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Validating experimental results from articles has finally become a norm at many systems and ML conferences. Nowadays, more than half of accepted papers pass artifact evaluation and share related code and data. Unfortunately, lack of a common experimental framework, common research methodology and common formats places an increasing burden on evaluators to validate a growing number of ad-hoc artifacts. Furthermore, having too many ad-hoc artifacts and Docker snapshots is almost as bad as not having any (!), since they cannot be easily reused, customized and built upon.
While overviewing more than 100 papers during artifact evaluation at PPoPP, CGO, PACT, Supercomputing and other conferences, we noticed that many of them use similar experimental setups, benchmarks, models, data sets, environments and platforms. This motivated us to develop Collective Knowledge (CK), an open workflow framework with a unified Python API to automate common researchers’ tasks such as detecting software and hardware dependencies, installing missing packages, downloading data sets and models, compiling and running programs, performing autotuning and co-design, crowdsourcing time-consuming experiments across computing resources provided by volunteers similar to SETI@home, applying statistical analysis and machine learning, validating results and plotting them on a common scoreboard for open and fair comparison, automatically generating interactive articles, and so on: http://cKnowledge.org.
In this presentation we will introduce CK concepts and present several real world use cases from General Motors and Arm
on collaborative benchmarking, autotuning and co-design of efficient software/hardware stacks for deep learning. We also present results and reusable CK components from the 1st ACM ReQuEST optimization tournament: http://cKnowledge.org/request. Finally, we introduce our latest initiative to create
an open repository of reusable research components and workflows to reboot and accelerate open science, quantum computing and AI!
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Session 1: Trends and patterns on the client tier
In our first session we will take a vendor and platform neutral look at some of the trends and emerging technologies that can be used on the client tier. We will look at techniques like Mashups, technologies like Natural User Interfaces (NUI) and the increasing importance of the mobile platform. We will also look at some common patterns that can be used in the architecture of the client tier.
Session 2: Applying Microsoft technology on the client tier
In our second session we will take some look at how we can use Microsoft technologies to create well architected and compelling client applications. We will look at technologies like Silverlight and WPF that can be used to create compelling clients. We will also look at technologies that can be used to make your applications more extensible for future development. We will also examine some architectural guidance developed by the Microsoft Patterns and Practices group.
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This document describes an autonomous analytics platform that allows users to analyze streaming data. The platform uses a unified big data technology stack including Spark, Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka and Elasticsearch. It has a cloud-agnostic architecture and supports multiple machine learning frameworks. The platform includes a Domain Specific Language (DSL) that allows power users to create full data pipelines and analytics workflows with a few lines of code. It also includes a DSL Workbench for interactively building, editing and publishing analytical pipelines. Additionally, the document introduces "Auto Curious", which harnesses user interactions to autonomously discover insights and compose DSL commands through a question graph interface.
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The document discusses different concepts related to data structures including: 1) viewing data structures as spatial structures, 2) Boolean logic represented as circuits, and 3) decision trees that use weighting for encoding. It also references works by Gödel, Shannon and Weaver, and Leibniz. A list of terms is provided at the end relating to pages, neighborhoods, continents and objects like pens and pineapples.
This document discusses the concept of reticulation, which refers to the formation of interconnected networks. It explores this idea through the works of thinkers like Gilbert Simondon and his discussion of the poetic and signifying dimensions of technological networks like television antennas. The document also references Michel Foucault's concept of episteme, which he defined as the strategic mechanisms by which certain statements become acceptable as true or false within a field of scientific knowledge. Overall, the document examines the philosophical underpinnings of networks and reticulation through the lens of technology and systems theory.
Accelerating open science and AI with automated, portable, customizable and r...Grigori Fursin
Validating experimental results from articles has finally become a norm at many systems and ML conferences. Nowadays, more than half of accepted papers pass artifact evaluation and share related code and data. Unfortunately, lack of a common experimental framework, common research methodology and common formats places an increasing burden on evaluators to validate a growing number of ad-hoc artifacts. Furthermore, having too many ad-hoc artifacts and Docker snapshots is almost as bad as not having any (!), since they cannot be easily reused, customized and built upon.
