Press release: “Personal information of certain uniformed service members, family members and others was placed at risk for potential compromise while being processed by SAIC under several health care data contracts for military service customers, the company said today. SAIC remedied the security lapses upon learning of them and began working with the customers to mitigate any potential impact. Forensic analysis has not yielded any evidence that any personal information was actually compromised; however, the possibility cannot be ruled out. SAIC is notifying approximately 580,000 households, some with more than one affected person.”
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Daily Archives: July 21, 2007
Surveillance Equipment Provider "Chipping" Employees
AP: “CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself – until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms. The “chipping” of two workers with RFIDs – radio frequency identification tags as long as two grains of rice, as thick as a toothpick… Continue Reading
Google Research Paper – Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval
Via SEO by the Sea: “A paper from Google researchers on Question Answering, Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval (pdf), looks at automated strategies for understanding and answering questions that people might type into a search box.” Continue Reading
AARP Automatic 401(k) Overview for Employers
Automatic 401(k) Overview for Employers – A Survey of Companies with 500 to 5,000 Employees, 2007 (33 pages, PDF): Awareness and Attitudes About Automatic 401(k) Plans Enhancing 401(k) Value and Participation Key Benefits of an Automatic 401(k) A Systematic Approach to Automatic 401(k) Automatic 401(k) Implementation Costs Snapshots of Companies with Automatic 401(k)s Alon USA… Continue Reading
