Presentation to Delegation from China regarding energy efficiency in New England
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This document discusses the benefits of energy efficiency. It argues that energy efficiency is a powerful resource that can be harnessed through both market and regulatory approaches. Regulation is needed to maintain fair energy markets, and regulators may sometimes need to take a planning role to allocate supply during shortages. The future will involve a mix of centralized and decentralized power production, with efficiency being a common way to reduce demand and peak loads. When markets and government programs work together, large impacts on energy use can be achieved through efficiency. Efficiency resources are renewable - like a "magic orange" that can be continually squeezed for more savings over time. Competition also drives greater efficiency gains.
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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.
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Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
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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.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software Fuzzing
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 days
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and Milvus
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalization
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.
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Presentation to Delegation from China regarding energy efficiency in New England
- 1. Energy Efficiency: A Powerful Resource 2013 U.S.-CHINA LEGAL EXCHANGE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE — P.R.C. MINISTRY OF COMMERCE Seth Kaplan Vice President for Policy and Climate Advocacy Conservation Law Foundation December 6, 2013 skaplan@clf.org (617) 850-1721 1
- 2. ―Markets vs. Planning‖: It is a spectrum, not either/or If two men are trading wood (energy) and one man is using his spear to change the deal then a third man (a regulator) needs to step in to maintain fair dealing. Regulation defines the market. The Ancient Caveman Energy Market And sometimes (in a shortage for example) then regulator may become planner and allocate the supply of wood (energy) 2
- 3. The Future: A mix of centralized & decentralized power: Efficiency is a common thread Edison’s Pearl Street Station Photographic Services of the Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. Demand can be managed to reduce peak, as well as by generating locally and by becoming more efficient Original Graphic courtesy of Alan Friefeld of Viridity Energy 3
- 4. ISO-NE – the Operator of the New England Grid is first in the U.S. to Factor State Energy Efficiency Efforts into System Planning When you harness both markets and government mandated and planned programs – you can have a very big impact 4
- 5. Don’t Underestimate Size of the Resource: Efficiency is the ―Magic Orange‖, squeeze, put aside, come back later squeeze again Wasted energy 5
- 6. And Don’t Underestimate the Power of Competition 6
- 7. Efficiency takes many forms and has many benefits . . . 7