Big Data: Challenges for the social sciences. Panel presentation at the World Social Science Forum, International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa. Tuesday 15 September, 2015
Seminar at CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Date: Friday October 30, 2015. Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Location: D463 (Star)
Abstract:
Today we are witnessing several shifts in scholarly practice, in and across multiple disciplines, as researchers embrace digital techniques to tackle established research questions in new ways and new questions afforded by digital and digitized collections, approaches, and technologies. Pervasive adoption of technology, coupled with the co-creation of new social processes, has created a new and complex space for scholarship where citizens both generate and analyse data as they interact at the intersection of the physical and digital. Drawing on a background in distributed computing, and adopting the lens of Social Machines, this talk discusses current activity in digital scholarship, framing it in its interdisciplinary settings.
Bio:
David De Roure is Professor of e-Research at University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, and chairs Oxford’s Digital Humanities research programme. He previously directed the Digital Social Research programme for the UK Economic and Social Research Council, and serves as a strategic advisor in new forms of data and realtime analytics. Trained in electronics and computer science, his career has involved interdisciplinary collaborations in chemistry, astrophysics, bioinformatics, social computing, digital libraries, and sensor networks. His personal research is in Computational Musicology, Web Science, and Internet of Things. He is a frequent speaker and writer on digital research and the future of scholarly communications. URL: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder
New forms of data for the social sciences: Smarter cities, more efficient organisations, and healthier communities. Wednesday 3rd November 2015, UCL, London, United Kingdom
New forms of data for research, policy evaluation and official statistics (STS027) session at 59th World Statistics Congress (WSC), Hong Kong, 28 August 2013
Keynote talk for NCRM Stream Analytics workshop, 19 January 2017, Manchester.
My talk is called "New and Emerging Forms of Data: Past, Present, and Future” and I will be giving a perspective from my role as one of the ESRC Strategic Advisers for Data Resources, in which I was responsible for new and emerging forms of data and realtime analytics. The talk also includes some of the current work in the Oxford e-Research Centre on Social Machines (the SOCIAM project) and an introduction to the PETRAS Internet of Things project.
The talk raises a number of important issues looking ahead, including massive scale of data that is already being supplied by Internet of Things, the implications of automation in our research, reproducibility and confidence in research results. I will also ask, how can the new forms of data and new research methods enable social scientists to work in new ways, and can we move on from the dependence on the traditional investment in longitudinal studies?
"'Tis true. There's magic in the Web: The Short and the Long of Co-Creation, Web Science, and Data Driven Innovation". Keynote for the DATA-DRIVEN INNOVATION WORKSHOP 2016 collocated with ACM Web Science 2016, Hannover, Germany, Sunday 22 May 2016
Seminar at CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Date: Friday October 30, 2015. Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Location: D463 (Star)
Abstract:
Today we are witnessing several shifts in scholarly practice, in and across multiple disciplines, as researchers embrace digital techniques to tackle established research questions in new ways and new questions afforded by digital and digitized collections, approaches, and technologies. Pervasive adoption of technology, coupled with the co-creation of new social processes, has created a new and complex space for scholarship where citizens both generate and analyse data as they interact at the intersection of the physical and digital. Drawing on a background in distributed computing, and adopting the lens of Social Machines, this talk discusses current activity in digital scholarship, framing it in its interdisciplinary settings.
Bio:
David De Roure is Professor of e-Research at University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, and chairs Oxford’s Digital Humanities research programme. He previously directed the Digital Social Research programme for the UK Economic and Social Research Council, and serves as a strategic advisor in new forms of data and realtime analytics. Trained in electronics and computer science, his career has involved interdisciplinary collaborations in chemistry, astrophysics, bioinformatics, social computing, digital libraries, and sensor networks. His personal research is in Computational Musicology, Web Science, and Internet of Things. He is a frequent speaker and writer on digital research and the future of scholarly communications. URL: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder
New forms of data for the social sciences: Smarter cities, more efficient organisations, and healthier communities. Wednesday 3rd November 2015, UCL, London, United Kingdom
New forms of data for research, policy evaluation and official statistics (STS027) session at 59th World Statistics Congress (WSC), Hong Kong, 28 August 2013
Keynote talk for NCRM Stream Analytics workshop, 19 January 2017, Manchester.
