This describes how and why I adjusted my research unit for ninth graders to be more interesting and appealing in terms of process and product for both the students and myself (as the teacher).
Building reading habits through student reflection and goal settingCindy Minnich
My part of a roundtable presentation at NCTE13 entitled
"Relevance, Relationships, and Reading Lives: Fostering Reading Engagement in All Readers"
See http://wp.me/p21t9O-1dy for the Nerdy Book Club post about the entire session.
Dark web markets: from the silk road to alphabay, trends and developmentsAndres Baravalle
Within the last years, governmental bodies have been futilely trying to fight against dark web hosted marketplaces. Shortly after the closing of “The Silk Road” by the FBI and Europol in 2013, new successors have been established. Through the combination of cryptocurrencies and nonstandard communication protocols and tools, agents can anonymously trade in a marketplace for illegal items without leaving any record.
This talk will presents a research carried out to gain insights on the products and services sold within one of the larger marketplaces for drugs, fake ids and weapons on the Internet, Agora, and on new developments after the demise of Agora.
An introduction to the new online Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Project Portal developed by the UNISDR Asia Partnership on Disaster Reduction to collect details of all DRR projects being implemented throughout Asia and the Pacific. Includes a User Guide.
This describes how and why I adjusted my research unit for ninth graders to be more interesting and appealing in terms of process and product for both the students and myself (as the teacher).
Building reading habits through student reflection and goal settingCindy Minnich
My part of a roundtable presentation at NCTE13 entitled
"Relevance, Relationships, and Reading Lives: Fostering Reading Engagement in All Readers"
See http://wp.me/p21t9O-1dy for the Nerdy Book Club post about the entire session.
Dark web markets: from the silk road to alphabay, trends and developmentsAndres Baravalle
Within the last years, governmental bodies have been futilely trying to fight against dark web hosted marketplaces. Shortly after the closing of “The Silk Road” by the FBI and Europol in 2013, new successors have been established. Through the combination of cryptocurrencies and nonstandard communication protocols and tools, agents can anonymously trade in a marketplace for illegal items without leaving any record.
This talk will presents a research carried out to gain insights on the products and services sold within one of the larger marketplaces for drugs, fake ids and weapons on the Internet, Agora, and on new developments after the demise of Agora.
An introduction to the new online Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Project Portal developed by the UNISDR Asia Partnership on Disaster Reduction to collect details of all DRR projects being implemented throughout Asia and the Pacific. Includes a User Guide.
A user guide for the new online Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Project Portal developed by the UNISDR Asia Partnership on Disaster Reduction to collect details of all DRR projects being implemented throughout Asia and the Pacific.
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.
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.
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.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
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.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
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.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
2. **click on sections to explore**
Asia Environment Portal
Asia Environment Updates
Tree Huggers’ Chat Room
Shared Articles
REO/RDMA
Missions and
Embassies in Asia
Mission
Coordination
Buy-in
Mechanisms
REO Weekly
Updates
Bilateral Missions
Mission POCs
DOI
USAID Staff
Non-Presence
Countries
Coordination
Call Schedule
USAID Forward
NOAA
- Org Chat
- Contacts
- A/COR list
Implementing
Partners
RDMA M&E IQC
Event Calendar
TDY Request
USAID Forward
Toolkit
Local Systems
Mapping
Project
Talent
Management
Projects
Science &
Technology
Calendars
M&E
Resources
Templates &
Tools
Sample
Documents
Policy Priorities
and Guidance
USAID Policies
and Strategies
Executive
Orders / White
House’s policies
Analytics
Program Net
(Link)
Lower Mekong
Initiative
Policies
3. Asia Environment Updates
Tree Huggers’ Chat Room
Missions’ news and coming –up
events can be shared here.
Shared Articles
Interesting articles shared among REO staff are
also posted here. Missions are encouraged to
join and share articles here .
(Click “New post”)
Discussion Forum
Click on the topic title to join the
discussion.
5. REO/RDMA
REO Weekly Updates
USAID Staff
- Contact
- Org Chart
- Staff BIOs
- A/COR list
Implementing Partners
Projects
Calendars
This is where REO weekly updates are posted. Updates are
centered around REO’s programs and activities, submitted by
REO’s implementing partners and sent out weekly on Friday
evening.
10. Missions and
Embassies in Asia
Bilateral Missions
Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pacific Islands/ PNG,
Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam
Non-Presence Countries
China, Laos, Malaysia
Each mission page comprises two sections: 1) Staff and 2) Projects.
Mission A
Staff
Google Doc Templates (Org Chart, AOR list
& Contact list) are available to fill in.
Alternatively, each mission can design their
own (Google Doc based**) content.
Projects
In this cabinet page, missions can upload
documents about their projects. On top is
Project briefer template (Google Doc) to fill in.
Missions can also provide their own briefer
(Google Doc based**), if available.
**Google Doc based documents can be in any form (Spreadsheet, slides, drawings or pdf).
Please make sure to set permission allowing everyone in USAID to view. Embedding links should
be sent to Portal Admin to have the documents displayed on the page.**
12. Mission Coordination
Mission POCs
Coordination Call Schedule
Event Calendar
TDY Request
This part contains a Google spreadsheet list of POCs
from each mission. The spreadsheet will be shared to
all missions so it can be updated if changes occur.
13. Schedule coordination call with RDMA via the Portal!
Mission Coordination
Mission POCs
In the Call Appointment box, Click on the time slot convenient to you to
book an appointment.
Edit the title and description.
You can make further edits once the appointment appears on your own
calendar (adding guests, attached agenda, etc.)
Coordination Call Schedule
Event Calendar
TDY Request
The taken time slot will appear on the Call Schedule Calendar **in
Bangkok time (+7 GMT)**.
15. Mission Coordination
Mission POCs
Coordination Call Schedule
Event Calendar
TDY Request
REO/RDMA provide TDY support for all the bilateral missions and
non-presence countries in the region. The TDY request form is
available for filling out. Sent-in request can be tracked through
Google spreadsheet, accessible to all REO staff.
16. Buy-in
Mechanisms
DOI
NOAA
RDMA M&E IQC
A file cabinet containing essential information
concerning buy-in mechanisms available to missions.
Missions are welcome to add in other mechanisms by
creating new cabinet folders.
17. USAID Forward
USAID Forward Toolkit
Local Systems Mapping
Project
Talent Management
Science & Technology
M&E
File cabinets containing for USAID forward related
information
Missions are welcome to add in information under
each category or even suggesting new categories.
