This document discusses multiscale building physics from the nano to urban scale. It discusses new sustainable materials like porous materials and sustainable buildings. It covers sustainable cities and the densification of urban areas over time. It discusses correlations between population growth and energy demand. Examples of sustainable developments like Masdar City and Dongtan Ecocity are provided. Buildings account for 48% of energy use in Switzerland, with heating being a major component. Projections show increasing heating and cooling demands with climate change. Innovative building technologies aim to achieve a 2000 Watt society through components, controls, and renewable energy. The Forum Chriesbach case study integrates technologies like PV, solar collectors, night cooling, and phase change materials.
Career Remedial is a leading recruitment and training firm based in Bangalore, India. They provide a range of HR services including recruitment, staffing solutions, and training programs. Their vision is to be a dynamic and responsive partner for clients' training and hiring needs. They have experienced trainers and focus on delivering high quality services. Career Remedial works across multiple industries and functions to identify and recruit top talent through a process-driven approach focused on customers.
Quantifying the Stability of Summer Temperatures for Different Thermal Climat...Manat Srivanit
International Conference on Southeast Asian Weather and Climate 2013 “ASEAN Adapting to Climate Change” (Link: http://www.icsaforum.org/ICSA/index.php) and
Srivanit, M., Hokao, K., Iamtrakul, P. (2014). Classifying Thermal Climate Zones to Support Urban Environmental Planning and Management in the Bangkok Metropolitan Area. Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies (JARS), 11(1), pp.73-92. (Link: https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jars/article/view/23879)
The app “It Feels Like” provides users a means of viewing their current weather conditions in an adventurous fashion. It takes current local weather information aggregated from Data Canvas nodes and compares this to a database of typical weather conditions from various international cities and finds the match with most similar weather. Once the match is found, “It Feels Like” presents to the user further visual information of the city and the season which it feels like. This could help recollect feelings from an old vacation spot, serve as a guide to possibly the next destination or introduce people to somewhere completely new.
This survey of Swiss academic institutions found that:
1. While social media is now a priority and part of communications strategies, lack of resources is still a major challenge.
2. Facebook and Twitter remain the most widely used and successful channels, but Instagram and Pinterest are growing in popularity.
3. Half of respondents find it difficult to measure the return on investment from social media, but most see its great potential benefits.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
The document discusses the University of Lausanne's use of Instagram to engage current and prospective students. It provides statistics on the UNIL Instagram account's followers, posts, and engagement. The goals are to create a positive image of campus life, understand student interests, and build a photo database. Content features daily campus scenes and events. Interaction occurs on Facebook and the university website. Videos and competitions increase participation. Metrics like likes and followers are used to measure success. Future plans include more cross-promotion and collaborative activities with other schools.
How Swiss schools are using social media, what kind of accounts they have, how many followers, and highlights of the best use of social media in Switzerland.
This document summarizes a meeting about social media strategies for Swiss academia. It provides an overview of the institutions represented and their Facebook and Twitter presence. EPFL, ETH Zurich, and UNIGE have the most Twitter followers. HSG's departments are most liked on Facebook. Content tips include featuring students/alumni, using images/videos, and engaging audiences. New presences include UNIL's Facebook page and ECAL/UNIBAS using social media innovatively. Participants are encouraged to try new platforms like Google+ and use analytics. Future webinars and events are announced.
Career Remedial is a leading recruitment and training firm based in Bangalore, India. They provide a range of HR services including recruitment, staffing solutions, and training programs. Their vision is to be a dynamic and responsive partner for clients' training and hiring needs. They have experienced trainers and focus on delivering high quality services. Career Remedial works across multiple industries and functions to identify and recruit top talent through a process-driven approach focused on customers.
