The Company of Master Mariners of India (CMMI) held a virtual event to pay tribute to the late Capt. H. Subramaniam, who served as CMMI Master from 2001-2003. Family members and industry leaders attended the event, sharing memories and honoring Capt. Subramaniam's contributions. Speakers described him as an excellent leader, teacher, and role model who inspired many throughout his distinguished career in the shipping industry. The event concluded with a video presentation by Capt. Subramaniam's family and a two-minute silence to honor his legacy.
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the global shipping industry. Global recession has led to a fall in charter rates, with earnings on some routes dropping by over 80% to five-year lows. Shipping companies are focusing on ensuring the safety of crews through measures like providing PPE, training on COVID-19, and facilitating crew changes and medical care. Looking ahead, the pandemic underscores the need for improvements in areas like the mental health of seafarers, regulation that can better address new technologies, and developing technology-savvy crews while maintaining human performance and oversight of automation.
Cap. Saujanya Sinha - Cmmi - Webinar - April 2020cmmindia2017
This document provides an overview of the Suppression of Unlawful Acts (SUA) Convention of 1988 and how it relates to piracy. It discusses key events that led to the development of the SUA Convention, including the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro passenger ship. It explains the objectives and definitions of "offences" under the SUA Convention, which include endangering a vessel's navigation through acts of violence. While piracy under UNCLOS requires attacks between private vessels for private ends, SUA Convention offences do not have the same restrictions. The document argues India's Anti-Maritime Piracy Bill of 2019 could have been improved by also addressing SUA Convention offences, rather than
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses water resources management in India, with a focus on the Ganges river system. It provides background on the hydrologic cycle and importance of water. It summarizes initiatives to clean the Ganges river like Namami Gange and the cGanga program. It discusses various water impact summits that were held to discuss issues like afforestation, urban river management, and sewage management. The document advocates for increased public participation in water conservation, strengthening laws against pollution, and promoting river navigation and water-based transportation to reduce environmental impact. It outlines opportunities for innovative financing, impact projects, and developing the blue economy around water.
Speaker 1 - Responsibility of Stake Holders under MLCcmmindia2017
The document discusses the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) and its implementation in India. Some key points:
- The MLC aims to promote decent work conditions for seafarers and came into force globally in 2013. India ratified it and put mechanisms in place for compliance.
- The MLC covers areas like minimum requirements for seafarers, conditions of employment, accommodation, recreational facilities, food and catering, health protection, medical care, welfare, and social security.
- India implemented the MLC through rules covering areas like seafarer accommodation, recruitment and placement, medical examinations, and general maritime labor.
- Statistics on inspections show most deficiencies found relate
The document discusses the responsibilities and procedures for companies licensed by the Indian government to recruit and place seafarers. Key points:
1) Companies must obtain a Recruitment and Placement Services License (RPSL) which is mandated by the Directorate General of Shipping. The RPSL license regulates recruiters and protects seafarers' rights.
2) RPSL companies must follow procedures for audits, reporting, record-keeping and financial guarantees to ensure fair recruitment and protection of seafarers.
3) While the digitization of processes has improved the system, some challenges remain like delays, discrepancies and technical issues that impact seafarers' careers and mobility.
The Company of Master Mariners of India (CMMI) held a virtual event to pay tribute to the late Capt. H. Subramaniam, who served as CMMI Master from 2001-2003. Family members and industry leaders attended the event, sharing memories and honoring Capt. Subramaniam's contributions. Speakers described him as an excellent leader, teacher, and role model who inspired many throughout his distinguished career in the shipping industry. The event concluded with a video presentation by Capt. Subramaniam's family and a two-minute silence to honor his legacy.
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the global shipping industry. Global recession has led to a fall in charter rates, with earnings on some routes dropping by over 80% to five-year lows. Shipping companies are focusing on ensuring the safety of crews through measures like providing PPE, training on COVID-19, and facilitating crew changes and medical care. Looking ahead, the pandemic underscores the need for improvements in areas like the mental health of seafarers, regulation that can better address new technologies, and developing technology-savvy crews while maintaining human performance and oversight of automation.
