John Breslin is a lecturer and researcher who co-founded the discussion forum boards.ie and publishing company New Tech Post. He discusses predictions about the future of technology from Mark Twain, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ray Kurzweil, and how emerging technologies will allow for augmented reality, brain uploading, and voice-controlled access to personalized digital content by 2040.
The paper will detail the state-of-the-art in Citizen Mapping in the world, the advantages and disadvantages of such efforts and what some mapping agencies are doing about this. Speculation is made about Citizen Charting, how it could evolve and how HO\’s might be enticed to get involved and help steer efforts.
The paper will detail the state-of-the-art in Citizen Mapping in the world, the advantages and disadvantages of such efforts and what some mapping agencies are doing about this. Speculation is made about Citizen Charting, how it could evolve and how HO\’s might be enticed to get involved and help steer efforts.
This presentation was given during the Substantive Session of the ECOSOC 2013 meeting, Geneva Switzerland to show the affordable, accessible and appropriate tools making a difference in the lives of United Methodists in the developing world.
The Outernet is a global networking project.The Outernet's goal is to provide free access to internet data through Wi-Fi, made available effectively to all parts of the world.
The Tedium is the Message: Communicating and Creating with the New Social MediaFordham University
Winner 2012 Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work! Limited to 140 characters to confess his sins and meet his Maker, "tweeting" may not have been the best use of Willum Granger's final moments.
Executive Severance, a masterful work of Twitter microblogging fiction, is delightfully full of punny dialogue, clever character conditions, and a total lack of adherence to the old "rules" of
storytelling.
Executive Severance is a comic mystery created in Twitter that is compelling, entertaining and shows off what can be done in the 140-character form with style and mastery. With sendups of the mystery genre, social media conventions and cell phone behavior, Executive Severance is a cornucopia of word play and comic misdirection stuffed with punny dialogue and clever character conditions. ES has been called tight, tingling, and diverting.
What makes the print edition of Executive Severance truly exceptional is the amazing illustrations that accompany the story, produced by the acclaimed cartoonist, David Arshawsky.
The Social Media ABC, These alphabets are dynamic in nature and so is Social Media. When people use it in different ways, the rules change. The letters can mean different things at different skill levels of social media involvement.
This presentation was given during the Substantive Session of the ECOSOC 2013 meeting, Geneva Switzerland to show the affordable, accessible and appropriate tools making a difference in the lives of United Methodists in the developing world.
The Outernet is a global networking project.The Outernet's goal is to provide free access to internet data through Wi-Fi, made available effectively to all parts of the world.
The Tedium is the Message: Communicating and Creating with the New Social MediaFordham University
Winner 2012 Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work! Limited to 140 characters to confess his sins and meet his Maker, "tweeting" may not have been the best use of Willum Granger's final moments.
Executive Severance, a masterful work of Twitter microblogging fiction, is delightfully full of punny dialogue, clever character conditions, and a total lack of adherence to the old "rules" of
storytelling.
Executive Severance is a comic mystery created in Twitter that is compelling, entertaining and shows off what can be done in the 140-character form with style and mastery. With sendups of the mystery genre, social media conventions and cell phone behavior, Executive Severance is a cornucopia of word play and comic misdirection stuffed with punny dialogue and clever character conditions. ES has been called tight, tingling, and diverting.
What makes the print edition of Executive Severance truly exceptional is the amazing illustrations that accompany the story, produced by the acclaimed cartoonist, David Arshawsky.
The Social Media ABC, These alphabets are dynamic in nature and so is Social Media. When people use it in different ways, the rules change. The letters can mean different things at different skill levels of social media involvement.
BDigital 2011: Apps and the Future of Content: Social, Local, Mobile, Video,C...Gerd Leonhard
The PDF from my talk at BDigital Nov 16 2011 in Barcelona; video will be available at www.gerdtube.com soon. Topics: datais the new oil. Disruption and Lubrication. The global village and what that means for our future. People of the screen and People of the cloud (Kevin Kelly).
The Future World is a presentation by Sasha Kazantseva first done at the Woman Development Forum in Guernsey. Sasha explores the technology trends of the past 300 years and the implications for the future.
We live in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world where the main currency is ideas and innovation and the most important investment you can make if you.
Sasha blogs at www.startupme.co
Sasha is a Guernsey resident technology entrepreneur, angel investor and NED. She set up her first venture in school aged 16 and the entrepreneurial spark never left her. Since then she has worked for Google, L'Oreal and Priceline, co-founded a private start-up accelerator, a green activist group in Russia and launched a mobile game for iOS.
