This is in the Ignite format. 20 slides in 5 minutes, given at Microsoft's Modern Jago venue in Shoreditch London. An overview of defence training and the technology that supports it with a view to the future.
ITEC 2014 - Revolution and Evolution: Learning Technology Strategies in a Ch...Andy Fawkes
The desire and need to exploit technology in military training and education is long standing and from time to time has been disrupted, from the Link Trainer in the 1930s, the introduction of computer graphics in the 1960s, through to e-learning, games and mobile technologies in this Century. These changes have typically been brought about by technological developments outside the military sphere and early adopters have seen the benefits for military training and education through improved safety, reduced time in training or improved cost effectiveness. Often these changes or revolutions are resisted as they disrupt existing methods, establishments and industrial interests, but over time the changes are accepted and in turn the technologies and ways of doing business embed and evolve. In this Century however, the tempo and number of these revolutions increase with the relentless rise of the digital sector. Digital technology, both software and hardware are becoming more cost effective and new technologies enter the market seemingly weekly. Games technology has transformed simulation. Mobile devices and networks can provide unprecedented access to data and knowledge both inside and outside the workspace. We can interact at distance in ever more human-like ways and automation, robots and increased instrumentation will change and replace current jobs. These revolutions not only affect the Armed Forces they are making a global impact on societies and economies. Schools and Higher Education may be radically reshaped and digital learning spaces may replace physical ones. We may need to train less and maybe not at all. Drawing on policy experience in the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO and now with an industry perspective, what learning technology strategies might the Armed Forces take that best support their training and education challenges now and into the future? Can they rapidly deliver cost effective learning seamlessly from the barracks to the battlefield or will security and procurement barriers be too high to overcome? How can they embrace technological change but ensure that effective learning is being delivered with the right level of long term support? What further revolutions in learning might the Armed Forces need to prepare for? This presentation will look at the revolutions that have taken place in military learning technology and lessons learned for today. It will look at current and the future challenges for military training and education and explore how technology might meet them. Given the challenges for technology adoption it will propose strategies that Armed Forces might take to procure and manage their learning technologies.
A presentation at MBDA on the history of simulation, from the 1900s to the present day. With thoughts on the future and on innovation and technology more generally.
A Military Training Perspective - Technology and TrendsAndy Fawkes
The Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organisation or OPITO is the global industry standard in oil and gas safety, skills, and competence, setting the standards for training providers and courses. As a view on another sector to oil and gas, this presentation was given at the annual OPITO Safety & Competence Conference (OSCC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 8 November 2017. It covers some basic statistics of the military across the world, including expenditure and numbers, a broad description of military training, a short history of military training technology, some current military training delivery examples, and concludes with military training challenges and opportunities
ITEC 2014 - Revolution and Evolution: Learning Technology Strategies in a Ch...Andy Fawkes
The desire and need to exploit technology in military training and education is long standing and from time to time has been disrupted, from the Link Trainer in the 1930s, the introduction of computer graphics in the 1960s, through to e-learning, games and mobile technologies in this Century. These changes have typically been brought about by technological developments outside the military sphere and early adopters have seen the benefits for military training and education through improved safety, reduced time in training or improved cost effectiveness. Often these changes or revolutions are resisted as they disrupt existing methods, establishments and industrial interests, but over time the changes are accepted and in turn the technologies and ways of doing business embed and evolve. In this Century however, the tempo and number of these revolutions increase with the relentless rise of the digital sector. Digital technology, both software and hardware are becoming more cost effective and new technologies enter the market seemingly weekly. Games technology has transformed simulation. Mobile devices and networks can provide unprecedented access to data and knowledge both inside and outside the workspace. We can interact at distance in ever more human-like ways and automation, robots and increased instrumentation will change and replace current jobs. These revolutions not only affect the Armed Forces they are making a global impact on societies and economies. Schools and Higher Education may be radically reshaped and digital learning spaces may replace physical ones. We may need to train less and maybe not at all. Drawing on policy experience in the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO and now with an industry perspective, what learning technology strategies might the Armed Forces take that best support their training and education challenges now and into the future? Can they rapidly deliver cost effective learning seamlessly from the barracks to the battlefield or will security and procurement barriers be too high to overcome? How can they embrace technological change but ensure that effective learning is being delivered with the right level of long term support? What further revolutions in learning might the Armed Forces need to prepare for? This presentation will look at the revolutions that have taken place in military learning technology and lessons learned for today. It will look at current and the future challenges for military training and education and explore how technology might meet them. Given the challenges for technology adoption it will propose strategies that Armed Forces might take to procure and manage their learning technologies.
