Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
2. Recapitulation
• My many mergers of mighty MedPro might mentor migraines
(mmmm…), so here’s a recap of HBO’s evolution up to 1990:
• Next, we cover two mega-mergers in the 1990s that vaultedHBOC
into the top of the HIS market, ahead of former #1 SMS.
3. HBOC’s Product
Line in Late 80s
• These ads nicely illustrate how
HBOC had merged the MDC,
Amherst & Medicus systems
into their diverse product line
by the end of the 1980s.
4. Mega-Merger Maven
• Walt Huff retired in 1989, and in his own words: “Holcomb Green
became Chairman, Darrell Young president of HBO (minicomputer
division), Robert Murrie President of MEDILEX (IBM/FM), & Larry
Gerdes, President of the Equipment Maintenance Subsidiary).”
• In 1991, Holcomb Green appointed a single president over all 3
subsidiaries, who eventually became chairman: Charlie McCall.
• McCall was no stranger to IT :
from 1985 to 1991, he was
CEO of CompuServe. He
engineered two deals for
HBOC in the mid-90s that put
them in first place in the HIS
industry, ahead of SMS,
former #1 in annual revenue.
The first acquisition in 1994:
5. IBAX (IBM and Baxter)
• The roots of IBAX are also a
complicated web of mergers, so
hold onto your track-pad as we
cover them briefly here (you
can view their full episodes on
our web site hispros.com):
– 18 = DCC (Dynamic Control)
– 26 & 27 = JS Data
Plus one I did not do a episode
on: Stonybrook Systems, an
IBM mainframe vendor out of
Long Island, who’s CEO Frank
Russo became IBAX’sCEO.
• HBOC’s “official” story on the
merger is interesting reading:
6. “I Hoid It Through The Grapevine…”
• If you put these slides on fullscreen display (and you’re not
trying reading this on a tiny
iPhone…), Jeff Goodman’s
inside tale is echoed here in a
great interview by Bill Childs of
IBAX’sCEO Frank Russo about
acquisition rumors in 1989.
• The take-way for today if you’re
embarking on a system search?
– Even CEOs don’t know when
their Boards are being
approached for takeovers,
– So look at the product a lot
more than the company!
7. Sibling Rivalry?
• This acquisition was somewhat challenging in that IBAX was a
major competitor to HBOC in all three hospital market segments:
– Large (≈300 beds and up) – which usually considered IBM
mainframe systems like IBAX’sOmega (IBM PCS/ADS-based
mainframe system, later re-named Series 5000 when Baxter
became IBAX) vs. HBOC’s Medipac (from Medicus/Mediflex).
– Medium (100 to 300 beds) – which often compared HBOC’s
ClinStar and Star Financials (by now running on DG minis) to
IBAX’sDelta (DCC on AS/400s, later re-named Series 3000).
– Small (under 100 beds) – which generally included in their
searches IBAX’sAlpha (JS Data, later re-named Series 2000) vs.
HBOC’s Galaxy (still on 4φ minis, eventually sunset…).
• So what would you do if you were HBOC and you inherited these
three competing systems and had to pick one to answer an RFP?
8. Banana FannaFo Farley…
• Why, re-name them of course! The first step in any acquisition is
to “integrate” all the ads, brochures, PowerPoints and proposals
with new names for the many products on diverse platforms, and
HBOC followed this marketing rule assiduously as follows:
– Series 5000 joined MediPac and CliniPac, and even the NSA’s
2013 sleuths might not figure out just which
COBOL/VSAM/MVS code came from where over subsequent
releases…
– Series 4000 (DCC) and 3000 (JS Data) were similarly merged
into a single systems called “Series,” probably containing more
of DCC’s RPG code than JS Data’s, although again who knows?
• Series still run in hundreds of hospitals today, although mostly its
financial apps as its clinical system can hardly be “meaningfully
used.” MediPac &CliniPac eventually became HealthQuest, which
9. 1991 Paragon Ad?
• Anyone who follows McKesson
today should get a good laugh at
this ad from 1991 that illustrates
how marketers are sometimes
many years ahead of the
programmers in development…
• It seems HBOC tried the name
“Paragon” for their “MCA” EIS
and Cost Accounting systems,
which they had acquired from
Amherst &Medicus. The name
never stuck, but was “re-cycled”
in the late 90s when today’s
Paragon HIS system was born…
10. Next Week…
• We’ll cover the second of Charlie’s mega-merges that put HBOC at
the top of the HIS industry, this one involving one of smallest HIS
vendors that targeted mainly small hospitals under 100 beds, and
two of the largest firms in corporate America who both tried and
eventually failed to be as big in HIS as they were in other fields. In
visual symbols & algebraic notation, the story goes like this:
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but<
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,
!
• Stay tuned for the gory details, and if you were an insider within
these firms during the halcyon 1990s, gimmee a call or email:
- 505/466-4958
vciotti@hispros.com