Davenport and his colleagues at IIA have noted that we have entered the era of Analytics 3.0. In era 1.0, traditional analytics meant that most companies were finding new ways to analyze their structured data house in large databases, data warehouses, to come up with insights that were primarily descriptive.
Increasingly, data analytics is becoming a key component of enterprises' operations. Most likely, however, as the saying goes, we ain't seen nothing yet. While it's mostly been large enterprises applying data analytics in various ways to date, smaller companies are increasingly entering the fray. Jack Phillips, CEO of the International Institute for Analytics, believes that in the near future companies will use data analytics as a competitive differentiator, in much the same way they use their products and pricing.
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Although industries such as finance and insurance are frequently fully analytics-automated, the bulk of manufacturing is wading in the emerging stage of adoption. "Across the manufacturing clients we work with — no higher than 20% would be called an analytics competitor," Jack Phillips, CEO and co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, said. "In manufacturing there is still a prominent culture of making decisions based on experience and guts."
A tale of two retailers profiting from big data
Jan 13, 2015
By Nicole Laskowski, SearchCIO
Robert Morison, lead faculty member with the International Institute for Analytics in Portland, Ore., said typical IT projects tend to be goal- and milestone-driven. "With analytics in general, predictive analytics more so and big data in particular, the process is iterative. You experiment and evaluate what you're learning and decide what to do differently next or whether to proceed at all," he said.
Adoption Rates of Advanced Analytics on the Rise
Jan 06, 2015
By Pete Goldin, APMdigest
Advanced analytics is reaching an inflection point in adoption by both mid-market organizations and large enterprises in an effort to gain a competitive advantage, according to research commissioned by Dell Services and executed by the International Institute for Analytics (IIA).
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In 2015, Hadoop will go mainstream and storytelling will be a sought-after analytics skill. Those are just two of the ten data and analytics predictions from the International Institute for Analytics (IIA).
IIA 2015 Analytics Predictions
Dec 11, 2014
By Gregory Piatetsky, @kdnuggets
Highlights and discussion from IIA 2015 Analytics Predictions webinar, including Storytelling will be the hot new job in analytics; companies double investment in generating NEW and UNIQUE data, and how does one become an expert if entry-level work is automated?
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'Tis the season for data-driven loyalty
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Loyalty programs with the most success use consumer analytics to drive strategy, says Jack Phillips, CEO of Portland, Ore.-based International Institute for Analytics (IIA). Seventy-four percent of companies with high-performing loyalty programs reported that data analytics was a core component, according to IIA's 2013 loyalty program study.


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Dirk Nowitzki is getting a second chance at the NBA Finals, but Kevin Durant isn't happy about that. Posted by Ben Golliver.
The Western Conference finals was set up as a battle between two of the league's most unguardable forwards: Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks and Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Long, coordinated, multi-talented and efficient, both players present nightmare matchups every time they step on the court. Nowitzki, 32, may very well be getting his last crack at an NBA title. Durant, 22, was taking his first real swing at a deep playoff run.
After just five games, the old head overcame the young gun.
Following Thursday's 100-96 Dallas win, Durant was asked what his feelings were about Nowitzki getting a second chance at the NBA Finals. Nowitzki's Mavericks lost a controversial 2006 NBA Finals to the Miami Heat and that was the only time in Nowitzki's 13-year career, prior to this year, that he had made the Finals. The Mavericks had been bounced in the first round in three of the last four seasons.
When faced with that question, most players would mumble some generic show of support for their competitor. Durant is not most players.
"I'm not happy at all," Durant said, shrugging and smiling. "I'm a competitor, man, I really didn't care about what he went through the last three or four years. I know that's been tough for him, you know. He lost three of the last four years in the first round. I'm sure he's happy now that he's going back to the Finals but I'm not happy for him at all because I wanted to be there. But it happens like that."
Here's video of Durant's answer to the question.
