Media Mentions

2021

• Language detectives see similarities between mysterious 'ArizonaAudit' Twitter account, affiliated 'war room', Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Arizona Republic, June 15, 2021.

2020

• Testing Could Have Prevented Iowa Caucus App Failure, Experts Say, Angus Loten, Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2020.

2018

• From Automation to Intelligence: Do We Have Anything to Fear in the Coming Techno Evolution? Illinois Tech's Curiosity Unplugged podcast, December 6, 2018.
• What If Ernest Hemingway Wrote the Bible? Joel Shurkin, Inside Science, November 15, 2018.
• Is This Mysterious Language Hebrew? Ellen Wexler, Moment, November 15, 2018.
• U of I joins U of C quantum research partnership, John Pletz, Crain's Chicago, October 30, 2018.
• Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing worth estimated $1.6 billion, Fox 32 News, October 23, 2018.
• Who Wrote Anonymous NYT Op-Ed About Trump? Wikileaks Shares Likely Traits Based on Language Analysis, Jenni Fink in Newsweek, September 7, 2018.
• Forensic Linguist Says 'Lodestar' Can't Tell Us Who Burned Trump in New York Times Op-Ed, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai in Motherboard, September 6, 2018.
• Word detectives: Science may help finger opinion columnist, Seth Borenstein for AP, September 6, 2018.
• The Salaries Of Data Scientists Remain Steady But Still Sexy With AI On The Horizon, Gil Press in Forbes, May 4, 2018.
• La linguistica forense e le impronte digitali linguistiche [Forensic linguistics and linguistic fingerprints], Sara Cordella in Ratio Legis, April 4, 2018 (in Italian).
• Titok marad a megfejthetetlen kézirat [The cryptic manuscript remains undeciphered], Richárd Hegyeshalmi in Index, February 20, 2018 (in Hungarian).
• AI didn’t decode the cryptic Voynich manuscript — it just added to the mystery, James Vincent in The Verge, February 1, 2018.
• Scientists claim to crack an elusive centuries-old code — and it’s Hebrew, Amanda Borschel-Dan in Times of Israel, February 1, 2018.

2017

• How your digital style gives you away – and how to hide it, Michael Erard in New Scientist, November 22, 2017.
• Flimflam government stats can do a number on citizens, op-ed by Shlomo Engelson Argamon in the Chicago Sun Times, October 26, 2017.
• There’s a debate raging in science about what should count as “significant”, Cathleen O'Grady in Ars Technica, August 4, 2017.
• Beyond the p(ale) — statistics and significance in clinical research, Amy Coopes in Croakey, August 1, 2017.
• Big names in statistics want to shake up much-maligned P value, Dalmeet Singh Chawla in Nature | News, July 26, 2017.
• Why linguistics can't always identify cyber attackers' nationality, Fahmida Y. Rashid in CSO, July 12, 2017.
• 해커 잡기 위해 동원되는 언어 분석의 가치란 [Value of language analysis mobilized to catch hackers], Security News, June 17, 2017 (in Korean).
• Analytics In Action: Illinois Tech Hoopsters Get An Assist From Data Science Program, Analytics, March/April 2017, pp 28-30.
• Data Analytics In Basketball, interview with Niala Boodhoo, The 21st Show, a production of Illinois Public Media, February 20, 2017.
• At Illinois Tech, data analytics play big part in basketball team's success, Shannon Ryan, Chicago Tribune, February 17, 2017.

2016

• Second Snowden could be behind sale of NSA hacking tools , Andrew Kelly/Reuters, in New Scientist, August 24, 2016.
• Radio Interview on רצועת הביטחון - אסטרטגיה וממשל [The Security Zone - Strategy and Operations] on linguistic attribution for cybersecurity, with Tali Lipkin Shahak, גלי צה"ל (Israel Defense Forces Radio), August 22, 2016 (in Hebrew).
• The NSA Data Leakers Might Be Faking Their Awful English To Deceive Us , Lorenzo Francesci-Bicchierai, Motherboard, August 18, 2016.
• Is D.N.C. Email Hacker a Person or a Russian Front? Experts Aren’t Sure , Charlie Savage and Nicole Perlroth, New York Times, July 22, 2016.
• משחקי ריגול [Spy Games] , Nahum Barnea, Yediot Aharonot, July 29, 2016 (in Hebrew).
• Online lender Enova joins the sharing economy , John Pletz, Crain's Chicago, April 14, 2016.
• What's the hottest job in Chicago tech today? , John Pletz, Crain's Chicago, February 6, 2016.
• Video Interview on Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast, Renee Teate, January 17, 2016.
• Despite the Odds, Powerball Fever Grows in Chicago , Katie Kim and Natalie Martinez, NBC 5 News Chicago, January 13, 2016

2015

• Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously. Or Maybe Not. , Joel Shurkin, Inside Science, December 10, 2015.
• So You Want To Be a Data Scientist: A Guide for College Grads , Alex Woodie, Datanami, June 4, 2015.
• Illinois Institute of Technology Wants To Fill Projected 200K Shortage Of Data Scientists , Karis Hustad, ChicagoInno, April 27, 2015.
• Grad Schools Move to Fill Data Skills Gap , George Leopold, Datanami, April 24, 2015.
• Expert: Sony Hackers Sound Russian , Podcast discussion with Mathew J. Schwartz, InfoRisk Today, January 12, 2015.

2014

• New Study May Add to Skepticism Among Security Experts That North Korea Was Behind Sony Hack , Nicole Perlroth, New York Times, December 24, 2014.
• Doubts Persist On U.S. Claims Of North Korean Role In Sony Hack , Aarti Shahani, National Public Radio, December 26, 2014.
• New theory emerges in Sony hacking suggesting Russian hackers , Nicole Hensley, New York Daily News, December 26, 2014.
• Sony insider — not North Korea — likely involved in hack, experts say , Ryan Faughnder and Saba Hamedy, Los Angeles Times, December 30, 2014.
• The Myth of the Mythical Unicorn , Shlomo Engelson Argamon, Information Management, May 22, 2014.
• The Well-Rounded Data Scientist , Shlomo Engelson Argamon, Information Management, April 15, 2014.
• Noble Network's 'The Robot' Strives to Predict Students' College Success , Emily Morris, DNAInfo, April 4, 2014.
• Language Doesn’t Point to L.A.’s Satoshi Nakamoto as Bitcoin Inventor , Dennis Romero, LA Weekly, March 7, 2014.

2013

• Mega Millions Winning Numbers Drawn For $636M , ABC 7 Eyewitness News, December 17, 2013.
• Pacific Islanders Developed A Binary Counting System Centuries Ago , Joel Shurkin, Inside Science, December 17, 2013.
• For Data Scientists, Math Skills Are Not Enough , Tom Groenfeldt, Forbes, August, 23, 2013.
• Data Science: What's The Half-Life Of A Buzzword?, Gil Press, Forbes, August 19, 2013.
• Hearing A Word Can Help You See The Invisible , Joel Shurkin, Inside Science, August 13, 2013.

2003

• THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 8-10-03; Sexed Texts , Charles McGrath, The New York Times Magazine, August 10, 2003.
• He And She: What’s The Real Difference? According To A Team of Computer Scientists, We Give Away Our Gender In Our Writing Style , Clive Thompson, The Boston Globe, July 7, 2003.