This document summarizes a presentation on achieving a sustainable future through tools like ICT and energy, and the responsibility of actors like societies, businesses, and individuals. It discusses how exponential connectivity growth and scarce resources pose challenges. It proposes dematerialization using virtualization and resource sharing enabled by wireless connectivity. Renewable energy sources like solar and wind are discussed, along with distributed and efficient energy. It argues all actors have responsibility, and changes in individual actions could significantly impact societies if aligned. Education is key to empowering responsible individual actions.
CUD Global Conference (Seoul) - Post Event SummaryShane Mitchell
The Connected Urban Development global conference brought together 184 participants from 24 countries in Seoul, South Korea. Key speakers included Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Professor Carlo Ratti, and Toronto Mayor David Miller. Five new projects were launched around smart transportation, urban energy management, and more. There were three main takeaways: 1) The CUD program has moved from thought leadership to operational projects, with 12 live projects. 2) Discussion is shifting towards an integrated urban approach across key domains. 3) Cities are extremely interested in public-private partnerships around sustainability and innovation.
CUD Conference BREAKOUT Agenda - Amsterdam 23-24 September 2008Shane Mitchell
Breakout sessions agenda detailing speakers and themes across the two day conference bringing together thought leaders from business, city governments and academia to share knowledge, experiences and collaborate to drive forward the CUD program.
This breakout session agenda covers connected and sustainable mobility solutions. The session will be held on May 21, 2009 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. It will begin with an introduction by Tony Kim on the session topics and panelists. Part I from 10:35-11:10 a.m. will involve a panel discussion on current CUD projects, challenges, lessons learned, and next steps. Part II from 11:25 a.m. to 12 p.m. will include a presentation on the future of smart urban mobility and a panel discussion on technology's role and the vision for future mobility. Panelists will represent cities of Seoul, Amsterdam, and Singapore.
Need of Transformational Teachers: True Promoters of Education for Sustainabl...Nandini Nandini
Power Point Presentation in the Two Day National Convention held on 14th and 15th March, 2016, Dept. of Education, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, Birbhum Dist, West Bengal
Rebuilding the Relationship between People and Nature: The SATOYAMA Initiative
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
`
Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Dealing with Semantic Heterogeneity in Real-Time InformationEdward Curry
The document discusses computational paradigms for large scale open environments. It describes how environments have shifted from small controlled ones to large open ones with thousands of data sources and schemas. This requires processing information as it flows in real-time from multiple distributed sources. The talk introduces the concept of Information Flow Processing, which processes information as it streams in without intermediate storage. Examples of domains where this paradigm can be applied are given like financial analytics, inventory management and environmental monitoring.
The document proposes a smartphone application to help cities improve waste management and increase recycling rates. The app would allow users to find information on what materials can be recycled, locations of recycling centers and bins, and special disposal of hazardous waste. It would integrate with local waste systems to track bin status and support collection routes. The app aims to make recycling more convenient and engage citizens. It could also connect to social media and provide local recycling news to promote sustainable waste practices as part of developing smart cities. The document calls for concept papers on an ICT app to win a prize for the best sustainable energy idea.
Michael Kuhndt at Sharing Economy Conference 2013 (english)isabellullrich
This document discusses collaborative consumption and its potential to enable more sustainable lifestyles. It uses the example of Bernd, a German man with a family who consumes at the level of 3 planets. Collaborative consumption models like car sharing could help Bernd reduce his environmental impact. For these models to maximize sustainability, their impacts must be strengthened and measured. Large companies can help mainstream collaborative consumption by partnering with sharing economy startups. For collaborative consumption to spread through all levels of society, frameworks are needed to adapt laws and regulations, taxes, infrastructure, and more to 21st century sharing models.
CUD Global Conference (Seoul) - Post Event SummaryShane Mitchell
The Connected Urban Development global conference brought together 184 participants from 24 countries in Seoul, South Korea. Key speakers included Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Professor Carlo Ratti, and Toronto Mayor David Miller. Five new projects were launched around smart transportation, urban energy management, and more. There were three main takeaways: 1) The CUD program has moved from thought leadership to operational projects, with 12 live projects. 2) Discussion is shifting towards an integrated urban approach across key domains. 3) Cities are extremely interested in public-private partnerships around sustainability and innovation.
CUD Conference BREAKOUT Agenda - Amsterdam 23-24 September 2008Shane Mitchell
Breakout sessions agenda detailing speakers and themes across the two day conference bringing together thought leaders from business, city governments and academia to share knowledge, experiences and collaborate to drive forward the CUD program.
