This document discusses how research and development is moving from traditional labs to more open communities. It provides examples of several communities and projects that bring together amateur scientists, engineers, and makers to collaborate on projects like mapping diseases, citizen science initiatives in space and particle physics, and hackathons for science. These communities are examples of how science is becoming more social and open through collaboration outside of traditional labs.
The document discusses the origins of the universe and our solar system according to the Big Bang theory. It formed over 14 billion years ago from the expansion of the initial singularity. Our solar system formed around 4.6 billion years ago with planets like Earth forming soon after. Astronomers like Edwin Hubble provided evidence that supported the Big Bang theory as the leading explanation for how the universe began.
La Unión Europea ha acordado un embargo petrolero contra Rusia en respuesta a la invasión de Ucrania. El embargo prohibirá la mayoría de las importaciones de petróleo ruso a la UE y se implementará de manera gradual durante los próximos seis meses. Algunos países de Europa del Este aún dependen en gran medida del petróleo ruso y se les ha otorgado una exención temporal al embargo.
The document discusses social media and how to build an effective personal brand online. It addresses trends in social media marketing in 2012 and emphasizes the importance of experimentation, measurement, and focusing on people above all else. The key messages are that developing skills through challenges ("smooth seas do not make skillful sailors"), focusing on customers and quality engagement, and continuously testing and improving efforts are essential to success with social media.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing models including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS). It summarizes key cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, SharePoint Online, and Amazon Web Services. The presentation discusses benefits of the cloud like pay-by-use and economies of scale. It also covers security best practices for cloud deployments and administration demos.
Building Applications with AWS
Paul Duffy discusses how AWS provides a full spectrum of capabilities for building applications. It allows startups to build with no upfront costs and provides agility. AWS supports SMBs, enterprises, and has over 100,000 customers across 190 countries. It can host any type of application from simple to complex websites, as well as mobile apps, analytics platforms, and more. AWS provides automation, elastic scaling, high availability, low latency globally through services like S3 and DynamoDB. Examples discussed include clickstream analytics, backup/DR, Oracle applications, and even NASA's use of AWS for applications on Mars.
The document discusses a growing online community of nearly 600,000 members who provide emotional support, information, and advocacy for patients. The community aims to connect and support people dealing with health issues and acts as a virtual support network for happier, healthier patients.
The document describes ILKUM, an interactive learning objective catalogue developed by the University Medical Center Mainz to improve learning for dental and medical students. ILKUM provides a reliable structured learning catalogue with open interfaces that is interactive. It includes features like a searchable catalogue of topics, subjects and clinical cases, electronic media like e-books and tests, and communication tools. ILKUM also has video recording of lectures and allows students to provide feedback and share experiences. As of 2011, over 90 administrators from 36 clinics were participating in ILKUM, and it has received positive feedback from students.
Mendeley is a software tool that helps researchers work smarter by extracting data from research papers, aggregating it in the cloud, and enabling collaboration. It has over 1 million users from top universities around the world. Mendeley provides real-time data on 100 million research papers and has 650 advisors helping researchers worldwide.
The document discusses the origins of the universe and our solar system according to the Big Bang theory. It formed over 14 billion years ago from the expansion of the initial singularity. Our solar system formed around 4.6 billion years ago with planets like Earth forming soon after. Astronomers like Edwin Hubble provided evidence that supported the Big Bang theory as the leading explanation for how the universe began.
La Unión Europea ha acordado un embargo petrolero contra Rusia en respuesta a la invasión de Ucrania. El embargo prohibirá la mayoría de las importaciones de petróleo ruso a la UE y se implementará de manera gradual durante los próximos seis meses. Algunos países de Europa del Este aún dependen en gran medida del petróleo ruso y se les ha otorgado una exención temporal al embargo.
The document discusses social media and how to build an effective personal brand online. It addresses trends in social media marketing in 2012 and emphasizes the importance of experimentation, measurement, and focusing on people above all else. The key messages are that developing skills through challenges ("smooth seas do not make skillful sailors"), focusing on customers and quality engagement, and continuously testing and improving efforts are essential to success with social media.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing models including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS). It summarizes key cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, SharePoint Online, and Amazon Web Services. The presentation discusses benefits of the cloud like pay-by-use and economies of scale. It also covers security best practices for cloud deployments and administration demos.