Cap. Saujanya Sinha - Cmmi - Webinar - April 2020cmmindia2017
This document provides an overview of the Suppression of Unlawful Acts (SUA) Convention of 1988 and how it relates to piracy. It discusses key events that led to the development of the SUA Convention, including the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro passenger ship. It explains the objectives and definitions of "offences" under the SUA Convention, which include endangering a vessel's navigation through acts of violence. While piracy under UNCLOS requires attacks between private vessels for private ends, SUA Convention offences do not have the same restrictions. The document argues India's Anti-Maritime Piracy Bill of 2019 could have been improved by also addressing SUA Convention offences, rather than
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses water resources management in India, with a focus on the Ganges river system. It provides background on the hydrologic cycle and importance of water. It summarizes initiatives to clean the Ganges river like Namami Gange and the cGanga program. It discusses various water impact summits that were held to discuss issues like afforestation, urban river management, and sewage management. The document advocates for increased public participation in water conservation, strengthening laws against pollution, and promoting river navigation and water-based transportation to reduce environmental impact. It outlines opportunities for innovative financing, impact projects, and developing the blue economy around water.
Speaker 1 - Responsibility of Stake Holders under MLCcmmindia2017
The document discusses the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) and its implementation in India. Some key points:
- The MLC aims to promote decent work conditions for seafarers and came into force globally in 2013. India ratified it and put mechanisms in place for compliance.
- The MLC covers areas like minimum requirements for seafarers, conditions of employment, accommodation, recreational facilities, food and catering, health protection, medical care, welfare, and social security.
- India implemented the MLC through rules covering areas like seafarer accommodation, recruitment and placement, medical examinations, and general maritime labor.
- Statistics on inspections show most deficiencies found relate
The document discusses the responsibilities and procedures for companies licensed by the Indian government to recruit and place seafarers. Key points:
1) Companies must obtain a Recruitment and Placement Services License (RPSL) which is mandated by the Directorate General of Shipping. The RPSL license regulates recruiters and protects seafarers' rights.
2) RPSL companies must follow procedures for audits, reporting, record-keeping and financial guarantees to ensure fair recruitment and protection of seafarers.
3) While the digitization of processes has improved the system, some challenges remain like delays, discrepancies and technical issues that impact seafarers' careers and mobility.
Speaker 3 - Responsibility of Stake Holders under Maritime Labour Convention ...cmmindia2017
The document discusses the responsibilities of stakeholders under the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006. It provides an overview of the MLC's aims and recent enforcement cases. It also discusses issues like crew abandonment, violations by manning agents, and statistics. Suggestions are provided for better protecting seafarers' rights established by the MLC. Relevant organizations where seafarers can seek help with MLC issues are also listed.
Offshore market overview capt k devadascmmindia2017
The document provides an overview of the offshore shipping industry, including:
1) It traces the history of offshore shipping from the first offshore oil well in 1947 to the development of dedicated offshore supply vessels.
2) It discusses the development of India's offshore industry, including key milestones like the first offshore oil discovery in 1974 and policies to develop India's fleet.
3) It describes the current state of the global and Indian offshore markets, noting declining dayrates in India and oversupply issues globally due to low oil prices that have impacted demand.
This document describes a medical evacuation that occurred at sea. It provides details of a patient, a 34-year-old Indian seaman, who developed Fournier's gangrene/necrotizing fasciitis. Due to the imminent fatality risk and the distance to the scheduled port being 4 days away, a decision was made to request emergency evacuation. Two rescue helicopters were dispatched and medical workers were lowered by winch to retrieve the patient. The patient was then transported to Santa Barbara for further treatment.
1) Three case studies are presented involving violations of the MLC by RPSL holders. In the first case, seafarers were sent urgently to ships with minimal information and contract details, and a fire onboard later resulted in deaths and missing persons.
2) The second case involved seafarers being sent to a ship with only a one-page contract and no insurance or other required information provided. One seafarer later died with inadequate compensation provided.
3) In the third case, a seafarer was placed on a different ship than documented and was left without support after an injury. Many seafarers face such issues without proper protection.