Quantifying the Stability of Summer Temperatures for Different Thermal Climat...Manat Srivanit
International Conference on Southeast Asian Weather and Climate 2013 “ASEAN Adapting to Climate Change” (Link: http://www.icsaforum.org/ICSA/index.php) and
Srivanit, M., Hokao, K., Iamtrakul, P. (2014). Classifying Thermal Climate Zones to Support Urban Environmental Planning and Management in the Bangkok Metropolitan Area. Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies (JARS), 11(1), pp.73-92. (Link: https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jars/article/view/23879)
The app “It Feels Like” provides users a means of viewing their current weather conditions in an adventurous fashion. It takes current local weather information aggregated from Data Canvas nodes and compares this to a database of typical weather conditions from various international cities and finds the match with most similar weather. Once the match is found, “It Feels Like” presents to the user further visual information of the city and the season which it feels like. This could help recollect feelings from an old vacation spot, serve as a guide to possibly the next destination or introduce people to somewhere completely new.
This survey of Swiss academic institutions found that:
1. While social media is now a priority and part of communications strategies, lack of resources is still a major challenge.
2. Facebook and Twitter remain the most widely used and successful channels, but Instagram and Pinterest are growing in popularity.
3. Half of respondents find it difficult to measure the return on investment from social media, but most see its great potential benefits.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
The document discusses the University of Lausanne's use of Instagram to engage current and prospective students. It provides statistics on the UNIL Instagram account's followers, posts, and engagement. The goals are to create a positive image of campus life, understand student interests, and build a photo database. Content features daily campus scenes and events. Interaction occurs on Facebook and the university website. Videos and competitions increase participation. Metrics like likes and followers are used to measure success. Future plans include more cross-promotion and collaborative activities with other schools.
How Swiss schools are using social media, what kind of accounts they have, how many followers, and highlights of the best use of social media in Switzerland.
This document summarizes a meeting about social media strategies for Swiss academia. It provides an overview of the institutions represented and their Facebook and Twitter presence. EPFL, ETH Zurich, and UNIGE have the most Twitter followers. HSG's departments are most liked on Facebook. Content tips include featuring students/alumni, using images/videos, and engaging audiences. New presences include UNIL's Facebook page and ECAL/UNIBAS using social media innovatively. Participants are encouraged to try new platforms like Google+ and use analytics. Future webinars and events are announced.
This document summarizes a case study workshop about how to respond to issues that arise on social media. It discusses four cases that university social media managers might encounter and how they responded. One case involves responding to a student Twitter account, @fduproblems, that was used to report issues on campus. The university manager engaged with the anonymous student running the account and found it helped them address real problems while building trust between the university and students.
The document outlines the SNSF's social media strategy and policy. It discusses using social media like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn to disseminate information, ensure transparency, and interact with researchers and the public. It provides details on the language policy, current pilot projects, and plans for future development including redesigning the website for better social media integration and expanding monitoring and evaluation measures. The organization, processes, and roles for communication, IT, editing, and publishing are also reviewed.
This document discusses several studies on neural synchronization during viewing of audiovisual content like movies and during natural speech. It summarizes findings that brain responses are highly correlated between individuals viewing the same movie segments. For speech, it finds coupling between production and comprehension regions in speakers and listeners, and that greater coupling predicts better comprehension. It proposes that shared neural responses may underlie communication and discusses applications like using neuroscience to improve filmmaking, psychotherapy or education.
This document discusses how film music constructs emotive narratives through leitmotifs in the genre of film noir. It analyzes a scene from the film Double Indemnity, where Miklos Rozsa uses four leitmotifs to represent musical characters, emotive states, and narrative functions. Specifically, the leitmotifs reflect the protagonist losing his moral compass, trespassing laws and norms, and ultimately reflecting the feeling of guilt through the musical narration of recollection and reflection. The document argues that film music provides an emotive contour that works together with the cinematic narration to give meaning and shape a ritual of recollecting one's actions and feelings in the story.
1. The document discusses research on how the brain processes complex natural stimuli like movies, stories and music. It finds reliable synchronized neural responses across individuals when exposed to such stimuli, indicating shared representations.
2. It examines how the brain integrates information over different timescales, finding a hierarchy of temporal receptive windows in different brain regions. Early auditory cortex responds over short timescales of seconds while prefrontal cortex integrates over longer timescales of paragraphs or more.