At Google, Sasha created or co-founded global award winning campaigns such as the Google Cultural Institute and a big data predictor algorithm for competitions. She is passionate about supporting and promoting startup ecosystems and is involved with projects in Guernsey as a director with Start Up Guernsey, committee member of Creative Industries.
She has lived and worked in Singapore, Thailand, Mongolia, Russia, UK and Spain and holds a BSc from the London School of Economics and an MBA from INSEAD. She lives in Guernsey with her husband, whom she met climbing Mt Kilimanjaro for charity, and their twin daughters.
The information network created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 to connect people to knowledge has become an important place to navigate who and what we know, as well as who we think we are. But how much of a revolution is it? This lecture will trace some of the most important developments in social uses of information technologies in order to ultimately argue that the Web does offer unprecedented opportunities to access information and galvanise communities of practice, but that the impact of this new medium will reflect an evolution rather than a revolution of communication practices.
EIT Digital Course - Generative AI Essentials
URL: https://professionalschool.eitdigital.eu/generative-ai-essentials
Second Version (Most Recent) - May 29, 2024
Presentation:
Recording: https://youtu.be/_1X6bRfOqc4
Article (20240514 - EIT Digital) - https://www.eitdigital.eu/newsroom/grow-digital-insights/personal-ai-digital-twins-the-future-of-human-interaction/
Jim Spohrer YouTubes
JCS Reid Hoffman meets his AI twin - URL: https://youtu.be/rgD2gmwCS10
JCS Jim Twin V1 YouTube English - URL : https://youtu.be/T4S0uZp1SHw
JCS Jim Twin V2 YouTube French - URL: https://youtu.be/02hCGRJnCoc
Jensen Huang (Founder & CEO Nvidia) at Stanford talking about H100
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEg8cOx7UZk
JCS AI Digital Twins of People (blog post) - https://service-science.info/archives/6612
First Version (Oldest) - Nov 27, 2023
Presentation - https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/eitdigitalspohreraiintro-20231128-v1pptx/263977452
JCS Reflecting on Generative AI - https://service-science.info/archives/6521
Bbva open mind-book-change-19-key-essays-on-how-internet-is-changing-our-live...FTSA Academy
Change: 19 Key Essays on How the Internet Is Changing Our Lives, is the sixth issue of BBVA’s annual series devoted to explore the key issues of our time. This year, our chosen theme is the Internet, the single most powerful vector of change in recent history. In the words of Arthur C Clarke, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” The swiftness and reach of the changes wrought by the Internet indeed have a touch of magic about them.
Cours sur les fondements des réseaux sociaux. Découverte et première approche. Présentation des outils de veille et de gestion des réseaux sociaux dans le cadre des ressources humaines et de la vente.
Describing Everything - Open Web standards and classificationDan Brickley
Original title: Open Web standards and classification: Foundations for a hybrid approach
Keynote address, UDC Seminar:
Classification at a Crossroads
30 October 2009 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague
Dan Brickley, Vrije University Amsterdam
II Konferencja Naukowa : Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian, Warszawa, 15-16.04.2013 r. Instytut Informacji Naukowej i Studiów Bibliologicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski
The 2nd Scientific Conference : Information Science in an Age of Change, April 15-16, 2013. Institute of Information and Book Studies, University of Warsaw
Traditionally our technology has spoken for us, but these days the products have become so sophisticated that the technology is becoming imperceptible. With that step; our roles in them, the careers they present and the business opportunities all diminish. Out of sight is out of mind; and out of mind is de-prioritised.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
3. Lecturer at NUI Galway
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
School of Engineering and Informatics
4. Researcher at DERI
• World’s largest Semantic Web research institute
• Leader of the Unit for Social Software
5. Set up a games forum in ’98
(16;58) (dev) “why not do www.boards.ie and just
slowly build a site of general stuff”
6. Co-founder of boards.ie
Ireland’s largest
discussion forum site
2.25 million visitors/month 150000
Irish people seeking 112500
information, or just 75000
chatting about sports, TV, 37500
politics, finance, whatever 0
2005-11-15
2007-01-11
2008-03-08
2009-05-04
Majority shareholder: Daft 2010-06-30
7. Founder of New Tech Post
newtechpost.com
Galway-based publisher
of stories focused on
emerging, cutting-edge,
innovative technologies
Partners: Irish Innovation
Center (San Jose)
10. Mark Twain, “From the
London Times of 1904”, 1898
...and he now took the fancy that he would like to have the telelectroscope and divert
his mind with it. He had his wish. The connection was made with the international
telephone-station, and day by day, and night by night, he called up one corner of
the globe after another, and looked upon its life, and studied its strange
sights, and spoke with its people, and realized that by grace of this marvelous
instrument he was almost as free as the birds of the air, although a prisoner under lock
and bars.
