Seminário apresentado na disciplina de Biologia Evolutiva em 2014 no Centro de Educação Ciências e Tecnologia da Região dos Inhamuns, Universidade Estadual do Ceará - Campus Tauá.
E. Médio I Bimestre
O que é ecologia?
Conceitos básicos na ecologia
Ecossistema
Brasil – país megadiverso
Nicho ecológico
Fluxo de energia
Cadeia alimentar
Interações entre cadeias alimentares
Avaliação quantitativa de interações energéticas
A praticar!
Seminário apresentado na disciplina de Biologia Evolutiva em 2014 no Centro de Educação Ciências e Tecnologia da Região dos Inhamuns, Universidade Estadual do Ceará - Campus Tauá.
E. Médio I Bimestre
O que é ecologia?
Conceitos básicos na ecologia
Ecossistema
Brasil – país megadiverso
Nicho ecológico
Fluxo de energia
Cadeia alimentar
Interações entre cadeias alimentares
Avaliação quantitativa de interações energéticas
A praticar!
This presentation gives and overview of the concept of Gamification, with its pro and cons, and includes some examples of Gamified systems. Finally it introduces the concept of Blended Leaning in which Gamified resources can play a major role.
Want big wins in marketing
and communications?
Use game mechanics.
Gamification is using game mechanics in non-game settings to create engagement. These techniques fulfill our basic needs for competition and connection – whether you use points, badges, competitions or crowdsourcing. And games create engagement through fun and reward. The love of games transcends cultures and generations and the emotional connection that is created can lead to a stronger brand relationship.
- The basics of gamification
- Player types – and how to motivate different players
- Real-world uses of game mechanics
- And using gamification for B2C and B2B
- See more at: http://www.signalinc.com/the-game-of-gamification/
Oplæg fra Netværksdagen "Game On" d. 13.9.11
SÆT DIT BIBLIOTEK PÅ SPIL
Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, PhD og Direktør for Serious Games Interactive. Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen har i mange år beskæftige sig med computerspils læringspotentiel og mulighederne i game-baseret læring.
Hvordan kan vi, som biblioteker, gør brug af principperne i Gamification og få mere ”spil” i vores og brugernes hverdag?
Game the System A Proven Method to Level Up Your Training with Gamification 4...Monica Cornetti
Gamification can play a key role in how your organization trains employees when you learn how to think like a game designer.
This eBook introduces you to the Game the System™ Model of #Gamification Instructional Design - a Proven Method for implementing gamification in your training, talent development, and productivity initiatives.
Level 1: Define Business Objectives… The Fundamentals of Fun!
Level 2: It’s Story Time – Create an Epic Adventure
Level 3: Design Variety into Your Learning Activities
Level 4: Add the Game Design and Mechanics
Level 5: Tally up the Aesthetics so They Wanna Play!
Schedule a Workshop in your city or attend our next scheduled Regional Workshop. Find more information at http://www.sententiagames.com/certifications.html
HRCI, SHRM, and ATD Recertification Credits Available
Created by Monica Cornetti, CEO Sententia Gamification
www.monicacornetti.com
www.sententiagames.com
guru@sententiagames.com
Innovation Pioneers Tank Meeting 22 May 2013: GamificationRené Heunen
Materials used at the Innovation Pioneers Tank Meeting at CGI in Stockholm on 22 May 2013, on the subject of gamification. Includes references and links to additional resources by subject authorities.
Top 10 Rated Gamification Talk Radio Episodes from 2017Monica Cornetti
Hosted my Monica Cornetti
www.SententiaGames.com
Gamification is motivational design…
the use of game elements and game mechanics in a non-game context.
Brought to you by Sententia Gamification, the ONLY organization to offer three levels of Gamification Certification for Human Resource and Talent Development professionals. Our gamification certifications can be recognized by HRCI, SHRM, and ATD for recertification credits.
Learn how to Level Up your corporate training, talent development, employee onboarding, productivity, or classroom with this cutting-edge strategy to motivate and engage employees, members, and students.