3. Open questions remain about the role of the hippocampus in sustaining long temporal windows and how information is represented at event boundaries. The research has implications for theories of working memory and how memory systems represent the real world.
This document discusses two early experimental sound films from 1929 that used music: Fats Waller's sound film made for Edison's kinetophone, which combined the kinetoscope and phonograph; and King Vidor's film that featured music by Irving Berlin. It also lists several films known for their creative use of music including works by David Lynch, Sergei Eisenstein, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, and Francis Coppola that were produced between 1938-2002.
This document discusses Gracenote's efforts to analyze music and automatically label songs with mood descriptors to help users discover and navigate music collections. Gracenote analyzed over 30 million songs and generated a sonic mood profile for each using machine learning models trained on a taxonomy of over 10,000 expert-annotated songs. The mood profiles provide scores across 101 mood dimensions and aim to describe the music in terms that parallel how listeners describe their desired listening experiences. The mood labels can be used to power more intuitive music recommendations, playlists, radio stations and discovery experiences for consumers.
Brennon Bortz - A Mobile Physiological Sensing System for Measuring Emotional...swissnex San Francisco
The document describes research from the Music, Sensors and Emotion (MUSE) group at Virginia Tech. The MUSE group uses qualitative and quantitative methods to study the relationship between music and emotion. Key areas of research include measuring gestures and physiological signals during music performance and exploring how emotion is shared between performers and audiences. The group has developed several tools and experiments including MobileMUSE, Emotion in Motion, and the ShEMP framework for shared emotion, music and physiology research.
Eduardo Coutinho - Psychoacoustic cues to emotion in speech prosody and musicswissnex San Francisco
- Listeners can perceive emotional meaning in both music and speech based on acoustic features like tempo, pitch, timbre, and loudness.
- Computational models using recurrent neural networks can successfully predict listeners' continuous ratings of emotion in music and speech from psychoacoustic features alone, with an accuracy around 65%.
- The models are able to generalize and perceive emotion in both familiar and unfamiliar musical genres, suggesting emotions may be communicated universally through acoustic profiles.
Shane Myrbeck - Listening to Design - Immersive Acoustics Modeling in the ARU...swissnex San Francisco
Shane Myrbeck is a senior consultant at Arup who specializes in acoustics, audiovisual design, and immersive audio environments. Arup is a global firm of over 10,000 professionals in various engineering and design disciplines. Myrbeck discussed Arup's acoustic consulting work and the Arup SoundLab, which is used to design and evaluate 3D computer models and immersive soundscapes for new audio environments. He also covered topics such as spatial hearing, ambisonics, and challenges in communicating acoustic concepts to non-experts.
Interactive Socio-Mobile Systems for Active Experience of Audiovisual Content swissnex San Francisco
- The document describes research from the Casa Paganini – InfoMus Research Centre focusing on interactive socio-mobile systems using music and audiovisual content.
- The European SIEMPRE project aims to study social interaction and entrainment in music performance using experiments with string quartets and orchestras.
- Research uses the EyesWeb software platform to record multimodal data on movement, audio, and physiology during music performances to analyze factors like leadership, synchronization, and audience response.
Philippe Dinkel - Artistic versus scientific research: the challenge of the S...swissnex San Francisco
This document discusses the nature of artistic research conducted by musical artists at art universities in Switzerland. It defines artistic research as research done by artists for the arts that involves exploring questions through experimentation and bringing new perspectives. The document outlines four principal areas of inquiry for musical artistic research: musical production, performance, teaching, and music in society. It notes that artistic researchers are likely to investigate questions emerging from their own artistic practice and standards, taking their own perceptions as the object of study, and producing research that can be applied to their artistic work.
This document discusses conceptual metaphors in music through the lens of the Study and Research Group on Musical Metaphors (GERMM). It provides examples of conceptual metaphors that understand musical ideas in terms of other domains, such as architecture, language, and the body. The group aims to study the links between metaphorical language, conceptual metaphors, and our physical and sensory experiences of music through techniques like questionnaires, interviews, motion capture, and neuroimaging. Their research could provide insights into how metaphor, expectation, and embodiment relate to musical meaning and response.
