Keith Kirkpatrick

Many corporate and consumer-based systems and applications deploy short message service (SMS)-based two-factor authentication technology to help protect users from being hacked. This method of two-factor authentication is fairly simple; a user will log onto an app or system using their username and password, and then a unique security code is generated by an algorithm within the app, which is then sent to the user's phone via a text message. If that code is correctly entered into the system w...

It has been nearly 50 years since U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Commander Eugene Cernan and crewmate Harrison H. (Jack) Schmitt completed Apollo 17's lunar exploration mission and left the Moon's surface behind in December 1972. While NASA has continued to explore space, via Skylab in the early 1970s, the Space Shuttle program that operated between the late 1970s and 2011, and through ongoing activity at the International Space Station, there has always been a stro...

Contactless payments, which can be initiated via a smartphone, have been slow to gain traction in North America and Europe, according to research conducted in the fourth quarter of 2019 by comScore. The research found that just 16% and 14% of smartphone buyers in these regions used contactless payments through their phones, likely due to a lack of financial incentives or perceived benefits of switching from traditional mag-stripe or chip-and-pin cards to no-touch modalities.
That may be chang...

Article on information gerrymandering and the impact of social media circles on access and exposure to competing viewpoints.

Communications of the ACM, December 2019, Vol. 62 No. 12, Pages 19-21
10.1145/3365583
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In the spring of 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was called to testify before Congress, largely in response to the news that British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had captured and used the data of more than 87 million Facebook users to influence elections without the social media giant's knowledge or consent, as well as the admission that Facebook itself had been used by Russians to spr...

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Aligning the sales and marketing departments is even more essential when relationship building is a virtual practice.
PRE-COVID, OUR BUSINESS struggled to align sales and marketing beyond the occasional pocket folder update and sell sheet insert —and even that was mostly generated with little input from a sales team that didn’t see much value in traditional marketing. Now, both teams face a need to transform communication strategies and are sharing knowledge and ...