The document discusses the importance of open data sets and aggregation and access to health data at both the individual and societal level. It advocates for increased sharing and comparing of data to lead to better health outcomes for all. The loss of Frederick Allen Holliday, PhD is also referenced as an important data point.
Davy & Kristin McGuire: Connect! artist perspectiveRosie Clarke
Artists Davy & Kristin McGuire took part in Culture24's Connect! competition. This presentation explains their initial idea, how they selected which pitches from museums and galleries would go through to the public voting stage, how they collaborated with winning venue the Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, and the Starkers projection-mapping installation they ended up creating for their Museums at Night event.
Davy & Kristin McGuire: Connect! artist perspectiveRosie Clarke
Artists Davy & Kristin McGuire took part in Culture24's Connect! competition. This presentation explains their initial idea, how they selected which pitches from museums and galleries would go through to the public voting stage, how they collaborated with winning venue the Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, and the Starkers projection-mapping installation they ended up creating for their Museums at Night event.
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.
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.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
6. The future of Data access is Sharing Data and Comparing Data For better Health outcomes for us all.
Editor's Notes
In this painting entitled “Half of Me” there are two Cindy Throops. Both are framed within the shape of an unlit bulb. The top Cindy in yellow is happy and joyous beside her is a stuffed cat dressed in a small shirt with a happy face upon it.Below this Cindy and placed upside down is another dressed Cindy dressed in gray. This Cindy is stern and sad. She types upon a laptop the words “You are only treating half of me.” Beside her is Throop Cat again --but this time in a straitjacket.
This is a painting of data. This is Apples to Apples. This is my take on what data can look like when presented in a visual form. I took patient satisfaction survey results and clinical care results from George Washington University Hospital and combined them with the allegorical image of a child’s report card. In this painting the sky is a swirling storm cloud of information. It crosses the field of vision like the data on a computer screen. Scrolling left to right and falling off into a nether-land of statistical confusion. This data reflects clinical care. It shows whether or not the correct medicines were given in a timely fashion. It shows how long people live after a heart attack. It is the background and sets the scene for action. In the mid-ground are four images. To the left is George Washington University Hospital looming in the stormy sky. To the far right is a tower of children’s alphabet blocks. These blocks spell "H C A H P S". This is the acronym for Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems. These are the building blocks that help patients make decisions about where they would like to be admitted if hospitalized. Sandwiched between the two structures are two children. The small boy holds out two apples. He would like to show you that you have a choice. You, the patient, can decide where to receive care. Due to HCAHPS, you can now compare hospitals based on patient survey satisfaction results. Next to the boy stands a girl. She is concerned as she shows her report card. The patient satisfaction data is now represented in a report card format. Comfortably average scores are now shocking when depicted by C’s, D’s and F’s.In the foreground lies our patient. He is trying to research. Hand upraised in frustration or confusion, he tries to comprehend the data before him. His attention is torn between the offer of choice and the presentation of data.
The center of the Painting73 Centsis our family. My husband is positioned like Marat in David's Death of Marat. His eyes are closed and he is peaceful on his hospital bed. Not quite dying yet, merely sleeping. He holds in his hand a paper that says "Go after them, Regina." For that is what he told me to do. He said later that I was "pulling a Regina", which means to go all out, never stop, and never give up. I am the woman with three faces. A plastic beautiful mask faces my husband. This is one of those plastic Halloween masks we used to wear as children. You know the type, with holes for eyes and nose. Your face became so moist underneath as you tried to breathe and yell trick or treat. These masks were cheap and well within the means of a poor girl. They did their job well-- no one knew what you really looked like. Beneath, unseen by all, is my true face. Looking behind me another face beseeches the nurse for information. This is the care giver's face, sad and distraught, trying to provide help. My pose is the same as one of the figures from Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. My body appears to be restrained from my husband. It is as if invisible hands are pulling me away.Above and in the outside hallway in the piece, a nurse is reclining in a chair drinking a soda and using Facebook. She is not engaged in the tragedy surrounding her.Above, within the room, is a clock with no hands...for time has stopped for us even as the rest of the world keeps going.Beside the clock is the light fromGuernicanow halogen instead of incandescent as we are entering a new age. The fixture barely lights the few feet around it. Darkness surrounds the space.To the left of the painting is a housekeeper. She holds the tools for her profession. The soiled linen bag beside her is overflowing. The lack of staff in a lot of facilities has lead to trash and linens getting to this overflowing state. The sign at her feet says, “Warning Slippery Slope.” It refers to the slippery slope of thehealth care debate.
