Written for a seminar at Universiteit Twente (Netherlands) in March 2009, this presentation by Adrien Joly (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France) introduces approaches for improved enterprise communication and collaboration, which motivates a convergent framework of real-time contextual notifications based on employees' work context. The framework is presented and current research issues (work in progress) are introduced.
John wants to contact his coworker Mary about an urgent business matter but has trouble reaching her through multiple communication methods. This highlights the problem of disjointed communications across different applications and devices. The solution proposed is unified communications, where real-time applications are integrated so individuals can manage all communications together in desktop and mobile environments. Most companies recognize the benefits of unified communications and are planning to implement it to improve internal communications and productivity with potential cost savings.
TPEX is a video collaboration solutions provider that offers telepresence products, services, and integrated solutions. Its vision is to deliver a global video collaboration platform and services. TPEX designs market solutions to optimize efficiency, agility, and reduce carbon footprints by implementing telepresence technology. It delivers a "full service" telepresence solution, including all technology, systems, and services offered as an integrated solution with a fixed subscription fee per month plus cost of usage.
Mobile 2.0 Europe 2009 - http://mobile20.eu
Openness in the telecommunication industry
Open with care or care to open?
Carlos Domingo
Director, Internet and Multimedia Lab
TELEFÓNICA I+D
This document summarizes trends in global e-learning and discusses challenges in integrating technology and pedagogy for online learning. It covers:
1. Changing educational landscape with borderless education and new providers like corporate universities.
2. Trends include learner-centered and lifelong learning, while issues involve quality assurance and intellectual property rights.
3. An experiment on international distance learning between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and City University of Hong Kong that used videoconferencing and online collaboration tools.
This document provides guidance for planning a live online learning session. It discusses defining the purpose and learning outcomes, which may include organizational aims, changes in performance, and knowledge, skills or attitudes to be developed. The type of learning, such as procedural tasks, principle-based tasks, processes, facts or concepts, should inform the teaching strategies used. Different types of learning require different strategies, such as demonstrations and practice for tasks, examples for concepts, and repetition for facts. The document stresses the importance of clarity on the purpose and learning type to select appropriate methods and media for the session.
The document discusses enabling education through cloud computing. It describes how online courses can expand reach, and how big data and learning analytics can enable personalized learning environments. Mobile devices are becoming primary learning tools, and social learning/content sharing support collaboration. The cloud benefits education by providing standardized IT infrastructure, a central content repository, and standards for information exchange/sharing. The document advocates for education institutions to work with national research networks to leverage economies of scale in cloud adoption.
John wants to contact his coworker Mary about an urgent business matter but has trouble reaching her through multiple communication methods. This highlights the problem of disjointed communications across different applications and devices. The solution proposed is unified communications, where real-time applications are integrated so individuals can manage all communications together in desktop and mobile environments. Most companies recognize the benefits of unified communications and are planning to implement it to improve internal communications and productivity with potential cost savings.
TPEX is a video collaboration solutions provider that offers telepresence products, services, and integrated solutions. Its vision is to deliver a global video collaboration platform and services. TPEX designs market solutions to optimize efficiency, agility, and reduce carbon footprints by implementing telepresence technology. It delivers a "full service" telepresence solution, including all technology, systems, and services offered as an integrated solution with a fixed subscription fee per month plus cost of usage.
Mobile 2.0 Europe 2009 - http://mobile20.eu
Openness in the telecommunication industry
Open with care or care to open?
Carlos Domingo
Director, Internet and Multimedia Lab
TELEFÓNICA I+D
This document summarizes trends in global e-learning and discusses challenges in integrating technology and pedagogy for online learning. It covers:
1. Changing educational landscape with borderless education and new providers like corporate universities.
2. Trends include learner-centered and lifelong learning, while issues involve quality assurance and intellectual property rights.
3. An experiment on international distance learning between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and City University of Hong Kong that used videoconferencing and online collaboration tools.
This document provides guidance for planning a live online learning session. It discusses defining the purpose and learning outcomes, which may include organizational aims, changes in performance, and knowledge, skills or attitudes to be developed. The type of learning, such as procedural tasks, principle-based tasks, processes, facts or concepts, should inform the teaching strategies used. Different types of learning require different strategies, such as demonstrations and practice for tasks, examples for concepts, and repetition for facts. The document stresses the importance of clarity on the purpose and learning type to select appropriate methods and media for the session.
