The H(app)athon Project - Updated Vision, Fall 2013John C. Havens
Our first vision deck, posted 10 months ago, has now gotten almost 20K views. Since then, we've grown a great deal and are ready to being our Pilot with two cities in Massachusetts in the Fall of 2013. We've had a load of great press, done over 13 events in multiple cities around the world, and we're just getting started. To learn more, go to www.happathon.com (we'll be updating our site soon with info in this deck), or email John C. Havens, Founder - john AT happathon DOT com.
The Future of Communications: Connection and CauseJohn C. Havens
This is my presentation for BDI's 10th anniversary where I am honored to speak as one of their all-time top five speakers.
Focus of the deck is the need to understand how Value will truly be created in the future. Shared Value brings core business innovation and profit. Anything else is a step backwards.
The H(app)athon Project - Updated Vision, Fall 2013John C. Havens
Our first vision deck, posted 10 months ago, has now gotten almost 20K views. Since then, we've grown a great deal and are ready to being our Pilot with two cities in Massachusetts in the Fall of 2013. We've had a load of great press, done over 13 events in multiple cities around the world, and we're just getting started. To learn more, go to www.happathon.com (we'll be updating our site soon with info in this deck), or email John C. Havens, Founder - john AT happathon DOT com.
The Future of Communications: Connection and CauseJohn C. Havens
This is my presentation for BDI's 10th anniversary where I am honored to speak as one of their all-time top five speakers.
Focus of the deck is the need to understand how Value will truly be created in the future. Shared Value brings core business innovation and profit. Anything else is a step backwards.
Intro to ESG Standards and Regulations: An Introduction to Technologically Ac...John C. Havens
This provides an introduction to leading ESG / Sustainability oriented standards as of August, 2023. The goal of the presentation is to show that "Double Materiality" and "Strong Sustainability" are critical to achieve Net Positive / Nature Positive goals for engineers, policy makers, and society at large.
Please note - while I prepared this in my role as Sustainability Practice Lead for the IEEE Standards Association, these ideas are my own and don't necessarily reflect those of my employer.
Reskilling in the age of the algorithm is a mythed opportunity where single-bottom line mandates rule the land. All jobs will be replaced via automation where organizations are continuously pressured to cut costs and increase exponential growth as their top KPIs. But when society's metrics for success move Beyond GDP to include caregiving, the teachers and other professionals currently not counted will get the salaries and support they deserve while shifting the goals for learning in the AI era from productivity to purpose.
Prioritizing Human Wellbeing for Ethical AI - MyData2017John C. Havens
I am honored and delighted to be keynoting as part of the ethics track at MyData2017. This is my presentation.
*Please note that while I am Executive Director of The IEEE Global AI Ethics Initiative, the views in this presentation are my own and don't necessarily reflect IEEE as a whole. For info about The IEEE Global AI Ethics Initiative, please check out:
http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/ec/autonomous_systems.html
Individual-In-The-Loop (for Ethically Aligned Artificial Intelligence)John C. Havens
This presentation was created as a speech for the launch of the Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab at WU Vienna (http://www.privacylab.at/events/launch/).
Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness (Empiricist League Presentation)John C. Havens
Consciousness and AI
John C. Havens is a contributing writer for Mashable, The Guardian, and Slate. He is the author of Hacking H(app)iness – Why Your Personal Data Counts and How Tracking it Can Change the World and has recently published his second title for Tarcher/Penguin, Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines. He will be speaking to the Empiricist League about what AI can teach us about consciousness, as well as the ramifications for conscious machines on our world.
Ethical Considerations in the Design of Artificial IntelligenceJohn C. Havens
A presentation for IEEE's Ethics Symposium happening in Vancouver, May 2016. Featuring presentations from John C. Havens, Mike Van der Loos, John P. Sullins, and Alan Mackworth.
The Artificial and The Divine - Week ThreeJohn C. Havens
Can Artificial Intelligence replace spirituality or religion? Should it? What's the value of introspection when technology and automation can do our thinking for us?
The Artificial and the Divine is a series of three presentations geared to teaching people about how emerging technology is deeply affecting how we see ourselves, each other, and our spirituality.
This is a presentation I'll be doing at the Foresight & Trends Conference in L.A. in November of 2014 (http://www.iirusa.com/futuretrends/home.xml). My focus is on how individuals and companies can measure actions identified by the science of positive psychology to increase wellbeing.
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/
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Intro to ESG Standards and Regulations: An Introduction to Technologically Ac...John C. Havens
This provides an introduction to leading ESG / Sustainability oriented standards as of August, 2023. The goal of the presentation is to show that "Double Materiality" and "Strong Sustainability" are critical to achieve Net Positive / Nature Positive goals for engineers, policy makers, and society at large.