Put Gamification to work for you!
Learn more about certifications and Train the Trainer programs by contacting: BigHead@SententiaGames.com
Website: www.SententiaGames.com
Weekly Podcast: http://bit.ly/GamificationRadio
Part of the Challenge Series. Please contact Pomegranate Group if would like to know more about how gamification works, and to discuss what gamification could do for your business: 020 7336 7322 or http://www.pomegranate.co.uk/contact_us
Gamification of sales Playbook - The what, the why, and the how🎥 David Winter 🎥
The 'Gamification of Sales' playbook is designed to give you a basic overview on the what, the why, and the how of gamification. In 2016 90% of surveyed companies said that gamification had caused an increase in revenue. With this playbook, we'll help you take your first steps towards achieving the same.
In this playbook you will find:
An easy to understand overview of gamification.
The 3 key elements that define gamification and how these apply to your business.
The psychology that helps gamification drives better results and behaviours from your team.
The 10 core machines of a gamified work system.
Some top tips on how to start applying gamification to your business/team.
An Introduction to Funifier’s FUNIFICATION ENGINE.
The overall goal of gamification is to more deeply engage with consumers, employees, partners and other audiences so as to inspire them to participate, collaborate, share and interact in some activity or community. A compelling, dynamic, and sustained gamification experience can be used to accomplish a variety of mission-critical business goals. This is FUNIFICATION.
Level Up Your Talent Development with Gamification [eBook]Monica Cornetti
The Game the System™ Model guides you and your team through the process of gamified learning design. By following the 5-step plan, you are essentially assured a successful outcome.
Gamification invites people to participate and engage by integrating game mechanics and game dynamics into such things as a website, online community, marketing campaign, and as demonstrated in this book – even a traditional training and development program.
By adding game mechanics to training, Gamification not only increases interest, it makes training FUN!
The goal is to increase learning and engagement through key concepts found in game design and behavioral psychology.
Gamification does NOT equal technology … it is really a way of thinking about the development and delivery of your training programs.
Monica Cornetti
Ranked as #1 Gamification Guru
Founder and CEO - Sententia Gamification Consortium
www.SententiaGames.com
www.monicacornetti.com
Gamification for Your Brand the Promises and The Pitfalls by Jon Barlow, Senior Creative Technologist, Capstrat from the Triangle AMA Digital Marketing Training Camp on Feb 29, 2012. www.triangleama.org
ISDM February 2022 E-Newsletter
Digital Therapeutics, AI, Virtual Reality, Nutrition and Healthy Ageing
Digital Therapeutics and Immersive Technologies
Digital Health, Nutrition and Healthy Ageing
Tripp Digital Therapeutics Virtual Reality
CAR-T Therapies Webinar
How AI is Enhancing Personal Development IORMA Webinar
Hospitals, Technology and the Patient IORMA Webinar
Strengthening Health Systems in Africa Zenith Global Health Conference
Royal Society of Medicine Upcoming Webinars
Digital Medicine Journal Special Edition
Future Events Program and Speaker Invitations
As we are approaching an end to the restrictions associated with COVID-19, it seems a good time to reflect on the disruptions and focus on how technology might be applied to avoid the same situation happening again. It is almost inevitable, in my opinion, that our pre-COVID lifestyles and travel/mobility will almost certainly lead to future pandemics and whilst the lessons learnt in fast-tracking clinical research and development of new drugs and vaccines will help to mitigate the situation, it does not alter the pressing need to shift focus from cure to prevention.
Digital Health and Digital Therapeutics technologies can help to protect the future sustainability of public health services through personal physical and mental health management whilst Digital Medicine will enable early detection of clinical problems and a range of innovative new solutions for cures.
This month’s E-Newsletter includes details of previous and upcoming events where the focus has been on addressing some of the challenges of preventative healthcare, especially in the area of the Ageing Society. Links to archived presentations and future events are included and we hope you will enjoy the past presentations and register for some of the upcoming events.
