HIGH TECH ANTI-FRAUD
March 1st, 2003
BY JONATHAN THOMSON, in Newcastle, England, MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane and RICHARD HURST, in JohannesburgASK a human to find a needle in a haystack and they would probably spend five minutes at the most sifting through the stalks, then get bored and walk away. Ignoring the physical aspects, if a computer was asked to perform the same task it would never lose patience and would certainly get through the job a whole lot quicker.Information technology systems are designed to store up and analyse massive amounts of data, whereas people are not. This difference ...
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