While overviewing more than 100 papers during artifact evaluation at PPoPP, CGO, PACT, Supercomputing and other conferences, we noticed that many of them use similar experimental setups, benchmarks, models, data sets, environments and platforms. This motivated us to develop Collective Knowledge (CK), an open workflow framework with a unified Python API to automate common researchers’ tasks such as detecting software and hardware dependencies, installing missing packages, downloading data sets and models, compiling and running programs, performing autotuning and co-design, crowdsourcing time-consuming experiments across computing resources provided by volunteers similar to SETI@home, applying statistical analysis and machine learning, validating results and plotting them on a common scoreboard for open and fair comparison, automatically generating interactive articles, and so on: http://cKnowledge.org.
In this presentation we will introduce CK concepts and present several real world use cases from General Motors and Arm
on collaborative benchmarking, autotuning and co-design of efficient software/hardware stacks for deep learning. We also present results and reusable CK components from the 1st ACM ReQuEST optimization tournament: http://cKnowledge.org/request. Finally, we introduce our latest initiative to create
an open repository of reusable research components and workflows to reboot and accelerate open science, quantum computing and AI!
The client (or presentation) tier of our applications is taking on an increasingly important role. Users are expecting more compelling user interfaces, but they also want more functionality from their applications. In this ArcReady we examine how to design and deliver well architected client applications that will be easy to maintain and extend.
Session 1: Trends and patterns on the client tier
In our first session we will take a vendor and platform neutral look at some of the trends and emerging technologies that can be used on the client tier. We will look at techniques like Mashups, technologies like Natural User Interfaces (NUI) and the increasing importance of the mobile platform. We will also look at some common patterns that can be used in the architecture of the client tier.
Session 2: Applying Microsoft technology on the client tier
In our second session we will take some look at how we can use Microsoft technologies to create well architected and compelling client applications. We will look at technologies like Silverlight and WPF that can be used to create compelling clients. We will also look at technologies that can be used to make your applications more extensible for future development. We will also examine some architectural guidance developed by the Microsoft Patterns and Practices group.
Course: Intro to Computer Science (Malmö Högskola):
A very general overview of computer science from machine, operating systems, networks, applications...
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This document describes an autonomous analytics platform that allows users to analyze streaming data. The platform uses a unified big data technology stack including Spark, Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka and Elasticsearch. It has a cloud-agnostic architecture and supports multiple machine learning frameworks. The platform includes a Domain Specific Language (DSL) that allows power users to create full data pipelines and analytics workflows with a few lines of code. It also includes a DSL Workbench for interactively building, editing and publishing analytical pipelines. Additionally, the document introduces "Auto Curious", which harnesses user interactions to autonomously discover insights and compose DSL commands through a question graph interface.
This document provides guidelines for using AWS Simple Icons in architecture diagrams. It recommends checking for the latest icon set and always including labels. Non-AWS technologies should be represented by the grey server icon. Diagrams should use direct lines, whitespace, and all icons should be labeled. Console icons represent services at a general level for less detailed diagrams.
This document provides guidelines for using AWS Simple Icons in architecture diagrams. It recommends checking for the latest icon set, always including labels with icons, representing non-AWS technologies with a grey server icon, and using best practices when creating diagrams such as direct lines and adequate whitespace. It also notes that console icons should represent services at a general level for high-level diagrams.
This document provides guidelines for using AWS Simple Icons in architecture diagrams. It recommends checking for the latest icon set, always including labels with icons, representing non-AWS technologies with a grey server icon, and using best practices when creating diagrams such as direct lines and adequate whitespace. It also notes that console icons should represent services at a general level for high-level diagrams.
This document provides guidelines for using AWS Simple Icons in architecture diagrams. It recommends checking for the most recent icon set and always including labels. Non-AWS technologies should be represented by the grey server icon. Diagrams should use direct lines, whitespace, and all icons should be labeled. Console icons represent services at a general level for less detailed diagrams.