Digital therapeutics and immersive technologies Bournemouth UniversityDavid Wortley
Digital therapeutics is a fast growing area of digital medicine. In this presentation, Vice President of the International Society of Digital Medicine (ISDM), David Wortley, sets out the current challenges to global health sustainability and the importance of shifting the focus from cure to prevention, especially in the use of digital technologies for personal health management and therapeutics.
The presentation includes examples of digital therapeutic applications for neuro- rehabilitation, gamified exercise using consumer VR devices and support for dementia sufferers through digital memories.
The presentation was delivered at the new Faculty for Health and Social Sciences at Bournemouth University.
VR & Immersive Technologies in Healthcare WebinarsDavid Wortley
The Future of VR and Immersive Technologies in Healthcare Track due to be streamed at GIANT Health 2020 has been rescheduled because of some unresolved technical issues.
I have managed to reschedule the planned sessions in Zoom and, subject to the speaker availability, these sessions will go ahead and will be free of charge to register
The Future of Digital Medicine in the Aging SocietyDavid Wortley
Global Health and sustainable improvements in the
well‑being of humans are seriously threatened by two
societal phenomena.
The aging society
Across the globe, falling birth rates and increased life
expectancies have led to significant increases in the
percentage of citizens aged over 65 years compared
to the younger working population. The increased
life expectancies have, at least in part, been a result of
improvements in health care, and the diagnosis and
treatment of diseases and medical conditions that have
traditionally caused premature death.
Impact of lifestyle and medical advances on
causes of death
Medical advances have all but eradicated many of the traditional
causes of death from communicable diseases with a
consequent growth in morbidity resulting from lifestyle
choices and behaviors.
The issue with lifestyle‑related conditions is the behaviors
such as sedentary lifestyles and poor diets adopted early
in life have a major and cumulative effect in later life
resulting in diabetes and cardiovascular problems which
require often expensive interventions and high levels of
cost to public health services.
The role of digital technologies in medicine,
health, and well‑being
Digital technologies have undoubtedly had a major
impact on medicine both in diagnostics and treatment.
Modern digital scanning, artificial intelligence, big
data analytics, human‑computer interfaces, robotics,
and 3D visualization technologies have all helped to
not only increase our understanding of the physiology
of the human body and enabled early detection of
medical conditions but also they have contributed
to increasingly more targeted and personalized
interventions.
However, set against these positive benefits of digital
medicine and health technologies is the impact of
technologies which reduce the daily physical and cognitive
challenges that have throughout history constantly
exercised our bodies and minds and in the process, given
us the active lifestyles needed to maintain health and
well‑being...........
Gamified immersive learning experiences masterclass the coronavirus game ch...David Wortley
A slide presentation from the webinar masterclass showing how to design, build and play a rapid prototype immersive experience game to target coronavirus and influence the behaviours of the general public.
Digital medicine comes of age - ISDM E-Newsletter Feb 2020David Wortley
Consumer digital technologies such as wearables and VR/AR are now being applied to diagnose, treat and manage clinical conditions. The ISDM Feb 2020 E-Newsletter shows some examples
Digital Health Applications and Hospitals of the FutureDavid Wortley
The National Healthcare Expo 2019 Conference was held in late November in Milton Keynes. In my presentation in the eHealth Track (presentation and video links included in this article), I outlined 3 points to think about when looking at the future of Digital Technologies in Healthcare and Medicine.
The digital technologies which will have the biggest impact on global health will not have been designed by or for medical professionals
Consumer technologies, sometime referred to as “general” technologies are being applied across almost all sectors of business and society for purposes which were not originally envisaged or intended. The health sector is a good example in which all of the technologies shown below are now being applied for health and well-being :-
• Smartphones
• Fitness Trackers
• Whatsapp and WeChat
• Virtual Reality Headsets
• Panoramic Cameras
• Artificial Intelligence
• Sensors
With the possible exception of fitness trackers, none of these technologies were developed by or for medical professionals. There are some profound implications, not only for the future of healthcare but also for the roles and responsibilities of health professionals and citizens. The graph below shows how digital technologies for health are shifting from expensive, stand-alone, proprietary technologies to smart, connected, consumer technologies.