Please note - while I prepared this in my role as Sustainability Practice Lead for the IEEE Standards Association, these ideas are my own and don't necessarily reflect those of my employer.
Reskilling in the age of the algorithm is a mythed opportunity where single-bottom line mandates rule the land. All jobs will be replaced via automation where organizations are continuously pressured to cut costs and increase exponential growth as their top KPIs. But when society's metrics for success move Beyond GDP to include caregiving, the teachers and other professionals currently not counted will get the salaries and support they deserve while shifting the goals for learning in the AI era from productivity to purpose.
Prioritizing Human Wellbeing for Ethical AI - MyData2017John C. Havens
I am honored and delighted to be keynoting as part of the ethics track at MyData2017. This is my presentation.
*Please note that while I am Executive Director of The IEEE Global AI Ethics Initiative, the views in this presentation are my own and don't necessarily reflect IEEE as a whole. For info about The IEEE Global AI Ethics Initiative, please check out:
http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/ec/autonomous_systems.html
Individual-In-The-Loop (for Ethically Aligned Artificial Intelligence)John C. Havens
This presentation was created as a speech for the launch of the Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab at WU Vienna (http://www.privacylab.at/events/launch/).
Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness (Empiricist League Presentation)John C. Havens
Consciousness and AI
John C. Havens is a contributing writer for Mashable, The Guardian, and Slate. He is the author of Hacking H(app)iness – Why Your Personal Data Counts and How Tracking it Can Change the World and has recently published his second title for Tarcher/Penguin, Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines. He will be speaking to the Empiricist League about what AI can teach us about consciousness, as well as the ramifications for conscious machines on our world.
Ethical Considerations in the Design of Artificial IntelligenceJohn C. Havens
A presentation for IEEE's Ethics Symposium happening in Vancouver, May 2016. Featuring presentations from John C. Havens, Mike Van der Loos, John P. Sullins, and Alan Mackworth.
The Artificial and The Divine - Week ThreeJohn C. Havens
Can Artificial Intelligence replace spirituality or religion? Should it? What's the value of introspection when technology and automation can do our thinking for us?
The Artificial and the Divine is a series of three presentations geared to teaching people about how emerging technology is deeply affecting how we see ourselves, each other, and our spirituality.
This is a presentation I'll be doing at the Foresight & Trends Conference in L.A. in November of 2014 (http://www.iirusa.com/futuretrends/home.xml). My focus is on how individuals and companies can measure actions identified by the science of positive psychology to increase wellbeing.
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/
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024
NACMG prezo
1. NACMG UNLOCKING TRANSFORMATIONAL INNOVATION AUGMENTED REALITY FOR MARKETERS: FUTURE OF CONSUMER INTERACTIONS John C. Havens – EVP, Social Media Porter Novelli
http://www.socialtimes.com/2011/03/john-mccain-and-john-kerry-propose-online-privacy-bill-of-rights/# 3/10 With no fewer than seven pieces of legislation circulating Congress, the issue of online privacy is back in the news, and hot on Capitol Hill. The latest bills center on the most contentious topics, creation of a ‘Do Not Track’ mechanism that would allow consumers to ‘opt-out’ of targeted online advertising, and mobile privacy. What are the proposals, and what do they mean for you? First on the docket is proposed legislation from Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and John Kerry (D-Mass) that would create an “online privacy bill of rights,” the most significant sign yet of bipartisan support for efforts to curb the Internet-tracking industry. Politico’s “Morning Tech” was the first to obtain a copy of the working draft, and described it as such: “ It allows for an opt-out standard on personally identifiable information that’s not sensitive, and an opt-in feature when the data is especially sensitive. It’s an opt-in requirement also governing data transfer to third parties, As proposed, the Kerry-McCain bill would create the nation’s first comprehensive privacy law, covering data across all industries. Current laws cover only certain types of personal data, such as financial and medical information. . Also in the Senate, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) is moving forward with a bill that would regulate geolocation and mobile privacy. The senator told “Morning Tech” he’s “getting close to being able to offer it up,” but did not specify whether he would introduce it as a stand-alone effort or part of a larger package. Intro: AR is Virtual GPS Tech like Bump, NFC, IOT Tagwhat, Etc Checking into products: Show current slides and add StickyBits Self-aware (checking into yourself) – Show P&G app here, add one of the weight apps Checking into people: Facial recognition Data Recognition – your identify is more closely tied to your data than your face (police slide) Privacy VAR’s Brands checking into you – FB Sponsored Stories Kraft slide Tech to describe with GPS as the analogy.