This breakout session agenda covers connected and sustainable mobility solutions. The session will be held on May 21, 2009 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. It will begin with an introduction by Tony Kim on the session topics and panelists. Part I from 10:35-11:10 a.m. will involve a panel discussion on current CUD projects, challenges, lessons learned, and next steps. Part II from 11:25 a.m. to 12 p.m. will include a presentation on the future of smart urban mobility and a panel discussion on technology's role and the vision for future mobility. Panelists will represent cities of Seoul, Amsterdam, and Singapore.
Need of Transformational Teachers: True Promoters of Education for Sustainabl...Nandini Nandini
Power Point Presentation in the Two Day National Convention held on 14th and 15th March, 2016, Dept. of Education, Vinaya Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, Birbhum Dist, West Bengal
Rebuilding the Relationship between People and Nature: The SATOYAMA Initiative
`
For more information, Please see websites below:
`
Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
`
Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Dealing with Semantic Heterogeneity in Real-Time InformationEdward Curry
The document discusses computational paradigms for large scale open environments. It describes how environments have shifted from small controlled ones to large open ones with thousands of data sources and schemas. This requires processing information as it flows in real-time from multiple distributed sources. The talk introduces the concept of Information Flow Processing, which processes information as it streams in without intermediate storage. Examples of domains where this paradigm can be applied are given like financial analytics, inventory management and environmental monitoring.
The document proposes a smartphone application to help cities improve waste management and increase recycling rates. The app would allow users to find information on what materials can be recycled, locations of recycling centers and bins, and special disposal of hazardous waste. It would integrate with local waste systems to track bin status and support collection routes. The app aims to make recycling more convenient and engage citizens. It could also connect to social media and provide local recycling news to promote sustainable waste practices as part of developing smart cities. The document calls for concept papers on an ICT app to win a prize for the best sustainable energy idea.
Michael Kuhndt at Sharing Economy Conference 2013 (english)isabellullrich
This document discusses collaborative consumption and its potential to enable more sustainable lifestyles. It uses the example of Bernd, a German man with a family who consumes at the level of 3 planets. Collaborative consumption models like car sharing could help Bernd reduce his environmental impact. For these models to maximize sustainability, their impacts must be strengthened and measured. Large companies can help mainstream collaborative consumption by partnering with sharing economy startups. For collaborative consumption to spread through all levels of society, frameworks are needed to adapt laws and regulations, taxes, infrastructure, and more to 21st century sharing models.
At the Asia Clean Energy Forum 2016 Ricardo Energy & Environment’s waste management and resource efficiency experts discussed a range of critical issues, including financial, institutional, policy, regulatory, engineering, environmental and social issues around the planning for and delivery of appropriate and effective waste to energy infrastructure in developing economies.
In this presentation Prof Adam Read, Practice Director, discusses waste, energy and climate change policy.
The document discusses transportation issues like traffic congestion and accidents in Hamilton and their high economic costs. It also discusses related problems with urban sprawl, like farmland loss, increased infrastructure costs, and health issues. Traditional policy tools to address these problems, like transportation and land use planning, have had limited success. The key underlying cause of the problems is that market prices do not reflect environmental costs. Environmental pricing reform aims to internalize these external environmental costs by tools like road pricing, parking fees, development cost charges that vary by location, and property tax rates that encourage dense development near transit. While political and fairness challenges exist, well-designed pricing reforms could help address transportation, sprawl and environmental issues while also generating revenue.
This document provides prompts and questions to help entrepreneurs refine their startup ideas at a Startup Weekend event in Cape Town. It discusses how cities and mobility are changing rapidly due to new technologies. Entrepreneurs are encouraged to consider these changes and how their ideas could address emerging needs and opportunities in areas like transportation, data analytics, citizen participation, and education to prepare youth for future jobs and technologies.
The document discusses carbon footprinting analysis for renewable energy solutions in India. It presents research on the carbon footprints of rural and urban areas in India. The study found that urban carbon footprints were higher than rural areas due to factors like transportation, construction, and fossil fuel usage. It recommends policies like promoting solar roof tops, private renewable energy grids, selling excess renewable energy, and energy storage to reduce carbon footprints as part of developing smart and sustainable cities. The document calls for global policy cooperation on energy issues to tackle climate change.
Conference at Tongi University - Shanghai: Smart City for developing and eme...Isam Shahrour
The conference of professor Isam Shahrour presented the urban challenges of emerging and developing countries, the concept of the Smart City and how this concept could help in facing the challenges of these countries. It also presents the implementation of the Smart City concept through the construction of the SunRise Smart City demonstrator.
Sustainability, social innovations and information technologyTomislav Rozman
Is a bitcoin a social innovation? Is it sustainable? It depends on the point of view. Who is a sustainable leader? Can you learn about it to become one?
A result of TeachSus project, presented on 15. Feb. 2019 in Ljubljana, Slovenia (Multiplier Event).