Smart Augmented VR for Health - Celtic-Next proposalDavid Wortley
This is the latest version of my Celtic pitch for building a consortium to bid for Eureka funding. It includes details of a webinar to be held on Sept 12th at 11:30 am CET
Gamification is NOT all about Badges, Points and Rewards
Gamification is gaining increasing amounts of attention and credibility as a concept that can be applied to achieve goals and objectives in many “non play/entertainment” sectors. Much of what is being offered as “Gamification Strategies” focuses on the use of badges, points and rewards, giving the impression that successful Gamification is about offering rewards, incentives and recognition. This document is intended to challenge that notion and to offer a more comprehensive understanding of how and why Gamification is so significant in today’s digital age.
Gamification has been described as the use of game mechanics in non-game contexts. This makes the assumption that there is some differentiation between games and other everyday activities. Whilst the above definition seems intuitively understandable because it somehow implies that games allow “risk-free, trial and error” development that is missing in work or other situations, I believe that every human activity should be viewed as a game if we are to develop the skills and understanding to apply Gamification strategies successfully.
The first point to make in the argument that games are an essential part of every human activity is that we frequently use the words “games” and “players” in “non-game” contexts. Examples include “BP is a major player in the oil industry” or “He/she is playing mind-games”. I have heard the expression “benign manipulation” used to describe gamification but the reality is that we all use gamification skills every day of our lives in order to have some control or influence over our lives.
Transforming healthcare through innovation ISDM e-newsletter June 2019David Wortley
Transforming Healthcare Through Innovation – Our Dorset
AI in Healthcare Conference Salford
Medilink Diagnostics for Health and Wellbeing Seminar
Medtech Innovation Expo
EBME – Electronic and Biomedical Engineering Expo 2019
Virtual Reality Developments in Digital Medicine
2nd World Summit on Hospital & Healthcare Management 2019
Upcoming Events Calendar.
Welcome to the June 2019 edition of the ISDM E-Newsletter. This month I will be sharing information about an exciting integrated healthcare project in Dorset and reviewing a number of conferences, exhibitions and seminars I have recently attended, including the AI in Healthcare Conference which took place at the University of Salford Manchester in April, the Medilink Seminar at the Open University on Diagnostics for Health and Wellbeing and the Medtech Innovation Conference at the Birmingham NEC held in May. I will also share my thoughts and recent experiences of development in the use of virtual reality in digital medicine.
Digital Behaviours and Preventative HealthcareDavid Wortley
This presentation was delivered at the Wearable Tech Show held at the Business Design Centre in Islington London. It looks at the opportunities and challenges presented by disruptive digital technologies being developed for the health sector. It concludes that digital technologies which support preventative healthcare and personal health management are vital for the sustainability of public health services which are globally threatened by lifestyle related conditions such as obesity, diabetes and dementia. It highlights the dangers of over-dependence on technologies such as artificial intelligence and an unreasonable expectation that technologies can absolve us the need to take personal responsibility for our own health management.
The impact of disruptive digital technologies on education, medicine, health ...David Wortley
This is the keynote presentation delivered on Day 2 of the European Conference on Technology Enabled Learning (EC-TEL 2018) held at the University of Leeds on Sept 6th 2018. It looks at Technologies enhance learning in the period 1950 to 2048.
360in360 Immersive Experiences August NewsletterDavid Wortley
This newsletter covers a spectrum of recent activities, news and offerings and includes :-
Oculus GO Review
Virtual Reality and 360 Technologies Masterclass Workshops
360 Degree Video Applications
Virtual Tours
Google StreetView Trusted Pro Programme
Immersive Technologies and Serious Games
Virtual Reality and Heritage/Tourism
7th International Conference on Cartography Live 360 Stream
ISAGA 2018 Conference Review
Next generation games based learning with virtual reality and 360 camera tech...David Wortley
This is a presentation covering Gamification, Storytelling and the role of 360 degree imaging technologies to develop gamified learning experiences and tools for debriefing.