A presentation at MBDA on the history of simulation, from the 1900s to the present day. With thoughts on the future and on innovation and technology more generally.
A Military Training Perspective - Technology and TrendsAndy Fawkes
The Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organisation or OPITO is the global industry standard in oil and gas safety, skills, and competence, setting the standards for training providers and courses. As a view on another sector to oil and gas, this presentation was given at the annual OPITO Safety & Competence Conference (OSCC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 8 November 2017. It covers some basic statistics of the military across the world, including expenditure and numbers, a broad description of military training, a short history of military training technology, some current military training delivery examples, and concludes with military training challenges and opportunities
A Perspective on Defence Training and Technology TrendsAndy Fawkes
A presentation for clients of QA (qa.com) to provide an insight into defence training and education, the impact of technology and thoughts on the future
All the World's a Stage (Unless you are in the Military)Andy Fawkes
Presented at the RAeS "Simulation Based Training: The Key to Military Operational Capability" Conference, London 22 November 2016 - If military mission training, planning, preparation, command and control, and after action analysis/debriefing were life then there would not be one world or “stage” but many. Military personnel are typically required to carry out their activities singularly and together on a number of different training, simulation and C4ISTAR systems that may work together but have different human interfaces, processes, and digital content that may not be easily shared across systems. This puts additional workloads on the personnel and runs the risk of confusion and reduced operational agility. What if there was only one world or “stage” to support the complete mission cycle? This talk will discuss the challenges in achieving one “stage” when most if not all simulation/C4ISTAR component elements are procured and operated by different teams and sourced from different companies. However, if the organisational and technological challenges can be overcome, might there be additional operational benefits going forward?
Presentation at the 8th SMi Annual Land Forces Simulation and Training Conference - London - 14 February 2017
* What does success look like in exploiting simulation?
* What might land training look like if we realised the full potential of simulation?
* How far have we come and how far is there to go?
* A review of the land training journey in the use of simulation
* Move faster? Should we be advancing more quickly and if so what might be holding us back?
is “Synthetic Training” real training or not?Andy Fawkes
Presented at SMIs's 3rd Annual Military Flight Training Conference, London – 22 September 2014 - Why is term "Synthetic" used in Military Training and what is its history? Does it convey second best? My simulation policy experience and the live/synthetic training balance issue. What will actually be "real" in future?
UKIF Innovations in Training - Technology and Change Perspective 14 Nov 13Andy Fawkes
UKIF Innovations in Training: Simulation & Interactivity Event London 14 Nov 13 - Technology and Change Perspective - Defence Training Technology Trends - Innovation - The Future
The Grand Unified Theory of Autonomous Systems, Humans and SimulationAndy Fawkes
Presented at the NATO SCI Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems Workshop on 25 June 14 at Imperial College London - The theme, a Valid and Verified Autonomous System must Include Human(s) and Simulation has a Key Role in Developing, Testing and Training both the Autonomous System and Human(s), Separately and Together
Maritime Information Warfare - The Human DimensionAndy Fawkes
Presented at SMi's Inaugural Maritime Information Warfare Conference, London, 6/7 December 2017. A perspective on the modern sailor, training and simulation, training data, and defence organisational challenges.
Training and Simulation in a More Autonomous and Robotic FutureAndy Fawkes
Training and Simulation in a More Autonomous and Robotic Future - Presented at Royal Aeronautical Society Conference - The Future of Flight Training Devices - RAeS London UK - 12 November 2014
Artificial Intelligence - Opportunities and Challenges for Military Modeling ...Andy Fawkes
Presented at the NATO Modelling & Simulation Symposium - Lisbon, Portugal - 19/20 October 2017. A principal theme of the NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO) is "Military Decision Making using the tools of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI)". Simulation could play a significant role in addressing this theme, as it can act as a testbed for developing such concepts and support the military decision makers in future operations that are enhanced by AI. Simulation is already making a significant impact in the development of AI outside of the defence sector. Companies such as DeepMind and Nvidia are using computer games and simulations to “train” AI and autonomous systems, analogous to humans training in simulations. The rate of progress is high, driven by increases in computing power, availability of data and improved algorithms, however, AI development still faces significant technological and ethical challenges and these must be monitored and addressed as necessary.