Pablo Vaggione _ Urban challenges and “smartness”smartcityexpo
The document discusses several challenges facing urban planning including a growing global urban population, increasing urbanization in developing countries, and the need to revise modern planning approaches. It questions if technology alone can solve problems and addresses key aspects of making cities "smart" such as efficiently using assets, learning from experience, civic engagement, and developing soft infrastructure like governance. The document emphasizes that an intelligent city makes decisions that improve living conditions.
The document discusses efforts by communities and universities to accelerate the deployment of gigabit broadband networks. It finds that the standard private investment equation for telecommunications companies does not currently justify investing in next-generation networks. However, cities can change this calculation by reducing costs, increasing revenues, and adding ecosystem benefits through tactics like aggregating demand, utilizing existing assets, pursuing regulatory reforms, and incentivizing competition. The roles of various city stakeholders are also outlined, including centralizing fiber asset data, educating citizens, performing preparatory engineering work, and establishing fiber-friendly policies and public-private partnerships.
Open Smart Cities in Canada - Webinar 3 - EnglishOpen North
In this webinar we present a first ever definition for an Open Smart City and the Open Smart Cities Guide V1.0, informed by research conducted in Canada and an examination of international best practices. In the context of Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge and the public conversation regarding Sidewalk Labs, this webinar gave us timely opportunity to receive public feedback on the definition and structure of the guide. The webinar refers to tools, practices, policies, recommendations and legal frameworks to guide Canadian municipalities toward co-creating Open Smart Cities with their residents.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
*Exposições de Walter Bender, diretor executivo do Media Lab MIT, e David
Cavallo, pesquisador do Media Lab e diretor do grupo de investigação sobre o
"Futuro do Aprendizado" -- Instituto Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 01/06/2005,
NAE, 07/06/2005*
Transactive networks in the New Zealand retail contextAdvisian
This document discusses the opportunities presented by transactive grids and the sharing economy in the energy sector. Key points:
- Technological advances are enabling new ways for people to buy and share electricity through peer-to-peer trading and other methods. However, widespread adoption requires public understanding of the benefits.
- A transactive grid allows everyday people to dynamically trade electricity with each other to meet personal goals in a way that creates value for consumers and cuts costs for utilities.
- The sharing economy model can be applied to energy through platforms that match generators and consumers to make efficient use of distributed energy resources like rooftop solar.
- Digital technologies like AI assistants, blockchain, analytics and IoT can power
This document summarizes a presentation on regulation in the Mekong region. It discusses how regulation is often focused on documents and specific rules rather than outcomes. Regulation should aim to adequately restrain opportunistic behavior that benefits small groups at the expense of the public. However, defining "the public" is complex as it may refer to the nation, environment, bureaucracy, or local communities. Regulation often fails to serve local community interests. The presentation provides examples of this and discusses how a case with IKEA shows some promising approaches to better regulation but also shortcomings. It concludes that regulation needs to be amended to give smallholder producers a fairer chance.
Resource Efficient Cities Drivers of Change & Engine to Sustainability-HoballahICLEI
The document discusses UNEP's focus on making cities more resource efficient and sustainable. It notes that cities currently account for a large share of global resource use and waste but also economic growth. UNEP works with city leaders to develop sustainable systems for buildings, transport, water, waste and growth. The goal is to decouple resource use from environmental impacts and economic development. UNEP's approach involves knowledge sharing, technical support, and networking platforms to help cities adopt goals and solutions for greater resource efficiency.
Tim Willoughby discusses open government and open data. He explains that open data can help people better understand how technology might help organizations by making government more transparent, efficient, and user-oriented. However, fully implementing open government will require overcoming challenges such as establishing policies and standards, engaging communities, and addressing issues around data quality, management, and sharing. Adopting open data principles like those used in FixYourStreet could help advance open government goals.
Open Smart City in Canada Project
Funded by: GeoConnections
Lead by: OpenNorth
Project core team:
Rachel Bloom & Jean-Noe Landry, Open North
Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault, Carleton University
David Fewer, LL.M., Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
Dr. Mark Fox, University of Toronto
Research Assistants Carleton University
Carly Livingstone
Stephen Letts
The document discusses opportunities for innovation in urban mobility systems through emerging technologies. It covers:
1) The challenges of growing urban populations and the need for sustainable transportation solutions.
2) Various emerging technologies like autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, vehicle charging infrastructure, internet of things applications, and distributed electric generation that could transform urban mobility if developed further.
3) How information technology is driving advances in these areas through exponential increases in computing power and improvements in human-machine interfaces, opening up new possibilities for reshaping road transportation networks.
The document discusses developing community resilience through sustainable energy solutions like Denmark has achieved. It proposes testing "Linlithgow Natural Grid" protocols and instruments in Scotland to accelerate community energy projects. These include a prepay energy credit system and energy partnership model. The goal is for communities to become energy independent by applying the "least carbon fuel cost principle". Future research should pilot these approaches and engage communities through social media and documentaries to disseminate the solutions.
