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This is a presentation where I introduce basic ideas on what is Urbanism at TU Delft and how it is taught. This presentation cannot be seen as the official view of the university on the subject. It is my interpretation of the course and reflects my understanding of the integration of the human sciences, the physical sciences and most particularly DESIGN in the course given at TU Delft. In this presentation, I take special care of explaining what are "objectives" of urbanism, so as to give prospective students a good notion of the tasks ahead.
The document lists various building design projects from 2010-2014 by Building Design Partnership. It includes projects in locations such as New Delhi, IIT Mandi, Dubai, Mumbai, Bristol, Lucknow, Pune, Bangalore and Singapore. The statuses of the projects include under construction, proposal, competition, and phases of completion. Some projects won awards such as Smart Living Awards, International Property Awards Asia Pacific, and Worldwide Achievers Real Estate Award.
This document summarizes research applying topology optimization to design a lightweight tower that can support a 15 kg load. The researchers:
1) Used topology optimization software to analyze different design spaces and boundary conditions to conceptualize optimized truss structures for the tower.
2) Simplified the problem to model an isotropic, homogeneous tower subjected only to vertical forces on a fixed base.
3) Iterated the optimization, obtaining designs with less mass like a hollow structure and thinner braces, culminating in a 12.8 gram design within stress limits.
The document outlines The MET Workshop, which examines three former airports - Mariscal Sucre in Quito, Elliniko in Athens, and Tempelhof in Berlin - as potential metropolitan commons. It discusses dilemmas around flows and enclosures, geopolitical imbalances, scale and history, private vs public vs commons, and top-down vs participatory planning. The workshop brings together urbanists, citizens, students, activists, and architects from the three cities to explore governance research, participatory design research, and social processes with the goal of coordinating local and transnational networks and ecosystems around the future of the three airport sites.
The document discusses the author's thesis exploration into three areas of interactive public art: New Media Art, Urban Design, and Environmental Art. The author is interested in installations that incorporate technology to enhance experiences with nature. They want to study the intersection of new media art, architecture, and nature. Specifically, the author is interested in responsive environments and interactive architecture.
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A presentation about a range of utopian projects for moving about cities above and below the surface via tunnels. orbital travel, supersonic airliners and vertical take off and autonomous 'sky taxis'.
The document discusses the concept of social geosemantics and its implications for political and strategic trends. Social geosemantics refers to applying semantic web technologies to allow free and open participation in mapping and annotating places on platforms like Google Earth and Maps. This mass participation in validating place meanings can challenge traditional definitions of territories by allowing new territories to be created and defined by social consensus rather than official sources. With large numbers of people able to believe in and describe alternative territorial configurations, social geosemantics may one day empower communities to judge international boundary conflicts based on their mapped annotations of places.
Offering a critical response to the dominant vision of the smart city, this talk seeks to look beyond the seductive imagery and hype that surrounds emerging smart city paradigms. In their place, it explores arrange of critical perspectives to smart city planning that are emerging across the social sciences and activist communities, in various places across the world. These critiques centre, broadly, on ways in which smart city paradigms radically deepen urban surveillance ; the way they embed power into corporate urban operating systems; the way the glossy hype and marketing hides tendencies toward authoritarianism and centralized power ; and the way in which ‘smart’ city labels are used to camouflage the construction of highly elitist urban enclaves. The talk will finish by exploring efforts to mobilise digital media to more democratic and egalitarian urban vision.
What is Urbanism at TU Delft ? (v. 2016)Roberto Rocco
This is a presentation where I introduce basic ideas on what is Urbanism at TU Delft and how it is taught. This presentation cannot be seen as the official view of the university on the subject. It is my interpretation of the course and reflects my understanding of the integration of the human sciences, the physical sciences and most particularly DESIGN in the course given at TU Delft. In this presentation, I take special care of explaining what are "objectives" of urbanism, so as to give prospective students a good notion of the tasks ahead.
The document lists various building design projects from 2010-2014 by Building Design Partnership. It includes projects in locations such as New Delhi, IIT Mandi, Dubai, Mumbai, Bristol, Lucknow, Pune, Bangalore and Singapore. The statuses of the projects include under construction, proposal, competition, and phases of completion. Some projects won awards such as Smart Living Awards, International Property Awards Asia Pacific, and Worldwide Achievers Real Estate Award.
This document summarizes research applying topology optimization to design a lightweight tower that can support a 15 kg load. The researchers:
1) Used topology optimization software to analyze different design spaces and boundary conditions to conceptualize optimized truss structures for the tower.
2) Simplified the problem to model an isotropic, homogeneous tower subjected only to vertical forces on a fixed base.
3) Iterated the optimization, obtaining designs with less mass like a hollow structure and thinner braces, culminating in a 12.8 gram design within stress limits.