Operational and Policy Perspectives to Mission Training & SimulationAndy Fawkes
A co-presentation with Neil Sierens DFC at the Royal Aeronautical Society 13 June 2013. What makes good Mission Training? Drawing on recent operational experience in both Afghanistan and Libya, this presentation discusses the current state of the art. It then provides an historical context to where we are today and the challenges that organisations face in the delivery of Mission Training. Concluding, what is the future for Mission Training?
Could the Military use your Technology?Andy Fawkes
This presentation was delivered at the Digital Shoreditch Festival in London on 21 May 2013. Its purpose was to introduce the defence market to the digital sector in London. It covers:
The Importance of Public Sector, Funding Levels, Size of Defence Market, UK Defence and Industry,
Digital Sector Opportunities, UK Defence Entry Points, and
Pros and Cons
A presentation on the importance of data in training and simulation and taking an enterprise approach - Includes an overview of UK air training/testing programmes - Given at the SMi 6th Annual Military Flight Training Conference – London - 11/12 Oct 17
A Perspective on Defence Training and Technology TrendsAndy Fawkes
A presentation for clients of QA (qa.com) to provide an insight into defence training and education, the impact of technology and thoughts on the future
All the World's a Stage (Unless you are in the Military)Andy Fawkes
Presented at the RAeS "Simulation Based Training: The Key to Military Operational Capability" Conference, London 22 November 2016 - If military mission training, planning, preparation, command and control, and after action analysis/debriefing were life then there would not be one world or “stage” but many. Military personnel are typically required to carry out their activities singularly and together on a number of different training, simulation and C4ISTAR systems that may work together but have different human interfaces, processes, and digital content that may not be easily shared across systems. This puts additional workloads on the personnel and runs the risk of confusion and reduced operational agility. What if there was only one world or “stage” to support the complete mission cycle? This talk will discuss the challenges in achieving one “stage” when most if not all simulation/C4ISTAR component elements are procured and operated by different teams and sourced from different companies. However, if the organisational and technological challenges can be overcome, might there be additional operational benefits going forward?
Presentation at the 8th SMi Annual Land Forces Simulation and Training Conference - London - 14 February 2017
* What does success look like in exploiting simulation?
* What might land training look like if we realised the full potential of simulation?
* How far have we come and how far is there to go?
* A review of the land training journey in the use of simulation
* Move faster? Should we be advancing more quickly and if so what might be holding us back?
is “Synthetic Training” real training or not?Andy Fawkes
Presented at SMIs's 3rd Annual Military Flight Training Conference, London – 22 September 2014 - Why is term "Synthetic" used in Military Training and what is its history? Does it convey second best? My simulation policy experience and the live/synthetic training balance issue. What will actually be "real" in future?
UKIF Innovations in Training - Technology and Change Perspective 14 Nov 13Andy Fawkes
UKIF Innovations in Training: Simulation & Interactivity Event London 14 Nov 13 - Technology and Change Perspective - Defence Training Technology Trends - Innovation - The Future
The Grand Unified Theory of Autonomous Systems, Humans and SimulationAndy Fawkes
Presented at the NATO SCI Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems Workshop on 25 June 14 at Imperial College London - The theme, a Valid and Verified Autonomous System must Include Human(s) and Simulation has a Key Role in Developing, Testing and Training both the Autonomous System and Human(s), Separately and Together
Maritime Information Warfare - The Human DimensionAndy Fawkes
Presented at SMi's Inaugural Maritime Information Warfare Conference, London, 6/7 December 2017. A perspective on the modern sailor, training and simulation, training data, and defence organisational challenges.
Training and Simulation in a More Autonomous and Robotic FutureAndy Fawkes
Training and Simulation in a More Autonomous and Robotic Future - Presented at Royal Aeronautical Society Conference - The Future of Flight Training Devices - RAeS London UK - 12 November 2014
Artificial Intelligence - Opportunities and Challenges for Military Modeling ...Andy Fawkes
Presented at the NATO Modelling & Simulation Symposium - Lisbon, Portugal - 19/20 October 2017. A principal theme of the NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO) is "Military Decision Making using the tools of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI)". Simulation could play a significant role in addressing this theme, as it can act as a testbed for developing such concepts and support the military decision makers in future operations that are enhanced by AI. Simulation is already making a significant impact in the development of AI outside of the defence sector. Companies such as DeepMind and Nvidia are using computer games and simulations to “train” AI and autonomous systems, analogous to humans training in simulations. The rate of progress is high, driven by increases in computing power, availability of data and improved algorithms, however, AI development still faces significant technological and ethical challenges and these must be monitored and addressed as necessary.