Building Applications with AWS
Paul Duffy discusses how AWS provides a full spectrum of capabilities for building applications. It allows startups to build with no upfront costs and provides agility. AWS supports SMBs, enterprises, and has over 100,000 customers across 190 countries. It can host any type of application from simple to complex websites, as well as mobile apps, analytics platforms, and more. AWS provides automation, elastic scaling, high availability, low latency globally through services like S3 and DynamoDB. Examples discussed include clickstream analytics, backup/DR, Oracle applications, and even NASA's use of AWS for applications on Mars.
The document discusses a growing online community of nearly 600,000 members who provide emotional support, information, and advocacy for patients. The community aims to connect and support people dealing with health issues and acts as a virtual support network for happier, healthier patients.
The document describes ILKUM, an interactive learning objective catalogue developed by the University Medical Center Mainz to improve learning for dental and medical students. ILKUM provides a reliable structured learning catalogue with open interfaces that is interactive. It includes features like a searchable catalogue of topics, subjects and clinical cases, electronic media like e-books and tests, and communication tools. ILKUM also has video recording of lectures and allows students to provide feedback and share experiences. As of 2011, over 90 administrators from 36 clinics were participating in ILKUM, and it has received positive feedback from students.
Mendeley is a software tool that helps researchers work smarter by extracting data from research papers, aggregating it in the cloud, and enabling collaboration. It has over 1 million users from top universities around the world. Mendeley provides real-time data on 100 million research papers and has 650 advisors helping researchers worldwide.
Health Talk Online is a website featuring over 60 qualitative interview studies with thousands of video and audio clips illustrating patients' health experiences. Each condition-specific site includes around 40 diverse video-recorded interviews and 25 chapters summarizing important topics. The sites provide information for patients, carers, professionals, and policymakers. The collaboration between DIPEx charity and University of Oxford researchers learns from patients' experiences, such as privacy and dignity in prostate cancer. It has international collaborations in over 10 countries following training from Oxford in qualitative research methods.
This document discusses building trusted relationships between physicians and patients in modern times. It notes that time constraints present a hurdle to developing these relationships. It also cautions that relying too heavily on anecdotes rather than evidence can confuse experience for expertise when evaluating health information online or through social media. The document suggests opportunities exist for physicians to help patients find credible health information and guidance.
The document discusses the rapid adoption of mobile devices like iPads and Android devices among US physicians from 2010 to 2011, with iPad adoption increasing over 1,650% and Android adoption rising around 1,200%. It also notes the growing number of medical apps available on app stores, especially for the Apple iTunes Store, and how these apps can be used for patient monitoring, education, and communication between doctors and patients through email, phone, and secure messaging. However, it raises the issue of fragmented connectivity between different devices and platforms.
The document discusses proposals for scaling up healthcare technology. It suggests making healthcare technology simpler, more passive, and making assumptions more explicit. It also discusses simplifying clinical interviewing and developing heuristic tools to help answer patients' questions. The document considers what types of questions a healthcare system should be able to answer for users and how to start syncing healthcare data.
The document summarizes a study on participants' experiences in an online mental health intervention and randomized control trial. Key findings include: (1) Participants were motivated to enroll due to experiencing low mood; (2) Benefits of the online format included privacy, 24/7 availability, and increased self-efficacy; (3) Many reported positive behavior changes in thinking patterns and relationships; (4) Trusting branding of the university increased security providing personal information; (5) Language was perceived as aimed at younger Americans rather than a UK audience.
The document discusses personalizing healthcare through trust-sourcing health information and engaging patients and physicians in an interactive health conversation. It notes that many patients lack same-day access to doctors and want their doctors to know them better. The document proposes that if doctors interacted with patients online by answering questions and curating health information, patients would have more trust, access, and relevant information. This new model of interactive health enabled by technology could provide personalized, continual care to patients anytime through gamification and virtualization.
The document discusses the integration of iPhones and iPads in university and clinical settings. It outlines 10 top Web 2.0 applications for clinical and pedagogical purposes, including Dropbox, CMap Tools, EduPortfolio, SlideShare, Facebook, YouTube, Delicious, Wikipedia, Patientslikeme, and Academia.edu. The presentation argues that mobile devices can change the way we teach, learn, read, and practice in medicine and health sciences by facilitating communication, collaboration, and networking. Mobile learning and social networking are positioned to become significant tools that impact clinical practice and educational programs.