He seldom spoke to me, and I never interrupted him when he was absorbed in his
amusement. I sat in his parlor and read and smoked, and the nights were very quiet
and reposefully sociable, and I found them pleasant. Now and then I would hear him
say, "Give me Yedo"; next, "Give me Hong Kong"; next, "Give me Melbourne." And I
smoked on, and read in comfort, while he wandered about the remote
underworld, where the sun was shining in the sky, and the people were at their
daily work. Sometimes the talk that came from those far regions through the
microphone attachment interested me, and I listened.
11. Arthur C. Clarke, “BBC
Horizon”, 1964
I am thinking of the incredible breakthrough which has been made possible by
developments in communications, particularly the transistor and - above all - the
communication satellite. These things will make possible a world in which we can be in
instant contact with each other, wherever we may be; where we can contact our
friends everywhere on earth even if we do not know their actual physical
location. It will be possible, in that age, perhaps only 50 years from now, for a man to
conduct his business from Tahiti or Bali just as well as he could from London. In fact, if
it proved worthwhile, almost any executive skill, any administrative skill, even many
physical skills could be made independent of distance.
I am perfectly serious when I suggest that one day we may have brain surgeons in
Edinburgh operating in patients in New Zealand. When that time comes, the whole
world would have shrunk to a point and the traditional role of a city as the
meeting place for man would have ceased to make any sense. In fact, men will
no longer commute, they will communicate. They won’t have to travel distance any
more; they’d only travel for pleasure.
33. What the future will look like
Digital technologies will
be woven throughout
our daily lives to a level
where they are another
essential service, just
as electricity or clean
water are today
34. IDC, “Digital Universe
Study”, 2010
A study on the amount of digital information created
and replicated in the world
75% of our digital world is a copy (25% is unique)
2010: 1.2 zettabytes (1.2 trillion gigabytes)
A stack of DVDs stretching to the moon and back
2020: 35 zettabytes (35 trillion gigabytes)
A stack of DVDs reaching halfway to Mars
35. Researchers are creating systems
to help us to find the info we need
New search and discovery tools
Ways to add structure to unstructured content,
including images, audio and video content
Requires metadata (data about data), Semantic Web
New information management tools
Prioritisation, classification, automatic deletion
Better methods for trust, privacy, accountability
36. Finding meaning in masses
of data
Big data analytics
Data mining
Visualisation
Networked knowledge
37. Storage capacities
Latest memory storage drives can hold 2-3 terabytes
Every 15 years, capacity increases roughly by 1000
Paul Reber (Northwestern University) estimated the storage of a
human brain to be around 2500 terabytes in a 2010 Scientific
American piece
Other estimates vary this up or down by a factor of 1000
Would require 1000 x 2.5 terabyte drives to store a brain
Not unreasonable to imagine we could store a brain’s capacity on
a ‘memory’ drive by 2025
38. Processing capacities
Estimates for the brain are that it can carry out
anywhere from 1016 flops (floating point operations per
second) to 1019 flops
Current supercomputers operate at 2.5 x 1015 flops
Using Moore’s Law, we may have supercomputers
capable of human brain simulation by 2025 (1019 flops)
By 2040, this grows to 5 x 1022 flops (= 5000 people)
39. The brain is more than just storage
and processing: consciousness
Interesting article on
this topic in today’s
Guardian newspaper
http://bit.ly/
brainappleyard
Review of “The Brain is
Wider than the Sky” by
Bryan Appleyard
40. Ray Kurzweil, “By 2040 you will be able
to upload your brain...”, The
Independent, 2009
In 2040, by his
estimation, we will be
able to upload the
human brain to a
computer, capturing “a
person's entire
personality, memory,
skills and history”!
(And upload to brains?)
41. Voice-controlled holo access
Today’s web will feel like a messy second-hand bookshop when
compared to the orderly library of our personalised digital universe
42. Interested in more?
Georgia Tech FutureMedia Outlook
http://www.futuremediaga.com/
New Media Consortium Horizon
Report
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-
Horizon-Report.pdf
New Tech Post
http://newtechpost.com/
Slides from this talk
http://www.slideshare.net/
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