In this Western Conference finals, the battle of the superstars was a clear win for Nowitzki. He averaged 33.8 points and 5.0 rebounds and 3.3 assists to Durant's 27.5 points, 6.3 rebounds and 4.5 assists. More importantly, though, Nowitzki shot 56.2% from the field while Durant shot just 43.4% and a measly 23.3% from deep. Nowitzki also got to the free throw line more and was huge late in Dallas' wins, particularly in the remarkable Game 4 comeback.
Nowitzki was the better of the superstars, but he also had the better, more tested team. Durant seems to understand that fact intimately. Will some people misinterpret his comments about Nowitzki as a sign of disrespect? It's possible. But they shouldn't. True competitors respect each other by respecting the game first, and that means focusing on the ultimate prize at all times, even in the midst of a disappointing defeat.
After all these years -- more than a decade -- of heartbreak and frustration, Nowitzki surely knows where Durant is coming from.
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Secretary of State John Kerry is headed home Wednesday, following a busy week of mostly clandestine travels that saw him issuing blunt warnings to Iraqi leaders, trying to bridge disputes with Afghanistan's president, dining with Pakistani military chiefs and heading a soccer ball.
The Associated Press reported his travels and meetings were kept in secret for security reasons. It was his first appearance into overseas areas of conflict in his newly minted secretary of state role.
In Iraq, Mr. Kerry demanded that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki put a halt to shipments of weapons from Iran through Iraq.
In Afghanistan, he smoothed relations with President Hamid Karzai -- amid a Taliban suicide bombing that left five police officers in Jalalabad dead. He ate dinner with Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in Jordan.
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He claimed success with his talks with Mr. Karzai.
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MONDAY, Aug. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have identified 10 new regions of DNA linked to type 2 diabetes, bringing the total number of genes and gene regions associated with the disease to more than 60.
Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin and does not respond effectively to the insulin it does produce. As a result, glucose levels in the blood can increase unchecked. Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to a number of health complications, including heart disease, stroke, nerve damage and blindness.
The international team of researchers said their findings may help experts develop treatments for the condition.
"The 10 gene regions we have shown to be associated with type 2 diabetes are taking us nearer a biological understanding of the disease," said the study's principal investigator Mark McCarthy of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, in a university news release. "It is hard to come up with new drugs for diabetes without first having an understanding of which biological processes in the body to target. This work is taking us closer to that goal."
The study, led by researchers from the University of Oxford, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and the University of Michigan, investigated common genetic variations in DNA that may be linked to type 2 diabetes.
The investigators examined the DNA of nearly 35,000 people with type 2 diabetes and roughly 115,000 people without the disease and found the new gene regions where DNA changes could be linked to people's risk for diabetes. Two of these regions showed different effects depending on gender. One was associated with greater risk for the disease in men, while the other was linked to increased risk in women.
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CSU ranks 18th nationally in fan attendance
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The Colorado State volleyball team moved up two spots in the national rankings to No. 21 and is looking forward to spiking attendance Thursday against BYU with several fan friendly promotions. The match also is the AVCA Match of the Week and will be shown on CSTV later in the week.
The Rams currently are the only undefeated team in the Mountain West Conference and rank 18th in the NCAA in attendance. Thursday will feature $1 youth tickets, rally towels for the first 1,500 fans, a sign contest and a school spirit contest.
"The atmosphere in Moby is a key to our program's success," said Head Coach Tom Hilbert. "This is a hard place for people to come in and play. Our fans are great and the energy they bring really helps us on the court."
The first serve of the night will be at 7 p.m., with the men's and women's basketball programs kicking off the season with 10 O'clock Rock following.
BYU vs Colorado State Volleyball Promotion Details: $1 Youth Night $1 tickets for fans 17 and under
Air Force Ticket Stub $3 tickets for fans that bring their ticket stub from the Oct. 13 CSU vs. Air Force football game.
Sign Contest Fans can show their support for the Rams by making a sign. If their sign is shown on the CSTV broadcast they will win a prize from the CSU Bookstore. To be eligible, fans will need to register their sign at the Sports Marketing table on the Moby concourse. Markers and poster board will be available on the concourse for fans to make signs at the match.