http://www.socialtimes.com/2011/03/john-mccain-and-john-kerry-propose-online-privacy-bill-of-rights/# 3/10 With no fewer than seven pieces of legislation circulating Congress, the issue of online privacy is back in the news, and hot on Capitol Hill. The latest bills center on the most contentious topics, creation of a ‘Do Not Track’ mechanism that would allow consumers to ‘opt-out’ of targeted online advertising, and mobile privacy. What are the proposals, and what do they mean for you? First on the docket is proposed legislation from Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and John Kerry (D-Mass) that would create an “online privacy bill of rights,” the most significant sign yet of bipartisan support for efforts to curb the Internet-tracking industry. Politico’s “Morning Tech” was the first to obtain a copy of the working draft, and described it as such: “ It allows for an opt-out standard on personally identifiable information that’s not sensitive, and an opt-in feature when the data is especially sensitive. It’s an opt-in requirement also governing data transfer to third parties, As proposed, the Kerry-McCain bill would create the nation’s first comprehensive privacy law, covering data across all industries. Current laws cover only certain types of personal data, such as financial and medical information. . Also in the Senate, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) is moving forward with a bill that would regulate geolocation and mobile privacy. The senator told “Morning Tech” he’s “getting close to being able to offer it up,” but did not specify whether he would introduce it as a stand-alone effort or part of a larger package. Intro: AR is Virtual GPS Tech like Bump, NFC, IOT Tagwhat, Etc Checking into products: Show current slides and add StickyBits Self-aware (checking into yourself) – Show P&G app here, add one of the weight apps Checking into people: Facial recognition Data Recognition – your identify is more closely tied to your data than your face (police slide) Privacy VAR’s Brands checking into you – FB Sponsored Stories Kraft slide Tech to describe with GPS as the analogy.
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http://www.socialtimes.com/2011/03/john-mccain-and-john-kerry-propose-online-privacy-bill-of-rights/# 3/10 With no fewer than seven pieces of legislation circulating Congress, the issue of online privacy is back in the news, and hot on Capitol Hill. The latest bills center on the most contentious topics, creation of a ‘Do Not Track’ mechanism that would allow consumers to ‘opt-out’ of targeted online advertising, and mobile privacy. What are the proposals, and what do they mean for you? First on the docket is proposed legislation from Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and John Kerry (D-Mass) that would create an “online privacy bill of rights,” the most significant sign yet of bipartisan support for efforts to curb the Internet-tracking industry. Politico’s “Morning Tech” was the first to obtain a copy of the working draft, and described it as such: “ It allows for an opt-out standard on personally identifiable information that’s not sensitive, and an opt-in feature when the data is especially sensitive. It’s an opt-in requirement also governing data transfer to third parties, As proposed, the Kerry-McCain bill would create the nation’s first comprehensive privacy law, covering data across all industries. Current laws cover only certain types of personal data, such as financial and medical information. . Also in the Senate, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) is moving forward with a bill that would regulate geolocation and mobile privacy. The senator told “Morning Tech” he’s “getting close to being able to offer it up,” but did not specify whether he would introduce it as a stand-alone effort or part of a larger package. Intro: AR is Virtual GPS Tech like Bump, NFC, IOT Tagwhat, Etc Checking into products: Show current slides and add StickyBits Self-aware (checking into yourself) – Show P&G app here, add one of the weight apps Checking into people: Facial recognition Data Recognition – your identify is more closely tied to your data than your face (police slide) Privacy VAR’s Brands checking into you – FB Sponsored Stories Kraft slide Tech to describe with GPS as the analogy.
Google goggles – idea of visual search being used for people + the GPS “voice”. You walk into a bar and say, “search for nearby blondes” then voice says, “you have reached your destination, but four people have complained about her on twitter and….”
We really fell in love with the LG smart fridge. You can input what types of items are inside your fridge (and where) by either dragging and dropping food or speaking to the fridge. The fridge then tells you how long you have until that food expires. Because the device is connected, you can check what is inside your refrigerator and how fresh (or un-fresh) your food might be from the grocery store. Show a slide with the tweeting fridge: idea is that it can scan what products you have so you don’t rebuy them. Plus you can tell your social graph what you’re eating. Plus it can tell you if it’s not good for your health, etc. “Don’t buy that.” Stacy: why go to the supermarket at all? “I like to touch the produce.” Talk about the EZPass idea at store. Not just self checkout, but just walk around to buy stuff using NFC and ecommerce.