In this work, the implications of new technologies, more specifically the new optical FTTH technologies, are studied both from the functional and non-functional perspectives. In particular, some direct impacts are listed in the form of abandoning non-functional technologies, such as micro-registration, which would be implicitly required for having a functioning operation before arrival the new high-bandwidth access technologies. It is shown that such abandonment of non-functional best practices, which are mainly at the management level of ICT, immediately results in additional consumption and environmental footprint, and also there is a chance that some other new innovations might be `missed.' Therefore, unconstrained deployment of these access technologies is not aligned with a possible sustainable ICT picture, except if they are regulated. An approach to pricing the best practices, including both functional and non-functional technologies, is proposed in order to develop a regulation and policy framework for a sustainable broadband access.
At the Asia Clean Energy Forum 2016 Ricardo Energy & Environment’s waste management and resource efficiency experts discussed a range of critical issues, including financial, institutional, policy, regulatory, engineering, environmental and social issues around the planning for and delivery of appropriate and effective waste to energy infrastructure in developing economies.
In this presentation Prof Adam Read, Practice Director, discusses waste, energy and climate change policy.
The document discusses transportation issues like traffic congestion and accidents in Hamilton and their high economic costs. It also discusses related problems with urban sprawl, like farmland loss, increased infrastructure costs, and health issues. Traditional policy tools to address these problems, like transportation and land use planning, have had limited success. The key underlying cause of the problems is that market prices do not reflect environmental costs. Environmental pricing reform aims to internalize these external environmental costs by tools like road pricing, parking fees, development cost charges that vary by location, and property tax rates that encourage dense development near transit. While political and fairness challenges exist, well-designed pricing reforms could help address transportation, sprawl and environmental issues while also generating revenue.
This document provides prompts and questions to help entrepreneurs refine their startup ideas at a Startup Weekend event in Cape Town. It discusses how cities and mobility are changing rapidly due to new technologies. Entrepreneurs are encouraged to consider these changes and how their ideas could address emerging needs and opportunities in areas like transportation, data analytics, citizen participation, and education to prepare youth for future jobs and technologies.
The document discusses carbon footprinting analysis for renewable energy solutions in India. It presents research on the carbon footprints of rural and urban areas in India. The study found that urban carbon footprints were higher than rural areas due to factors like transportation, construction, and fossil fuel usage. It recommends policies like promoting solar roof tops, private renewable energy grids, selling excess renewable energy, and energy storage to reduce carbon footprints as part of developing smart and sustainable cities. The document calls for global policy cooperation on energy issues to tackle climate change.
Conference at Tongi University - Shanghai: Smart City for developing and eme...Isam Shahrour
The conference of professor Isam Shahrour presented the urban challenges of emerging and developing countries, the concept of the Smart City and how this concept could help in facing the challenges of these countries. It also presents the implementation of the Smart City concept through the construction of the SunRise Smart City demonstrator.
Sustainability, social innovations and information technologyTomislav Rozman
Is a bitcoin a social innovation? Is it sustainable? It depends on the point of view. Who is a sustainable leader? Can you learn about it to become one?
A result of TeachSus project, presented on 15. Feb. 2019 in Ljubljana, Slovenia (Multiplier Event).
Pablo Vaggione _ Urban challenges and “smartness”smartcityexpo
The document discusses several challenges facing urban planning including a growing global urban population, increasing urbanization in developing countries, and the need to revise modern planning approaches. It questions if technology alone can solve problems and addresses key aspects of making cities "smart" such as efficiently using assets, learning from experience, civic engagement, and developing soft infrastructure like governance. The document emphasizes that an intelligent city makes decisions that improve living conditions.
The document discusses efforts by communities and universities to accelerate the deployment of gigabit broadband networks. It finds that the standard private investment equation for telecommunications companies does not currently justify investing in next-generation networks. However, cities can change this calculation by reducing costs, increasing revenues, and adding ecosystem benefits through tactics like aggregating demand, utilizing existing assets, pursuing regulatory reforms, and incentivizing competition. The roles of various city stakeholders are also outlined, including centralizing fiber asset data, educating citizens, performing preparatory engineering work, and establishing fiber-friendly policies and public-private partnerships.
Open Smart Cities in Canada - Webinar 3 - EnglishOpen North
In this webinar we present a first ever definition for an Open Smart City and the Open Smart Cities Guide V1.0, informed by research conducted in Canada and an examination of international best practices. In the context of Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge and the public conversation regarding Sidewalk Labs, this webinar gave us timely opportunity to receive public feedback on the definition and structure of the guide. The webinar refers to tools, practices, policies, recommendations and legal frameworks to guide Canadian municipalities toward co-creating Open Smart Cities with their residents.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
*Exposições de Walter Bender, diretor executivo do Media Lab MIT, e David
Cavallo, pesquisador do Media Lab e diretor do grupo de investigação sobre o
"Futuro do Aprendizado" -- Instituto Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 01/06/2005,
NAE, 07/06/2005*
Transactive networks in the New Zealand retail contextAdvisian
This document discusses the opportunities presented by transactive grids and the sharing economy in the energy sector. Key points:
- Technological advances are enabling new ways for people to buy and share electricity through peer-to-peer trading and other methods. However, widespread adoption requires public understanding of the benefits.