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The PSD elementary school that has the most representatives at the match will win a Ram Spirit Pep Rally, hosted by members of the CSU volleyball team, CSU cheerleaders, and Cam the Ram. School representatives (which can include students, parents, siblings, teachers and staff) will be given ballots at the gates. Their attendance will be marked by them completing the ballot and placing it in the contest drop box on the concourse.
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The NHL is the goal for blue-liner Jakob Chychrun of the Toronto Jr. Canadiens, who is expected to go first in the 2014 OHL draft.
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On goes the left sock, the left skate, the left elbow pad, the left glove. It's followed by a couple of handshakes and a quick warm-up (always with the same partners).
Then he gets serious; it's time to buckle down and focus on the game ahead.
His routine seems to be working.
Tall, fast, efficient under pressure and possessing a knack for reading plays, the six-foot-two, 195-pound defenceman is one of hockey's rising stars.
In the four months since the 15-year-old dual citizen moved from Florida to play for the Toronto Jr. Canadiens minor midget team, scouts say he's established himself as arguably the province's best 1998-born hockey player.
Jakob is expected to go first in the OHL draft this spring and he's the first non-OHL player to be selected for the Ontario under-17 team.
He'll get a three-day hockey reprieve with his family over Christmas before heading to Nova Scotia to play in the World Under-17 Challenge.
He's only in Grade 10, but Jakob's got big goals and a great teacher.
"My dad's been probably the best coach I could ask for and he's taught me almost everything I know about the game," he said. "The small lessons coming from him, they mean the most in the long run."
Coach, game chauffeur, cheerleader and father, Jeff Chychrun is still, in some ways, trying to wrap his head around the teenager in front of him, one for whom handling a stick is second nature and on-ice creativity happens naturally.
Even though Jeff himself is an NHL veteran — winner of the Stanley Cup in 1992 with the Pittsburgh Penguins — and no stranger to the demands of the pro game, it was "just yesterday" that Jakob was tumbling around backyard rinks in his first pair of skates.
Now Jeff watches from the stands with a mix of parental pride and nerves.
"When you're a player, you're nervous up until the game, then you go through, you have that first hit and you're into it," he said, "but as a parent you're still nervous halfway through the second period."
But what makes his father nervous is what Sean Lafortune says makes Jakob a player to watch.
Lafortune is the scouting director for TheScout.ca, a go-to website for Canadian minor midget scouting.
"He's a great skater, he's raw offensively but he makes good decisions. He shows an ability to break things down and make quick plays. . . . Just everything about his game screams long-term potential," Lafortune said. "He battles, he fights for every inch he gets."
Jakob wants to go as far as he can in hockey: the NHL, team captain, hopefully a Stanley Cup, maybe an Olympic gold medal.
"It should be fun and I still try to have as much fun as possible," he said. "You need to (enjoy it). If you don't, it'll be a struggle to have a good time with the process."
Despite Jakob's obvious talent and the scouting interest, Jeff Chychrun is hesitant to create heightened expectations for his son, worried about "setting an unrealistic bar."
"Just go out and enjoy playing the game," he said. "Work hard in school and sometimes things happen."
Things are happening; the big question now is whether Jakob will don red-and-white or stars-and-stripes when he pursues his Olympic dreams.
Enthusiastic fans on online message boards seem to think his OHL move — which came after he was denied exceptional status to play in the USHL early — points to a Canadian future.
"Based on the fact that his dad's from there and then based on the fact that he wants to play for Team Ontario," Lafortune agreed.
Yet that's the one hockey decision Jeff Chychrun wants to put off as long as possible.
"Either one would be an honour to play for. I don't think either is a bad option," he said. "But growing up it's a tough, tough call."
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1944 - 2013 LEE Dolores Irene Navin Eckert, 69, of Marble Street in Lee, died Sunday, February 24, 2013, after a twelve year battle with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Born in Pittsfield on February 20, 1944, she was a daughter of the late Edward R. (Happy) and Irene C. Burns Navin. She graduated from Lee High School and she later received her Associate's Degree in Business from Fisher Junior College and her Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Westfield State College.