This document provides guidelines for using AWS Simple Icons in architecture diagrams. It recommends checking for the latest icon set, always including labels with icons, representing non-AWS technologies with a grey server icon, and using best practices when creating diagrams such as direct lines and adequate whitespace. It also notes that console icons should represent services at a general level for high-level diagrams.
This document provides guidelines for using AWS Simple Icons in architecture diagrams. It recommends checking for the latest icon set, always including labels with icons, representing non-AWS technologies with a grey server icon, and using best practices when creating diagrams such as direct lines and adequate whitespace. It also notes that console icons should represent services at a general level for high-level diagrams.
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1. Windows Azure provides infrastructure and services for building applications and storing data in the cloud. It offers compute, storage, database, and connectivity services.
2. The platform's infrastructure includes globally distributed data centers housing servers in shipping containers for high density.
3. Services include SQL Azure, storage, content delivery, queues, and an app development platform. Pricing models are consumption-based or via subscriptions.
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The capability to manage complexity is one of the key competencies of system engineers for large IT-solutions. We call a technical system "complex" (in contrast to "complicated") if it is impossible (due to the networked interaction of its components) to predict the behavior of the whole system, even if you know exactly how each of the system components behave. On the other hand, customers expect increasingly high reliability of IT systems as their business is more and more dependent on the proper operation and interoperation of the IT systems. First we show how a network of interactions increases the complexity of the overall-system. Then we analyze the complexity management strategies of our system engineers and present generalized strategies based on examples of large customer projects. The examples demonstrate that a high maturity in managing complexity enables to provide IT solutions of ultra-high reliability even if they are complex solutions in the above defined sense.
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Evolving your Data Access with MongoDB StitchMongoDB
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This is the deck that I used in my European Silverlight Tour in Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Bengium, Netherlands and Ireland. It\'s about architecting Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight 2.0.
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This document provides guidelines for using AWS Simple Icons in architecture diagrams. It recommends checking for the latest icon set, always including labels with icons, representing non-AWS technologies with a grey server icon, and using best practices when creating diagrams such as direct lines and adequate whitespace. It also notes that console icons should represent services at a general level for high-level diagrams.
This document provides guidelines for using AWS Simple Icons in architecture diagrams. It recommends checking for the latest icon set, always including labels with icons, representing non-AWS technologies with a grey server icon, and using best practices when creating diagrams such as direct lines and adequate whitespace. It also notes that console icons should represent services at a general level for high-level diagrams.
This document provides guidelines for using AWS Simple Icons in architecture diagrams. It recommends checking for the most recent icon set and always including labels. Non-AWS technologies should be represented by the grey server icon. Diagrams should use direct lines, whitespace, and all icons should be labeled. Console icons represent services at a general level for less detailed diagrams.
This document provides guidelines for using AWS Simple Icons in architecture diagrams. It recommends checking for the latest icon set, always including labels with icons, representing non-AWS technologies with a grey server icon, and using best practices when creating diagrams such as direct lines and adequate whitespace. It also notes that console icons should represent services at a general level for high-level diagrams.
This document provides guidelines for using AWS Simple Icons in architecture diagrams. It recommends checking for the latest icon set, always including labels with icons, representing non-AWS technologies with a grey server icon, and using best practices when creating diagrams such as direct lines and adequate whitespace. It also notes that console icons should represent services at a general level for high-level diagrams.
Thug is a new low-interaction honeyclient for analyzing malicious web content and browser exploitation. It uses the Google V8 JavaScript engine and emulates different browser personalities to detect exploits. Thug analyzes content using static and dynamic analysis and logs results using MAEC format. Future work includes improving DOM emulation and JavaScript analysis to better identify vulnerabilities and exploit kits. The source code for Thug will be publicly released after the presentation.
The document discusses Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform. It provides an overview of the platform's infrastructure, services, and pricing models. The key points are:
1. Windows Azure provides infrastructure and services for building applications and storing data in the cloud. It offers compute, storage, database, and connectivity services.