Operational and Policy Perspectives to Mission Training & SimulationAndy Fawkes
A co-presentation with Neil Sierens DFC at the Royal Aeronautical Society 13 June 2013. What makes good Mission Training? Drawing on recent operational experience in both Afghanistan and Libya, this presentation discusses the current state of the art. It then provides an historical context to where we are today and the challenges that organisations face in the delivery of Mission Training. Concluding, what is the future for Mission Training?
Could the Military use your Technology?Andy Fawkes
This presentation was delivered at the Digital Shoreditch Festival in London on 21 May 2013. Its purpose was to introduce the defence market to the digital sector in London. It covers:
The Importance of Public Sector, Funding Levels, Size of Defence Market, UK Defence and Industry,
Digital Sector Opportunities, UK Defence Entry Points, and
Pros and Cons
A presentation on the importance of data in training and simulation and taking an enterprise approach - Includes an overview of UK air training/testing programmes - Given at the SMi 6th Annual Military Flight Training Conference – London - 11/12 Oct 17
Presented at the Advanced Engineering Conference at ITEC Rotterdam, Netherlands on 17 May 2017. The human factors associated with Industry 4.0 and the increasing role of simulation in support of training both people and autonomous systems.
Digital Media Enterprise Strategies - Do you have one, do you need one? 20 No...Andy Fawkes
Presentation at the RAES Digital Media Convergence in Flight Simulation and Training Conference, London - 20 November 2013 - Digital Media Enterprise Strategies - Do you have one, do you need one?
A Training & Simulation Perspective on Maritime Information & AutomationAndy Fawkes
Presented at the 2nd SMi Maritime Information Warfare Conference - London on 27 November 2018. It proposed that Information Warfare & Automation and Training & Simulation have a number of parallels. It looked at the the Modern Sailor; the latest Training & Simulation Developments; Data & Digital Twins/Siblings; latest Gaming technology; and Automation.
How to become a Flight Attendant as a member of generation Y; Presentation Wolfgang Jabornik Head of Training at FAST (www.fastedu.eu) at WATS 2012 in Orlando, Florida
Lecture 1 for the 2022 COMP 4010 course on AR and VR. This course was taught by Mark Billinghurst at the University of South Australia in 2022. This lecture provides an introduction to AR, VR and XR.
External Lecture for Aerospace Engineering Undergraduates, Queen Mary University of London, 1 March 2022
1. What is, and Why, Simulation?
2. A Short History of Fight Simulation
3. Training & Simulation Developments
4. The Human Dimension of Flight
5. Thoughts on Careers
From SIMNET to the Metaverse - Why is it taking so long?Andy Fawkes
Presented at IT2EC Rotterdam - 25 April 2023 - In 1978, US Air Force Captain Jack Thorpe proposed a network of simulators for combat planning and execution, and this concept was later developed by DARPA in the 1980s as SIMNET (SIMulator NETworking). SIMNET eventually included 260 simulators at 11 sites in the USA and Europe including tank and aircraft simulators, and connected to a real warship and command centres in the early 1990s. Today, there is renewed interest in creating multi-domain simulation capabilities, but it is unclear if any nation has succeeded in building a persistent system similar to SIMNET that integrates live, virtual, and constructive simulations across the whole defence enterprise. The trend towards the "metaverse" may offer an opportunity for the defence sector to establish an enterprise-wide simulation infrastructure that exploits the wider trends in the metaverse and computing. This presentation examines past initiatives to build multi-domain simulation capabilities and consider the issues that may have hindered progress, and then offer a vision for the defence sector to fully realize Thorpe's 45-year-old idea through an integrated enterprise approach to networked simulation in support of all defence activities.
Interview BBC World Service - Digital Planet - Military virtual and augmented...Andy Fawkes
Interview- https://youtu.be/uPSVk-Kkp4c (6:44 minutes)
Microsoft has recently been contracted to construct more than 120,000 augmented reality headsets for the U.S. Army. How is virtual and augmented reality used in the military? Will it be used on the battlefield? Gareth speaks to journalist and VR training expert Andy Fawkes.
Source broadcast - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct31y9
Simulation & Training Perspectives for the Advancement of Armoured Vehicle We...Andy Fawkes
Presented at the 6th Annual SAE Media Group Future Armoured Vehicles Weapon Systems - 31 May 2022 - Armoured vehicle crew should be trained and treated like air crew. The need is greater and the costs are getting lower.
Presented at IT2EC London - 28April 2022 - Digital twins and fidelity.
Language can be confusing so it is important not to lose sight of the vision.
