Nothing lasts forever, so we do what we can to make things last. And yet the more we enjoy something, the more painful it is when it ends. It all comes down to risk and reward trade-offs. Do you regret the risks you don’t take? Do you take the risk knowing that you’ll feel sad when something wonderful comes to an end? These questions speak deeply to your risk personality. On this final episode of IQ4U Dr. James Norrie and Dr. Tamara Schwartz reflect on the many ways our risk personality influences our lives. But don’t feel too disappointed, the journey continues in June when Tammy launches her new podcast – WMD: Weapons of Mass Disruption.

Why does someone accept a risk or not? What rewards make us embrace more risk than we might otherwise be typically comfortable with? And how do we use information to assess those risks? This constant risk-reward calculus – underpinned by what academics call prospect theory – is actually very personal. Yet it actually defines in intriguing ways how most of us navigate many important aspects of our lives. An especially interesting area where the impact of this on each of us is highest is how we make critical economic decisions such as investing, saving, and spending…so stick with us for this episode to find out more and especially how your myQ style may provide insights into your personal investment decisions and actions!

Events like the recent Georgia mass murder at local massage parlors, the storming of the Capitol on January 6th, and the expansion of militia activity in the United States have people asking, “how did this happen?” But this type of online recruitment and radicalization is not new. Extremists in the west have been learning from radical Islamists, and are now employing the same techniques in western democracies. On this episode of IQ4U Dr. Tamara Schwartz and Dr. James Norrie discuss the techniques and targets of online radicalization.

In early 2020 hackers (purportedly Russians according to US Intelligence sources), secretly embedded malicious code into the Texas-based company's "Orion" product. This middleware was widely used by over 33,000 organizations to manage IT resources, including most of the US government. In this episode we will explore why this particular hack discovered in November of 2020 has now been labelled "the most dangerous cybersecurity crime ever committed against the United States..."

People like power, which comes in many forms, but we know from past experience that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Artificial Intelligence sits at the nexus of two forms of power, technology and information. On this episode of IQ4U, Dr. Tamara Schwartz and Dr. James Norrie explore the ethical risks inherent in artificial intelligence.

We don’t know who said it first, but “It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” Maybe so, but that doesn’t stop us from trying to invent a crystal ball. The pursuit of predictive artificial intelligence is a grail quest, and  it’s the latest evolution of the international arms race. In this episode, Dr. Tamara Schwartz and Dr. James Norrie discuss the AI Arms Race and the ethical implications of trying to predict the future.

TikTok is a pop culture phenomenon! The social networking service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance is used to make and share a variety of short-form videos ranging in content from music to dance to comedy. So how did a seemingly innocuous capability become the object of international politics to the devastation of American teens everywhere? Dr. Tamara Schwartz and Dr. James Norrie discuss the technology behind the trendsetter and the not so trivial risks it presents. 

Advertisements for 5G networks emerged a few months ago, but what is 5G, and how is it going to fundamentally change networking? Eugina Jordan of Parallel Wireless returns for another conversation with Dr. Tamara Schwartz to discuss the implications of the Open RAN/5G transformation and what it means for the future.

RAN - Radio Access Network is the technology that enables mobile networking. Legacy systems in the 4G network are undergoing a radical change. Tightly coupled hardware and software are following an industry pattern, becoming disaggregated to enable innovation via new software solutions. Dr. Tamara Schwartz is joined by Eugina Jordan of Parallel Wireless to discuss the Open RAN transformation.

Pop culture portrays hackers as criminals or angst inspired teens, but a study of cyberattacks reveals that hackers are continuous learners driving by curiosity and a competitive nature. Dr. Tamara Schwartz is joined by cybersecurity expert Gene Dragotta of Seacoast Solutions to explore the collaboration and knowledge sharing behaviors of hackers.