2. The platform's infrastructure includes globally distributed data centers housing servers in shipping containers for high density.
3. Services include SQL Azure, storage, content delivery, queues, and an app development platform. Pricing models are consumption-based or via subscriptions.
The document discusses architecting applications for the cloud using Microsoft technologies. It provides an overview of Microsoft's Azure platform, including hosting applications on Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS). It also discusses using Azure storage services like tables, queues and blobs to build scalable cloud applications.
The document provides an overview of building mobile web apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It discusses using declarative HTML, programmatic JavaScript, and thin clients as alternatives to thick clients. It also summarizes support for HTML5 features across different mobile browsers and frameworks like Sencha Touch that can be used to develop rich mobile apps with web standards.
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The capability to manage complexity is one of the key competencies of system engineers for large IT-solutions. We call a technical system "complex" (in contrast to "complicated") if it is impossible (due to the networked interaction of its components) to predict the behavior of the whole system, even if you know exactly how each of the system components behave. On the other hand, customers expect increasingly high reliability of IT systems as their business is more and more dependent on the proper operation and interoperation of the IT systems. First we show how a network of interactions increases the complexity of the overall-system. Then we analyze the complexity management strategies of our system engineers and present generalized strategies based on examples of large customer projects. The examples demonstrate that a high maturity in managing complexity enables to provide IT solutions of ultra-high reliability even if they are complex solutions in the above defined sense.
Planning for Synchronization with Browser-Local DatabasesZendCon
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Students of Navgujarat College of Computer Applications, Ahmedabad felt excit...cresco
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11. “The Anti-Mac Interface”
Closer to the content, to processes
Metaphors / Aesthetic Integrity
Direct Manipulation (Sutherland)
WYSIWYG – >sub-sensory
Feedback & Dialogue
Forgiveness / reversibility
Modelessness
Vs
Language
Expertise
Richer Objects
More Unix-like
Gentner, D., and Nielsen, J.: The Anti-Mac interface, Communications of the ACM 39 , 8 (August 1996), 70-82.
22. Black Box
“The word black box is used by cyberneticians
whenever a piece of machinery or a set of
commands is too complex. In its place they
draw a little box about which they need to know
nothing but its input and output”
Bruno Latour, Science in Action, p.2-3
23. “By thus acting on the Box, and by allowing the
Box to affect him (sic) and his recording
apparatus, the experimenter is coupling himself
to the Box, so that the two together form a
system with feedback”
WR Ashby, Introduction to Cybernetics, p.87
25. “It is more than a metaphor to describe the price
system as a kind of machinery for registering
change, or a system of telecommunications which
enables individual producers to watch merely the
movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might
watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust
their activities to changes of which they may never
know more than is reflected in the price
movement”
Friedrich Hayek, The Uses of Knowledge in Society,
1945
Immediacy
direct perception
To expose
To make clear
The opposite of corruption
Has a relation to accountability
Transparency and opacity don’t simply map on to
Power / resistance
Power / knowledge
There are partial, and powerful, inrersections, but no isomorphism
Fairy story
(trsnsparency – emperors new clothes, cindarella’s shoe…)
Transparency was first invented as a technique for god to view humanity
In the nineteenth century, because a virtue of architecture, the crystal palace of Paxton, and thus a space of technology
In the twentieth century becomes a quality of people in relation to each other,
and as such with the development of machines of the personal
This moment is troubled because it is the same time at the moment they also discover their opacity to themselves
In the twenty first century trransparency mutates again to becomes the mode of interpretation between people and people and machines,
not forgetting machines amongst themsleves
The interweaving of modalities of
Transparency and black sites
Not really transparent?
ABSTRACTION LAYERS
Abstraction layers – interfaces within the computer
Different scales
Move UP the hierarchy of scales from the circuits up to the screen
TRANSPARENCY LAYERS
Go down the hierarchy, or composing another
Meeting the abstractions of the computer with abstractions of the users and the world
Does anyone remember this interface?