The document discusses enabling education through cloud computing. It describes how online courses can expand reach, and how big data and learning analytics can enable personalized learning environments. Mobile devices are becoming primary learning tools, and social learning/content sharing support collaboration. The cloud benefits education by providing standardized IT infrastructure, a central content repository, and standards for information exchange/sharing. The document advocates for education institutions to work with national research networks to leverage economies of scale in cloud adoption.
This document summarizes a report on investigating the measle effect seen on some printed circuit boards used by Landis & Gyr. The report finds that there are two separate issues - the measle effect itself, caused by traces of sodium hydroxide under the solder resist that blisters it when exposed to humidity, and dendritic growth on top of resist traces promoted by flux residues and humidity. It concludes the measle effect is due to inadequate cleaning of PCBs before solder resist application, while dendritic growth poses no issues based on field returns analyzed. Recommendations are made to address cleaning procedures.
This document summarizes evidence of persecution of Hizb ut-Tahrir members in Uzbekistan by the authoritarian government of President Islam Karimov. It includes testimonies from victims' families describing unlawful arrests, torture, deaths in custody, and harsh prison conditions faced by the political group's members. The report argues that Karimov's "war on terror" is being used to target non-violent domestic political opposition and justify human rights abuses with foreign backing, especially from the United States.
Mineralogy of a_mudstone_at_yellowknife_bay_gale_crater_marsSérgio Sacani
The document summarizes the mineralogical analysis of two mudstone samples, John Klein and Cumberland, collected from Yellowknife Bay on Mars by the Curiosity rover. X-ray diffraction analysis found that the samples contain detrital basaltic minerals, calcium sulfates, iron oxides/hydroxides, iron sulfides, amorphous material, and trioctahedral smectites. The smectite in John Klein has a basal spacing of ~10 Å indicating little water interlayer hydration, while Cumberland smectite has a spacing of ~13.2 Å, suggesting partial chloritization or interlayer ions that facilitate water retention. The mudstone minerals are similar to nearby eolian deposits but
Thirty eminent personalities (http://netchakra.net/natchakra-contributors/) have come together to produce 30 fascinating stories of Internet in India. Foreword is by Mr. Jyotiraditya Scindia and epilogue by Mr. Sam Pitroda.
O documento convoca os trabalhadores a se unirem contra a perseguição e julgamentos fraudulentos de líderes e trabalhadores operários na Argentina. Denuncia o ataque do governo e empresas contra os direitos dos trabalhadores e chama a formação de um movimento nacional de organizações operárias para enfrentar a opressão.
Marvin JS is a novel light-weight chemical editor suitable for generating standard chemical structures without the need for installing Java, designed by ChemAxon. It provides all the essential features for quick and easy structure drawing as well as flexible editing options for molecular manipulations. Pearson Education is partnering with ChemAxon to develop a custom educational version of Marvin JS to be used in Pearson’s chemical tutorial platform, MasteringChemistry.
This educational version of Marvin JS separates out various tools into “presets” to match specific answer types that Pearson authors have designed – skeletal 2D problems, skeletal 3D problems and mechanism problems. For example, tools necessary for drawing mechanisms will only be available for those problems that ask the student to draw a mechanism. In additional, authors will be able to set specific initialization parameters for individual problems such as “show lone pairs” or “show R,S labels”. This higher level of feature control allows authors to better regulate what students are able to see and able to do in the drawing tool, minimizing opportunities for mistakes (using the wrong templates for example) or cheating (using R,S labels to answer a stereochemistry question). Pearson will offer this custom version of Marvin JS for Organic and General Chemistry drawing items both for desktop and for mobile beginning in January 2014.
Social Media at Austrian Red Cross Communication.
Background information and best practices.
Presentation for the 2010 Return Delegates Week at Austrian Red Cross
En région Centre, l’organisation de fêtes et salons du livre se développe aussi bien dans les campagnes que dans les villes. Ces manifestations témoignent d’un intérêt fort pour le livre, la lecture et l’écriture et d’un dynamisme des acteurs dans ce domaine. Ces fêtes et salons revêtent des formes différentes car elles sont issues d’histoires particulières et ont un passé plus ou moins lointain. Thématique ou généraliste, fête ou salon, en présence d’auteurs ou simplement par l’exposition et la vente de livres, le choix est vaste.