This painting was created for Ted Smith, Sr. Advisor, Innovations and Technology Transfer, ONC at U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES and is entitled : “Something Sacred.” Ted’s Mother, Grandma Smith, sits in the center of the frame. Her face stares out at the viewer with the frank appraisal of those who are about to die. “Why?” She asks us as multiple pills drop from her hands. Her hospital gown covers her nakedness, whilst large chunks of her body have been removed. The holes that are left behind form the shape of a jigsaw puzzle pieces. On either side of the frame two medical professional view the X-Rays of Grandma Smith. Our left side doctor holds her x-ray to the light and decides with that piece alone she will prescribe a certain medicine. On the right side of the painting another Doctor views another puzzle piece upon a computer screen. She, too in turn, will prescribe another drug to solve the problems of this symptom. Neither Doctor will put the pieces together to treat the whole wonderful person that is Grandma Smith. She would have no reconciled view of her past or current treatments and the cycle of side effects and symptoms would be larger than any doctor appeared capable of reconciling. The drugs become a towering landscape that dwarfs the patient in its midst. Label upon label is affixed upon jar upon jar of medicine, and each label bares a question mark. All the while, the patient wonders why. Alone and afraid, she sits besieged as the pills encroach. So she suffers unnecessarily and expensively from the side effects of the treatment of a narrow range of disorders, all the while a rare and aggressive cancer was attacking her from within. But there is hope within the painting, the beams of the sun pour down upon the terrifying image. Those beams are made of the 1’s 0’s of binary code. This is the data cloud that can save us. This is all that is simple and transparent. This is Ted’s hope for us. Ted hopes for a time when someone else’s mother’s full treatment can be viewed in one place. He envisions a future where a computer can deal with the simple stuff, i.e. drug interactions, and Doctors dealing with the harder stuff. He sees a future where a person’s entire medical history is only a mouse click away; a future where the lack of one data set is considered tragic.
This a painting created for Susannah Fox from Pew Research: Data Mote. It is as serene and concise as the data she presents. There is no mess or unnecessary details in this picture. It is all angles and planes. It is all shadow and light. In this painting there is a silhouette of Susannah behind a Japanese Screen. She is presenting a speech. She is telling the world the results of the newest Pew research as it applies to health. She is doing it in shadow. The data itself gets the spot light. Susannah is just the vessel from whence the data pours. On the right side of the painting a human figure stands. This is the data mote. This is the faceless patient. All unique identifiers have been removed. She/he/it has been scrubbed. This is clean data. But this creature seems rather sad as it holds onto the screen that shields Susannah from view. I do not think it shall peek though, as its head is lowered in submission. Behind this figure is a window. In that window, shines beams of sunlight through a cloud. This is cloud technology and social media and it is changing things. This cloud with its bright shinning sun is changing the data space. Our data mote now has a long shadow. Perhaps that shadow will tell us more about this creature than we would ever have known before. I love to think of data. I love to paint what data means. But sometimes the way we collect it and scrub it makes me sad. When I painted Apples to Apples last year, I looked at quite a few data sets. I was saddened to see areas where data could not be reported because the population that had the disease or injury was so small as to be identifiable by a hospital data set. This applies especially to rare disease. And I thought of Fred. Kidney cancer is considered a rare type of cancer. Was Fred’s clinical outcome scrubbed, because to use it would have identified him? And then I wondered had anyone thought to ask him his wishes? Did he want to be included regardless of possible identification, if it would save lives? I went to a Health 2.0 Meet Up in Bethesda not long ago where I asked about data donation. Can you imagine going to the DMV to renew your ID or your Drivers license and the staff would ask you two questions? Of course the standard, “Would you like to be an organ donor in the event of your death?” But what if that was followed by, “Would you like to release the content of your EMR/PHR for the purpose scientific study?” Can you imagine a world where HIPPA was used in a different way? I sign a HIPPA release. I give permission to share my information. Some folks phrase this as “waiving my rights.” I disagree. I am using my right to share data. I wonder how much our appreciation for data would change, if weren’t quite so clean? Humans are messy. Our lives and loves are messy. Not everything is black and white within medicine. To make a place for the patient story in the world of HIT, sometimes we have to use names. Sometimes we have to make personal. I think Susannah does her best to make data sets personal, given the limitations within the current form. I am glad I got to paint this painting for her and to sign it as an “Adult between the ages of 18-49.”
This painting is homage to another work entitled “The Accolade.” Edmund Blair Leighton painted this piece in 1901. He was an English painter that specialized in the medieval genre and this painting has become synonymous with knighthood.In hispainting, a Queen with sword in hand bestows a knighthood upon a kneeling subject. In this painting “Subjects,” the relationship has changed from a depiction of ruler and subject to an exploration of care among equals. TheQueen has dropped her sword to her side and her other hand rests on the shoulder of a patient as she looks at him at eye to eye. Other patients/subjects gather round and each appear to be offering a green button to the Queen. This represents the Green Button Download. This is the concept that I, the patient, can share whatever health information I want. It can be scrubbed or not. I share this with you to help others and aid in the aggregation of data. And all I ask of you, is that you do the same for me. I ask you to share the data and conclusions that you have reached. I ask that we come to the table as equal partners in patient care and I will share with you. I may be dying, I may be well, but lets crowd source this. Lets put this in the cloud, lets open up my data set and that of all my willing brothers. Lets code-a-thon tell dawn and make greater strides in hours than is often seen in years. Thedawn breaks through the stained glass within this picture. A man named Craig Lipset is depicted by the stained glass design, standing sacred and still, holding a pill where his heart resides. Here is the new tomorrow shining through the colors of the rainbow button initiative. Where this light falls, health is revealed and shadows melt away. We are no longer subjects. We are partners in care. Let patient’s help, that is all we ask.