This document summarizes Gunther Eysenbach's research on using social media data for public health surveillance and analysis during pandemics. It discusses how analyzing trends in health-related searches and social media posts in real-time can provide insights into information spread and behaviors. During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, Eysenbach's team analyzed tweets and found correlations between topics discussed and events. Their analysis revealed trends in terminology usage, sentiment, questions asked and experiences shared. The research demonstrates the potential of social media for public health monitoring and identifying areas needing health communication improvement.
VIVO is an open source software and community that aims to facilitate research discovery by creating a platform to connect data about people, publications, funding, events, and more. It extracts and links this information using ontologies. VIVO generates HTML and RDF representations of the data to allow for presentation, search, and analysis tools like ScienceMap to examine collaborations. The VIVO community includes scientists, implementers, and developers who work to augment the data and develop new tools and visualizations to further research discovery goals.
Health Talk Online is a website featuring over 60 qualitative interview studies with thousands of video and audio clips illustrating patients' health experiences. Each condition-specific site is based on around 40 diverse video-recorded interviews, with around 25 chapters on important topics. The sites are intended for patients, carers, professionals, and policymakers. The collaboration between DIPEx charity and University of Oxford researchers learns from patients' experiences through qualitative research interviews.
The document summarizes lessons learned from developing Aptic, a social network for patients (ePatients). Key points include:
1) Extensive user research and engagement was critical to developing a platform that met patient needs over alternatives like Facebook.
2) While overall usage was modest, interviews found Aptic provided valuable support, resources and community for many users.
3) Local projects like Aptic can contribute to global issues, but the focus must remain on patients' experiences rather than any single platform.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
This document discusses how the National Cancer Institute leverages its Cancer Information Service call center to help manage its Facebook community. It outlines NCI's social media strategy and goals for engaging on Facebook, as well as challenges like personal medical questions, activists, and misinformation. The Cancer Information Service provides a resource to monitor posts, respond timely and helpfully while allowing diverse opinions, and address controversial issues with evidence. Metrics show the Facebook pages reach many users in the US and abroad. The approach aims to provide educational, helpful discussions.
The document discusses some challenges clinicians face in the information era, including information overload due to the rapid production and easy transmission of information. It notes contradictions and lack of structure in available information. The document also discusses fragmented medical literature repositories and the need for specialized search strategies. Finally, it proposes some ideas for the future, including a "Super search" that could provide contextual, comprehensive, easy and fast searches across medical literature. It also proposes the idea of using large healthcare databases and semantics to potentially replace expensive clinical trials.
This document summarizes a study examining the use of online communities among breast cancer survivor peer support providers. The study found that 31% of participants had used an online cancer community. Key reasons for use included seeking information about disease and treatment (91%), symptom management support (70%), and emotional support (48%). Key reasons for non-use included not perceiving a need (48%), lack of computer confidence (30%), and distrust of the internet (24%).
IJERD (www.ijerd.com) International Journal of Engineering Research and Devel...IJERD Editor
The document discusses improving utilization of infrastructure in private and hybrid clouds by deploying "backfill VMs" on idle cloud nodes. Backfill VMs run applications like HTC workloads that can make use of variable, preemptible resources. This approach increases cloud utilization without compromising on-demand access. The authors extend the Nimbus cloud toolkit to deploy backfill VMs running Condor workers on idle nodes. Tests show utilization increases from 37.5% to 100% with only 6.39% overhead to process the HTC workload. The approach benefits both cloud providers and HTC users by improving utilization and providing cycles to HTC jobs that would otherwise be idle.
The document provides an overview of LinkedIn and its key features. It discusses what LinkedIn is, how to complete your profile, add connections, join groups and discussions, ask and answer questions, and premium accounts. The main points are that LinkedIn is the world's largest professional social network, it can be used to network and find jobs, and completing your profile is important to make full use of the platform.
Improving utilization of infrastructure cloudsRaga Deepthi
This document proposes a system to improve infrastructure utilization in IaaS clouds. It combines on-demand resource allocation with opportunistic provisioning of idle cloud nodes to other processes like high-throughput computing jobs. This approach increases cloud provider utilization and provides cycles to HTC jobs that would otherwise be idle. The system includes modules for on-demand users, opportunistic users, fraud detection, and automation/management.
1) Orthopedic surgeons surveyed were generally willing to provide patients with an "internet prescription" directing them to reliable online health sources, with middle-aged surgeons most likely to do so.
2) The majority of surgeons felt that patient internet use did not negatively impact the physician-patient relationship or patient outcomes.