Nous avons recensé une quarantaine de fêtes et salons du livre en région Centre se déroulant de janvier à décembre 2013
Developed by staff in the offices of the bursar, registrar and financial aid, this FAQ will help USC Columbia staff answer questions from students and parents as we prepare for the fall 2014 semester.
The QSE Index in Qatar declined 0.6% led by losses in the Insurance and Telecom indices. Top losers were Qatar Insurance Co. and Barwa Real Estate Co., falling 4.3% and 2.7% respectively. Regional indices were mixed with Saudi Arabia and Dubai down while Kuwait and Oman rose marginally. Earnings news saw profits rise for United Foods Co. and Al Buhaira National Insurance Co. but fall for BMMI in Bahrain. Global data showed French industrial production and German exports rising monthly but Chinese exports and imports declining sharply year-over-year in July.
Sinds de jaren 60 lag de economische groei in Wallonië stelselmatig lager dan in Vlaanderen.
Het voorbije decennium kwam aan deze groeiachterstand echter een einde. Dat reflecteert
deels een wat snellere Waalse industriële groeidynamiek, maar meer nog een achteruitgang
van het groeitempo van de Vlaamse economie. De vraag is nu of Wallonië daarmee aan een
inhaalbeweging tegenover Vlaanderen is begonnen. Bemoedigend is alvast de kentering in
het Waalse industriële beleid, vooral via het Marshallplan dat de ontwikkeling van nieuwe
industriële groeipolen ondersteunt. Ook investerings- en uitvoerstatistieken suggereren dat
deze beleidsheroriëntatie stilaan vruchten afwerpt. Toch presteert Wallonië op diverse vlakken
nog altijd zwakker dan Vlaanderen. De uitvoer (vooral buiten de EU) en het ondernemerschap
zijn er minder ontwikkeld, de productiviteit in de dienstensectoren is er lager, het onderwijs
scoort minder en de structurele werkloosheid blijft hoog. Als Wallonië deze relatieve zwaktes
kan bijsturen, kan het groeitempo er mede dankzij een minder ongunstige demografie in de
komende jaren hoger blijven dan in Vlaanderen. Dat veronderstelt dan wel dat Wallonië naast
de kentering van het industriële beleid ook maximaal de vruchten plukt van arbeidsmarkthervormingen,
die in alle gewesten nodig zijn om de werkzaamheidsgraad naar een hoger niveau
te tillen.
DCR Trendline October 2014 - Non Employee Workforce Insightss
DCR TrendLine shares analyses of trends and happenings in the staffing industry. The October edition covers a range of topics, including the latest employment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the continued growth of temporary employment. October is one of the most exciting months for sports fans, and it’s only fitting that this edition’s industry highlight is centered on sports-related employment. Our other areas of focus include how the definition and image of employees has progressed over the past decade, the increasing use of social media for recruiting, and on the value of talent supply chain management in meeting organizational talent needs. Our feature article this month is particularly applicable to companies with contingent workforce programs. We look at how vendor management systems can help companies fulfill the priorities and requirements of multiple stakeholders while meeting the shared single goal of eliminating complexity to increase operational effectiveness. - See more at: http://blog.dcrworkforce.com/dcr-trendline-october-2014#sthash.jW1AtNaQ.dpuf
El documento habla sobre la Revolución Mexicana, incluyendo sus causas principales, personajes clave como Francisco I. Madero, Victoriano Huerta y Venustiano Carranza, y eventos significativos como el Plan de San Luis en 1910, la Decena Trágica que llevó a Madero a la presidencia y luego a su derrocamiento, y la promulgación de la constitución de 1917 durante la presidencia de Carranza.
Voteaza Transportatorul Anului 2014!
Voteaza Transportatorul Anului 2014, dupa ce te informezi din numarul de septembrie al revistei cu privire la atuurile fiecarei companii din finala concursului: Asexpress, Cartrans Romania, Com Divers Auto Ro, Marvi Logistic, Routier European Transport,Trans Car si Vio Trans Grup.Afla de la RAR numarul autovehiculelor detarate sub 3,5 t in ultimii 8 ani si de la ARR ultimele informatii privind recuperarea celor 4 eurocenti din acciza. Citeşte interviul cu Directorul Direcției Rutiere in cadrul IGPR, comisarul sef Florentin Bracea, şi informeaza-te despre cum sa alegi anvelopa potrivita… şi cum o urmareşti. Afla cum a ajuns Romania in elita logisticii europene si cum arata proiectele in concurs pentru editia 2014 a Premiilor ARILOG. Informeaza-te cu privire la pericolul din umbra pe care il reprezinta supraincrederea şi despre modul in care charterele prind curaj pe piata de transport persoane.