DIT Asean Trade Mission KL Masterclass on 360 Immersive Learning TechnologiesDavid Wortley
This is the Powerpoint presentation used for the Storytelling, Gamification and 360 Immersive Learning Technologies workshop held at the Doubletree by Hilton Conference Centre in Kuala Lumpur and organised by Training Gateway in partnership with DIT and the local Britis Embassy
Immersive Technologies and Location-based Social and Economic DevelopmentDavid Wortley
This is a copy of the presentation delivered at the 7th International Conference on Cartography & GIS held in Sozopol in Bulgaria. It charts the disruptive impact of 360 degree technologies on Map Making and Geographical Information Systems
Transfer to immortality - A Sustainable Singularity Solution ?David Wortley
I delivered this presentation at the Sci-Fi 2018 conference organised by Eurosis and taken place at the Novotel in Bruges. It considers the potential reality of Singularity and the option of immortality through a human/machine blend. The presentation describes legislation to protect environmental resources in which humans have to be put to sleep on their 100th birthday in a scenario which combines transfer of all your human experiences, relationships, traits and knowledge into an avatar who is paired with the chosen "love of your life" by a mixture of AI, your emotions and a global audience who can share your life memories and feelings and vote for a person. It challenges by example to imagine what memories the audience would retrieve on their last day.
360in360 Partnership, Sponsorship and Investment OpportunitiesDavid Wortley
With a planned start date of April 2018 for the 360in360 Digital Heritage Roadshow Workshops, 360in360 Immersive Experiences is pleased to announce plans for strategic partnerships, sponsorships and investment opportunities for identified stakeholders in a digital heritage ecosystem built around multiple win-win relationships enabled by digital technologies.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
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.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
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/
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...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.
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.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...
Gamification concepts and applications
1. IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGY
STRATEGIES
Gamification
Concepts and Applications
Introduction
Gamification is becoming a hot topic without, I believe, any real common understanding
of what it is or how it can be applied. The word itself implies the use of games
technologies and/or methodologies to solve some of the challenges we face in today's
business and society. This article seeks to explore why gamification has become such a
hot topic and how it might be practically applied in real world situations.
What is Gamification ?
In a blog to be found at http://bit.ly/LKtU5o, Linda King of G2G3 differentiates between
gamification, simulations and serious games. A summary of her definition of gamification
is here:
Gamification is all about applying game elements (the ‘DNA’ of games) to non-game
activities. It’s about making ‘normal’, day-to-day activities more compelling. Gamification
leverages ‘game mechanics’ such as points, levels, badges and achievements to create
engagement and interest.
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2. Like Linda, I find the term "Gamification" inadequate and misleading because it over-
simplifies the true importance and significance of what really lies behind the role of
"Gamification" - simply incorporating game mechanics into day to day activities is not
enough. I would define gamification as "the application of the characteristics and benefits
of games to real world processes and problems". The key point is that the focus is not on
game mechanics but characteristics and benefits. Gamification is ultimately about
building relationships through sustainable engagement.
It is about "relationshipification", "engagification" and "experiencification".
Characteristics of Games and Gamification
Gamification is not a new idea and every human being on the planet has been a
practitioner at some time in their lives. From the time we are born, we constantly seek to
understand and shape the world around us, we test ourselves, explore and interact with
other human beings and objects.
Life itself is a game in which we are all players and spectators. Life has rules, challenges,
risks, rewards, levels, points, badges and achievements embedded into it and we
instinctively use "Gamification" to establish our place in the world. Watching children at
play is a master class in Gamification. Very young children introduced to each other for
the first time will soon develop their own "games" with rules, challenges and goals they
establish between themselves. The more "fun" they have, the more engaged they
become, the stronger are their relationships and the faster they develop.
The characteristics of Gamification include :-
• Challenges
• Rules
• Risks and Rewards
• Taste of success
• Fear of failure
• Competition
• Emotion and passion
• Collaboration
• Relationships
• Symbiosis and balance
• Importance
• Learning, Development and Growth
• Chance
• Dreams and ambitions
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3. • Control and influence
• Addiction
• Connections
• Choices
• Exploration
• Discovery
• Stories and Narratives
• Experiences
Benefits of Games and Gamification
Properly applied, Gamification establishes symbiotic, balanced and sustainable
relationships which bring :-
• "Win-win" scenarios
• "Intrinsic" positive experiences
• Achieved purposes
• Desire for repetition and enhancement
• Growth and development
• Shared commitment
• Loyalty
The Importance of Relationships and Psychology
Symbiotic Relationships are critical to the success of Gamification. The ability to attract
and engage the dreams, passions, ambitions and emotions of other human beings and
deliver rewarding experiences that can endure and grow for all involved is the "holy grail".
In today's society, where there are so many demands on our time and attention and where
there is so much choice, it is more difficult than ever not only to attract and engage but
also to sustain and develop lasting relationships whether personal, social or commercial.
If Gamification were simply embedding points, levels, badges and achievements linked
to rewards, then loyalty cards would be a classic success story that could be universally
applied, but loyalty cards only generate "extrinsic" rewards such as discounts or special
offers that apply to everyone on the scheme.
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4. Loyalty cards, by themselves, do not deliver "intrinsic" rewards that tap into our
psychology and bring positive emotions and pleasures based on our personal wants,
needs and desires. Really effective Gamification can engage us, excite our passions and
build commitment to the relationship.
The Role of Technology in Gamification
Technology is hugely influential in Gamification. It both creates the demand for
Gamification and provides some solutions.
Technology as a Demand Creator
Today's digital technologies provide unprecedented access to not only access
information and entertainment but also to create and publish rich media content to a
global audience. This is the age of the "Prosumer". We are all no longer content to
consume experiences, we want to create and share them. Technology has given us more
choice than ever before and as choice grows, loyalty and commitment to existing
relationships diminish.
It is this eroding of loyalty, commitment and motivation that fuels the demand for
Gamification as a solution to building and sustaining relationships.
Technology as a Solution Provider
The Video Games Industry and those working with "Immersive Technologies" are at the
cutting edge of the use of technology to engage and develop relationships. By providing
the tools which are finely tuned to our basic human personalities, they use a variety of
techniques to build on initial engagement that not only delivers the game mechanic
rewards etc., but provides with access to new experiences that tap into our dreams
passions and emotions.
The two key factors for me are accessibility and personalisation. Technology makes the
previously inaccessible accessible. A classic example of this is Golf which is a highly
absorbing physical game for both spectator and player. By its nature, without technology
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5. it is only accessible to those with the time, money, location and ability to enjoy it. Modern
technologies make the golf experience accessible to millions and Gamification
technologies like the Nintendo Wii have been able to turn spectators into players who can
experience the intrinsic rewards of golf on demand.
Personalisation will be critical to "next generation" Gamification technologies which will
have the ability to intelligently adjust the behaviour of the application to the individual
based on developing a personal profile. The use of cloud computing and crowd sourcing
techniques will be used to achieve relationship bonding and commitment that mirror the
way we build human to human relationships.
The Play with Purpose Workshop
The "Play with Purpose" workshop is designed to help individuals and organisations not
only understand why and how to apply Gamification to solve problems and/or improve
effectiveness, but also to equip them with a set of tools they can use to brainstorm and
evaluate innovative solutions.
The workshop uses the principles outlined in this document to develop "Play with
Purpose" canvas models that can be personalised to any circumstance in any sector.
For more details or to discuss the workshop, contact David Wortley by email at :-
david@davidwortley.com or mobile on +447896659695
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