The document discusses whether advanced technologies lead to a more standardized or differentiated world. It presents arguments on both sides of the issue. Technologies can standardize the world through mass production and global communications platforms. However, they can also enable greater differentiation through more choices in products, services, and content available via technologies like computers and the internet. The document examines these perspectives and questions how technologies both enable standardization and differentiation in society.
Media Life is a course intended for undergraduate students across campus. Its goal is to make people aware of the role that media play in their everyday life. The key to understanding a "media life" is to see our lives not as lived WITH media (which would lead to a focus on media effects and media-centric theories of society), but rather IN media (where the distinction between what we do with and without media dissolves).
Wat er misging met auteursrecht vanuit de visie van internetters en hoe dat anders zou moeten. Presentatie bij Stichting VOICE van 3 juli 2009.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SYqBB9pE4Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWqSZ6qBk9M
Anil Dash (CEO, Glitch)
The whole world has become keenly aware of how tech is transforming culture; from misinformation to harassment and abuse to privacy leaks. Trust in tech is at an all time low. But an old fashioned idea about an internet made by and for ordinary people might give us a new way forward.
Homeownership IS a sustainable option for people who are homelessFEANTSA
Presentation given by Loucine Hayes, Habitat for Humanity, Slovakia at a FEANTSA conference on "People who are homeless can be housed:
An insight into successful practices from across Europe", Cardiff, Wales, 2008
Developed by communications designer Andy Cutler over a 2-year period, this model was developed to nurture substantive relationships between smaller cities throughout the world beginning with Copenhagen and Providence. Sharing resources/assets, supporting student engagement, promoting and progressing entrepreneurship and exporting mentoring models and expertise in sustainability (for example) is the basis for this new style of "sites city" relationships.
New technologies, more advanced communities ?Teemu Leinonen
Slides of a demonstration lesson given for the students and staff of the Department of Media, Aalto University School of Art and Design.
The duration of the lecture was 45 minutes and its target group was the students. After the lecture 15 minutes was reserved for discussion.
The lecture was on August 24th 2011.
Media Life is a course intended for undergraduate students across campus. Its goal is to make people aware of the role that media play in their everyday life. The key to understanding a "media life" is to see our lives not as lived WITH media (which would lead to a focus on media effects and media-centric theories of society), but rather IN media (where the distinction between what we do with and without media dissolves).
Wat er misging met auteursrecht vanuit de visie van internetters en hoe dat anders zou moeten. Presentatie bij Stichting VOICE van 3 juli 2009.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SYqBB9pE4Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWqSZ6qBk9M
Anil Dash (CEO, Glitch)
The whole world has become keenly aware of how tech is transforming culture; from misinformation to harassment and abuse to privacy leaks. Trust in tech is at an all time low. But an old fashioned idea about an internet made by and for ordinary people might give us a new way forward.
Homeownership IS a sustainable option for people who are homelessFEANTSA
Presentation given by Loucine Hayes, Habitat for Humanity, Slovakia at a FEANTSA conference on "People who are homeless can be housed:
An insight into successful practices from across Europe", Cardiff, Wales, 2008
Developed by communications designer Andy Cutler over a 2-year period, this model was developed to nurture substantive relationships between smaller cities throughout the world beginning with Copenhagen and Providence. Sharing resources/assets, supporting student engagement, promoting and progressing entrepreneurship and exporting mentoring models and expertise in sustainability (for example) is the basis for this new style of "sites city" relationships.
New technologies, more advanced communities ?Teemu Leinonen
Slides of a demonstration lesson given for the students and staff of the Department of Media, Aalto University School of Art and Design.
The duration of the lecture was 45 minutes and its target group was the students. After the lecture 15 minutes was reserved for discussion.
The lecture was on August 24th 2011.
This presentation accompanies a workshop on incorporating wikis into classroom settings and professional learning communities. For more information, visit http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/+Wikis.
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.
I made this slideshow for a class presentation applying Marshall McLuhan's theory to the modern medium of the internet. The points made in these slides contributed greatly to my final project, Tweory (see my links).
Chapter 12 of a university course in media history by Prof. Bill Kovarik, based on the book Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2015).
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
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.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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.
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.
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: The WebAuthn API and Discoverable Credentials.pdf
Diversity Or Similarity
1. Diversity Or Similarity Does technology bring us a differentiated or a standardized world? Pei-chieh Chen
2. “ advanced technologies are homogenizing the world, dissolving distinctive cultures into a global system” and “ advanced technologies are driving society toward more choices and greater difference” By David E. Nye
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4. “ by the end of twentieth century, people in highly technological societies preferred to maximize differentiation” By David E. Nye
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7. Thank you for listening. Questions? Reference: Benkler, Y. (2006). The wealth of networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press. Fidler, R. (1998). Mediamorphosis; Understanding New Media. JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY. 75 (1), 216-217. Nye, D. E. (2006). Technology and the Production of Difference. AMERICAN QUARTERLY – MINNEAPOLIS-. 58 (3), 597-618. Image sources: Slide 2: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808417/ Slide 3: http://www.flickr.com/photos/82757070@N00/2161956415/ Slide 4: http://michael.hightechproductmanagement.com/20060307.jpg Slide 5: http://www.flickr.com/photos/charminglybohemian/2702036326/ By Pei-chieh Chen COM546