She is survived by her loving husband of 50 years, Millard R. (Mal) Eckert, whom she married on April 3, 1962, at St. Mary's Church; one son, Edward R. Eckert and his wife Nancy of Lee; two daughters, Darlene A. Moulton and her husband Steven of Windsor and Doreen M. Bartini and her husband Stephen of Lee; one brother, William J. Navin of Lee and one sister, Beverly A. Trombley of Lee; as well as her six grandchildren, John E. Baczek, Jr. and his wife Chelsea of Ormond Beach, FL, Amy M. Baczek, Ryan E., Kathryn M., and Michael J. Eckert, and Vanessa S. Bartini of Lee; one great-grandson, John E. (Tre) Baczek, III of Ormond Beach, FL; her sister-in-law, Dr. Patricia Navin of Ashland, MA and several nieces and nephews.
Dolores was predeceased by her brothers, Edward P. Navin and Robert E. Navin, and her brother-in-law, Robert Trombley.
She retired from KB Toys in 2001 as a Human Resources Supervisor after 25 years of service. Other employment history includes New England Telephone and Telegraph, Berkshire Bank, Zayre Department Store, and several area restaurants.
Her interests included spending quality time with her loving family and friends, reading, vacationing, and volunteer work for the Berkshire United Way, the Lee Historical Society, the Family Patient Advocacy Committee at Berkshire Medical Center, and the local CTSB television station. Dolores was also a District 3 Representative for the Town of Lee. In August 2005, she founded the Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) Support Group of the Berkshires. At that time she also started a monthly newsletter as the Facilitator/Coordinator and Editor.
In April 2012, Dolores was listed at Massachusetts General Hospital for a bilateral lung transplant; however, she died while waiting for a donor.
FUNERAL NOTICE: A funeral service for Dolores I. Eckert of Lee will be held Friday, March 1st at 11:00 AM at the Kelly Funeral Home in Lee with Pastor Jeff Black officiating. Burial will follow at Fairmont Cemetery in Lee. Calling hours at the funeral home will be Thursday, Feb. 28th from 4-7 PM and Friday morning from 10:00 AM until the time of the service.
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Hiroki Sato's paper on the equivalence of property A and operator norm localization was recently published in Crelle ( "Property A and the Operator Norm Localization Property for Discrete Metric Spaces." Journal Für Die Reine Und Angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) 2014 (690): 207–16. doi:10.1515/crelle-2012-0065.) and I wanted to write up my understanding of this result. It completes a circle of proofs that various forms of "coarse amenability" are equivalent to one another, thus underlining the significance and naturalness of the "property A" idea that Guoliang came up with twenty years ago. Continue reading
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Ghostbusting and Property A
Let \(X\) be a bounded geometry discrete metric space. Guoliang Yu defined a ghost to be an element of the Roe algebra \( C^*_u(X) \) that is given by a matrix \(T_{xy}\) whose entries tend to zero as \(x,y\to\infty\).
The original counterexamples of Higson to the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture were noncompact ghost projections on box spaces derived from property T groups. On the other hand, all ghost operators on a property A space are compact.
In Ghostbusting and Property A, Rufus Willett and I show that all ghosts on \(X\) are compact if and only if \(X\) has property A. (Appropriately enough, on a space without property A we construct ghosts using the spectral theorem.) The paper will appear in the Journal of Functional Analysis.
Question: To what characterization of ordinary amenability does this correspond?
Around soficity
Andreas Thom just posted the article [1005.0823] About the metric approximation of Higman's group on the arXiv today. It is quite short with a specific result about Higman's group, but the introduction was most helpful to me in learning a bit about the ideas related to "soficity" of groups. It refers to another interesting paper: Elek, Gábor, and Endre Szabó. "Hyperlinearity, essentially free actions and L2-invariants. The sofic property." Mathematische Annalen 332, no. 2 (4, 2005): 421-441.
It seems that these authors use some words like "hyperlinear" and "amenable action" in a sense different to that which is common to us in Baum-Connes land. for instance, for Elek-Szabo, the trivial action of a group on a point is *always* amenable.