- A transactive grid allows everyday people to dynamically trade electricity with each other to meet personal goals in a way that creates value for consumers and cuts costs for utilities.
- The sharing economy model can be applied to energy through platforms that match generators and consumers to make efficient use of distributed energy resources like rooftop solar.
- Digital technologies like AI assistants, blockchain, analytics and IoT can power
This document summarizes a presentation on regulation in the Mekong region. It discusses how regulation is often focused on documents and specific rules rather than outcomes. Regulation should aim to adequately restrain opportunistic behavior that benefits small groups at the expense of the public. However, defining "the public" is complex as it may refer to the nation, environment, bureaucracy, or local communities. Regulation often fails to serve local community interests. The presentation provides examples of this and discusses how a case with IKEA shows some promising approaches to better regulation but also shortcomings. It concludes that regulation needs to be amended to give smallholder producers a fairer chance.
Resource Efficient Cities Drivers of Change & Engine to Sustainability-HoballahICLEI
The document discusses UNEP's focus on making cities more resource efficient and sustainable. It notes that cities currently account for a large share of global resource use and waste but also economic growth. UNEP works with city leaders to develop sustainable systems for buildings, transport, water, waste and growth. The goal is to decouple resource use from environmental impacts and economic development. UNEP's approach involves knowledge sharing, technical support, and networking platforms to help cities adopt goals and solutions for greater resource efficiency.
Tim Willoughby discusses open government and open data. He explains that open data can help people better understand how technology might help organizations by making government more transparent, efficient, and user-oriented. However, fully implementing open government will require overcoming challenges such as establishing policies and standards, engaging communities, and addressing issues around data quality, management, and sharing. Adopting open data principles like those used in FixYourStreet could help advance open government goals.
Open Smart City in Canada Project
Funded by: GeoConnections
Lead by: OpenNorth
Project core team:
Rachel Bloom & Jean-Noe Landry, Open North
Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault, Carleton University
David Fewer, LL.M., Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
Dr. Mark Fox, University of Toronto
Research Assistants Carleton University
Carly Livingstone
Stephen Letts
The document discusses opportunities for innovation in urban mobility systems through emerging technologies. It covers:
1) The challenges of growing urban populations and the need for sustainable transportation solutions.
2) Various emerging technologies like autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, vehicle charging infrastructure, internet of things applications, and distributed electric generation that could transform urban mobility if developed further.
3) How information technology is driving advances in these areas through exponential increases in computing power and improvements in human-machine interfaces, opening up new possibilities for reshaping road transportation networks.
The document discusses developing community resilience through sustainable energy solutions like Denmark has achieved. It proposes testing "Linlithgow Natural Grid" protocols and instruments in Scotland to accelerate community energy projects. These include a prepay energy credit system and energy partnership model. The goal is for communities to become energy independent by applying the "least carbon fuel cost principle". Future research should pilot these approaches and engage communities through social media and documentaries to disseminate the solutions.
Similar to A Sustainable Future: Potentials of our Tools (ICT and Energy) and Responsibility of our Actors (Societies, Businesses, and Individuals) (20)
In this work, the implications of new technologies, more specifically the new optical FTTH technologies, are studied both from the functional and non-functional perspectives. In particular, some direct impacts are listed in the form of abandoning non-functional technologies, such as micro-registration, which would be implicitly required for having a functioning operation before arrival the new high-bandwidth access technologies. It is shown that such abandonment of non-functional best practices, which are mainly at the management level of ICT, immediately results in additional consumption and environmental footprint, and also there is a chance that some other new innovations might be `missed.' Therefore, unconstrained deployment of these access technologies is not aligned with a possible sustainable ICT picture, except if they are regulated. An approach to pricing the best practices, including both functional and non-functional technologies, is proposed in order to develop a regulation and policy framework for a sustainable broadband access.