A man named Alex is described as crazy and unstable. He was in a car accident with his friend where the windshield was broken and they were both bleeding. Alex seems to want to harm or kill his friend. Later, Alex purposefully causes the car to rollover at high speeds, severely injuring both of them. Alex's friend believes Alex has always been crazy and unstable, going back to when they were kids. The document explores Alex's unstable mental state and dangerous actions that endanger himself and his friend.
The document discusses several topics related to complexity and architecture in military operations. It presents different types of complexity and how standardization or adaptation can address them. It also contrasts traditional centralized enterprise architectures with more distributed "extraprise" models using multiple interoperable applications. Finally, it proposes an adaptive spiral approach to transition planning that evaluates initiatives based on factors like potential impact, familiarity, and timing to optimize resources across the portfolio.
Notes Version Overcoming Obstacles To Build Event AttendanceVivastream
The document discusses strategies for overcoming obstacles to building event attendance at TechEd conferences. It outlines potential challenges like cost, getting permission to attend, and time away from the office. It then discusses goals of getting over 6,000 attendees and breaking even financially. Various engagement strategies are presented, including leveraging data on attendees, providing valuable content before and during the event, and enhancing the in-person experience. The results showed beating attendance targets and positive feedback. Overall lessons on successful strategies for engagement and building event attendance are provided.
This document summarizes a report on investigating the measle effect seen on some printed circuit boards used by Landis & Gyr. The report finds that there are two separate issues - the measle effect itself, caused by traces of sodium hydroxide under the solder resist that blisters it when exposed to humidity, and dendritic growth on top of resist traces promoted by flux residues and humidity. It concludes the measle effect is due to inadequate cleaning of PCBs before solder resist application, while dendritic growth poses no issues based on field returns analyzed. Recommendations are made to address cleaning procedures.
This document summarizes evidence of persecution of Hizb ut-Tahrir members in Uzbekistan by the authoritarian government of President Islam Karimov. It includes testimonies from victims' families describing unlawful arrests, torture, deaths in custody, and harsh prison conditions faced by the political group's members. The report argues that Karimov's "war on terror" is being used to target non-violent domestic political opposition and justify human rights abuses with foreign backing, especially from the United States.
Mineralogy of a_mudstone_at_yellowknife_bay_gale_crater_marsSérgio Sacani
The document summarizes the mineralogical analysis of two mudstone samples, John Klein and Cumberland, collected from Yellowknife Bay on Mars by the Curiosity rover. X-ray diffraction analysis found that the samples contain detrital basaltic minerals, calcium sulfates, iron oxides/hydroxides, iron sulfides, amorphous material, and trioctahedral smectites. The smectite in John Klein has a basal spacing of ~10 Å indicating little water interlayer hydration, while Cumberland smectite has a spacing of ~13.2 Å, suggesting partial chloritization or interlayer ions that facilitate water retention. The mudstone minerals are similar to nearby eolian deposits but
Thirty eminent personalities (http://netchakra.net/natchakra-contributors/) have come together to produce 30 fascinating stories of Internet in India. Foreword is by Mr. Jyotiraditya Scindia and epilogue by Mr. Sam Pitroda.
O documento convoca os trabalhadores a se unirem contra a perseguição e julgamentos fraudulentos de líderes e trabalhadores operários na Argentina. Denuncia o ataque do governo e empresas contra os direitos dos trabalhadores e chama a formação de um movimento nacional de organizações operárias para enfrentar a opressão.
Marvin JS is a novel light-weight chemical editor suitable for generating standard chemical structures without the need for installing Java, designed by ChemAxon. It provides all the essential features for quick and easy structure drawing as well as flexible editing options for molecular manipulations. Pearson Education is partnering with ChemAxon to develop a custom educational version of Marvin JS to be used in Pearson’s chemical tutorial platform, MasteringChemistry.
This educational version of Marvin JS separates out various tools into “presets” to match specific answer types that Pearson authors have designed – skeletal 2D problems, skeletal 3D problems and mechanism problems. For example, tools necessary for drawing mechanisms will only be available for those problems that ask the student to draw a mechanism. In additional, authors will be able to set specific initialization parameters for individual problems such as “show lone pairs” or “show R,S labels”. This higher level of feature control allows authors to better regulate what students are able to see and able to do in the drawing tool, minimizing opportunities for mistakes (using the wrong templates for example) or cheating (using R,S labels to answer a stereochemistry question). Pearson will offer this custom version of Marvin JS for Organic and General Chemistry drawing items both for desktop and for mobile beginning in January 2014.