My talk is called "New and Emerging Forms of Data: Past, Present, and Future” and I will be giving a perspective from my role as one of the ESRC Strategic Advisers for Data Resources, in which I was responsible for new and emerging forms of data and realtime analytics. The talk also includes some of the current work in the Oxford e-Research Centre on Social Machines (the SOCIAM project) and an introduction to the PETRAS Internet of Things project.
The talk raises a number of important issues looking ahead, including massive scale of data that is already being supplied by Internet of Things, the implications of automation in our research, reproducibility and confidence in research results. I will also ask, how can the new forms of data and new research methods enable social scientists to work in new ways, and can we move on from the dependence on the traditional investment in longitudinal studies?
"'Tis true. There's magic in the Web: The Short and the Long of Co-Creation, Web Science, and Data Driven Innovation". Keynote for the DATA-DRIVEN INNOVATION WORKSHOP 2016 collocated with ACM Web Science 2016, Hannover, Germany, Sunday 22 May 2016
Web Observatories, e-Research and the Importance of Collaboration. WST 2014 Webinar series, 20th March 2014
See Web Science Trust http://webscience.org/
Storytelling in the database era: uncertainty and science reportingPaul Bradshaw
Presentation at the Humboldt Foundation's International Journalists' Programmes 2020 about the changes within journalism around using interactivity for telling stories, and communicating uncertainty. The slides also include recommendations around avoiding mistakes.
A dystopian view of our evolving knowledge infrastructure. Talk in session "Reproducibility in new digital scholarship – bigger, faster, better?" at the Alan Turing Institute Symposium on Reproducibility for Data Centric Research, St Hugh's, Oxford, 7th April 2016
Opening talk at the "Interdisciplinary Data Resources to Address the Challenges of Urban Living” Workshop at the Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow, 4 April 2016
Data! Action! Data journalism issues to watch in the next 10 yearsPaul Bradshaw
Keynote at the Nordic data journalism conference #NODA16 - an outline of issues facing data journalism which journalists and academics need to focus on in the next decade.
What Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can do for data journalis...Liliana Bounegru
Slides from a talk I gave at the University of Ghent on 21 October 2014 about how Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can be used to study and inform data journalism.
OSi Geographic Information Research & Development Initiatives Launch
Ordnance Survey Ireland GI R&D Initiatives
Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 13:00 to 20:30 (GMT) , Maynooth University
First Annual Canadian Homelessness Data Sharing Initiative
Calgary Homeless Foundation and The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
May 4, 2016, Officer’s Mess – Fort Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
eBook WK Sistemas – 20 práticas para transformar as compras da sua empresaWK Sistemas
eBook WK Sistemas – 20 práticas para transformar as compras da sua empresa
http://materiais.wk.com.br/20-praticas-para-transformar-as-compras-da-sua-empresa
Magazyn.They.pl - kwartalnik wiedzy o reklamie w Internecie.
Nasze pismo kierujemy do wszystkich, którzy zawodowo związani są z marketingiem, prowadzą biznes w Internecie lub po prostu są zafascynowani wirtualnym światem równie mocno, jak my!
Zespół redakcyjny kwartalnika tworzą doświadczeni specjaliści oraz obserwatorzy trendów, którzy z radością dzielą się swoją wiedzą i doświadczeniem.
Wszystkich, którzy nie chcą przegapić nowości w Internecie i e- reklamie zachęcamy do czytania!
Web Observatories, e-Research and the Importance of Collaboration. WST 2014 Webinar series, 20th March 2014
See Web Science Trust http://webscience.org/
Storytelling in the database era: uncertainty and science reportingPaul Bradshaw
Presentation at the Humboldt Foundation's International Journalists' Programmes 2020 about the changes within journalism around using interactivity for telling stories, and communicating uncertainty. The slides also include recommendations around avoiding mistakes.