Sustainability: Actors, Behavior, and Transparency
Part 1: A Graph-based Perspective to Footprint Assessment
Part 2: SmartPacket - Redistributing the Routing Intelligence among Network Components in SDNs
Part 3: Profiling without ‘Profiling’ – Use Case of a Federated Approach to Resource Management in Smart House
Part 4: A Multi-Entity Input Output (MEIO) Approach to Sustainability - Water-Energy-GHG (WEG) Footprint Statements
Part 5 (Afternoon): Dynamic Network Topology-on-Demand for SDNs Using Failure-resilience Generalized Topologies of Physical Underlay
The presentation of paper titled "Challenges and complexities in application of LCA approaches in the case of ICT for a sustainable future" in ICT4S'14 Conference
This document analyzes the sustainability of broadband wireless access (BWA). It discusses the challenges of the wireless and broadband aspects of BWA, including variability of the media, mobility, location challenges, and high energy consumption of always-on stations. It proposes new metrics to measure BWA sustainability and analyzes the potential paradoxes of efficiency increasing consumption. Examples are given of how BWA can enable benefits like reducing transportation sector footprint and aiding emergency operations. Approaches are outlined for regulators to contain the footprint of BWA through improved efficiency and new contract models.
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam presented a progress report for research conducted within the GSTC Project. The report summarized progress on three axes: Axis 1 focused on green computing and efficient operation of servers and switches. Axis 3 involved behavior analysis of systems, ecosystems, and experts to enable efficient operation while improving dependability. Disseminations included 3 published or submitted papers related to Axes 1 and 3.
The presentation of a paper entitled "Unsupervised ensemble of experts (EoE) framework for automatic binarization of document images" to be presented in ICDAR 2013, Washingthon, DC, USA (August 25h-28th, 2013, on August 27th, 2013.
The document proposes a cognitive behavior analysis framework with three sub-paradigms for failure prediction in cloud computing. The framework uses a probabilistic behavior analysis approach, simulated probabilistic analysis, and behavior-time profile modeling to analyze system behavior at different layers and identify potential failures. The framework is intended to be scalable and improve system dependability through failure prediction.
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
AI-Powered Food Delivery Transforming App Development in Saudi Arabia.pdfTechgropse Pvt.Ltd.
In this blog post, we'll delve into the intersection of AI and app development in Saudi Arabia, focusing on the food delivery sector. We'll explore how AI is revolutionizing the way Saudi consumers order food, how restaurants manage their operations, and how delivery partners navigate the bustling streets of cities like Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dammam. Through real-world case studies, we'll showcase how leading Saudi food delivery apps are leveraging AI to redefine convenience, personalization, and efficiency.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
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The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
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By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
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A Sustainable Future: Potentials of our Tools (ICT and Energy) and Responsibility of our Actors (Societies, Businesses, and Individuals)
1. A Sustainable Future: Potentials of our Tools (ICT and Energy) and Responsibility of our Actors (Societies, Businesses, and Individuals) Un avenir durable : Potentiels de nos outils (les TIC et de l'énergie) et la responsabilité de nos acteurs (sociétés , entreprises , et personnes)
Reza FARRAHI MOGHADDAM1,2
1Synchromedia Lab, ETS, UduQ, Montreal, QC, Canada
2CIRODD, Montreal, QC, Canada
ÉTS conférences midi sur les enjeux énergétiques: Le développement durable au service de l’énergie
A-1600, ETS, October 17th, 2014
2. Abstract
The talk focuses on the inevitable challenges that we will face in our life journey in upcoming years and decodes considering both scarcity of resources and exponential growth in connectivity (in all three dimensions of coverage, volume, and speed). Some approaches to understand the source of these challenges and also some potential modifications in living style toward a sustainable future are discussed.
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3. Highlights from Outline
•Chapter 1: Sustainable Future
–Definition of Sustainability
–Dematerialization
–Intangible “Properties”
–Knowledge without Boundary
•Chapter 2: ICT and Energy
–Wireless Everywhere
–“True” Renewable Energy
–Distributed Energy
–Energy Efficiency
•Chapter 3: Actors
– Societies, Businesses, and People
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4. SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Chapter 1
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5. Definition of Sustainability
•What is “Sustainability”?
•First attempt: Respecting natural resources
–Resource oriented
•Second attempt: Respecting two other pillars
–Society and Economy (more realistic)
•What is next?
•Our proposal (Sustainability Pentagon)
–Identification, Recognition, and Engagement of all Actors
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6. World’s Population
•6 Billion by 2000, done!
