What I work on
People sometimes ask me, "So, what do you do at MCI?". I work on the Infrastructure of a Fraud Detection System called Sheriff. (Statistical Heuristic Engine to Reliably and Inteligently Fight Fraud). Yeah, its a mouthful, but it is a cool name. And it was a name just looking for an acryonm. :-) [Giving credit where it is due, Jim Patterson came up with the name]. Anyway, not to go into details, but fraud detection deals with things like this. Determining when someone is using a stolen credit card. In the past there wasn't a lot of discussions about fraud outside the industry, but it is increasingly hitting the internet and popping up in news articles. Since I saw the article, figured I'd post a link to it. :-)