This document discusses the implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) in India, noting both progress and challenges. It outlines how provisions have been incorporated through amendments to existing laws and rules. While many large Indian ships are now compliant, issues remain regarding smaller coastal vessels and facilities. Monitoring of recruitment and placement services also needs improvement to address non-compliance and data integrity problems. Overall implementation is an ongoing process, but electronic governance initiatives have helped reduce exploitation while still requiring further refinement. Continued efforts are needed on various fronts to fully realize MLC standards in India.
This document discusses definitions and classifications related to shipwrecks and salvage operations. It defines what constitutes a "wreck" according to various laws and conventions including sunken or stranded ships and objects from ships. It also discusses the agencies and international laws involved in salvage operations as well as classifications of salvage services. Finally, it outlines topics like apportionment of salvage awards, the role of coastal states, and policies regarding ownership of shipwrecks.
Challenges in Marine Salvage & Emergency Responsecmmindia2017
This document discusses challenges in marine salvage and emergency response in India and provides suggestions on how to improve the maritime environment. It notes that India has a long coastline with many ports and increasing shipping traffic, but faces risks like cyclones and lacks a unified command structure for responding to incidents. Resources for responding to contingencies are limited. It suggests preventing incidents through measures like traffic separation schemes and designated protected areas. India should also create a unified command structure under the Maritime Safety Act and streamline customs and tax procedures to facilitate salvage operations. A self-sustaining revenue model could be developed where vessels carry insurance for contingency measures.
This document summarizes key elements of salvage contracts and awards. It discusses the essential elements of salvage, including maritime property in danger and voluntary services resulting in success. It outlines the objectives of rewarding salvors generously to encourage their services. Compensation increases based on a salvor's level of involvement, from occasional assistance to full-time professional salvage. The document reviews several case examples and covers the Lloyd's Open Form, criteria for fixing salvage awards, and the Salvage Convention of 1989. It also discusses the SCOPIC solution for calculating salvage remuneration.
This document provides information about an Extra Masters online course launched by The Company of Masters Mariners of India (CMMI). The course consists of 4 parts that can each be completed in 3 months. Part A will begin on May 15th and consists of 3 modules on leadership, economics, and law. The course fees are INR 25,000-30,000 depending on CMMI membership. Students can access online classes and materials through a website and participate in live video conferences to ask questions. The goal is to provide continued education opportunities for seafarers to obtain higher qualifications.
Damage Stability Analysis and Emergency Responsecmmindia2017
This document discusses damage stability analysis and emergency response for ships. It covers basics of analyzing different cases of damage and breach scenarios. Methods for responding to emergencies include grounding, ballast rearrangement, cargo rearrangement, and jettisoning cargo to safe facilities. Case studies examine fire/breach incidents and corrective measures during actual incidents including estimating survivability, pollution outflow, and salvage or recycling operations.
M.V. Ramamurthy Shipowner's Views on Salvage & Wreck Removal CMMIcmmindia2017
This document summarizes key concepts from the 1989 International Convention on Salvage and the SCOPIC clause. Some key points:
- The Convention broadened the definition of peril to include potential dangers, expanded salvage awards to include environmental salvage even if the ship was not saved, and introduced criteria to determine salvage awards.
- SCOPIC was introduced after a case found the Convention limited environmental salvors to expenses with no profit, allowing salvors to be compensated for preventing pollution.
- SCOPIC remuneration includes preventing and removing nearby pollution for proper salvage execution, with liability on the shipowner alone rather than general average. Arbitration resolves SCOPIC disputes.
Oil Spill Controls Perspective from Hydrocarbon Industriescmmindia2017
Larsen & Toubro is a major engineering conglomerate that provides oil spill control services through its subsidiary L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering. L&T Hydrocarbon has vessels and equipment to assist with offshore oil spill responses and has experience working on projects around the world. The document discusses oil spill response equipment, case studies of oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon incident, and protests against oil companies like BP for their environmental impacts.
Challenges of a Ship Owner During Salvagecmmindia2017
The document discusses the challenges faced by shipowners in marine salvage and emergency response situations. It notes the lack of a single overarching authority to assist ships in distress and the lack of resources and appreciation of maritime authorities. It also discusses the multiplicity of regulations that shipowners must comply with and the need to educate political leaders. The document advocates for a standardized national response plan for ports, better funding for emergency infrastructure, and improved practices from insurance surveyors and claims handlers to help support shipowners during emergencies.