•7.2 Billion now (2014), done! (20% in just 14 years)
•9.6 Billion by 2050
–Only 37% increase in population in 35 years
–But, moving away from inequality:
•Meat Consumption/year/capita: 41 kg 52 kg (i.e., a total of (1.37)(1.27) - 1= 74% increase in meat consumption)
•Meat is not everything
•11 Billion by 2100
–Corrected from a previous projection of 9 Billion
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7. Dematerialization
•A key element in the IPCC scenarios to curb the climate change
–In Transport, Buildings, Energy industry itself, etc
•ICT sector is the flagship of dematerialization
–However, not really the first:
•Books dematerialized the story telling business
–Resource Sharing and Virtualization
•Resource Sharing does not always mean Virtualization
–ex: Linux Containers
•Virtualization is not necessarily equivalent to Cloud Computing
•The main problem is not how to dematerialize, but why we perform all those activities at the first place
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8. I “act,” therefore I exist
•Types of action:
–Type I: Acting on self (or others’) properties
–Type II: Owning new properties
•Rene Descartes’ act of “thinking” is a special case Type I actions with respect to intangible properties
–First hint on intangible properties:
•You cannot think about a movie that you have on a DVD but you have not watched it yet
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9. Intangible “properties”
•Not every intangible “thing” (res) is an intangible “property”
•“thing” or res: a ciphered intangible res carried by a tangible carrier (ex: a Movie on a DVD)
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10. Example of a movie on DVD
•You buy a movie on DVD:
–DVD: Tangible res (carrier)
–Movie on DVD: A ciphered intangible res
–Memory and Experience after watching that movie: Your intangible property
•Your intangible property is (hopefully):
nontransferable and non-cloneable
•Ciphered intangible res is cloneable and transferable, however, nobody would clone them in future:
–Their number will exponentially increase
–The capacity of intangible properties would be constant
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11. Tangible res also show symptoms of intangible res
•Ex1: The popular example of “Bubble” or “Balloon”
•A balloon is tangible but ephemeral
•A popular concept in many fields
•Ex2: Owner of an enterprise w.r.t. properties of that enterprise
•Owner thinks of them as his own properties
•However, his “management bandwidth” could not handle it
•Other actors will actually manage those properties for him (trust)
•Although it is based on trust and contract, there will be no guarantee
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12. Credit, Money, and Digital Currencies
•Credit: A non-local intangible property between two parties:
–Actual owner (creditor) and implicit owner (credited)
•Money: Exchangeable, ciphered carrier of credit
•Digital currencies: Good exercise to shape and mature understanding and handling of intangible properties and ciphered intangible res
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13. Knowledge without Boundary
•Knowledge without Boundary
–Best Practices (BPs)
–Locked BPs (Intellectual Property)
•Disadvantage to those actors residing in the locked regions versus those in the unmonitored regions
–Unverifiable, suboptimal, but claimed BPs
•Parallel concept: Knowledge without Border
–Well practiced because of mobility of scientists
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14. ICT AND ENERGY
Chapter 2
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15. The Need for a dematerialized life style
–Large volumes of ciphered intangible res:
•“Embedded” in tangible res
–Internet of Things (IoT) is not just about command-and-control or tracking of tangible res, such as cars. It is more related to smart leveraging the ciphered intangible res carried by them (for example, sensory-enabled things)
•“Stored” in Data Center
–Seamless access to them:
–Connectivity among “human beings”, “tangible res”, and “ciphered intangible res”
•3D Problem: Coverage, Speed, and Volume (CSV)
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16. The Need for a dematerialized life style, Cont’d
•AAA-grade CSV Connected World:
–Coverage: Wireless Everywhere
–Speed: Low latency
–Volume: Broadband wireless
•5G radio access:
–LTE Advanced (3GPP Rel-10) + Enhancements
•Novel smart solutions are required:
–Energy efficient
–Better performance
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17. “True” Renewable Energy
•Is solar energy really renewable?
•Counter example: Concentrated solar power (CSP)
–Water Consumption in their cooling system is similar to that of natural gas power plants
–New designs are required to make CSPs water friendly
•Consumption and footprint in manufacturing of related equipment, and also in their decommissioning
–Finite lifespan of wind farms
–Need to perform analyses: Life cycle assessment (LCA)
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18. Wind Energy vs. Solar Energy
•Solar energy:
–A considerable amount of absorbed solar energy is converted in atmospheric heat (instead of being reflected back into the outer space)
•The original problem of the GHGs
•Wind Energy:
–Extracts energy from the atmosphere, possible benefits in reducing rate and severity of storms
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19. Distributed Energy
•Components:
–Reduction in Energy Consumption
–Temporal Demand Management:
•Our proposed Federally-Managed Smart House
–Distributed Energy Sources
–Distributed Energy Storage
•Example: Rooftop solar panels + Local energy storage
•Off grid could be unsafe, but Net metering makes sense
•Similarity to: Public Transport + Personal cars
–Higher adoption of distributed energy means more subsidies to the grid from the tax revenue, similar to subsidies to public transport
–Buses pass in front of your house, no matter you use them or not
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20. Energy Efficiency: The World’s First Fuel (IEA)
•A decade of Energy Efficiency is equivalent to:
Total final consumption of the USA and Germany combined in 2012
•Having less consumption w.r.t. baseline is no longer a green light:
–“Zero Consumption is the new Consumption Reduction”
•Energy Efficiency vs. Conservation
–A combination of both: Up to 30% reduction
•Role of ICT:
–Smart management of activities and resources
•The case of smart DVFS for HPC workloads
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21. ACTORS: SOCIETIES, ENTERPRISES, AND INDIVIDUALS
Chapter 3
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22. There is no such an actor as “Society”
•There are many societies:
–City: Montreal, Stockholm, Beijing
–Neighborhood: Griffintown, Rosemont Petite-Patrie
–ETS residence
•Societies interact with each other:
–Horizontally, Hierarchically, among other forms
•Each society is responsible for its own actions
•Geographical, social, and other distances would make societies unaware of each other
–Region A assumes itself sustainable while it has not carried out any action w.r.t. pollution in Region B
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23. There is more than just societies: “Enterprises”
•Some similarities with societies:
–Collective actions of a collection of actors
•However, a business’ actions are directed toward a goal different from the better good of its actors
•From being the bad guys of the past to becoming front-runners of the sustainable future
–Engagement, not just reporting
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24. A society is not equivalent to its “individuals”
•Every individual is responsible for their actions
•Super-alignment of individuals’ actions could reach the scales of the enterprise or society actions
–It may require lower “temperatures”
•Similar to superconductors
•Achievable using more passive interactions
•Role of
–Education: Knowledge transfer & Problem solving skills
–Interaction: Recognition & Indirect knowledge transfer
–Self-confidence:
•back to the first square: “I act, therefore I exist”
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25. Thank you!