More about characterizations of exactness
Following up an earlier post with some notes on the three papers below:
- Invariant expectations and vanishing of bounded cohomology for exact groups by Douglas and Nowak [DN]
- Amenable actions, invariant means and bounded cohomology by Brodzki, Niblo, Nowak and Wright [BNNW]
- A note on topological amenability by Monod. [M]
All of these papers focus on the question of characterizing in "homological" terms what it is for a discrete group \( G \) to be exact (or, more generally, to act amenably on some compact space — it is known that exactness is equivalent to the amenability of the action of \( G \) on its Stone-Cech compactification \( \beta G \)).
Various characterizations of exactness
This post is a place to list a number of papers that have recently appeared on the arXiv which reformulate the notion of exactness for groups (or property A for spaces or amenable actions) in different ways:
- A cohomological characterisation of Yu's Property A for metric spaces by Brodzki, Niblo and Wright.
- Invariant expectations and vanishing of bounded cohomology for exact groups by Douglas and Nowak.
- Amenable actions, invariant means and bounded cohomology by Brodzki, Niblo, Nowak and Wright.
- A note on topological amenability by Monod.
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Has the influence of managed care waned? Evidence from the market for physician services.
ABSTRACT Managed care has been the dominant organization of health care coverage in the United States, and seeks to achieve cost control by constraining services. The restrictive practices of managed care organizations have been widely criticized and the role of managed care in constraining health care services may be declining. Physician behavior is also believed to be influenced by the practices of managed care organization. This study examines the evolving nature of managed care and its restrictive effects on the provision of physician services. Physicians can choose whether and to what extent they are involved in managed care, so it is an endogenous decision. We employ instrumental variables method to correct for this endogeneity. Using data from the Community Tracking Study physician surveys from 2000-2001 and 2004-2005, we find that managed care organizations have became relatively less restrictive over time in terms of limiting the provision of physician services, compared to non-managed care organizations. These results suggest that managed care and non-managed care are converging in their effects on the provision of physician services.
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This game was a golden opportunity for La Salle to strengthen its bid for a playoff slot at the expense of the team crowding us for the 4th playoff slot – NU. . However, things did not go according to plan as the Archers lost to the Bulldogs, Archers 62–72 today at the SM MOA Arena. The loss droppedLa Salle to 7-5, while NU broke our tie in the loss column, improving to a 7-4 record.
Unlike the first round matchup which went to two overtimes, NU dominated this encounter, leading by double digits for most of the second half, led by Bobby Ray Parks who burned the nets for 32 points. Jeron Teng ledLa Salle with 20 points and 4 assists followed by Almond Vosotros who registered 13 points, all in the second half.
After a tight first quarter, the Bulldogs went on a scoring spree in the second period to lead 36-26 at the half. In the third quarter, Parks waxed hot, scoring 17 points to help the Bulldogs lead by as many as 16 points.
The Bulldogs were more aggressive throughout the game, driving the lane and taking the ball to the basket, and this aggressiveness found favor with the referees who awarded the Bulldogs with 30 free-throw attempts as compared to the Archers' 7. NU also won the rebounding department 47-32 but had 17 turnovers as compared toLa Salle's 9.
The loss, while discouraging, does not mean thatLa Salleis out of the running for the playoffs. But the Archers will need to win the last two assignments against FEU and Adamson, and hope that NU either sweeps its matches, or if it loses to FEU, loses one more of its 3 remaining games.
NU on the other hand will still face Ateneo, UP and FEU.
Note: This game marked the return of team captain LA Revilla who missed a good number of games thanks to a chronic ankle injury that he sustained in the past. He scored 2 points in 9 minutes of playing time.
Box Scores:
DLSU 62 – Teng 20, Vosotros 13, Van Opstal 7, N. Torres 6, Mendoza 4, T. Torres 3, Manguera 3, Andrada 2, Tampus 2, Revilla 2, Webb 0.
NU 72 – Parks 32, Alolino 11, Rosario 6, Khobuntin 6, De Guzman 6, Mbe 4, Javillionar 4, Villamor 3, Singh 0, Rono 0, Betayene 0.