Challenges in Marine Salvage & Emergengy Responsecmmindia2017
This document outlines the agenda for a maritime conference with multiple sessions and panel discussions on topics related to salvage, emergency response, and oil spill control from the perspectives of government, industry, and shipping. Key speakers include the Nautical Advisor to the Government of India, CEOs from salvage companies and industry organizations, and surveyors and former advisors discussing salvage contracts and the way ahead for maritime safety. The conference featured panel discussions with industry experts moderated by the Chairman of the organizing group.
4 technologies including AI, IoT, blockchain, and virtual reality will revolutionize the maritime sector. AI and blockchain will have many applications including supply chain visibility, data science, voyage optimization, and diagnosis systems. Training seafarers for an AI-based future will require changes to curriculum, including teaching mathematics, programming, cybersecurity, and manual operation skills. Ensuring safe return to port capabilities with redundancy will also be important as autonomy increases.
4 key technologies - AI, IoT, blockchain, and virtual reality - will revolutionize the maritime sector. AI and blockchain will have many applications, including supply chain visibility, data-driven insights, voyage optimization, and diagnostic systems. Training seafarers for an AI-based future will require changes to curriculum, including teaching fundamentals of AI systems, cybersecurity awareness, and skills for manual operation and troubleshooting of automated systems. Ensuring safe operation will also require redundancy measures for full autonomous control.
4 technologies including AI, IoT, blockchain, and virtual reality will revolutionize the maritime sector. AI and blockchain will have many applications including supply chain visibility, data science, voyage optimization, and diagnosis systems. Training seafarers for an AI-based future will require changes to curriculum, including teaching mathematics, programming, cybersecurity, and manual operation skills. Ensuring safe return to port capabilities with redundancy will also be important as autonomy increases.
The Maritime Safety Committee held its 100th session from 3-7 December 2018 at IMO headquarters. Key agenda items included regulations for maritime autonomous surface ships, amendments to lifeboat seating arrangements and ventilation requirements, and a preliminary analysis of how existing collision regulations apply to different levels of ship autonomy. The committee established a working group to further examine regulatory issues around maritime autonomous surface ships and their compliance with international instruments.
Simulation Technology for efficiency in training and effectiveness in operationscmmindia2017
This presentation discusses the use of simulation technology for training and operations. It provides an overview of why simulators are used, who regulates their use, what types of simulators are available, and how training is conducted. An example is given of effective dynamic positioning simulator training, which allows trainees to practice offshore operations like anchor handling and drilling in a realistic environment without risk. The presentation promotes Kongsberg Maritime as a supplier of high-fidelity maritime simulators that can be customized for tasks like navigation, cargo handling, engine room operations, and more.
This document is a scanned receipt from a grocery store purchase on January 15th, 2022. It details the items bought which include milk, eggs, bread, bananas, and ground beef. The total for the grocery purchase came to $36.87.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/how-axelera-ai-uses-digital-compute-in-memory-to-deliver-fast-and-energy-efficient-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-axelera-ai/
Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
Speaker 3 - Responsibility of Stake Holders under Maritime Labour Convention ...cmmindia2017
The document discusses the responsibilities of stakeholders under the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006. It provides an overview of the MLC's aims and recent enforcement cases. It also discusses issues like crew abandonment, violations by manning agents, and statistics. Suggestions are provided for better protecting seafarers' rights established by the MLC. Relevant organizations where seafarers can seek help with MLC issues are also listed.
Offshore market overview capt k devadascmmindia2017
The document provides an overview of the offshore shipping industry, including:
1) It traces the history of offshore shipping from the first offshore oil well in 1947 to the development of dedicated offshore supply vessels.
2) It discusses the development of India's offshore industry, including key milestones like the first offshore oil discovery in 1974 and policies to develop India's fleet.
3) It describes the current state of the global and Indian offshore markets, noting declining dayrates in India and oversupply issues globally due to low oil prices that have impacted demand.