Questions
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26. Further Readings
•Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, and Mohamed Cheriet. A Graph-based Perspective to Total Carbon Footprint Assessment of Non-marginal Technology-driven Projects - Use case of OTT/IPTV. 2014. [arXiv preprint arXiv: 1409.0876, September 2014].
•Reza Farrahi Moghaddam and Mohamed Cheriet. A note on quality of experience (QoE) beyond quality of service (QoS) as the baseline. 2014. [arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.5527, July 2014].
•Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, and Mohamed Cheriet. A modified GHG intensity indicator: Toward a sustainable global economy based on a carbon border tax and emissions trading. Energy Policy, 57:363–380, June 2013. [ArXiv preprint: arXiv:1110.1567, October 2011].
•Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, and Mohamed Cheriet. A multi-entity input output (MEIO) approach to sustainability-water-energy-ghg (WEG) footprint statements in use cases from Auto and Telco industries. 2014. [arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.6227, April 2014].
•Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, and Mohamed Cheriet. Progress in Economics Research, volume 29 (Taxes and the Economy: Government Policies, Macroeconomic Factors and Impacts on Consumption and the Environment), chapter IIGHGINT: A generalization to the modified GHG intensity universal indicator toward a production/consumption insensitive border carbon tax, pages 131–147. NOVA Science Publishers, 2014. [ArXiv preprint: arXiv:1401.0301, January 2014].
•Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, Thomas Dandres, Yves Lemieux, Réjean Samson, and Mohamed Cheriet. Challenges and complexities in application of LCA approaches in the case of ICT for a sustainable future. In ICT4S’14, pages 155–164, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, August 24-27 2014. [ArXiv preprint: arXiv:1403.2798, March 2014].
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27. Biography
Reza FARRAHI MOGHADDAM received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Kerman University, Iran, in 1995 and 2003, respectively. He has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a Research Associate with the Synchromedia Laboratory for Multimedia Communication in Telepresence, École de technologie supérieure (University of Quebec) in Montreal (QC), Canada since 2007 and 2012, respectively. Dr. Farrahi has published more than 50 technical papers. His research interests include sustainability, behavior analysis, green ICT, green economy, perception, and optimization. He is a member of the IEEE.
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28. Synchromedia Lab
Synchromedia was founded in 1988 as a part of the Department of Automation Engineering at the École de technologie supérieure of University of Quebec, with founding members from 4 University of Quebec institutions. Effective Mars 2005, the group has been awarded a $4 million CFI grant to build a Pan-Canadian Consortium. The group works on a wide diversity of pertinent research areas. Synchromedia core theme consists in an intelligent and seamless integration of various perceptual modes of information that allows collaborative management and sharing of information, actions and behaviors beyond the mere multimedia teleconferencing and communication.
Synchromedia Director Prof Mohamed CHERIET received the B.Sc. CE (Bab Ezzouar University, Algiers), DEA and Doctorate of University of Paris 6 (Paris 6, France). As a scientist and educator, Prof Cheriet has taken an active role in publishing technical papers and authoring books. He has published more than 70 international journal papers and 135 international conference papers, and has delivered 17 invited talks. In addition, he has authored and published 6 books. Prof Cheriet is also recognized for his activities in technical journal editorial writing, organizing and taking part in many conferences. He has contributed to the training of more than 65 high qualified personnel. He has also served as chair of the IEEE’s Montreal CIS Chapter.
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