Quarter Scores: 15-15;26-36;45-56;62-72
Women's and Junior's Basketball Updates
The Junior Archers lost to UST 63-85 to fall in a tie with ADMU for 4th at 5-5. Renzo Subido was the lone bright spot for DLSZ as he led the team with 33 points.
UST 85 – Martin 41, Bahia 8, Ungria 7, Soriano 7, Lavarias 6, Mayor 4, Corre 4, Baetiong 4, Berdijo 2, Abuyen 2, Syyap 0, Ramirez 0, Garcia 0, Dandan 0, Borje 0.
DLSZ 63 – Subido 33, Saubier 11, Banzon 6, Aljun Malecio 4, Samonte 2, Aleck Melecio 2, Manguera, Evangelista 2, Andaya 1, Quintos 0, Cruz 0, Cabbarus 0, Abanilla 0
Quarterscores: 22-9;47-28;71-48;85-63
In women's basketball, DLSU had a field day against winless UE as they won 81-47. The Lady Archers maintain a share of 2nd place with Adamson at 9-3.
DLSU 81 – Abaca 22, Viterbo 13, Vela 9, Melendres 7, Ramos 6, Piatos 6, Wilson 4, Santos 4, A. Ong 4, Corcuera 4, M. Ong 1, Dagdagan 1, Pineda 0, Gonzales 0, Garcia 0, Dawis 0
UE 47 – Ventura 26, Media 6, Junsay 6, Doqueza 4, Valdez 2, Puno 2, Chan 2, Zamora 0, Floralde 0, Alfuente 0
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Some time ago we needed a solution for Single Sign On authentication between multiple web services. At least at that time we considered OpenID protocol too complicated and we were not convinced about the Ruby on Rails plugins for it. Therefore we designed a protocol of our own instead of implementing an OpenID provider and OpenID consumers.
I have two questions:
Was it a bad thing not to create our own OpenID provider and setup our OpenID consumers accept only it? Public login or registration are not allowed and we wanted to keep authentication simple.
Can you spot a crucial error or a vulnerability in the following design?
If you as a commune can approve this design, I will consider extracting this code into a Ruby on Rails plugin.
Please look at the flowchart and sequence diagram.
Authentication Provider ("AP"):
- Central service which holds all data about the users.
- Only one "AP" exists in this setup.
- It could be possible to have multiple "AP"s, but that should not be relevant in this context.
- "AP" knows each "S" beforehand.
Authentication Client (Service "S"):
- There exists several internal and external web services.
- Each service knows "AP" and its public key beforehand.
Actor ("A"):
- The end user who authenticates herself with AP by a username and password
- May request directly any URI of "S" or "AP" prior to her login
Connections between "A", "S" and "AP" are secured by HTTPS.
Authentication logic described briefly:
These are a description for the graphical flowchart and sequence diagram which were linked at the top of this post.
1) Auth Provider "AP"
- "AP" makes a server-to-server HTTP POST request to "S" to get a nonce.
- "AP" generates an authentication token.
- Authentication token is an XML entity which includes:
- an expiration date (2 minutes from now),
- the previously requested nonce (to prevent replay),
- identifying name of "S" (token for Service_1 is not good for Service_2),
- information about the end user.
- Authentication token is encrypted with AES256 and the encryption key and initialization vector are signed by AP's private RSA key.
- Resulting strings ("data", "key" and "iv") are first Base64 encoded and then URL encoded to allow them be delivered in the URL query string.
- End user "A" is HTTP-redirected to service "S" (HTTPS GET request).
2) Service "S"
- Receives authentication token in URL parameters from user agent.
- Decrypts authentication token with AP's pre-shared public key.
- Accepts one authentication token only once (token includes a nonce which is valid only once).
- Checks that identifying name in authentication token corresponds to service's name.
- Checks that authentication token is not expired.
It is not a problem if somebody else can also decrypt the authentication token, because it contains no confidential information about the user. However, it is crucial that nobody else than AP is able to generate a valid authentication token. Therefore the RSA key pair is involved.
RSA private key is used only for signing the token, because it cannot encrypt data which is longer than the actual key length. Therefore AES is used for encryption.