This document describes a medical evacuation that occurred at sea. It provides details of a patient, a 34-year-old Indian seaman, who developed Fournier's gangrene/necrotizing fasciitis. Due to the imminent fatality risk and the distance to the scheduled port being 4 days away, a decision was made to request emergency evacuation. Two rescue helicopters were dispatched and medical workers were lowered by winch to retrieve the patient. The patient was then transported to Santa Barbara for further treatment.
1) Three case studies are presented involving violations of the MLC by RPSL holders. In the first case, seafarers were sent urgently to ships with minimal information and contract details, and a fire onboard later resulted in deaths and missing persons.
2) The second case involved seafarers being sent to a ship with only a one-page contract and no insurance or other required information provided. One seafarer later died with inadequate compensation provided.
3) In the third case, a seafarer was placed on a different ship than documented and was left without support after an injury. Many seafarers face such issues without proper protection.
This document discusses the implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) in India, noting both progress and challenges. It outlines how provisions have been incorporated through amendments to existing laws and rules. While many large Indian ships are now compliant, issues remain regarding smaller coastal vessels and facilities. Monitoring of recruitment and placement services also needs improvement to address non-compliance and data integrity problems. Overall implementation is an ongoing process, but electronic governance initiatives have helped reduce exploitation while still requiring further refinement. Continued efforts are needed on various fronts to fully realize MLC standards in India.
This document discusses definitions and classifications related to shipwrecks and salvage operations. It defines what constitutes a "wreck" according to various laws and conventions including sunken or stranded ships and objects from ships. It also discusses the agencies and international laws involved in salvage operations as well as classifications of salvage services. Finally, it outlines topics like apportionment of salvage awards, the role of coastal states, and policies regarding ownership of shipwrecks.
Challenges in Marine Salvage & Emergency Responsecmmindia2017
This document discusses challenges in marine salvage and emergency response in India and provides suggestions on how to improve the maritime environment. It notes that India has a long coastline with many ports and increasing shipping traffic, but faces risks like cyclones and lacks a unified command structure for responding to incidents. Resources for responding to contingencies are limited. It suggests preventing incidents through measures like traffic separation schemes and designated protected areas. India should also create a unified command structure under the Maritime Safety Act and streamline customs and tax procedures to facilitate salvage operations. A self-sustaining revenue model could be developed where vessels carry insurance for contingency measures.
This document summarizes key elements of salvage contracts and awards. It discusses the essential elements of salvage, including maritime property in danger and voluntary services resulting in success. It outlines the objectives of rewarding salvors generously to encourage their services. Compensation increases based on a salvor's level of involvement, from occasional assistance to full-time professional salvage. The document reviews several case examples and covers the Lloyd's Open Form, criteria for fixing salvage awards, and the Salvage Convention of 1989. It also discusses the SCOPIC solution for calculating salvage remuneration.
This document provides information about an Extra Masters online course launched by The Company of Masters Mariners of India (CMMI). The course consists of 4 parts that can each be completed in 3 months. Part A will begin on May 15th and consists of 3 modules on leadership, economics, and law. The course fees are INR 25,000-30,000 depending on CMMI membership. Students can access online classes and materials through a website and participate in live video conferences to ask questions. The goal is to provide continued education opportunities for seafarers to obtain higher qualifications.
Damage Stability Analysis and Emergency Responsecmmindia2017
This document discusses damage stability analysis and emergency response for ships. It covers basics of analyzing different cases of damage and breach scenarios. Methods for responding to emergencies include grounding, ballast rearrangement, cargo rearrangement, and jettisoning cargo to safe facilities. Case studies examine fire/breach incidents and corrective measures during actual incidents including estimating survivability, pollution outflow, and salvage or recycling operations.
M.V. Ramamurthy Shipowner's Views on Salvage & Wreck Removal CMMIcmmindia2017
This document summarizes key concepts from the 1989 International Convention on Salvage and the SCOPIC clause. Some key points:
- The Convention broadened the definition of peril to include potential dangers, expanded salvage awards to include environmental salvage even if the ship was not saved, and introduced criteria to determine salvage awards.
- SCOPIC was introduced after a case found the Convention limited environmental salvors to expenses with no profit, allowing salvors to be compensated for preventing pollution.