A dystopian view of our evolving knowledge infrastructure. Talk in session "Reproducibility in new digital scholarship – bigger, faster, better?" at the Alan Turing Institute Symposium on Reproducibility for Data Centric Research, St Hugh's, Oxford, 7th April 2016
Opening talk at the "Interdisciplinary Data Resources to Address the Challenges of Urban Living” Workshop at the Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow, 4 April 2016
Data! Action! Data journalism issues to watch in the next 10 yearsPaul Bradshaw
Keynote at the Nordic data journalism conference #NODA16 - an outline of issues facing data journalism which journalists and academics need to focus on in the next decade.
What Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can do for data journalis...Liliana Bounegru
Slides from a talk I gave at the University of Ghent on 21 October 2014 about how Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can be used to study and inform data journalism.
OSi Geographic Information Research & Development Initiatives Launch
Ordnance Survey Ireland GI R&D Initiatives
Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 13:00 to 20:30 (GMT) , Maynooth University
First Annual Canadian Homelessness Data Sharing Initiative
Calgary Homeless Foundation and The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
May 4, 2016, Officer’s Mess – Fort Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
eBook WK Sistemas – 20 práticas para transformar as compras da sua empresaWK Sistemas
eBook WK Sistemas – 20 práticas para transformar as compras da sua empresa
http://materiais.wk.com.br/20-praticas-para-transformar-as-compras-da-sua-empresa
Magazyn.They.pl - kwartalnik wiedzy o reklamie w Internecie.
Nasze pismo kierujemy do wszystkich, którzy zawodowo związani są z marketingiem, prowadzą biznes w Internecie lub po prostu są zafascynowani wirtualnym światem równie mocno, jak my!
Zespół redakcyjny kwartalnika tworzą doświadczeni specjaliści oraz obserwatorzy trendów, którzy z radością dzielą się swoją wiedzą i doświadczeniem.
Wszystkich, którzy nie chcą przegapić nowości w Internecie i e- reklamie zachęcamy do czytania!
A cpw fed antenna rectangular shaped box with semicircle slot for wlaneSAT Journals
Abstract An Ultra-wideband (UWB) microstrip antenna fed by a coplanar Waveguide (CPW) is proposed. The proposed antenna consists of a rectangular shape box embedded with semicircle slot in the patch. It occupies a total area of 39×36.275 mm2. It provides a wide impedance bandwidth of 7.39 GHz ranging from 2.66 GHz to 10.05 GHz. The parametric studies are performed to understand the characteristics of proposed antenna. The details of proposed ultra-wideband are described. The various antenna parameters like S-parameters, current distribution and radiation pattern are studied. The proposed antenna is also suitable for WLAN/WiMAX/ UWB applications. Keywords: Microstrip Antenna, WLAN, WI-MAX, UWB, CPW feed.
At April 15th, in the Amsterdam Breitner Building, the seminar Business Beyond Products took place. These are the slides of the wrap up, immediately after the breakout sessions. (part 5 of 5)
The emergent opportunity of Big Data for Social Good - Nuria Oliver @ PAPIs C...PAPIs.io
We live in a world of data, of big data. A big portion of this data has been generated by humans, and particularly through their mobile phones. In fact, there are almost as many mobile phones in the world as humans. The mobile phone is the piece of technology with the highest levels of adoption in human history. We carry them with us all through the day (and night, in many cases), leaving digital traces of our physical interactions. Mobile phones have become sensors of human activity in the large scale and also the most personal devices.
In my talk, I will present some of the work that we are doing at Telefonica Research in the area of human behavior understanding from data captured with mobile phones, and particularly our work in the area of Big Data for Social Good. I will highlight opportunities but also challenges that we would need to address in order to truly leverage this opportunity.
Nuria Oliver is a computer scientist and Scientific Director at Telefónica. She holds a Ph.D. from the Media Lab at MIT. She is one of the most cited female computer scientist in Spain, with her research having been cited by more than 8900 publications. She is well known for her work in computational models of human behavior, human computer-interaction, intelligent user interfaces, mobile computing and big data for social good.