Since the authentication token is delivered as an HTTP GET request, it will be stored e.g. in Apache's log file. Using a disposable nonce and an expiration date should minimize the possibility of a replay attack. POST request would need an HTML page with a form which is submitted automatically by Javascript, which is why GET is used.
Service "S" generates a nonce only in a server-to-server API request. Therefore unauthenticated generation requests should not pose a DoS-vulnerability.


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Byrne was unable to go quicker, and with twenty minutes left Lowes went even faster to set a 1:27.324. No other rider was able to match his pace during the rather foggy free practice.
Tyco Suzuki's Josh Brookes was never too far off the Honda and Kawasaki and was one tenths of a second slower than Byrne to finish the session on a provisional front row.
Milwaukee Yamaha's James Ellison, with minutes left, went from the mid pack to third, but then dropped to fourth fastest when the chequered flag appeared and just managed to lap in the 1:27s.
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Doerr's gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work"--
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Novels at Night book club review 4/11/15.
One of the most beautiful novels I've ever read, although some members wished the story had been trimmed slightly.
I will defer this review to Cindy L. per her request.
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The enterprise is being consumerized, and the consumer is being enterprised. Moore's Law does not matter anymore, the future belongs to business virtualization powered by invisible service architecture, powered by hyperscale and hyperconvergence, and facilitated by vertical streaming and horizontal scaling and consolidation. Both buyers and sellers want instant results, and from paperwork to paperless to mindless is the ultimate goal for any seamless transaction. The sweetest sweet spot in innovation is automation. The most painful pain point for any business is the mismatch between supplies a...
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The broad selection of hardware, the rapid evolution of operating systems and the time-to-market for mobile apps has been so rapid that new challenges for developers and engineers arise every day. Security, testing, hosting, and other metrics have to be considered through the process. In his session at Big Data Expo, Walter Maguire, Chief Field Technologist, HP Big Data Group, at Hewlett-Packard, will discuss the challenges faced by developers and a composite Big Data applications builder, focusing on how to help solve the problems that developers are continuously battling.
Oct. 6, 2015 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 409
As enterprises capture more and more data of all types – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured – data discovery requirements for business intelligence (BI), Big Data, and predictive analytics initiatives grow more complex. A company's ability to become data-driven and compete on analytics depends on the speed with which it can provision their analytics applications with all relevant information. The task of finding data has traditionally resided with IT, but now organizations increasingly turn towards data source discovery tools to find the right data, in context, for business users, d...
Oct. 5, 2015 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 378
SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a software development company, will exhibit at the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MobiDev is a software development company with representative offices in Atlanta (US), Sheffield (UK) and Würzburg (Germany); and development centers in Ukraine. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate engineers and business managers to a full-scale mobile software company with over 150 developers, designers, quality assurance engineers, project manage...
Oct. 5, 2015 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 739
Learn how IoT, cloud, social networks and last but not least, humans, can be integrated into a seamless integration of cooperative organisms both cybernetic and biological. This has been enabled by recent advances in IoT device capabilities, messaging frameworks, presence and collaboration services, where devices can share information and make independent and human assisted decisions based upon social status from other entities. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Michael Heydt, founder of Seamless Thingies, will discuss and demonstrate how devices and humans can be integrated from a simple clust...
Oct. 4, 2015 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 628
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Raxak has been named "Media & Session Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 17th Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Raxak Protect automates security compliance across private and public clouds. Using the SaaS tool or managed service, developers can deploy cloud apps quickly, cost-effectively, and without error.
Oct. 3, 2015 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 625
Who are you? How do you introduce yourself? Do you use a name, or do you greet a friend by the last four digits of his social security number? Assuming you don't, why are we content to associate our identity with 10 random digits assigned by our phone company? Identity is an issue that affects everyone, but as individuals we don't spend a lot of time thinking about it. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ben Klang, Founder & President of Mojo Lingo, will discuss the impact of technology on identity. Should we federate, or not? How should identity be secured? Who owns the identity? How is identity ...
Oct. 3, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 418