Social Media at Austrian Red Cross Communication.
Background information and best practices.
Presentation for the 2010 Return Delegates Week at Austrian Red Cross
En région Centre, l’organisation de fêtes et salons du livre se développe aussi bien dans les campagnes que dans les villes. Ces manifestations témoignent d’un intérêt fort pour le livre, la lecture et l’écriture et d’un dynamisme des acteurs dans ce domaine. Ces fêtes et salons revêtent des formes différentes car elles sont issues d’histoires particulières et ont un passé plus ou moins lointain. Thématique ou généraliste, fête ou salon, en présence d’auteurs ou simplement par l’exposition et la vente de livres, le choix est vaste.
Nous avons recensé une quarantaine de fêtes et salons du livre en région Centre se déroulant de janvier à décembre 2013
Developed by staff in the offices of the bursar, registrar and financial aid, this FAQ will help USC Columbia staff answer questions from students and parents as we prepare for the fall 2014 semester.
The QSE Index in Qatar declined 0.6% led by losses in the Insurance and Telecom indices. Top losers were Qatar Insurance Co. and Barwa Real Estate Co., falling 4.3% and 2.7% respectively. Regional indices were mixed with Saudi Arabia and Dubai down while Kuwait and Oman rose marginally. Earnings news saw profits rise for United Foods Co. and Al Buhaira National Insurance Co. but fall for BMMI in Bahrain. Global data showed French industrial production and German exports rising monthly but Chinese exports and imports declining sharply year-over-year in July.
Sinds de jaren 60 lag de economische groei in Wallonië stelselmatig lager dan in Vlaanderen.
Het voorbije decennium kwam aan deze groeiachterstand echter een einde. Dat reflecteert
deels een wat snellere Waalse industriële groeidynamiek, maar meer nog een achteruitgang
van het groeitempo van de Vlaamse economie. De vraag is nu of Wallonië daarmee aan een
inhaalbeweging tegenover Vlaanderen is begonnen. Bemoedigend is alvast de kentering in
het Waalse industriële beleid, vooral via het Marshallplan dat de ontwikkeling van nieuwe
industriële groeipolen ondersteunt. Ook investerings- en uitvoerstatistieken suggereren dat
deze beleidsheroriëntatie stilaan vruchten afwerpt. Toch presteert Wallonië op diverse vlakken
nog altijd zwakker dan Vlaanderen. De uitvoer (vooral buiten de EU) en het ondernemerschap
zijn er minder ontwikkeld, de productiviteit in de dienstensectoren is er lager, het onderwijs
scoort minder en de structurele werkloosheid blijft hoog. Als Wallonië deze relatieve zwaktes
kan bijsturen, kan het groeitempo er mede dankzij een minder ongunstige demografie in de
komende jaren hoger blijven dan in Vlaanderen. Dat veronderstelt dan wel dat Wallonië naast
de kentering van het industriële beleid ook maximaal de vruchten plukt van arbeidsmarkthervormingen,
die in alle gewesten nodig zijn om de werkzaamheidsgraad naar een hoger niveau
te tillen.
DCR Trendline October 2014 - Non Employee Workforce Insightss
DCR TrendLine shares analyses of trends and happenings in the staffing industry. The October edition covers a range of topics, including the latest employment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the continued growth of temporary employment. October is one of the most exciting months for sports fans, and it’s only fitting that this edition’s industry highlight is centered on sports-related employment. Our other areas of focus include how the definition and image of employees has progressed over the past decade, the increasing use of social media for recruiting, and on the value of talent supply chain management in meeting organizational talent needs. Our feature article this month is particularly applicable to companies with contingent workforce programs. We look at how vendor management systems can help companies fulfill the priorities and requirements of multiple stakeholders while meeting the shared single goal of eliminating complexity to increase operational effectiveness. - See more at: http://blog.dcrworkforce.com/dcr-trendline-october-2014#sthash.jW1AtNaQ.dpuf
El documento habla sobre la Revolución Mexicana, incluyendo sus causas principales, personajes clave como Francisco I. Madero, Victoriano Huerta y Venustiano Carranza, y eventos significativos como el Plan de San Luis en 1910, la Decena Trágica que llevó a Madero a la presidencia y luego a su derrocamiento, y la promulgación de la constitución de 1917 durante la presidencia de Carranza.