Metaphor as aiding transparency by assisting inference and association
Prior comprehension makes something new understandable via a mapping of one domain of reference onto another
Interface as key site for playing transparency out
What is elicited as transparent, dawn to the surface
Skeumorph
Eimco Power Horse. The line-drive tractor was originally equipped with leather reins
The Eimco Power Horse was made from 1937 to 1942. But by 1937, you could buy a nice John Deere or Farmall, for less.”
"It would be an improvement over farming with horses, but it was dangerous," Paul says. "When the farmer said 'whoa,' it wouldn't 'whoa.' If he wasn't used to driving a gas tractor, he'd pull back on the reins to stop, like you would on a horse, and it'd put it in reverse.
http://www.farmcollector.com/tractors/power-horse-tractor.aspx
Benefit of metaphor
The battle however is with this
Programmed in visual basic
For renaming files in bulk
§
Interface
Organisation of relation between computational forces and the user
Ostensive organisation
§
And, between elements among set of relation
§
interfaces as part of collective equipment
The equipment we establish as societies shapes us.
Guattari:
“ a multitude of intermediary operations, machines for initiation and semiotic facilitation that can capture the molecular energy of desire of human individuals and groups”
Lines of Flight, p.11
Books app IOS 7
Bookshelves for ebooks that look like bookshelves – but have none of their benefits due to the constraints of screen size
Software interfaces that look like brushed aluminium (1999 Quick Time 4)
power struggles within apple
XXXX – see ive book
Now such things tend to be more abstract – like the size of a piece of paper as a form factor for tablet computers and mobile phones
Gentner, D., and Nielsen, J.: The Anti-Mac interface, Communications of the ACM 39 , 8 (August 1996), 70-82.
More recently: Move from metaphor to
flat aesthetic, Google Polymer or Material Design;
Windows Design Language, or Metro first seen on the Zune media player;
Apple integrated design under Jony Ive,
- consistency, coherence
Layer –
Dynamics elements
§ with Flat Design
Interface moves from something retrospective, to being contemporary.
To say that it is contemporary, does not of course imply that it is adequate, but that it can tell us something about the present.
§
“simplify, remove and reduce clutter”
Jonathan Ive, Design Museum, online exhibit
To allow the user transparent, direct access to their work, to their ideas, to themselves
Windows - recent
the shift to computing as smart phone and tablets:
Move to the Cloud
- movement goes from clicking points, dragging objects and interacting in a grammar of objects and verbs
- to, a movement of swiping, touching, launching. One activates nouns, apps, or objects of information, but the verbs are contained within the apps pre-set function
§
As devices become more autonomous, running processes independently of the user, often in relation to servers, perhaps with smaller screens, drop-shadow, gradients, and other elements geared towards giving an impression of three-dimensions to the user have been deprecated.
Move from dealing with documents to using data and services (cloud, but also IoT)
Data is dynamic
Data is multiple
Access to it must be tractable
Jonathan Ive, Design Museum, online exhibit
at the same time, relations shift.
– rather than position of PERSONAL computer, the user directly faces platform based services
(as in the way that microsoft’s cloud service has recently usurped attached documents in office 365)
Information appliance
§1
small entities giving access to massive quantities: an effect of both quantities of data, and relational architectures
Metro Interface for Linux – Ubuntu
§2
Intuition – as a variant of transparency.
Intuition is the fulcrum for a politics of interface: that which can be made or rendered Intuitive.
Here, it’s salutary to think about the iPhone:
Ive: “what you feel about the product, not in a physical sense, but a perceptual sense.”
User feels that they are “touching content” (content must be made that conforms to this norm)
Leander Kahney, Jony Ive, The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products, Portfolio/Penguin, London, 2013, p.220
Removal of the window, scroll bar, buttons, frame… etc.