3) However, many surgeons were concerned that internet-informed patients may undergo unnecessary medical tests or treatments.
Health Talk Online is a website featuring over 60 qualitative interview studies with thousands of video and audio clips illustrating patients' health experiences. Each condition-specific site includes around 40 diverse video-recorded interviews and 25 chapters summarizing important topics. The sites provide information for patients, carers, professionals, and policymakers. The collaboration between DIPEx charity and University of Oxford researchers learns from patients' experiences, such as privacy and dignity in prostate cancer. It has international collaborations in over 10 countries following training from Oxford in qualitative research methods.
This document discusses using cognitive aids and interactive displays to help manage resources in surgery. It describes how cognitive aids can help doctors be faster and more accurate during complex, high-risk surgeries by providing treatment algorithms. A prototype was developed with a large screen display controlled by a tablet to facilitate group coordination in the operating room. User studies in a simulated operating room found that having a nurse as the primary controller of a display that is always ready can help manage patient information and other resources. Challenges include testing new interfaces in high-stakes life-or-death situations without disrupting patient care.
Lee Aase is the director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. He discusses how Mayo Clinic established its center in response to the growth of social media and its potential to transform healthcare. The center aims to accelerate the effective use of social media within Mayo Clinic and broader healthcare institutions and engagement between medical professionals, patients, and social media.
Health Talk Online is a website featuring over 60 qualitative interview studies with thousands of video and audio clips illustrating patients' health experiences. Each condition-specific site includes around 40 diverse video-recorded interviews and 25 chapters summarizing important topics. The sites provide information for patients, carers, professionals, and policymakers. The collaboration between DIPEx charity and University of Oxford researchers learns from patients' experiences, such as privacy and dignity in prostate cancer. It has international collaborations in over 10 countries following training from Oxford in qualitative research methods.
This document discusses building trusted relationships between physicians and patients in modern times. It notes that time constraints present a hurdle to developing these relationships. It also cautions that relying too heavily on anecdotes rather than evidence can confuse experience for expertise when evaluating health information online or through social media. The document suggests opportunities exist for physicians to help patients find credible health information and guidance.
The document discusses the rapid adoption of mobile devices like iPads and Android devices among US physicians from 2010 to 2011, with iPad adoption increasing over 1,650% and Android adoption rising around 1,200%. It also notes the growing number of medical apps available on app stores, especially for the Apple iTunes Store, and how these apps can be used for patient monitoring, education, and communication between doctors and patients through email, phone, and secure messaging. However, it raises the issue of fragmented connectivity between different devices and platforms.
The document discusses proposals for scaling up healthcare technology. It suggests making healthcare technology simpler, more passive, and making assumptions more explicit. It also discusses simplifying clinical interviewing and developing heuristic tools to help answer patients' questions. The document considers what types of questions a healthcare system should be able to answer for users and how to start syncing healthcare data.
The document summarizes a study on participants' experiences in an online mental health intervention and randomized control trial. Key findings include: (1) Participants were motivated to enroll due to experiencing low mood; (2) Benefits of the online format included privacy, 24/7 availability, and increased self-efficacy; (3) Many reported positive behavior changes in thinking patterns and relationships; (4) Trusting branding of the university increased security providing personal information; (5) Language was perceived as aimed at younger Americans rather than a UK audience.
The document discusses personalizing healthcare through trust-sourcing health information and engaging patients and physicians in an interactive health conversation. It notes that many patients lack same-day access to doctors and want their doctors to know them better. The document proposes that if doctors interacted with patients online by answering questions and curating health information, patients would have more trust, access, and relevant information. This new model of interactive health enabled by technology could provide personalized, continual care to patients anytime through gamification and virtualization.
The document discusses the integration of iPhones and iPads in university and clinical settings. It outlines 10 top Web 2.0 applications for clinical and pedagogical purposes, including Dropbox, CMap Tools, EduPortfolio, SlideShare, Facebook, YouTube, Delicious, Wikipedia, Patientslikeme, and Academia.edu. The presentation argues that mobile devices can change the way we teach, learn, read, and practice in medicine and health sciences by facilitating communication, collaboration, and networking. Mobile learning and social networking are positioned to become significant tools that impact clinical practice and educational programs.