Voteaza Transportatorul Anului 2014!
Voteaza Transportatorul Anului 2014, dupa ce te informezi din numarul de septembrie al revistei cu privire la atuurile fiecarei companii din finala concursului: Asexpress, Cartrans Romania, Com Divers Auto Ro, Marvi Logistic, Routier European Transport,Trans Car si Vio Trans Grup.Afla de la RAR numarul autovehiculelor detarate sub 3,5 t in ultimii 8 ani si de la ARR ultimele informatii privind recuperarea celor 4 eurocenti din acciza. Citeşte interviul cu Directorul Direcției Rutiere in cadrul IGPR, comisarul sef Florentin Bracea, şi informeaza-te despre cum sa alegi anvelopa potrivita… şi cum o urmareşti. Afla cum a ajuns Romania in elita logisticii europene si cum arata proiectele in concurs pentru editia 2014 a Premiilor ARILOG. Informeaza-te cu privire la pericolul din umbra pe care il reprezinta supraincrederea şi despre modul in care charterele prind curaj pe piata de transport persoane.
A man named Alex is described as crazy and unstable. He was in a car accident with his friend where the windshield was broken and they were both bleeding. Alex seems to want to harm or kill his friend. Later, Alex purposefully causes the car to rollover at high speeds, severely injuring both of them. Alex's friend believes Alex has always been crazy and unstable, going back to when they were kids. The document explores Alex's unstable mental state and dangerous actions that endanger himself and his friend.
The document discusses several topics related to complexity and architecture in military operations. It presents different types of complexity and how standardization or adaptation can address them. It also contrasts traditional centralized enterprise architectures with more distributed "extraprise" models using multiple interoperable applications. Finally, it proposes an adaptive spiral approach to transition planning that evaluates initiatives based on factors like potential impact, familiarity, and timing to optimize resources across the portfolio.
Notes Version Overcoming Obstacles To Build Event AttendanceVivastream
The document discusses strategies for overcoming obstacles to building event attendance at TechEd conferences. It outlines potential challenges like cost, getting permission to attend, and time away from the office. It then discusses goals of getting over 6,000 attendees and breaking even financially. Various engagement strategies are presented, including leveraging data on attendees, providing valuable content before and during the event, and enhancing the in-person experience. The results showed beating attendance targets and positive feedback. Overall lessons on successful strategies for engagement and building event attendance are provided.
Notes version if you help them they will come_overcoming obstaclesVivastream
The document discusses strategies for overcoming obstacles to building event attendance at TechEd conferences. It outlines potential challenges like cost, getting permission to attend, and time away from the office. It then discusses goals of getting over 6,000 attendees and breaking even financially. Various engagement strategies are presented, including leveraging data on attendees, providing valuable content before and during the event, and enhancing the in-person experience. The results showed beating attendance targets and higher customer satisfaction scores. Overall lessons on successful strategies around data, content, and experience are shared.
This document discusses knowledge management strategies and visions. It proposes transforming an organization called Vantage into a central place to connect, collaborate, collect, and communicate knowledge by enabling expertise networks, workspaces for client collaboration, improved knowledge collection and dissemination, and integrated content sharing. The goal is to empower associates and instill growth through an enterprise 2.0 framework providing social networking, mobile team collaboration, and systems to engage clients and the business network.
Cloud Communications: Top 5 Advantages for Your EnterpriseXO Communications
Make no mistake about it: Cloud technologies are here, they’re real, and they’re the answer to your most vexing communications problems. Let’s begin our discussion with a quick overview of generic cloud-based technology. Keep reading.
The document discusses the evolution of enterprise applications from mainframes to modern mobile apps and the rise of mobility. It notes that users now expect to access enterprise knowledge from any device at any time. Older methods of interacting like paper, whiteboards and desktop PCs are no longer inspiring. The emergence of smartphones and tablets is driving a new generation of mobile apps that provide rich, comfortable interactions. When introducing new mobile devices in a company, IT must address security and manageability while users expect native apps and the latest technology, regardless of corporate strategy or help desk preparedness.
The document discusses CSC's implementation of an enterprise social collaboration platform called C3. Some key points:
- CSC implemented C3 to help employees better connect, communicate and collaborate across the large global organization.