(Dirk Paesmans, Jodi) equivalent to today’s TVs
Android across devices
Mediation and mutability of devices
§
Hardware components – first iPhone had “nearly thirty” interfaces between components,
by late 2013, with the introduction of the unibody, “shrank to just five”
Gilbert Simondon – the move from Abstract to Concrete technology
What happens to the screen
Software
Harwdware (at the back, in a controller, on your phone)
In the context of the cloud
Application Program Interface
Netflix api
§3
API
Interfaces for machine to machine
Giving enterprise data to those outside the organisation
show Github api
and internally
Netflix api – decouple systems within an organisation
Key for Internet of Things
§
APIs black box software
OOProgramming
Netflix API yesterday
Unfortunately, NetFlix has no formally published API or collection of web services, so the NetFlix API is a C# library that wraps HTTP GET and POST requests to the NetFlix site, allowing programs to view/change a user's rental queue, search for movies, and view movie details, among other things. Hopefully this will be useful to developers working on third-party NetFlix applications and (potentially) a Windows Media Center add-on
https://netflixapi.codeplex.com/
This is from github’s API
in database, relational database, any entity is an interface to other relations and entities
Permisisons structures
in social network and pattern analysis an object, person, place, time, mode of transport or kind of movement may be such an entity.
Each of these entities is mediated, one can say interfaced by the apparatus that is used to transact or to record them. Each apparatus will have it spatial and temporal particulaties
at another scale, an entity is itself a phase-space of morphogenetic and syntactical variants and links
this combination is intensely powerful!
§
index cards, small amounts of discrete data
often organised by different index across duplicate cards
§
Liberty as a question of resource allocation
black box in STS
Bruno Latour, Madelaine Akrich
Etc.
Black Box – aeronautics (from 1940s, picked up by cybernetics)
InPUt -> Output
Something so stabilised as to have no need for further thought applied to it.
§
amongst this condition, there is a political modality:
transparency as interwoven with black boxes & black sites
§
black sites, as a term, came to the fore in the CIA’s rendition of people it considered to be suspects
things that fall off or out of the regime of openness, that slide between the occlusions of the layers of transparency
http://gawker.com/5866267/this-is-what-a-cia-black-site-looks-like
Latour only partially represents cybernetics
1. Determinacy and indeterminacy is introduced
2. The difference between black boxes and black sites, is that the latter are built on a constitutive disavowal of this feedback
And of its formative relation to what is figured as the outside of the box.
Understanding the black site is working to recognise both:
The way in which this feedback has reality-forming effects
And how transparency layers and black sites are mutually interwoven.
this interplay between transparency layers and black sites, what is sealed from inspection or is rendered unknowable:
Key aspect of the current political modality
In the three volume 1973-79 book, Law legislation and Liberty Friedrich Hayek proposes self-organisation as a form of spontaneous order natural to the market
(proposes the governments open data)
book also relies on an interplay between
transparency and openness of markets
asymmetry of information, and disequilibria of values
that preclude planning, which would depend on knowing all facts pertaining
in the german ideology, marx imagines that communism would be that moment when humanity becomes transparent to itself. The commodity form hides labour
something which he worked on from the 1940s
in texts such as “the uses of knowledge in society”
knowledge of specific time, place and needs – in the individual (compared to other modes of knowledge organisation)
there is an attractive discussion of the hustle of the market
and, an argument for the liberal benefits of decentralisation
Ignorance
Hayek relies on
and opacity as conditions of information, coupled with fleeting, or knowledge based means of computing value
The market is described as a giant machine (one that self-organises in later work) Catalaxy
The price of everything and the value of nothing
And here we have as the condition of interface, something uncannily like a corporate dashboard
Money understood as pricing signals finally means we can subsume economics under media theory
A slightly mischevious reading:
“civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them” Whitehead,
AN Whitehead makes this comment in his Introduction to Mathematics
Ignorances can thus be said to be
- problem of formalism
But also asymmetry
Everything is a black box with prices as inputs and outputs