Socializing Big Data: Collaborative Opportunities in Computer Science, the So...Sheryl Grant
Harnessing the “data deluge” is promoting new conversations between disciplines. Prof. Marciano and his collaborators have been pursuing research in a number of areas including: big cultural data, access to big heterogeneous data, records in the cloud, federated grid/cloud storage, visual interfaces to large collections, policy-based frameworks to automate content management, and distributed cyberinfrastructure to enable data sharing. But more importantly, innovative technical approaches require the convergence of creative insights across computer science, the social sciences, and the humanities. This talk touches on these topics and highlights a new collaboration with partners at Duke.
Richard Marciano is a professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Director of the Sustainable Archives and Leveraging Technologies (SALT) lab, and co-director of the Digital Innovation Lab (DIL). He leads development of "big data" projects funded by Mellon, NSF, NARA, NHPRC, IMLS, DHS, NIEHS, and UNC. Recent 2012 grants include a JISC Digging into Data award with UC Berkeley and the U. of Liverpool, called "Integrating Data Mining and Data Management Technologies for Scholarly Inquiry," a Mellon / UNC award called "Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative," which involves the translating of big data challenges into curricular opportunities, and an NSF award on big heterogeneous data integration.
He holds a B.S. in Avionics and Electrical Engineering, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, and has worked as a postdoc in Computational Geography. He conducted interdisciplinary research at the San Diego Supercomputer at UC San Diego, working with teams of scholars in sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
BROWN BAG TALK WITH MICAH ALTMAN, SOURCES OF BIG DATA FOR SOCIAL SCIENCESMicah Altman
This talk, is part of the MIT Program on Information Science brown bag series (http://informatics.mit.edu)
This talk reviews emerging big data sources for social scientific analysis and explores the challenges these present. Many of these sources pose distinct challenges for acquisition, processing, analysis, inference, sharing, and preservation.
Dr Micah Altman is Director of Research and Head/Scientist, Program on Information Science for the MIT Libraries, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Altman is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution. Prior to arriving at MIT, Dr. Altman served at Harvard University for fifteen years as the Associate Director of the Harvard-MIT Data Center, Archival Director of the Henry A. Murray Archive, and Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences.
Dr. Altman conducts research in social science, information science and research methods -- focusing on the intersections of information, technology, privacy, and politics; and on the dissemination, preservation, reliability and governance of scientific knowledge.
Big Data for the Social Sciences - David De Roure - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
The analysis of government data, data held by business, the web, social science survey data will support new research directions and findings. Big Data is one of David Willetts’ 8 great technologies, and in order to secure the UK’s competitive advantage new investments have been made by the Economic Social Science Research Council ( ESRC) in Big Data, for example the Business Datasafe and Understanding Populations investments. In this session the benefits of the use of Big Data in social science , and the ESRCs Big Data strategy will be explained by Professor David De Roure.of the Oxford e-Research Centre and advisor to the ESRC.
Keynote on "Social Machines: Democratisation, Disintermediation, and Citizens at Scale" presented at the Web Science and Big Data Analytics Conference on Information Transparency and Digital Democracy, Tuesday, 25th August 2015, Jakarta Indonesia
Keynote speech at the Digitale Praxen conference at Frankfurt UniversityINRIA - ENS Lyon
We will discuss four misunderstandings often connected to use of digital traces:
1) the use of a notion of digital traces that is both too narrow and too ambitious;
2) the alternation of oblivion and paranoia on the conditions of digital traces' production;
3) the tendency to confuse digital and automatic;
4) the hope that the digital traces are easily clamped by conventional methods.
We will try to show than when these misunderstandings are avoided, digital methods can renew the vision of social sciences and help them to overcome the classic divide between qualitative and quantitative methods.
Keynote talk at the Web Science Summer School, Singapore, 8 December 2014. Today we see the rise of Social Machines, like Twitter, Wikipedia and Galaxy Zoo—where communities identify and solve their own problems, harnessing commitment, local knowledge and embedded skills, without having to rely on experts or governments.