- An adoption best practices approach was taken, focusing on engaging advocates like executives, seeding use cases, and transparency.
- The implementation started as a pilot in 2008 and grew organically, reaching 45,000 registered users by 2010.
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The COSI project focused on distributed software development using both open source and proprietary components. It explored business models, development processes, and architectures for this type of collaborative development. The project achieved its goals of introducing agile and distributed development practices and improving understanding of open source collaboration.
The document then discusses some case studies from Norwegian companies involved in COSI, including how they selected and integrated open source components. It also describes how one company, Linpro, improved its development process by allowing nomadic and distributed revision-controlled development using Subversion and the tool SVK.
This document discusses unified communications solutions from ADTRAN. It provides an overview of key unified communications features such as unified messaging, desktop faxing, find me/follow me, click-to-dial, presence, enterprise instant messaging, automating business processes, simplified administration experiences, and other features. The document also discusses why organizations implement unified communications to streamline communications, enhance collaboration and operational efficiency, and control costs. Users also benefit from increased productivity, convenience, responsiveness, and control over their communications.
The document discusses building successful enterprise mobile applications. It advocates for (1) user-experience driven development, (2) adopting a user-experience oriented architecture, and (3) cross-platform development to allow applications to work across multiple devices and operating systems. The document provides examples of how various organizations have benefited from focusing on user experience and building applications that are cross-platform.
Model-based Research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): Keynote at Mensch u...Ed Chi
- The document discusses human-computer interaction (HCI) research conducted at Xerox PARC in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Early contributions came from computer scientists interested in changing how people interact with information and psychologists studying the implications.
- Research established HCI as a science by adopting psychological methods and building an HCI techniques science.
The document discusses the various roles and responsibilities of a software developer. It outlines the contribution possibilities for developers, such as providing optimal solutions, clarifying requirements gaps, contributing to solution architecture, and creating reusable code assets. It also describes capacity development possibilities, like learning new technologies, contributing to communities of practice, gaining exposure to processes, and developing time management skills. Finally, it maps out several career pathways for developers, including project management, technical leadership, quality assurance, business analysis, and entrepreneurship. The key takeaway is that software developers have many avenues for professional growth beyond just writing code.
Stephan Schillerwein of Infocentric Research gave a presentation on moving from traditional intranets to digital workplaces. He argued that current intranets are not addressing key problems like engagement and value for the organization. The presentation covered understanding information work, the need for context, and taking an approach focused on areas like strategy, people, processes and technology to drive digital transformation. The goal is to create a digital workplace that provides the right information to users based on their tasks and interactions.
The document discusses approaches for designing objects and services for the ubiquitous computing era. It describes identifying user needs through contextual investigation and participatory design. Services can be defined based on capabilities like delivering, sharing, or triggering information to or from objects. Mental models of objects' ecosystems can be captured using techniques like drawing network maps. Existing objects can be redesigned by augmenting them with new features enabled by ubiquitous computing technologies.
Introduction to asynchronous DB access using Node.js and MongoDBAdrien Joly
This document introduces asynchronous database access in Node.js using MongoDB. It discusses using callbacks for asynchronous queries instead of sequential queries. It then shows how to separate the view from the controller using a model-view-controller pattern by creating model files that encapsulate database queries. Finally, it discusses optimizing the code by initializing the database connection once and making the models and controllers rely on the initialized connection.
PhD Defense - A Context Management Framework based on Wisdom of Crowds for So...Adrien Joly
This document summarizes a PhD thesis presentation on developing a context management framework to filter social streams and recommend the most relevant updates. It proposes using contextual tag clouds generated from virtual and social sensors to represent users' contexts. An implementation was developed to test the approach. Evaluation results found that recommended social updates were 72% accurate and about half were deemed relevant to the posting context, depending on the type of social update. Future work is proposed to improve the quality of contextual tags and leverage additional sensors.
Contextual Recommendation of Social Updates, a tag-based frameworkAdrien Joly
The document discusses a framework for contextual recommendation of social updates based on tag clouds representing user context. It proposes filtering social updates based on similarity between the context of the user posting the update and potential recipients. An evaluation of relevance ratings for recommended updates based on web browsing context achieved 72% accuracy. Future work includes improving context representation and studying additional factors influencing relevance.
Tangible Contextual Tag Clouds towards Controlled and Relevant Social Inter...Adrien Joly
Presented by Adrien Joly at Bell Labs France during a "SKP" session, this slideshow includes a motivated introduction to his phd thesis subject about contextual filtering of social interactions, its technical approach relying on "contextual tag clouds", and its current state of research.