Digital Twins do not always need the highest Fidelity to be useful – an imperfect model through life is better than a perfect model in the moment.
Data should be treated as a strategic asset across Defence and through the life of projects.
NATO Modelling and Simulation (M&S) Group Symposium MSG177 Presentation - 23 ...Andy Fawkes
This paper examines aspects of the modern commercial gaming landscape that are applicable in the design and structure of military M&S systems. Two areas have been considered for analysis. First, “Architectures” - the game systems themselves, their accessibility, and exploitation of data. This includes design functions that enhance player emotional and psychological engagement through narrative and gamification, support for large numbers of concurrent players, and content and update delivery methods. Second, “Ecosystems” - which include third-party systems that enhance and supplement the gameplay experience and the methods by which the wider gaming community interacts. While the implementation of innovations in these areas is well understood, we explore whether they are being utilised to their full potential within the realm of military M&S systems, specifically for personalised training systems and decision support/planning tools. Drawing on a literature review and survey of gaming students familiar with the military, recommendations are made to inform future development of M&S systems and better accommodate the demands of a digital savvy war fighter in an era of more remote and distributed training.
Hi, thanks for the opportunity to present today, I’m tom evans, I’m a masters student at staffordshire university studying ideology in serious games and with me is Anthony Hadley, a PhD student also from staffordshire university researching scenario training for disaster management, and Andy Fawkes (from the simulation & training industry). Unfortunately our co-author Steve Webley, who lectures at Staffs in military philosophy and game design, couldn’t be with us today.
The aim of this presentation is to briefly highlight some of the developments in modern video games that we think are of interest to a military simulation and training audience.
The games industry is staggeringly huge and continually growing, with estimated revenues regularly exceeding twice the combined total of the film and music industries. But within this giant industry, today we want to focus firstly on user familiarity with and knowledge of gaming systems, and then go on to highlight a number of technological trends and industry standards that militaries could draw upon
In comparison to some existing research done by the ESA and Limelight that found that the average gamer plays a little over 6 hours a week, our own survey of both enrolled and recently graduated university students shows that in some groups that average can be over twice that amongst the more hardcore players. But from that what you should really takeaway is that not only will the next generation of warfighters will digital natives, but it’s quite likely that they will be gamers as well, and so will carry into their service many hundreds or thousands of hours of experience with these systems.
Queen Mary University of London External Lecturer talk on 20 October 2020 for First Year Aeronautical Engineering Students covering:
* What is, and Why, Simulation?
* A Short History of Fight Simulation
* Training, Simulation and Gaming
* The Human Dimension of Flight
* Digital Twins
* Thoughts on Careers
The Future Role of Artificial Intelligence - Military Opportunities and Chall...Andy Fawkes
Published in Joint Air Power Competence Centre Journal 27 (2018) (https://www.japcc.org/wp-content/uploads/JAPCC_J27_screen.pdf)
By Andy J. Fawkes, Consultant Thinke Company Ltd
By Lieutenant Colonel Martin Menzel, DEU A, JAPCC
Future Armoured Vehicles Weapon Systems - Extended RealitiesAndy Fawkes
Presented at 4th Annual SMi Future Armoured Vehicles Weapon Systems Conference, London - 6 June 2019 - A Training & Simulation Perspective on VR, AR & Related Technologies in Armoured Warfare
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
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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
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State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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/
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.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
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• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
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Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Designing Great Products: The Power of Design and Leadership by Chief Designe...
Military Training Technology Trends
1. Ubelly Ignite – Microsoft’s Modern Jago - London
20 February 2013
Military Training
Technology Trends
Andy Fawkes
2. Military Training and Education (UK)
• Scale - 257,160 Military/Civilian (2011)
• Depth – eg. Fighter Pilot, Reactor Operator
• Breadth – Apache Pilot through to Cook
• Flexibility – Current Operations
3. What is Simulation?
Typically a military training simulation is interactive,
with a “human in the loop”
eg. a flight simulator or driving simulator
Source: Wikipedia; Pictures: Lockheed Martin, Royal Navy, CAE, PA
8. Modern Computer Games Based Simulation Software
Bohemia’s VBS2 (ArmA 2 Engine)
• Land Convoy Collective Training
• IED Training & Situational Awareness
• Aviation Tactics Training
• Gunnery and Crew Training
• Close Weapon Gunnery Training
• Anti-Piracy & Boarding Operations
Training
• Fixed Wing Aviation Mission Training
• Maritime Submarine Training Capability
• Cultural Awareness & Language
Training
• Engineer Training
• Army Recruiting
• E-Learning