The Social Machines paradigm provides a lens onto the interacting sociotechnical systems of our hybrid digital-physical world, citizen-centric and at scale—emphasising empowerment and sociality in a world of pervasive technology adoption and automation.
This talk will present the Social Machines paradigm as an approach to social media analytics and a rethinking of our scholarly practices and knowledge infrastructure.
Panel position for "10 Years of Web Science" panel at ACM Web Science 2016, Hannover, Germany, Monday 23 May 2016, with panellists:
Steffen Staab, Universität Koblenz-Landau & University of Southampton (chair)
David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford
Susan Halford, University of Southampton
Anni Rowland-Campbell, Intersticia, Web Science Trust & Web Science Institute
Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
e-Research and the Demise of the Scholarly ArticleDavid De Roure
Innovations 2013 - e-Science, we-Science and the latest evolutions in e-publishing. STM International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers. 4th December 2013, Congress Centre, Great Russell Street, London, UK.
Computing for Human Experience: Sensors, Perception, Semantics, Social Comput...Amit Sheth
Keynote at the 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC2008), Bangkok, Thailand, Feb 2-5, 2009. http://aswc2008.ait.ac.th/invitedspeaker2.html
More details: http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/Computing_For_Human_Experience
SMWL Masterclass: why Open Research and Open Data are crucial for Citizen S...Margaret Gold
At Social Media Week London, 2013 - Mendeley is hosting a Social Science Masterclass on 'How Technology is Changing Research'.
In this brief talk, I discuss how Open Access, Open Research, and Open Data are crucial for Citizen Science - all of which are being enabled and empowerd by technology.
What Data Can Do: A Typology of Mechanisms
Angèle Christin .
International Journal of Communication > Vol 14 (2020) , de Angèle Christin del Departamento de Comunicación de Stanford University, USA titulado "What Data Can Do: A Typology of Mechanisms". Entre otras cosas es autora del libro "Metrics at Work.
Despite many attempts to perturb a scholarly publishing system that is over 350 years old, it feels pretty much like business as usual. I argue that we have become trapped inside the machine, and if we want to change it in an informed way we need to step outside and take a look. First I describe my lens—what I mean by a social machine, and the scholarly social machines ecosystem.
I close with a list of questions that could be workshop discussion points. Presented at the ESWC 2017 Workshop on Enabling Decentralised Scholarly Communication, Portorož - Portorose, May 2017.
This article is a response to the Call for Linked Research. The essay is currently available on www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/users/user384/scholarly-social-machines.html
Intersection Scale and Social Machines 2016David De Roure
Opening talk for the Introduction to Digital Humanities Workshop, at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2016. Presented 3 July 2016 in St Hugh's College.
"Digital Scholarship: The Intersection of Disciplines"
Invited talk at Semantics Digital Humanities Workshop, 25th-27th of September 2015, New Seminar Room, St John’s College, University of Oxford, St Giles, OX1 3JP. Organized by Dept of Computer Science, e-Research Centre, and St John's College, University of Oxford.
The Long and the Short of it:a history of Social MachinesDavid De Roure
Talk for the Digital Approaches in Medieval and Renaissance Studies workshop, at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2015. Presented 24 July 2015 in St Anne's College, Oxford.
Opening talk for the Introduction to Digital Humanities Workshop, at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2015. Presented 20 July 2015 in St Anne's College.
Short paper presentation at the The 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2014) 12TH SEPTEMBER 2014 (FULL DAY), LONDON, UK in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries conference 2014.
Working out the plot: the role of Stories in Social MachinesDavid De Roure
Paper by Ségolène Tarte, David De Roure and Pip Willcox, presented at 2nd International Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Social Machines, in conjunction with WWW2014, Seoul, Korea, 7 April 2014. Proceedings in ACM Digital Library dx.doi.org/10.1145/2567948.2578839, preprint on http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/ora:8033
"Data Science" panel intro slides at Digital Research 2013, St Anne's, Oxford, September 2013 hosted by e-Research South and Oxford e-Research Centre - see http://digital-research.oerc.ox.ac.uk/
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
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...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.