Jon Froehlich, University of Washington
Jon Froehlich, University of Washington
www.grindr.com Uses GPS to tell your location and locate others.
visual analysis technology linking facial recognition to social media. Viewdle sits between the camera and the user analysing faces in the camera stream, identifying them, then offering links to Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms. A user can identify and tag people in pictures & videos then pass the information to their social networks. As they tag others the software learns to recognize them, and can even share these new visual profiles with other users. The live view also offers an augmented reality tagging overlay that reveals information about the people around you.
Eye Tracking
The aggregated credibility score is shown as a percentage and a total number of comments in the hovercard that appears when a user is moused over in the Social Commenting plugin. Through extensive testing, we’ve determined that the percentage is calculated using the formula (total Likes – total instances marked as unhelpful or spam) / total Likes. For instance, a commenter who has had their comments Liked seven times and been marked as unhelpful once would have the equation (7 – 1) /7, which equates to 85%. Scores are rounded down and are higher than the equation specifies when there are less than five Likes. Users and admins will be able to look at this credibility score and deduce whether a certain comment is from a reputable source. Trolls and spammers will accrue a low score or have a low number of total comments, indicating their comments aren’t worth replying to, and their links shouldn’t be clicked. High quality users will build a high score and large number of comments over time.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20153-augmented-reality-iphone-helps-police-track-suspects.html PICTURE the scene: armed police officers are warned on their radios that a suspected male terrorist has been tracked to a crowded football stadium. Even with a full description, it's all but impossible to pick him out amid the match-day melee. Perhaps smartphones fed augmented reality (AR) data by the police control centre could help focus the search. After booting up an iPhone app, an officer would train the phone's camera on the crowd. The suspect's position, after he had been tracked by covert police, would be highlighted by an icon overlaid on the image. Similarly, other icons could pinpoint the positions and range of other officers (see picture), including those operating undercover. The system, called iAPLS, has been developed by engineers at Frequentis, a surveillance-systems company based in Vienna, Austria. It is a mobile extension of the firm's Automatic Personal Location System, which shows the location of officers on control-room screens using GPS signals sent by their radios. If a suspect has a cellphone that police have a fix on, or they are being closely followed by a covert officer, they too can be tracked. Officers can also use their phone to "tag" the location of a suspect package to make it visible to fellow law enforcers. What Frequentis engineer Reinard van Loo and his colleagues have done is package APLS data so that it can be sent via a regular 3G link to a standard iPhone, making location information available to all officers on duty, not just those in the control room. The extra data that this kind of AR app will provide could be a double-edged sword, warns David Sloggett, a security researcher at the University of Reading, UK. "Terrorists have been very good at turning our own technology against us. The Mumbai attacks [in India in 2008] were meticulously planned on Google Earth, for instance. If terrorists get hold of police location data on mobile phones it could be disastrous." Stopping criminals hijacking AR data will require strongly encrypted data links. While the Frequentis demonstration system used a regular 3G network, van Loo says that by the time it is commercialised it could be using an encrypted emergency-services-only 4G network - known as LTE for Public Safety. Pauline Neville-Jones , the UK's Home Office minister for security and counterterrorism, believes AR could be a game-changing technology for the police and the military and so has commissioned Logica, a Reading-based technology company, to carry out 12 months of tests against what she calls "realistic security threats" using a range of AR systems at the University of Nottingham. "We want to know how effective augmented reality can actually be in helping us fight threats," she says. The AR offerings include visors that overlay data on an officer's field of view. For instance, BAE Systems in Rochester, Kent, is re-engineering a visor it makes for helicopter gunships – in addition to projecting a green glow around human targets sensed via infrared camera, it will also display the kind of data Frequentis is generating. And Trivisio of Kaiserslautern, Germany, is using miniature accelerometers similar to those found in cellphones to make an ultra-lightweight visor that tracks head motion with high accuracy, says spokesman Gerrit Spaas. For police officers tracking targets via helicopter, Churchill Navigation of Boulder, Colorado, is augmenting live helicopter video with terrain-contoured street maps in real time. Without this, says founder Tom Churchill, it is hard for pilots looking at a maze of streets on screen to know which street a target is in. It works by tightly coupling the map database to the software that controls the camera's motion. Meanwhile, James Srinivasan and his colleagues at 2d3 in Oxford, UK, are working on a system that ensures search teams cover all the ground when searching for improvised explosive devices – whether that's in a shopping mall or on a dirt track in Afghanistan. Twin cameras trained on the search team allow the system to generate computer images of the paths they have trodden, which are then overlaid on the video feed, allowing an operator to spots areas they have missed.