- SCOPIC remuneration includes preventing and removing nearby pollution for proper salvage execution, with liability on the shipowner alone rather than general average. Arbitration resolves SCOPIC disputes.
Oil Spill Controls Perspective from Hydrocarbon Industriescmmindia2017
Larsen & Toubro is a major engineering conglomerate that provides oil spill control services through its subsidiary L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering. L&T Hydrocarbon has vessels and equipment to assist with offshore oil spill responses and has experience working on projects around the world. The document discusses oil spill response equipment, case studies of oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon incident, and protests against oil companies like BP for their environmental impacts.
Challenges of a Ship Owner During Salvagecmmindia2017
The document discusses the challenges faced by shipowners in marine salvage and emergency response situations. It notes the lack of a single overarching authority to assist ships in distress and the lack of resources and appreciation of maritime authorities. It also discusses the multiplicity of regulations that shipowners must comply with and the need to educate political leaders. The document advocates for a standardized national response plan for ports, better funding for emergency infrastructure, and improved practices from insurance surveyors and claims handlers to help support shipowners during emergencies.
Challenges in Marine Salvage & Emergengy Responsecmmindia2017
This document outlines the agenda for a maritime conference with multiple sessions and panel discussions on topics related to salvage, emergency response, and oil spill control from the perspectives of government, industry, and shipping. Key speakers include the Nautical Advisor to the Government of India, CEOs from salvage companies and industry organizations, and surveyors and former advisors discussing salvage contracts and the way ahead for maritime safety. The conference featured panel discussions with industry experts moderated by the Chairman of the organizing group.
4 technologies including AI, IoT, blockchain, and virtual reality will revolutionize the maritime sector. AI and blockchain will have many applications including supply chain visibility, data science, voyage optimization, and diagnosis systems. Training seafarers for an AI-based future will require changes to curriculum, including teaching mathematics, programming, cybersecurity, and manual operation skills. Ensuring safe return to port capabilities with redundancy will also be important as autonomy increases.
4 key technologies - AI, IoT, blockchain, and virtual reality - will revolutionize the maritime sector. AI and blockchain will have many applications, including supply chain visibility, data-driven insights, voyage optimization, and diagnostic systems. Training seafarers for an AI-based future will require changes to curriculum, including teaching fundamentals of AI systems, cybersecurity awareness, and skills for manual operation and troubleshooting of automated systems. Ensuring safe operation will also require redundancy measures for full autonomous control.
4 technologies including AI, IoT, blockchain, and virtual reality will revolutionize the maritime sector. AI and blockchain will have many applications including supply chain visibility, data science, voyage optimization, and diagnosis systems. Training seafarers for an AI-based future will require changes to curriculum, including teaching mathematics, programming, cybersecurity, and manual operation skills. Ensuring safe return to port capabilities with redundancy will also be important as autonomy increases.
The Maritime Safety Committee held its 100th session from 3-7 December 2018 at IMO headquarters. Key agenda items included regulations for maritime autonomous surface ships, amendments to lifeboat seating arrangements and ventilation requirements, and a preliminary analysis of how existing collision regulations apply to different levels of ship autonomy. The committee established a working group to further examine regulatory issues around maritime autonomous surface ships and their compliance with international instruments.
Simulation Technology for efficiency in training and effectiveness in operationscmmindia2017
This presentation discusses the use of simulation technology for training and operations. It provides an overview of why simulators are used, who regulates their use, what types of simulators are available, and how training is conducted. An example is given of effective dynamic positioning simulator training, which allows trainees to practice offshore operations like anchor handling and drilling in a realistic environment without risk. The presentation promotes Kongsberg Maritime as a supplier of high-fidelity maritime simulators that can be customized for tasks like navigation, cargo handling, engine room operations, and more.
This document is a scanned receipt from a grocery store purchase on January 15th, 2022. It details the items bought which include milk, eggs, bread, bananas, and ground beef. The total for the grocery purchase came to $36.87.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/how-axelera-ai-uses-digital-compute-in-memory-to-deliver-fast-and-energy-efficient-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-axelera-ai/
Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
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
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
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).
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.