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.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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future
5. New Forms of Data
• Internet data, derived from social
media and other online interactions
(including data gathered by
connected people and devices, eg
mobile devices, wearable technology,
Internet of Things)
• Tracking data, monitoring the
movement of people and objects
(including GPS/geolocation data,
traffic and other transport sensor
data, CCTV images etc)
• Satellite and aerial imagery (eg
Google Earth, Landsat, infrared,
radar mapping etc)
hGp://www.oecd.org/s6/sci-‐tech/new-‐data-‐for-‐
understanding-‐the-‐human-‐condi6on.htm
6. House of Commons Inquiry
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/
science-and-technology-committee/news/report-responsible-use-of-data/
Traditional data storage systems were not designed for
real-time analysis but new technologies can now provide
live information and data analysis can accomplished in
real-time. Social media data offers the possibility of
studying social processes as they unfold at the level of
populations as an alternative to traditional surveys or
interviews. The data from social media is described as
"qualitative data on a quantitative scale" and requires
innovative analysis techniques.
Traditional data storage systems were not designed for
real-time analysis but new technologies can now provide
live information and data analysis can accomplished in
real-time. Social media data offers the possibility of
studying social processes as they unfold at the level of
populations as an alternative to traditional surveys or
interviews. The data from social media is described as
"qualitative data on a quantitative scale" and requires
innovative analysis techniques.
10. Social Media Triangle
social
media
data
and
analy.cs
social
media
for
engagement
with
research
social
media
as
a
subject
of
research
Sam
McGregor
11. A rehearsal for the future
• The Internet of Things
describes a world in which
everyday objects are
connected to a network so that
data can be shared
• But it is really as much about
people as the inanimate object
• It is impossible to anticipate
all the social changes that
could be created by connecting
billions of devices
hGps://www.gov.uk/government/publica6ons/internet-‐of-‐things-‐blackeG-‐review
12. New Forms of Data CDT
New UK Centres for Doctoral Training in New Forms
of Data and in Biosocial Research
Much of the value of ‘new forms of data’ lie in the
potential for them to be analysed in near real-time,
which presents opportunities for revealing phenomena
as they unfold, enabling timely response with
immediate influence.
Such analysis brings distinct new computational
requirements, requires new skills, and makes new
demands on the ease of use and capability of the
national e-Infrastructure.
hGp://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-‐and-‐guidance/postgraduates/dtc/dtc-‐
policy/commissioning-‐of-‐centres-‐for-‐doctoral-‐training.aspx
14. Social Machines
Real life is and must be full of all kinds of social
constraint – the very processes from which society
arises. Computers can help if we use them to create
abstract social machines on the Web: processes in
which the people do the creative work and the machine
does the administration... The stage is set for an
evolutionary growth of new social engines. The ability
to create new forms of social process would be given to
the world at large, and development would be rapid.
Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web,
1999 (pp. 172–175)
16. Methods of Observation
Tarte,
S.
Willcox,
P.,
Glaser,
H.
and
De
Roure,
D.
2015.
Archetypal
Narra6ves
in
Social
Machines:
Approaching
Sociality
through
Prosopography.
ACM
Web
Science
2015.
Tiropanis,
T.,
Hall,
W.,
Shadbolt,
N.,
De
Roure,
D.,
Contractor,
N.
and
Hendler,
J.
2013.
The
Web
Science
Observatory,
IEEE
Intelligent
Systems
28(2)
pp
100–104.
Understanding the design
and emergent behaviours of
co-created sociotechnical
constructions at scale
Macroscope
Observatory
Prosopography
17. Summary
New forms of data enable us to:
• Observe social processes in new ways
• Study new social processes, e.g. social media
• Design new social processes, e.g. for citizen
engagement at scale
There are considerations of ethics and responsible
innovation in each
This is all a rehearsal for living in the Internet of
Things
18. Thank You
Thanks to Fiona Armstrong, Peter Elias, Wendy Hall,
Chris Lintott, Sam McGregor, Nigel Shadbolt, Ségolène
Tarte, Ramine Tinati, Thanassis Tiropanis, Max Van
Cleek, and Pip Willcox
Contact david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk