Joe Sewash joined the CGIA in September 2005 and managed the Stream Mapping and Master Address projects. He has over fifteen years of experience in the geospatial field working with public sector clients. Joe contributed to the development of the GIS Certification Institute and has participated in the development
of the ISO metadata standard. He is an active member of the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC), contributing as board secretary (2000–2005), co-chair of the conference committee (2001–2004), and co-chair of the elections committee (2001–2005). Joe is a graduate of West Virginia University, earning a BA in Geography and Master‘s Degree in Geography, and currently co-chair of the departmental visiting committee.
Big Data Public-Private Forum_General PresentationBIG Project
The BIG project aims to establish a public-private forum on big data in Europe. It will bring together stakeholders from industry and research to develop a shared vision for big data in Europe over the next 5-10 years. The project will identify existing big data technologies, understand how big data can be applied across sectors, and develop roadmaps for specific sectors. It seeks to increase European competitiveness and position big data research priorities in the EU framework program Horizon 2020. The project is coordinated across four work packages covering management, strategy and operations, dissemination, and establishing the public-private forum.
CityPulse is a project that aims to develop a distributed framework for processing large-scale real-time IoT and social data streams to extract knowledge for smart city applications. The framework will semantically integrate heterogeneous data sources, perform large-scale analytics, and adapt processing in real-time based on context. It will be tested through prototype smart city applications to evaluate its ability to support future smart city platforms and products. The key issues addressed are virtualization of data, on-demand federation of sources, large-scale aggregation and analytics, real-time interpretation and processing control, and reliable information extraction.
The document provides a review of The Halo Academy. It discusses what worked well such as good instructor rapport, effective pedagogy, delivery, and manager setting right expectations with clients. It also notes what didn't work out as well like membership status and retention. Targets versus achievements are shown, with the academy ranking 6th for raises and matches and 4th for realizations. Targets for the next year and a plan of action are mentioned.
The document describes the process of designing a 3D post-apocalyptic city environment over several months. The designer began by creating roads and basic buildings, then added more architectural details and structures. Street lamps, vehicles like cars and buses, and interior building details were also modeled. Color and texturing were later applied, lighting was set up, and a fly-through sequence of the completed virtual environment was generated.
The document summarizes the results of a company's recruitment efforts in the first quarter, including what strategies worked well such as online promotions and information seminars, what challenges they faced including a poor department culture and unsuccessful university partnerships. It also provides data on their national standing for raising funds, matching donors to causes, and realizing donations. An action plan is outlined to improve member retention and meet July targets through aggressive fundraising and matching donors in the pipeline.
This document provides instructions for how to search for and contact people using GIS. It tells the user to log in, view the dashboard, click on Teams, search for a name or directly message them by clicking on their icon. It then explains how to start a new conversation by clicking "New conversation" and adding a person by clicking the "+" sign. The document challenges the user to search for and message 10 people from different entities on GIS and report back their names.
The document discusses the goals and philosophy of a middle school curriculum night. It aims to encourage students to reflect on who they want to become and how they can develop themselves. The school hopes to cultivate freedom of ideas and reduce prejudice so that students can continually grow and replace old ways of thinking with new, larger perspectives. The school also emphasizes playing, passion, and having a sense of purpose to drive innovation. It quotes several sources about the importance of lifelong learning and adapting to change. The overall message is that the school wants to help students learn in a way that is information-rich, collaborative, tackles real issues, and builds community.
The document summarizes the achievements and non-achievements of the Ballistae department in July. Key achievements included overachieving July targets for raising, matching, and realizing deals. Areas for improvement included EP leads, EPIC operations, setting clear expectations, and addressing sub-product specific issues. Moving forward, the department will focus on IR analysis, reverse raising, piloting hotel management, improving sub-product UR, and launching a new EP selection module.
Big Data Public-Private Forum_General PresentationBIG Project
The BIG project aims to establish a public-private forum on big data in Europe. It will bring together stakeholders from industry and research to develop a shared vision for big data in Europe over the next 5-10 years. The project will identify existing big data technologies, understand how big data can be applied across sectors, and develop roadmaps for specific sectors. It seeks to increase European competitiveness and position big data research priorities in the EU framework program Horizon 2020. The project is coordinated across four work packages covering management, strategy and operations, dissemination, and establishing the public-private forum.
CityPulse is a project that aims to develop a distributed framework for processing large-scale real-time IoT and social data streams to extract knowledge for smart city applications. The framework will semantically integrate heterogeneous data sources, perform large-scale analytics, and adapt processing in real-time based on context. It will be tested through prototype smart city applications to evaluate its ability to support future smart city platforms and products. The key issues addressed are virtualization of data, on-demand federation of sources, large-scale aggregation and analytics, real-time interpretation and processing control, and reliable information extraction.
The document provides a review of The Halo Academy. It discusses what worked well such as good instructor rapport, effective pedagogy, delivery, and manager setting right expectations with clients. It also notes what didn't work out as well like membership status and retention. Targets versus achievements are shown, with the academy ranking 6th for raises and matches and 4th for realizations. Targets for the next year and a plan of action are mentioned.
The document describes the process of designing a 3D post-apocalyptic city environment over several months. The designer began by creating roads and basic buildings, then added more architectural details and structures. Street lamps, vehicles like cars and buses, and interior building details were also modeled. Color and texturing were later applied, lighting was set up, and a fly-through sequence of the completed virtual environment was generated.
The document summarizes the results of a company's recruitment efforts in the first quarter, including what strategies worked well such as online promotions and information seminars, what challenges they faced including a poor department culture and unsuccessful university partnerships. It also provides data on their national standing for raising funds, matching donors to causes, and realizing donations. An action plan is outlined to improve member retention and meet July targets through aggressive fundraising and matching donors in the pipeline.
This document provides instructions for how to search for and contact people using GIS. It tells the user to log in, view the dashboard, click on Teams, search for a name or directly message them by clicking on their icon. It then explains how to start a new conversation by clicking "New conversation" and adding a person by clicking the "+" sign. The document challenges the user to search for and message 10 people from different entities on GIS and report back their names.
The document discusses the goals and philosophy of a middle school curriculum night. It aims to encourage students to reflect on who they want to become and how they can develop themselves. The school hopes to cultivate freedom of ideas and reduce prejudice so that students can continually grow and replace old ways of thinking with new, larger perspectives. The school also emphasizes playing, passion, and having a sense of purpose to drive innovation. It quotes several sources about the importance of lifelong learning and adapting to change. The overall message is that the school wants to help students learn in a way that is information-rich, collaborative, tackles real issues, and builds community.
The document summarizes the achievements and non-achievements of the Ballistae department in July. Key achievements included overachieving July targets for raising, matching, and realizing deals. Areas for improvement included EP leads, EPIC operations, setting clear expectations, and addressing sub-product specific issues. Moving forward, the department will focus on IR analysis, reverse raising, piloting hotel management, improving sub-product UR, and launching a new EP selection module.
The Headliners review summarizes their achievements and non-achievements over the past quarter. They achieved better results in their second quarter, launched successful social media campaigns, and improved department culture. However, they had lesser on-ground presence, failed to capitalize on LinkedIn and Pinterest, and formed fewer marketing partnerships than targeted. Most targets for the year were not achieved including youth engagement, media appearances, and partnerships. The way forward includes improved synergy mapping, tracking, market research, feedback systems, and more public relations and showcasing.
A funny little boy was recruited in 2010 and born in the development sector. He went on to become the local committee vice president of external relations and business development for AIESEC in Delhi IIT in 2012. Now he has become the most valuable player coach for GIPAIESEC India and the Hirans' coach from 2013-2014, Dhruv Gupta.
The document provides 10 tips for creating effective presentations: 1) Write a script, 2) Focus on one thing at a time, 3) Avoid paragraphs, 4) Pay attention to design while limiting flashy visuals, 5) Use images sparingly as opinions vary on their usefulness, 6) Engage the audience beyond the screen, 7) Include a hook, 8) Ask questions to engage the audience, 9) Modulate your voice, and 10) Break rules if necessary but otherwise follow them to avoid boring presentations.
Dokumen tersebut merangkum evolusi sistem operasi Windows dari Microsoft sejak versi pertamanya pada tahun 1985 hingga Windows 7. Dibahas pula fitur-fitur utama dan tanggapan pasar untuk setiap versi Windows.
The document summarizes the marketing activities and performance of an AIESEC youth organization in the city. It details the organization's goals, channels used, partnerships formed, social media growth, recruitment efforts, media events organized, areas of national contribution, and opportunities for improvement. The key highlights are extensive social media engagement and growth, successful recruitment campaigns, media partnerships, and setting processes for future marketing efforts. Weaknesses identified include less focus on youth engagement and market partnerships.
The document provides vocabulary for discussing meals, foods, drinks, and dining experiences in Spanish. It lists foods and beverages that are commonly eaten for breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner. It also includes questions about meal times, ordering and paying at restaurants, and discussing recent meals. Numbers from 1 to 1000 are presented. Tips for finding the right word when using a dictionary are given to avoid mistakes between similar words.
Cold calls were made and received positively. Three raises were implemented in the system. Interviews were conducted with candidates from Vietnam, USA, China, Ghana, and Russia. Job postings were made on Monster.com which resulted in two matches but the start dates conflicted. Nationally, there were four matches and two realized in terms of delivery rate with mention for progress.
Quarter 1 sales were below target but Quarter 2 sales exceeded the target. For the year, funds raised totaled 6,72,875 rupees of the 18,00,000 rupee target. Three new board appointments were made. A new partnership called '24*7 Leadership Factory' was created but not yet delivered. Successful strategies included events and annual partnerships. Opportunities that were not capitalized on included the CSR period, February recruitment, and building the OC and BDT teams. The way forward includes better delivery of programs, board contracts, client activities, expansion events, product packaging, and focusing on impact.
Very often, source code lacks comments that adequately describe its behavior. In such situations developers need to infer knowledge from the source code itself, or to search for source code descriptions in external artifacts. We argue that messages exchanged among contributors/developers, in the form of bug reports and emails, are a useful source of information to help understanding source code. However, such communications are unstructured and usually not explicitly meant to describe specific parts of the source code. Developers searching for code descriptions within communications
face the challenge of filtering large amount of data to extract what pieces of information are important to them. We propose an approach to automatically extract method descriptions from
communications in bug tracking systems and mailing lists. We have evaluated the approach on bug reports and mailing lists from two open source systems (Lucene and Eclipse). The
results indicate that mailing lists and bug reports contain relevant
descriptions of about 36% of the methods from Lucene and 7%
from Eclipse, and that the proposed approach is able to extract such descriptions with a precision up to 79% for Eclipse and 87% for Lucene. The extracted method descriptions can help
developers in understanding the code and could also be used as a starting point for source code re-documentation.
Milkround+ allows users to save job searches with customized filters for industry, location, salary and other criteria. Saved searches can then be quickly accessed from any page when logged into a Milkround+ account. Users define their search filters, name the search, and click "Save my search" to store it for future easy access directly from their account status bar without needing to re-enter search criteria.
The document lists various initiatives and statistics related to an organization's partnerships, recruitment efforts, fundraising campaigns, and international exchanges. It includes sections on living diversity, realizations in different countries, enjoying participation and raising initiatives, matching initiatives, realization initiatives, acting sustainably, demonstrating integrity, activating leadership, striving for excellence, and growth statistics from 2012 to 2013.
Photorealism uses computer graphics to create highly realistic images and games. Cel shading uses non-photorealistic lighting to create a hand-drawn, comic book style. Abstraction simplifies subjects and reduces them to basic forms rather than reproducing them realistically. Exaggeration in games elicits playful experiences through exaggerated character movements, expressions, and actions that provide senses of comedy, possibility, and nostalgia.
Big data roadmap and cross-disciplinary community for addressing societal externalities
BYTE Community Overview
Edward Curry
Insight @ NUI Galway
BYTE Work Package 8 Leader
Europe needs a clear strategy for leveraging Big Data
Economy in Europe. Our objectives are work at technical, business and policy levels, shaping the future through the positioning of Big Data in Horizon 2020. Bringing the necessary stakeholders into a sustainable industry-led initiative, which will greatly contribute to enhance the EU competitiveness taking full advantage of Big Data technologies.
Big Data Public-Private Forum_European Data Forum 2012BIG Project
This document discusses the BIG (Big Data Public Private Forum) project. [1] The project aims to build an industrial community around big data in Europe by addressing technical, business, and policy aspects. [2] It will promote adoption of big data technologies, tackle barriers like regulation issues, and define roadmaps. [3] The project will involve stakeholders from key sectors in working groups to analyze sector needs and technology maturity.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
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 and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
The Headliners review summarizes their achievements and non-achievements over the past quarter. They achieved better results in their second quarter, launched successful social media campaigns, and improved department culture. However, they had lesser on-ground presence, failed to capitalize on LinkedIn and Pinterest, and formed fewer marketing partnerships than targeted. Most targets for the year were not achieved including youth engagement, media appearances, and partnerships. The way forward includes improved synergy mapping, tracking, market research, feedback systems, and more public relations and showcasing.
A funny little boy was recruited in 2010 and born in the development sector. He went on to become the local committee vice president of external relations and business development for AIESEC in Delhi IIT in 2012. Now he has become the most valuable player coach for GIPAIESEC India and the Hirans' coach from 2013-2014, Dhruv Gupta.
The document provides 10 tips for creating effective presentations: 1) Write a script, 2) Focus on one thing at a time, 3) Avoid paragraphs, 4) Pay attention to design while limiting flashy visuals, 5) Use images sparingly as opinions vary on their usefulness, 6) Engage the audience beyond the screen, 7) Include a hook, 8) Ask questions to engage the audience, 9) Modulate your voice, and 10) Break rules if necessary but otherwise follow them to avoid boring presentations.
Dokumen tersebut merangkum evolusi sistem operasi Windows dari Microsoft sejak versi pertamanya pada tahun 1985 hingga Windows 7. Dibahas pula fitur-fitur utama dan tanggapan pasar untuk setiap versi Windows.
The document summarizes the marketing activities and performance of an AIESEC youth organization in the city. It details the organization's goals, channels used, partnerships formed, social media growth, recruitment efforts, media events organized, areas of national contribution, and opportunities for improvement. The key highlights are extensive social media engagement and growth, successful recruitment campaigns, media partnerships, and setting processes for future marketing efforts. Weaknesses identified include less focus on youth engagement and market partnerships.
The document provides vocabulary for discussing meals, foods, drinks, and dining experiences in Spanish. It lists foods and beverages that are commonly eaten for breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner. It also includes questions about meal times, ordering and paying at restaurants, and discussing recent meals. Numbers from 1 to 1000 are presented. Tips for finding the right word when using a dictionary are given to avoid mistakes between similar words.
Cold calls were made and received positively. Three raises were implemented in the system. Interviews were conducted with candidates from Vietnam, USA, China, Ghana, and Russia. Job postings were made on Monster.com which resulted in two matches but the start dates conflicted. Nationally, there were four matches and two realized in terms of delivery rate with mention for progress.
Quarter 1 sales were below target but Quarter 2 sales exceeded the target. For the year, funds raised totaled 6,72,875 rupees of the 18,00,000 rupee target. Three new board appointments were made. A new partnership called '24*7 Leadership Factory' was created but not yet delivered. Successful strategies included events and annual partnerships. Opportunities that were not capitalized on included the CSR period, February recruitment, and building the OC and BDT teams. The way forward includes better delivery of programs, board contracts, client activities, expansion events, product packaging, and focusing on impact.
Very often, source code lacks comments that adequately describe its behavior. In such situations developers need to infer knowledge from the source code itself, or to search for source code descriptions in external artifacts. We argue that messages exchanged among contributors/developers, in the form of bug reports and emails, are a useful source of information to help understanding source code. However, such communications are unstructured and usually not explicitly meant to describe specific parts of the source code. Developers searching for code descriptions within communications
face the challenge of filtering large amount of data to extract what pieces of information are important to them. We propose an approach to automatically extract method descriptions from
communications in bug tracking systems and mailing lists. We have evaluated the approach on bug reports and mailing lists from two open source systems (Lucene and Eclipse). The
results indicate that mailing lists and bug reports contain relevant
descriptions of about 36% of the methods from Lucene and 7%
from Eclipse, and that the proposed approach is able to extract such descriptions with a precision up to 79% for Eclipse and 87% for Lucene. The extracted method descriptions can help
developers in understanding the code and could also be used as a starting point for source code re-documentation.
Milkround+ allows users to save job searches with customized filters for industry, location, salary and other criteria. Saved searches can then be quickly accessed from any page when logged into a Milkround+ account. Users define their search filters, name the search, and click "Save my search" to store it for future easy access directly from their account status bar without needing to re-enter search criteria.
The document lists various initiatives and statistics related to an organization's partnerships, recruitment efforts, fundraising campaigns, and international exchanges. It includes sections on living diversity, realizations in different countries, enjoying participation and raising initiatives, matching initiatives, realization initiatives, acting sustainably, demonstrating integrity, activating leadership, striving for excellence, and growth statistics from 2012 to 2013.
Photorealism uses computer graphics to create highly realistic images and games. Cel shading uses non-photorealistic lighting to create a hand-drawn, comic book style. Abstraction simplifies subjects and reduces them to basic forms rather than reproducing them realistically. Exaggeration in games elicits playful experiences through exaggerated character movements, expressions, and actions that provide senses of comedy, possibility, and nostalgia.
Big data roadmap and cross-disciplinary community for addressing societal externalities
BYTE Community Overview
Edward Curry
Insight @ NUI Galway
BYTE Work Package 8 Leader
Europe needs a clear strategy for leveraging Big Data
Economy in Europe. Our objectives are work at technical, business and policy levels, shaping the future through the positioning of Big Data in Horizon 2020. Bringing the necessary stakeholders into a sustainable industry-led initiative, which will greatly contribute to enhance the EU competitiveness taking full advantage of Big Data technologies.
Big Data Public-Private Forum_European Data Forum 2012BIG Project
This document discusses the BIG (Big Data Public Private Forum) project. [1] The project aims to build an industrial community around big data in Europe by addressing technical, business, and policy aspects. [2] It will promote adoption of big data technologies, tackle barriers like regulation issues, and define roadmaps. [3] The project will involve stakeholders from key sectors in working groups to analyze sector needs and technology maturity.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
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 and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
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
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
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.
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 .
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.
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
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
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-Efficiency
Joe Sewash BIG Project Data Curation Interview
1. DATA CURATION INSIGHTS
JOE SEWASH
SERVICES PROGRAM MANAGER BIGBig Data Public Private Forum
“As the new generation
is getting ready for
stepping up, and it is
already stepping up, it is
more tuned to the end-
to-end process,
implementing the
technical solution and
demonstrating the
results”
Introduction
Joe Sewash joined the CGIA in September 2005 and managed
the Stream Mapping and Master Address projects. He has over
fifteen years of experience in the geospatial field working with
public sector clients. Joe contributed to the development of the
GIS Certification Institute and has participated in the development
of the ISO metadata standard. He is an active member of the
National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC),
contributing as board secretary (2000–2005), co-chair of the
conference committee (2001–2004), and co-chair of the elections
committee (2001–2005). Joe is a graduate of West Virginia
University, earning a BA in Geography and Master‘s Degree in
Geography, and currently co-chair of the departmental visiting
committee.
Edward Curry: Please tell us a little about yourself and your
history in the industry, role at the organisation, past
experience?
Joe Sewash: I have an 18 year career in public service. My
career has been focused in state level, public sector GIS. Roles
have covered tactical products (leading teams in development of
multi-use GIS datasets) and strategic development of enterprise
architecture and state/national standards.
We use tools from the GIS field for all our work. These
technologies haven‘t been dedicated to the big data side of things.
In terms of data preservation people working on the electronic
records branch, they‘ve used a combination of tools that have
been used by the US Library of Congress from the open source
community. One of the areas I have been frustrated with is the
fact that you have to work very hard to get the GIS data in these
particular programs to work with the tools you would be familiar
with on the data analytics side of things. There is a cultural
mismatch going back to the days of data warehousing and
business intelligence and rolling forward, GIS has traditionally
been seen as a mapping component or as a way to visualise
traditional BI or other kinds of analysis whereas as a practicing
geographer there is an entire suite of analyses that can be
spatially enabled and it seems that there is a long way to go to
make those things happen.
I am a classically trained geographer but my career has worked
into an area of technologist and technology management,
understanding that the technologies we are trying to implement
ultimately has to meet a business need in order to justify the
investment.
I have a BS and masters in geography focusing on GIS, remote
sensing and satellite image analysis. My master thesis was on
metadata in distributed queries, so there was always this natural
mix of both the geography and GIS technology side. Through the
three positions that I‘ve held, there has always been public service
since we are technically working on consultant form in a public
sector context.
Edward Curry: What is the biggest change going on in your
industry at this time? Is Big Data playing a role in the change?
Joe Sewash: Two areas relevant to the intersection of Big Data and
GIS would be GIS solutions in the cloud, and crowd sourced data. GIS
in the cloud has been working through the adoption curve
approaching a mature status. Reaching mature status will provide a
critical mass of GIS availability for linking to Big Data cloud-based
analysis tools. Crowd sourced data source and publicly provided open
source GIS datasets provide interesting avenues for considering Big
Data and spatial data nexus points.
Crowdsourced data, at least here in America, is commonly denoted as
you carry your cell phone, the telephone companies track your
distance between the towers and they make inferences that can be
commercialised back to show the flow of traffic rates during rush hour.
That would be one example of crowdsourced data coming in from
mobile platforms. In terms of publicly provided open source data,
there are initiatives like Openstreetmaps or open address which
provide a website and a thin client that permits users to update
datasets that are open source and utilised for multiple purposes. One
of the areas that we haven‘t been involved in as an organization but
that I watched as a professional is the issue surrounding data quality
and reliability. How do those factors play into the geographical data
and how do the users make use of these open datasets? Are they
aware of the quality issues or they are just happy to discover and start
using it?
Edward Curry: How has your job changed in the past 12
months? How do you expect it to change in the next 3–5 years?
Joe Sewash: US demographics related to retirements of the Baby
Boomer generation and transition to the generation known as
―Generation X‖ will lead to a shift in GIS management perspectives.
The Baby Boomer generation came of age during a period of the
1980‘s when spatial data creation preceded analysis; policies,
initiatives, and priorities oriented toward a data-centric approach are a
hallmark of Baby Boomer management. Generation X managers
came of age in the 1990‘s during the rise of the Internet and a
transformational period in GIS development (movement away from
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2. proprietary databases, proprietary scripting languages, and towards
a tighter integration with traditional IT). Gen X GIS managers will be
more attuned to addressing questions relating to value proposition
and deeper integration of GIS in service-based solutions.
The generation that is ready to retire really had to digitise the world.
Data in their early career was a blood and sweat proposition and
before you could do the geographical analysis in the GIS, you had
to literally digitize the geography that you had to study. As these
people matured through their carriers and have moved into the
leadership roles, their focus and predispositions were towards these
kinds of data policies. I‘m part of this generation, we saw all these
migrations, moving to PC based GIS, moved to commercial
technologies for database and the new generation is getting ready
for stepping up and it is already stepping up, is more tuned to the
end-to-end process, from business problem requirements,
implementing the technical solution and demonstrating the results .
It is going to be a not so subtle shift in the priorities and way people
look at things and the interrelationships between geospatial and Big
Data we are really going to see an interesting trend there in the next
15 years.
For the generation Y and millennials people, in particular in
geospatial, everything was already built. They are much more
focused on thinking creatively and developing solutions with
resources that are already available. One of the interesting areas
that talked about with several colleagues that are starting families,
having children now that will be part of generation Z, from a
geographer‘s concept, the advances in geographic thoughts and the
availability of map based technology in tablets, smartphones, really
is going to offer opportunities in raising the geographical IQ of the
next generation.
Edward Curry: What does data curation mean in your context?
Joe Sewash: CGIA participated in a four year project funded by the
US Library of Congress titled the Geospatial Multistate Archive and
Preservation Partnership (GeoMAPP). GeoMAPP brought together
geospatial and digital preservation practitioners to identify best
practices, technical issues, and business planning for preservation
of geospatial data. In this context, data curation is addressed
through consistent appraisal and preservation workflows.
Edward Curry: What data do you curate? What is the size of
dataset?
Joe Sewash: CGIA maintains a geoportal known as NC OneMap
(http://www.nconemap.net/) As NC OneMAP datasets are
superseded through an update cycle, the superseded datsets are
provided to the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
(NC DCR) for preservation. This process includes both raster and
vector geospatial data, so the size of the datasets can vary greatly.
Additional detailed information can be provided.
When you visit NC OneMap there are hundreds of datasets, some
of which will potentially be superseded and curated. We provide
links to data services that other agencies or other groups may
provide so OneMap becomes the discovery portal for those. In
terms of the vector datasets, those who represent things like street
maps, administrative boundary maps, those tend to be very small in
size but high in complexity. You might want to have state wide
datasets that are smaller than 100MB. In terms of the imagery
because of the raster size and because of the compressed and
uncompressed volumes, we can be dealing with state wide datasets
that are on the order of 20 TB.
End to end, the number of users could be varying dramatically.
There are 3–4 people on our side that deal with the database and
server maintenance for the NCOneMap site. Once datasets are
superseded and turned into the electronic archiving, 3–5 people
take care of the formal curation and preservation process.
Edward Curry: What are the uses of the curated data? What
value does it give?
Joe Sewash: Curation of superseded data is based on an appraisal
analysis translated to records retention schedule that is guided by
the North Carolina General Statute. A significant deliverable of the
GeoMAPP project was the development of a business planning
toolkit; this toolkit encourages the practitioners to identify and
accumulate data and information related to value of preserved
datasets in support of return on investment calculations.
Use cases that we see tend to be around two big areas. The first is
the recognition and acknowledgement of the records retention
schedule that presumably is based on business analysis, not on
technology analysis. You need to appraise and identify what you
deem as preservation worthy. The second area is risk abatement.
Imaging that your business process is evaluation of development
permits and all of your source data is in a digital environment. In the
future the sources of the data, the reason for the approval and the
circumstances behind it may be lost. It is much more cost effective
to do the preservation work on the front end as opposed to having
to go back and unearth or recreate what you are looking at. Data
accessibility and provenance are very important aspects from a
technical point of view.
Edward Curry: What processes and technologies do you use
for data curation? Do you have any comments on the
performance or design of the technologies?
Joe Sewash: The geospatial data preservation process is a series
of manual steps. A significant focus is placed on metadata
maintenance from the data producer to NC OneMap hosting, and
on to the NC DCR for curation.
The data preservation archiving is the division of cultural resources.
We are housed in the IT organisation and the data is handed to the
preservation side, which has discovery and access tools.
Edward Curry: What is your understanding of the term "Big
Data"?
Joe Sewash: Thinking about this question for this interview has
proven elusive. Identification of what the scope of Big Data is, or
what lies beyond the scope of Big Data is practically irrelevant. As a
practicing geographer, any dataset within the rubric of Big Data also
has an explicit or implied spatial context.
Edward Curry: What influences do you think "Big Data" will
have on future of data curation? What are the technological
demands of curation in the "Big Data" context?
Joe Sewash: From a public sector context, the realities of the
current and projected economic conditions will enforce linkages of
curation capacity with expected value or returns. Within the US,
there are not many examples of public-private partnerships to
support advancements in this area.
At least in a geospatial context a public-private partnership is the
equitable acknowledgement of data as an infrastructure
consideration as opposed to commonly held perspective of data as
a commodity.
“At least in a geospatial context a public-private partnership is the equitable acknowledgement
of data as an infrastructure consideration as opposed to commonly held perspective of data as
a commodity.”
3. CONTACT
Project co-funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme (Grant Agreement No. 318062)
Collaborative Project
in Information and Communication Technologies
2012 — 2014
General contact
info@big-project.eu
Project Coordinator
Jose Maria Cavanillas de San Segundo
Research & Innovation Director
Atos Spain Corporation
Albarracín 25
28037 Madrid, Spain
Phone: +34 912148609
Fax: +34 917543252
Email: jose-
maria.cavanillas@atosresearch.eu
Strategic Director
Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster
CEO and Scientific Director
Deutsches Forschungszentrum
für Künstliche Intelligenz
66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Phone: +49 681 85775 5252 or 5251
Fax: +49 681 85775 5383
Email: wahlster@dfki.de
Data Curation Working Group
Dr. Edward Curry
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
National University of Ireland, Galway
Email: ed.curry@deri.org
http://big-project.eu
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If you are familiar with the ordnance survey and their economic
model, it more closely resembles a public-private partnership than
anything that you can see in the US. I understand that tremendous
cost and really the financial model that goes behind the investment
to create and maintain these very large datasets. It is a very much
more participatory process that you can find the public private
partnership. In the US, you are very ingrained in terms of tax payer
funded resources and the availability of those resources, that there
is some fundamental misalignment in terms of the economics
versus the policy. I was at a conference earlier this year and the
Canadian province of Alberta in the mid-90s actually went through a
very severe economic downturn where the province was going to
shut down their geospatial activities because they could not afford
them anymore. And because Alberta is very resource extraction
intensive, those industries came to the government and proposed a
public-private partnership. The utility industry, the timber industry
and the extraction industries came forward and said we need this
data, we need a plan, we can support the financing because this is
effectively a life blood in helping us doing our work and it has
endured over the past 10–15 years.
The public sector has specific business needs. In the US system the
states really perform a nexus between federal agencies and
national datasets and local governments and very granular datasets
that they need in their business processes. The public sector has
certain business processes in the provision of public services that
makes their need as germane as the private sectors, but also the
integration piece and management piece. Regarding the economics
and the pragmatic side of the technical implementation side, you
could find ways to split of that cross of the partnership.
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