- The document explores the question "What is Operatic Emotion?" through examining portrayals and accounts of Maria Malibran's performances as Desdemona in Rossini's Otello
- Malibran was seen as a preeminent singer and tragedienne who made audiences weep, shudder and suffer as if witnessing a real scene through her emotional performances
- However, some accounts note she sometimes exaggerated emotions to the point of nearing ridiculousness
- The document suggests emotions in opera are cultivated and constructed rather than natural through exploring where emotions belong and how we make them
Klaus Scherer - Heavenly Voices - The expression of emotion in operatic singi...swissnex San Francisco
This document discusses research on the expression of emotion in singing. It summarizes studies on how different singers express various emotions like joy, sadness, fear through vocal qualities like spectral balance, perturbation, loudness, and tempo. Interviews with opera singers show that expressing emotion requires feeling the emotion but maintaining control over the voice. Ratings of sopranos singing scenes from Lucia di Lammermoor found differences in how they expressed emotions like tenderness, passion, fear of death. Analysis of their voices found locations in a two-dimensional space of vocal qualities.
Robert Levenson - Emotion and music: A basic affective science perspectiveswissnex San Francisco
Basic affective science studies the fundamental nature of emotion, including its structure, function, and influences. It examines emotions' neural correlates and roles in solving problems, mobilizing action, and signaling intentions. Music influences emotional processes like reactivity, regulation, and recognition. Studies show music can generate discrete emotions and regulate emotional responses to stressful stimuli. Neurological diseases disrupting frontal and temporal brain regions may impair recognizing emotion in music.
3D printing has the potential to be more sustainable by producing better products with less resources and impact, but certain key factors must be respected. Life Cycle Assessment is a tool that can evaluate the full environmental impact of 3D printing and identify opportunities for improvement. For 3D printing to be considered sustainable, targets must be set using tools like the IPAT calculator to understand resource needs based on population and affluence increases. The impacts must also be measured across the entire life cycle from manufacturing to disposal.
BioApply is a company that develops biobased and compostable products using 3D printing. They are seeking to combine ethics and sustainability in 3D printing by developing new biopolymers from renewable resources and increasing traceability of materials. Their current compost maker product is made of polyethylene plastic, but they are working on a next generation version that will have improved functions and be made using sustainable and customized 3D printing of bioplastics from vegetable sources.
The document discusses the growing popularity and accessibility of 3D printing. It notes that there are now over 40 3D printer brands on the market, with printers that can be built in 2 days for less than $2000. Examples are given of several objects that have been 3D printed, such as an air duct adapter, CNC spindle tool, and feed mechanism fix, demonstrating how 3D printing allows for quick iteration and production of custom parts. The document also explores emerging 3D printing materials that are biodegradable or made from waste materials.
Touching Art: Tribute to Judith Scott - Presentation by Tom Di Mariaswissnex San Francisco
This document lists different categories of art including Art Brut, Outsider Art, Contemporary Art, Folk Art, and Disabilities Art. These categories describe art made by those outside the mainstream art world or those with disabilities.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
This document summarizes a case study workshop about how to respond to issues that arise on social media. It discusses four cases that university social media managers might encounter and how they responded. One case involves responding to a student Twitter account, @fduproblems, that was used to report issues on campus. The university manager engaged with the anonymous student running the account and found it helped them address real problems while building trust between the university and students.
The document outlines the SNSF's social media strategy and policy. It discusses using social media like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn to disseminate information, ensure transparency, and interact with researchers and the public. It provides details on the language policy, current pilot projects, and plans for future development including redesigning the website for better social media integration and expanding monitoring and evaluation measures. The organization, processes, and roles for communication, IT, editing, and publishing are also reviewed.
This document discusses several studies on neural synchronization during viewing of audiovisual content like movies and during natural speech. It summarizes findings that brain responses are highly correlated between individuals viewing the same movie segments. For speech, it finds coupling between production and comprehension regions in speakers and listeners, and that greater coupling predicts better comprehension. It proposes that shared neural responses may underlie communication and discusses applications like using neuroscience to improve filmmaking, psychotherapy or education.