The document discusses a contact for a project focused on an infrastructure of cameras and screens to enable intuitive communication, where each camera-screen unit acts as a location sensor, user interface, and communication window. Julien Robinson of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France is listed as the contact, along with an email and website for more information.
Workspace Awareness without Overload: Contextual Filtering of Social Interact...Adrien Joly
Adrien Joly's PhD work in progress on Enterprise Ambient Awareness, presented 19/07/2009 at Smart Offices and Other Workspaces, Workshop of the Intelligent Environments 2009 conference, Barcelona, Spain.
Context-Awareness, the missing block of Social NetworkingAdrien Joly
Social Networking Sites (such as Facebook, Linkedin or Twitter) have brought new communication and interaction opportunities. In this presentation, after introducing the communication features of most popular Social Networking Sites, we propose to leverage Context Awareness (including location-awareness, but not only) in order to trigger more communication from these sites while not requiring their users to spend more time managing their network.
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Keywords: AI, Containeres, Kubernetes, Cloud Native
Event Link: https://meine.doag.org/events/cloudland/2024/agenda/#agendaId.4211
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
👉 Register here for our upcoming Session 2 on June 20: Introduction to UiPath Studio Fundamentals: https://community.uipath.com/events/details/uipath-lagos-presents-session-2-introduction-to-uipath-studio-fundamentals/
Discover the Unseen: Tailored Recommendation of Unwatched ContentScyllaDB
The session shares how JioCinema approaches ""watch discounting."" This capability ensures that if a user watched a certain amount of a show/movie, the platform no longer recommends that particular content to the user. Flawless operation of this feature promotes the discover of new content, improving the overall user experience.
JioCinema is an Indian over-the-top media streaming service owned by Viacom18.
Getting the Most Out of ScyllaDB Monitoring: ShareChat's TipsScyllaDB
ScyllaDB monitoring provides a lot of useful information. But sometimes it’s not easy to find the root of the problem if something is wrong or even estimate the remaining capacity by the load on the cluster. This talk shares our team's practical tips on: 1) How to find the root of the problem by metrics if ScyllaDB is slow 2) How to interpret the load and plan capacity for the future 3) Compaction strategies and how to choose the right one 4) Important metrics which aren’t available in the default monitoring setup.
"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...Fwdays
We will talk about system monitoring from a few different angles. We will start by covering the basics, then discuss SLOs, how to define them, and why understanding the business well is crucial for success in this exercise.
Introducing BoxLang : A new JVM language for productivity and modularity!Ortus Solutions, Corp
Just like life, our code must adapt to the ever changing world we live in. From one day coding for the web, to the next for our tablets or APIs or for running serverless applications. Multi-runtime development is the future of coding, the future is to be dynamic. Let us introduce you to BoxLang.
Dynamic. Modular. Productive.
BoxLang redefines development with its dynamic nature, empowering developers to craft expressive and functional code effortlessly. Its modular architecture prioritizes flexibility, allowing for seamless integration into existing ecosystems.
Interoperability at its Core
With 100% interoperability with Java, BoxLang seamlessly bridges the gap between traditional and modern development paradigms, unlocking new possibilities for innovation and collaboration.
Multi-Runtime
From the tiny 2m operating system binary to running on our pure Java web server, CommandBox, Jakarta EE, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Functions, Web Assembly, Android and more. BoxLang has been designed to enhance and adapt according to it's runnable runtime.
The Fusion of Modernity and Tradition
Experience the fusion of modern features inspired by CFML, Node, Ruby, Kotlin, Java, and Clojure, combined with the familiarity of Java bytecode compilation, making BoxLang a language of choice for forward-thinking developers.
Empowering Transition with Transpiler Support
Transitioning from CFML to BoxLang is seamless with our JIT transpiler, facilitating smooth migration and preserving existing code investments.
Unlocking Creativity with IDE Tools
Unleash your creativity with powerful IDE tools tailored for BoxLang, providing an intuitive development experience and streamlining your workflow. Join us as we embark on a journey to redefine JVM development. Welcome to the era of BoxLang.
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectors
Awareness Without Overload
1. Awareness without Overload
in Computer-Supported Collaborative Environments
Adrien Joly
Universiteit Twente, 19/03/2009
PhD supervisor: Pr. Pierre Maret