Value generation requires multiple loci of indeterminacy
the stakes are significant
Lefort ‘the making of machiavelli’
“the prince assets himself as such by sustaining the indetermination that is constitutive of the real”
§
disintermediation,
uber,
but also of drivers
But demand lead pricing
Price surges
§
§
in the Google model (propsed by Eric Scmidt and Jared Cohen in A New Digital Age) , larger incumbent institutions - such as media - are dissolved > as platforms aggregate and sort data between suppliers and users. There is a liberation from the constraints of hierarchically ordered institutions, or established forms of trade, but the insertion of a new locus of a universal sorting mechanism that becomes a single point of arbitrage of value
in this model there is also
Transparency of self:
you have a fitbit to compensate for the gradual closure of the NHS
(with insurance companies using “intelligent pills” to monitor customers/patients)
http://fortune.com/2015/10/22/uber-tax-shell/
§ alongside their informational politics
Tax / financial operations of companies such as Google, Facebook, Uber
Dutch Sandwich
As a means of ‘going dark’
DON’T READ
Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, p.24
the bok strongly emphasises the claim that it would be impossible to delete data p54-55, is down solely to the information architectures worked with by such corps, and their deep reliance on data as a business asset. Schmidt and Cohen go to great lengths to differentiate themselves from Wikileaks as trusted and accredited arbitraters of what becomes public. Schmidt and Cohen emphaises by contrast their pragmatism, their sentisityglib and servile
Bright Light – code name
On Strada Ceremesului, Bucharest
Before suspects were granted humane treatment (dental care, Halal food, and so forth), they were subjected to a month of sleep deprivation, stress positions, and other forms of physical interrogation
http://hosted.ap.org/interactives/2011/cia-romania/
§ Transparency as contemporary virtue
Government –
§
Mode of the black box inserted into circits of information allows for whistleblowers
But it is also highly contested
Wikileaks slogan, “we open governments”, what the design group Metahaven call “Black Transparency”
Metahaven, “Black Transparency”, Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2016
Asymmetry of transparency and opacity
Facebook, gehry, april, 2015
ARCHITECTURAL MOVES
Facebook, Menlo Park, Frank Gehry, 2015
Apple Headquarters, Cupertino, Norman Foster & Co, 2016
Google HQ, Mountain View, Bjarke Ingals Group and Thomas Heatherwick & Partners, 2016
Gehry’s work of 1970s
Including his own santa monica house
“constructing cheap buildings of cheap materials in the funky geometric shapes”
The Frank Gehry Story
Ingrid D. Rowland
March 24, 2016
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/03/24/frank-gehry-story/
Zuckerberg’s office on opening day. Note instagram filter
FB
Apple Headquarters, Cupertino, Norman Foster & Co, 2016
Fortresses of transparency
more than 1 million m² of new facilities, including an auditorium and a sports centre
Other sustainability measures will include using natural ventilation 75 per cent of the year, with no need for air conditioning or heating, and the building will be designed to net-zero energy standards, using only renewable power.
§
Security clearances
information flow within orgs heavily controlled by NDAs, access control, IP, project siloing
§
note filters used in images
computer-generated citizens
planes of the image sometimes not aligning
Google HQ, Mountain View,
North Bayshore Campus
Bjarke Ingals Group and Thomas Heatherwick & Partners, 2016
Google PR:
“Large translucent canopies will cover each site, controlling the climate inside yet letting in light and air.
With trees, landscaping, cafes, and bike paths weaving through these structures, we aim to blur the distinction between our buildings and nature.”
Club Med, Centre Parks
Umbrellas to mediate heat gain
Revisiting tropes of sixties architecture of Buckminster Fuller
Calculation power shown by parametric design
parametric design claimed by Patrik Schumacher as the international style of post-fordist information economy.
Splines, nurbs
Computational power is expressed by
Gradients, associative modelling, transcoding across components, vector fields
There is a rendering of the form of contemporary power, and the emperors themselves are transparent
DON’T READ
They figure as a render
(uses luhman, specialisation: he shouldn’t comment. Market within building components established by parametric software with rice factors built in)
John Gerrard, Farm
2015
Predator Drone on the ground. Afghanistan 2012
Thank you, I hope that is clear
CIA rendition site
Monitoring site
Open hangar, 2007, Cactus Flats, Nevada, distance, 18 miles
Detachment 3, air force flight test centre no.2, 2008
Groom lake nevada
Distance, 26 miles