This document discusses how film music constructs emotive narratives through leitmotifs in the genre of film noir. It analyzes a scene from the film Double Indemnity, where Miklos Rozsa uses four leitmotifs to represent musical characters, emotive states, and narrative functions. Specifically, the leitmotifs reflect the protagonist losing his moral compass, trespassing laws and norms, and ultimately reflecting the feeling of guilt through the musical narration of recollection and reflection. The document argues that film music provides an emotive contour that works together with the cinematic narration to give meaning and shape a ritual of recollecting one's actions and feelings in the story.
1. The document discusses research on how the brain processes complex natural stimuli like movies, stories and music. It finds reliable synchronized neural responses across individuals when exposed to such stimuli, indicating shared representations.
2. It examines how the brain integrates information over different timescales, finding a hierarchy of temporal receptive windows in different brain regions. Early auditory cortex responds over short timescales of seconds while prefrontal cortex integrates over longer timescales of paragraphs or more.
3. Open questions remain about the role of the hippocampus in sustaining long temporal windows and how information is represented at event boundaries. The research has implications for theories of working memory and how memory systems represent the real world.
This document discusses two early experimental sound films from 1929 that used music: Fats Waller's sound film made for Edison's kinetophone, which combined the kinetoscope and phonograph; and King Vidor's film that featured music by Irving Berlin. It also lists several films known for their creative use of music including works by David Lynch, Sergei Eisenstein, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, and Francis Coppola that were produced between 1938-2002.
This document discusses Gracenote's efforts to analyze music and automatically label songs with mood descriptors to help users discover and navigate music collections. Gracenote analyzed over 30 million songs and generated a sonic mood profile for each using machine learning models trained on a taxonomy of over 10,000 expert-annotated songs. The mood profiles provide scores across 101 mood dimensions and aim to describe the music in terms that parallel how listeners describe their desired listening experiences. The mood labels can be used to power more intuitive music recommendations, playlists, radio stations and discovery experiences for consumers.
Brennon Bortz - A Mobile Physiological Sensing System for Measuring Emotional...swissnex San Francisco
The document describes research from the Music, Sensors and Emotion (MUSE) group at Virginia Tech. The MUSE group uses qualitative and quantitative methods to study the relationship between music and emotion. Key areas of research include measuring gestures and physiological signals during music performance and exploring how emotion is shared between performers and audiences. The group has developed several tools and experiments including MobileMUSE, Emotion in Motion, and the ShEMP framework for shared emotion, music and physiology research.
Eduardo Coutinho - Psychoacoustic cues to emotion in speech prosody and musicswissnex San Francisco
- Listeners can perceive emotional meaning in both music and speech based on acoustic features like tempo, pitch, timbre, and loudness.
- Computational models using recurrent neural networks can successfully predict listeners' continuous ratings of emotion in music and speech from psychoacoustic features alone, with an accuracy around 65%.
- The models are able to generalize and perceive emotion in both familiar and unfamiliar musical genres, suggesting emotions may be communicated universally through acoustic profiles.
Shane Myrbeck - Listening to Design - Immersive Acoustics Modeling in the ARU...swissnex San Francisco
Shane Myrbeck is a senior consultant at Arup who specializes in acoustics, audiovisual design, and immersive audio environments. Arup is a global firm of over 10,000 professionals in various engineering and design disciplines. Myrbeck discussed Arup's acoustic consulting work and the Arup SoundLab, which is used to design and evaluate 3D computer models and immersive soundscapes for new audio environments. He also covered topics such as spatial hearing, ambisonics, and challenges in communicating acoustic concepts to non-experts.
Interactive Socio-Mobile Systems for Active Experience of Audiovisual Content swissnex San Francisco
- The document describes research from the Casa Paganini – InfoMus Research Centre focusing on interactive socio-mobile systems using music and audiovisual content.
- The European SIEMPRE project aims to study social interaction and entrainment in music performance using experiments with string quartets and orchestras.
- Research uses the EyesWeb software platform to record multimodal data on movement, audio, and physiology during music performances to analyze factors like leadership, synchronization, and audience response.
Philippe Dinkel - Artistic versus scientific research: the challenge of the S...swissnex San Francisco
This document discusses the nature of artistic research conducted by musical artists at art universities in Switzerland. It defines artistic research as research done by artists for the arts that involves exploring questions through experimentation and bringing new perspectives. The document outlines four principal areas of inquiry for musical artistic research: musical production, performance, teaching, and music in society. It notes that artistic researchers are likely to investigate questions emerging from their own artistic practice and standards, taking their own perceptions as the object of study, and producing research that can be applied to their artistic work.
This document discusses conceptual metaphors in music through the lens of the Study and Research Group on Musical Metaphors (GERMM). It provides examples of conceptual metaphors that understand musical ideas in terms of other domains, such as architecture, language, and the body. The group aims to study the links between metaphorical language, conceptual metaphors, and our physical and sensory experiences of music through techniques like questionnaires, interviews, motion capture, and neuroimaging. Their research could provide insights into how metaphor, expectation, and embodiment relate to musical meaning and response.
- The document explores the question "What is Operatic Emotion?" through examining portrayals and accounts of Maria Malibran's performances as Desdemona in Rossini's Otello
- Malibran was seen as a preeminent singer and tragedienne who made audiences weep, shudder and suffer as if witnessing a real scene through her emotional performances
- However, some accounts note she sometimes exaggerated emotions to the point of nearing ridiculousness
- The document suggests emotions in opera are cultivated and constructed rather than natural through exploring where emotions belong and how we make them
Klaus Scherer - Heavenly Voices - The expression of emotion in operatic singi...swissnex San Francisco
This document discusses research on the expression of emotion in singing. It summarizes studies on how different singers express various emotions like joy, sadness, fear through vocal qualities like spectral balance, perturbation, loudness, and tempo. Interviews with opera singers show that expressing emotion requires feeling the emotion but maintaining control over the voice. Ratings of sopranos singing scenes from Lucia di Lammermoor found differences in how they expressed emotions like tenderness, passion, fear of death. Analysis of their voices found locations in a two-dimensional space of vocal qualities.
Robert Levenson - Emotion and music: A basic affective science perspectiveswissnex San Francisco
Basic affective science studies the fundamental nature of emotion, including its structure, function, and influences. It examines emotions' neural correlates and roles in solving problems, mobilizing action, and signaling intentions. Music influences emotional processes like reactivity, regulation, and recognition. Studies show music can generate discrete emotions and regulate emotional responses to stressful stimuli. Neurological diseases disrupting frontal and temporal brain regions may impair recognizing emotion in music.
3D printing has the potential to be more sustainable by producing better products with less resources and impact, but certain key factors must be respected. Life Cycle Assessment is a tool that can evaluate the full environmental impact of 3D printing and identify opportunities for improvement. For 3D printing to be considered sustainable, targets must be set using tools like the IPAT calculator to understand resource needs based on population and affluence increases. The impacts must also be measured across the entire life cycle from manufacturing to disposal.
BioApply is a company that develops biobased and compostable products using 3D printing. They are seeking to combine ethics and sustainability in 3D printing by developing new biopolymers from renewable resources and increasing traceability of materials. Their current compost maker product is made of polyethylene plastic, but they are working on a next generation version that will have improved functions and be made using sustainable and customized 3D printing of bioplastics from vegetable sources.
The document discusses the growing popularity and accessibility of 3D printing. It notes that there are now over 40 3D printer brands on the market, with printers that can be built in 2 days for less than $2000. Examples are given of several objects that have been 3D printed, such as an air duct adapter, CNC spindle tool, and feed mechanism fix, demonstrating how 3D printing allows for quick iteration and production of custom parts. The document also explores emerging 3D printing materials that are biodegradable or made from waste materials.
Touching Art: Tribute to Judith Scott - Presentation by Tom Di Mariaswissnex San Francisco
This document lists different categories of art including Art Brut, Outsider Art, Contemporary Art, Folk Art, and Disabilities Art. These categories describe art made by those outside the mainstream art world or those with disabilities.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
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.
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
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
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“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
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This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
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• Q/A
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAU
Multiscale Building Physics - EMPA
1. Prof. Dr. Jan Carmeliet
Chair of Building Physics, ETH Zürich
Head Lab. of Building Science and Technology, EMPA
Paul Klee
Multiscale building physics
from nano to urban scale
2. nano
New sustainable Porous materials
materials
micron
Building components
mm
Sustainable Buildings
Buildings
m
Built environment
Sustainable cities km
3. densification of the Zürich area
1847 1912 1990
10 km
ORL-Institut ETH, www.rzu.ch, 2008
4. Correlation with global population evolution
Is the measure of 50% reduction sufficient when
considering the global population growth
www.worldclimatereport.com
5. Masdar City, Abu Dhabi
dream or reality
Dongtan Ecocity near Shanghai
6. End energy use in Switzerland 2006
Industry, Services, agriculture: 24%
Mobility: 28% Buildings: 48%
69% fossil energy
Source: BfE
7. Heating demand until 2100
7000
6000
Davos
5000
Heizgradtage (Kd)
Zürich Genf
4000
3000
2000 Lugano
1000
θg = 10°C
Projected global
0 temperature
1900 1950 2000 2050 increase until
Jahr 2100 (IPPC)
Christenson, Manz, Gyalistras, 2006 1.8 to 4 K
8. Cooling demand until 2100
1200
θ = 18.3°C
bal
1000
Kühlgradtage (Kd)
800 Lugano
Genf Davos
600 Zürich
400
200
0 Projected global
1900 1950 2000 2050 temperature
Jahr increase until
2100 (IPPC)
Christenson, Manz, Gyalistras, 2006 1.8 to 4 K
9. Increasing energy demand for cooling
higher comfort expectations
higher solar gains (highly glazed buildings)
higher internal gains (electrical appliances, lighting)
climate warming
heat island effect
[Adnot, 2003]
Air-conditioned floor area in the EU
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and primary energy consumption
Primary Energy Consumption MJ/m2y HFA
1400
1200
1000
800
600
2000W
400 Target
200
0
Swiss Average SIA380/1 Minergie Minergie-P
Heating Hot Water Electricity Construction Renewal
12. CCEM Innovative Building Technologies
for a 2000 Watt society
Scope: Integrated solution approach
Use of advanced building materials and components
Use of soft heating / cooling technologies (minimized use of fossil energies)
Use of smart control systems and user interfaces
16. Climatic potential for night-time ventilation
Degree-hours method to quantify the climatic cooling
potential (CCP)
Building temperature CCP (Kh)
External air 24.5 ± 2.5 °C
temperature
Climatic cooling potential
Definition of the climatic cooling Mean climatic cooling potential in
potential July (data source: Meteonorm).
17. Thermally activated ceiling panel with
phase change material (PCM)
tabsRetrofit
D
tabs in new building panels in retrofit/
light weight buildings
18. 10 times higher storage capacity than concrete
1.6 times lower density than concrete
30 cm concrete corresponds to 3 cm PCM with 6% of the
concrete mass
28. Innovative Building Technologies for
the 2000-Watt Society (House 2000)
SELF is not just a house. It is also …
a power station
a seasonal energy storage
a fueling station
a water supply system
31. Innovative Building Technologies for
the 2000-Watt Society (House 2000)
Energy collected and consumed (Zurich)
kWh/d
30
PV generation
heating, ventilation
20
hot water
energy gap
H2-cooking
10 50 kWh
appliances
0
Jul Aug Sep Okt Nov Dez Jan Feb Mar Apr Mai Jun
32. Innovative Building Technologies for
Innovative Building Technologies
the 2000-Watt Society (House 2000)
for the 2000-Watt Society (House 2000)
Applied technologies
High performance insulation: vacuum insulation, aerogels
Smart windows (switchable)
Passive cooling / heating (phase change materials)
Integrated unit for heating, cooling, ventilation, hot water
Solar electricity (PV)
Seasonal energy storage with lithium-Ion batteries (50 kWh)
Intelligent electricity management
Hydrogen system for peak loads and cooking
Water treatment plants for water purification and recycling
33. Vacuum glazing: new seal technology
Sn-based soft solder anodic bonding
Cu-electrode (0V)
Glass pane
Metal seal (+1000V)
Glass pane
Cu-electrode (0V)
p ~ 10-4 Torr, T = 250 - 350˚C
Solid Molten
solder glass solder
∆T
Ultrasonic image
34. CCEM CCEM
historical retrofit
buildings
Carmeliet et al. 2009 Zimmermann et al. 2007
1900 1925 1950 1975 2000 2025 2050
kWh/m²a
200
150
100
new buildings
50
10 20 30 40 50 60 Mio m2 floor area
Heat Energy Demand and Heated Floor Area of Dwellings in Zurich
35. CCEM : centre of competence in energy and mobility
Protected
historical
monuments
Historical
buildings
(not protected)
ca. 1850-1920
Prefab retrofit CCEM-Retrofit General
residential
buildings
ca. 1920-1970
36. Existing buildings offer the largest available energy saving potential
Low energy technologies are available for new buildings but often
not appropriate and inefficient for existing buildings
Prefabrication of advanced modules for low energy renovation
37. CCEM Retrofit
Swiss demonstration buildings
Renovation of apartment building (1952) completed 2009,
Beat Kaempfen Architects
39. Installation and renewable energy
• Space heating (cooling) and warm water
supplied by ground-heat source heat pump and
vacuum solar collectors on roof and balcony
– 75% of hot water by solar
– 7% of space heating by solar
– Two storage containers of 1600 liters
• PV system on upper roof:
– 115 m2
– 15 KWp
42. High performance retrofit insulation systems
Prefabrication of advanced renovation
modules
Innovative system integration
solar, heat pumps, heat re-covery
control strategies for renovated buildings
Retrofit advisor
economic, environmental, social issues
43. Costs
• Cost renovation:
– 1.85 mil CHF, 1.3 mil. Euro
– 60 % of cost new building
– Subsidy: 110 kCHF, 77’000 Euro
• Increase of rentable space
• Increase of comfort
• Increase of value
44. Part of RAP-RETRO Protected
historical
monuments
Sustainable Historical
buildings
renovation of CCEM-SuRHiB (not protected)
historical ca. 1850-1920
buildings
General
residential
buildings
ca. 1920-1970
45. nano
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materials
micron
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mm
Sustainable Buildings
Buildings
m
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Sustainable cities km
46. Need to scale up
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47. Height (m)
Urban scale (10 -100 km)
wind
300
200
100
suburban area urban area
60. Multiscale approach
building
model
room scale human scale
(3-30m) human (1 m)
sensation
model
micro-
climate
model
building scale (30-100 m)
city block scale (1 km)
meso-meteorological
urban scale (10 -100 km) model
61. Athmospheric boundary layer flow around a building
Detached eddy simulation
Defraeye, Blocken and Carmeliet, 2008
Heat surface coefficient
Defraeye, Blocken and Carmeliet, 2009
63. Health: air pollutant aerodynamics
Pollutant dispersion by chimney Pollutant dispersion by exhaust
hosp
ital
Blocken et al. 2008
Blocken and Carmeliet, 2006
64. Comfort: wind, thermal
Present and future wind comfort in and around
the arena, Amsterdam
Wind stability of the roof
Thermal comfort inside when roof is closed
during concerts
J. Persoon, de Wit, Blocken and Carmeliet, 2008
66. Microclimate around buildings Run-off of rain droplets on glass
Carmeliet and Blocken, 2006
Particle tracking of rain particles
Blocken and Carmeliet, 2004 - 2008
Rain droplet impact on porous
material:
spreading, uptake and drying
Abuku, 2009