This document summarizes Gunther Eysenbach's research on using social media data for public health surveillance and analysis during pandemics. It discusses how analyzing trends in health-related searches and social media posts in real-time can provide insights into information spread and behaviors. During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, Eysenbach's team analyzed tweets and found correlations between topics discussed and events. Their analysis revealed trends in terminology usage, sentiment, questions asked and experiences shared. The research demonstrates the potential of social media for public health monitoring and identifying areas needing health communication improvement.
VIVO is an open source software and community that aims to facilitate research discovery by creating a platform to connect data about people, publications, funding, events, and more. It extracts and links this information using ontologies. VIVO generates HTML and RDF representations of the data to allow for presentation, search, and analysis tools like ScienceMap to examine collaborations. The VIVO community includes scientists, implementers, and developers who work to augment the data and develop new tools and visualizations to further research discovery goals.
Health Talk Online is a website featuring over 60 qualitative interview studies with thousands of video and audio clips illustrating patients' health experiences. Each condition-specific site is based on around 40 diverse video-recorded interviews, with around 25 chapters on important topics. The sites are intended for patients, carers, professionals, and policymakers. The collaboration between DIPEx charity and University of Oxford researchers learns from patients' experiences through qualitative research interviews.
The document summarizes lessons learned from developing Aptic, a social network for patients (ePatients). Key points include:
1) Extensive user research and engagement was critical to developing a platform that met patient needs over alternatives like Facebook.
2) While overall usage was modest, interviews found Aptic provided valuable support, resources and community for many users.
3) Local projects like Aptic can contribute to global issues, but the focus must remain on patients' experiences rather than any single platform.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
This document discusses how the National Cancer Institute leverages its Cancer Information Service call center to help manage its Facebook community. It outlines NCI's social media strategy and goals for engaging on Facebook, as well as challenges like personal medical questions, activists, and misinformation. The Cancer Information Service provides a resource to monitor posts, respond timely and helpfully while allowing diverse opinions, and address controversial issues with evidence. Metrics show the Facebook pages reach many users in the US and abroad. The approach aims to provide educational, helpful discussions.
The document discusses some challenges clinicians face in the information era, including information overload due to the rapid production and easy transmission of information. It notes contradictions and lack of structure in available information. The document also discusses fragmented medical literature repositories and the need for specialized search strategies. Finally, it proposes some ideas for the future, including a "Super search" that could provide contextual, comprehensive, easy and fast searches across medical literature. It also proposes the idea of using large healthcare databases and semantics to potentially replace expensive clinical trials.
This document summarizes a study examining the use of online communities among breast cancer survivor peer support providers. The study found that 31% of participants had used an online cancer community. Key reasons for use included seeking information about disease and treatment (91%), symptom management support (70%), and emotional support (48%). Key reasons for non-use included not perceiving a need (48%), lack of computer confidence (30%), and distrust of the internet (24%).
IJERD (www.ijerd.com) International Journal of Engineering Research and Devel...IJERD Editor
The document discusses improving utilization of infrastructure in private and hybrid clouds by deploying "backfill VMs" on idle cloud nodes. Backfill VMs run applications like HTC workloads that can make use of variable, preemptible resources. This approach increases cloud utilization without compromising on-demand access. The authors extend the Nimbus cloud toolkit to deploy backfill VMs running Condor workers on idle nodes. Tests show utilization increases from 37.5% to 100% with only 6.39% overhead to process the HTC workload. The approach benefits both cloud providers and HTC users by improving utilization and providing cycles to HTC jobs that would otherwise be idle.
The document provides an overview of LinkedIn and its key features. It discusses what LinkedIn is, how to complete your profile, add connections, join groups and discussions, ask and answer questions, and premium accounts. The main points are that LinkedIn is the world's largest professional social network, it can be used to network and find jobs, and completing your profile is important to make full use of the platform.
Improving utilization of infrastructure cloudsRaga Deepthi
This document proposes a system to improve infrastructure utilization in IaaS clouds. It combines on-demand resource allocation with opportunistic provisioning of idle cloud nodes to other processes like high-throughput computing jobs. This approach increases cloud provider utilization and provides cycles to HTC jobs that would otherwise be idle. The system includes modules for on-demand users, opportunistic users, fraud detection, and automation/management.
1) Orthopedic surgeons surveyed were generally willing to provide patients with an "internet prescription" directing them to reliable online health sources, with middle-aged surgeons most likely to do so.
2) The majority of surgeons felt that patient internet use did not negatively impact the physician-patient relationship or patient outcomes.
3) However, many surgeons were concerned that internet-informed patients may undergo unnecessary medical tests or treatments.
Health Talk Online is a website featuring over 60 qualitative interview studies with thousands of video and audio clips illustrating patients' health experiences. Each condition-specific site includes around 40 diverse video-recorded interviews and 25 chapters summarizing important topics. The sites provide information for patients, carers, professionals, and policymakers. The collaboration between DIPEx charity and University of Oxford researchers learns from patients' experiences, such as privacy and dignity in prostate cancer. It has international collaborations in over 10 countries following training from Oxford in qualitative research methods.
This document discusses using cognitive aids and interactive displays to help manage resources in surgery. It describes how cognitive aids can help doctors be faster and more accurate during complex, high-risk surgeries by providing treatment algorithms. A prototype was developed with a large screen display controlled by a tablet to facilitate group coordination in the operating room. User studies in a simulated operating room found that having a nurse as the primary controller of a display that is always ready can help manage patient information and other resources. Challenges include testing new interfaces in high-stakes life-or-death situations without disrupting patient care.
Lee Aase is the director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. He discusses how Mayo Clinic established its center in response to the growth of social media and its potential to transform healthcare. The center aims to accelerate the effective use of social media within Mayo Clinic and broader healthcare institutions and engagement between medical professionals, patients, and social media.
Jay Parkinson is an MD and MPH who tweets under the handle @jayparkinson. He holds both a medical degree and a master's in public health. His Twitter profile suggests he shares information related to his medical and public health expertise on that platform.
The document discusses the potential for Quora, a question-and-answer website, to impact the future of medicine. It outlines how Quora aims to become a high-quality, continually improving source of reusable user-generated content through features like real names, bios, anonymity options, and growing knowledge over time. The document also explores various ways Quora could be used for medical purposes, such as general health questions, embarrassing questions, questions for medical professionals, questions about health out of curiosity, and philosophical health questions.
This document summarizes how online data sources like search queries and social media posts can be used to track disease outbreaks and epidemics in real time. It provides examples of how Google Flu Trends and Google Dengue Trends use search data from 28 countries and 39 languages to monitor influenza and dengue fever trends. It also discusses other tools like HealthMap that track outbreaks by crawling online news sources and social media. While these new approaches show promise, the document notes they still have limitations like uneven internet access and a lack of verified truth data.
The document summarizes the transformation of academic publishing from a traditional closed access model to an emerging open access model. It notes that currently there are 25,000 journals publishing 1.5 million papers per year mainly through subscription access, but that open access allows free and unrestricted access and reuse of publications. It highlights PLoS ONE as a pioneering open access megajournal that has grown from publishing 1,200 articles in 2007 to over 14,000 articles per quarter in 2011, becoming the largest journal in the world.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
1. From R&D Labs to R&D Communities Socialstructing Science David Pescovitz co-editor/partner, BoingBoing research director, Institute for the Future September 16, 2011
12. From R&D Labs to R&D Communities Socialstructing Science David Pescovitz co-editor/partner, BoingBoing research director, Institute for the Future September 16, 2011
Stanford physicist Matt Bellis deals in the infinitesimal. As a member of the BaBar collaboration based at SLAC, he studies what happens when an electron and a positron collide at certain energies. Electrons and positrons have opposite electrical charges, but in all other respects – including mass – they are exactly the same, and they are very small.As a result, Bellis inhabits a world of visualizations. Animations, graphs, computer-drawn images, Bellis uses them all to try to picture the scene when a particle that weighs about 9x10^-31 kg – that’s a nine multiplied by a zero-point-thirty more zeros and a 1 – slams into another particle exactly the same size. Granted, in a realm where mass and energy intertwine the particles travel at speeds that give them a little more oomph, but that doesn't change the fact that no one will ever actually see this – except through the magic of special effects. Like particle physicists the world over, Bellis is forced to improvise ways to share his research with the public, using whatever comes to hand. He's animated bristling spheres of particle tracks in sophisticated vector graphics – complete with cool soundtracks. He's illustrated fundamental relationships between different particle types with Google Docs. Bellis has developed a whole toolbox of methods to help him explain particle physics. Until recently, however, all the tools in his toolbox were visual.A trained musician, Bellis came up with the idea of rendering the results of particle collisions as sounds. The process of rendering data into sound is known in general as "sonification." Bellis wanted to sonify data from BaBar."I had the idea of the BaBar detector as an instrument," Bellis said, but not one played by human hands. It would be played by the particles gusting through it, like wind through a wind chime. "Think of it," Bellis said. "The wind itself makes no sound. You hear the wind if it rustles the leaves in a tree. The motion of the wind itself doesn't necessarily make a sound. The wind has to interact with something to make noise." In the same way, "When you have these particles that pass through the detector, they send it ringing, resonating in some way."Thus was born the idea of the Particle Physics Windchime: A computer application that could take particle physics data such as particle type, momentum, distance from a fixed point, and so on, and turn it into sound. Last November, at the urging of ex-SLACer and event co-organizer David Harris, Bellis took his idea to Science Hack Day SF [http://sciencehackday.com/], where enthusiastic programmers, web designers, science fans and self-professed geeks gathered for the express purpose of spending 24 intense hours "hacking together" the basics of several science-related computer applications.Bellis rounded up an interested group of Science Hack Day attendees, laid his idea before them, and turned them loose on simulated BaBar data. That weekend, they developed the kernel of the Particle Physics Windchime. According to Bellis, his cadre of coders – not all of whom had a background in science – got swept up in the physics of the colliding particles and how to portray them, sonically speaking. By the time the group presented Version 0.1 of the Particle Physics Windchime, they could define some simple relationships such as the energy of a particle to the volume of the sound representing it, or the angle of a particle track to the original electron-positron beam with the pitch of the sound representing the particle."We actually won the People's Choice Award" at Science Hack Day, Bellis said, along with the award for Best Use of Data. But what Bellis said he found most interesting about the experience is how involved his team became in particle physics during the course of building the Windchime, and the interest shown by the audience during his team's final presentation."I wanted to create the Particle Physics Windchime partly because I thought it was a cool idea, and partly because I wanted to see if there's something new we can learn from the data," Bellis said. "Is there something I can hear in the data that I can't see or that a computer can't pick up? Will it add to an intuitive understanding of the data?" While at Science Hack Day he learned that other particle physicists were thinking along much the same lines – members of the ATLAS group at the Large Hadron Collider had been sonifying LHC data, with the results available on the LHCsound website. All this served to bolster his belief that a sound-based teaching tool could help interest a lay audience in particle physics."Science should be something society is involved in," he said. For example, the project he's working on, BaBar, investigated a fundamental imbalance in the way the universe works – the triumph of matter over antimatter. The implications of this imbalance “are so profound that particle physics cannot be just for particle physicists,” Bellis said. “This cannot be just for a few thousand people to understand. We have to find ways to explain it to anybody who wants to know what we're doing, no matter how obscure, no matter how difficult.”This responsibility is not news to the BaBar collaboration. Now that data-taking is over and collaboration members are busy crunching numbers, an effort to preserve the data for future users is under way, Bellis said. "One of the arguments for preserving well-understood data sets is using them for education and outreach," he explained. "Kindergarten through 12, college, training new people." But he readily admits that explaining even well-understood particle physics data is hard. According to Bellis, he thinks particle physicists may be able to use the Windchime to learn about communicating with the public.The path from idea to reality has not always been smooth. The demands of research leave Bellis little time to continue developing the Windchime, and to progress to the point of having a robust, easily-customized tool that anyone could play with will take time and resources Bellis currently doesn't have. One option he'd like to try is continuing with the collaborative model of Science Hack Day, in a sense. "I welcome people who are interested to pitch in," Bellis said. Even if the particle physics doesn't sink in, just working on the Windchime would be educational. "This is a killer app for all ages to learn programming."In the meantime, Bellis will continue to tinker with the Windchime as time allows. He said he's also eager to introduce it to audiences of all types. And when Bellis says "all types," he means it: "If I get a gig at a coffeehouse somewhere where I play B-meson music out to a crowd, I will consider this all a success."
Stanford physicist Matt Bellis deals in the infinitesimal. As a member of the BaBar collaboration based at SLAC, he studies what happens when an electron and a positron collide at certain energies. Electrons and positrons have opposite electrical charges, but in all other respects – including mass – they are exactly the same, and they are very small.As a result, Bellis inhabits a world of visualizations. Animations, graphs, computer-drawn images, Bellis uses them all to try to picture the scene when a particle that weighs about 9x10^-31 kg – that’s a nine multiplied by a zero-point-thirty more zeros and a 1 – slams into another particle exactly the same size. Granted, in a realm where mass and energy intertwine the particles travel at speeds that give them a little more oomph, but that doesn't change the fact that no one will ever actually see this – except through the magic of special effects. Like particle physicists the world over, Bellis is forced to improvise ways to share his research with the public, using whatever comes to hand. He's animated bristling spheres of particle tracks in sophisticated vector graphics – complete with cool soundtracks. He's illustrated fundamental relationships between different particle types with Google Docs. Bellis has developed a whole toolbox of methods to help him explain particle physics. Until recently, however, all the tools in his toolbox were visual.A trained musician, Bellis came up with the idea of rendering the results of particle collisions as sounds. The process of rendering data into sound is known in general as "sonification." Bellis wanted to sonify data from BaBar."I had the idea of the BaBar detector as an instrument," Bellis said, but not one played by human hands. It would be played by the particles gusting through it, like wind through a wind chime. "Think of it," Bellis said. "The wind itself makes no sound. You hear the wind if it rustles the leaves in a tree. The motion of the wind itself doesn't necessarily make a sound. The wind has to interact with something to make noise." In the same way, "When you have these particles that pass through the detector, they send it ringing, resonating in some way."Thus was born the idea of the Particle Physics Windchime: A computer application that could take particle physics data such as particle type, momentum, distance from a fixed point, and so on, and turn it into sound. Last November, at the urging of ex-SLACer and event co-organizer David Harris, Bellis took his idea to Science Hack Day SF [http://sciencehackday.com/], where enthusiastic programmers, web designers, science fans and self-professed geeks gathered for the express purpose of spending 24 intense hours "hacking together" the basics of several science-related computer applications.Bellis rounded up an interested group of Science Hack Day attendees, laid his idea before them, and turned them loose on simulated BaBar data. That weekend, they developed the kernel of the Particle Physics Windchime. According to Bellis, his cadre of coders – not all of whom had a background in science – got swept up in the physics of the colliding particles and how to portray them, sonically speaking. By the time the group presented Version 0.1 of the Particle Physics Windchime, they could define some simple relationships such as the energy of a particle to the volume of the sound representing it, or the angle of a particle track to the original electron-positron beam with the pitch of the sound representing the particle."We actually won the People's Choice Award" at Science Hack Day, Bellis said, along with the award for Best Use of Data. But what Bellis said he found most interesting about the experience is how involved his team became in particle physics during the course of building the Windchime, and the interest shown by the audience during his team's final presentation."I wanted to create the Particle Physics Windchime partly because I thought it was a cool idea, and partly because I wanted to see if there's something new we can learn from the data," Bellis said. "Is there something I can hear in the data that I can't see or that a computer can't pick up? Will it add to an intuitive understanding of the data?" While at Science Hack Day he learned that other particle physicists were thinking along much the same lines – members of the ATLAS group at the Large Hadron Collider had been sonifying LHC data, with the results available on the LHCsound website. All this served to bolster his belief that a sound-based teaching tool could help interest a lay audience in particle physics."Science should be something society is involved in," he said. For example, the project he's working on, BaBar, investigated a fundamental imbalance in the way the universe works – the triumph of matter over antimatter. The implications of this imbalance “are so profound that particle physics cannot be just for particle physicists,” Bellis said. “This cannot be just for a few thousand people to understand. We have to find ways to explain it to anybody who wants to know what we're doing, no matter how obscure, no matter how difficult.”This responsibility is not news to the BaBar collaboration. Now that data-taking is over and collaboration members are busy crunching numbers, an effort to preserve the data for future users is under way, Bellis said. "One of the arguments for preserving well-understood data sets is using them for education and outreach," he explained. "Kindergarten through 12, college, training new people." But he readily admits that explaining even well-understood particle physics data is hard. According to Bellis, he thinks particle physicists may be able to use the Windchime to learn about communicating with the public.The path from idea to reality has not always been smooth. The demands of research leave Bellis little time to continue developing the Windchime, and to progress to the point of having a robust, easily-customized tool that anyone could play with will take time and resources Bellis currently doesn't have. One option he'd like to try is continuing with the collaborative model of Science Hack Day, in a sense. "I welcome people who are interested to pitch in," Bellis said. Even if the particle physics doesn't sink in, just working on the Windchime would be educational. "This is a killer app for all ages to learn programming."In the meantime, Bellis will continue to tinker with the Windchime as time allows. He said he's also eager to introduce it to audiences of all types. And when Bellis says "all types," he means it: "If I get a gig at a coffeehouse somewhere where I play B-meson music out to a crowd, I will consider this all a success."