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Abstract: This article critically explores how the relations between information technologies and space and place are being conceptualized in a broad swathe of recent writings and discourses on the geographies of `cyberspace' and information technologies. After analysing the powerful role of spatial and territorial metaphors in anchoring current discourses about information tech- nologies and society, the article goes on to identify three broad, dominating perspectives. These I label the perspective of `substitution and transcendence' (dominated by technological Utopian- ists), the `co-evolution' perspective (drawing from political economy and cultural studies) and the `recombination' perspective (derived from recent work in actor-network theory). The discussion turns to each in turn, extracting the geographical dimensions and implications of each. The article concludes by considering the implications of the discussion for spatial treatments of society± technology relations and for broader debates about the nature of space and place.
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This section discusses Greg Lynn's seminal publication Folding in Architecture from 1993, which explored curved and folded forms using digital tools. While the computer enabled these explorations, the theoretical basis came from Gilles Deleuze's concept of the fold rather than characteristics of the computer itself. Calculus is also discussed, and how it changed architecture from proportion-based design to shapes determined by input equations. While early digital experiments pushed boundaries, they may not have fully utilized the computer's potential or led to its "appropriate application" in architectural design and construction in general.
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This document discusses architecture, heritage, and the metaverse. It reviews the author's work applying a design methodology called "Architecture by Elements" to create new virtual architectures through a critical interpretation of heritage architecture in the virtual world of Second Life. The research aims to establish the role of architecture and heritage in digital environments. Case studies illustrate how applying this methodology can generate new architectures and develop a sense of memory in the virtual world.
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This document provides biographical information about Zaha Hadid, including that she was born in Iraq and educated in England and Lebanon. It then discusses some of her major works like the Vitra Fire Station in Germany and the Riverside Museum in Glasgow. The document also discusses her use of parametric design software CATIA. It provides an overview of criticism of iconic architecture by Hadid and other architects, arguing it ignores issues like environmental sustainability and fails to create coherent urban spaces. It analyzes some of Hadid's buildings like the Innovation Tower in Hong Kong as examples of this.
I Software Studies Matthew Fuller, Lev Manovich, and Noa.docxsheronlewthwaite
I
Software Studies
Matthew Fuller, Lev Manovich, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, editors
Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies,
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, 2009
Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life,
Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge, 2011
Programmed Visions: Software and Memory,
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, 2011
Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression,
Geoff Cox and Alex McLean, 2012
10 PRINT CHR$(205.S+RND(1));: GOTO 10,
Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark Marino, Michael
Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter, 2012
The Imaginary App,
Paul D. Miller and Svitlana Matviyenko, 2014
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty,
Benjamin H. Bratton, 2015
The Stack
On Software and Sovereignty
Benjamin H. Bratton
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
/
40 The Nomos of the Cloud
cells and others with hierarchical patterns, but all afford some kind of social posture
and position. Their proliferation doesn't only close off space into smaller units; it also
produces new territories that are equally physical and abstract, heavy and virtual. In
turn, this space is motivating a new land grab among state and nonstate actors alike;
it is also forcing transformations in how geography is held, conceptualized, modeled,
and defended. The order of those transformations occupies a similar location in our
architectures of sovereignty as nomos, but because it involves grids of land, air, and sea
all at once, dedifferentiating their relative weight and liquidities, the logics of this new
arrangement are also perhaps very different.42 Because these transformations are both
driven by planetary-scale computation and mediated through it, any strong distinc-
tions between a political geography supported by technical systems and technological
systems spread through agonistic geographic space are undermined.
The state takes on the armature of a machine, because the machine, The Stack, has
already taken on the roles and register of the state. While the proliferation of lines has
normalized a certain kind of reversibility, the early geopolitics of The Stack also sees the
fortification of intentional camps and bunkers, with some populations excluded from
movement and transaction and others stationed in networks of enclaves absorbing
capital by centripetal force. To design up and away from this outcome does not mean
a reestablishment of ground for an upright primate perspective of natural place or pre-
maturely freezing in place The Stack's most preliminary new geographies as the only
options. An emergent alternative to archaic and recidivist geopolitics must be based
on something more scalable than settler colonialism, legacy genomes, and Bronze Age
myths and the maps of nations that have resulted from these. 43 The discussion of the
layers of The Stack, and the productive accidents of each, is an outline platform sover-
eign ...
I Software Studies Matthew Fuller, Lev Manovich, and Noafideladallimore
I
Software Studies
Matthew Fuller, Lev Manovich, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, editors
Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies,
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, 2009
Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life,
Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge, 2011
Programmed Visions: Software and Memory,
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, 2011
Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression,
Geoff Cox and Alex McLean, 2012
10 PRINT CHR$(205.S+RND(1));: GOTO 10,
Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark Marino, Michael
Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter, 2012
The Imaginary App,
Paul D. Miller and Svitlana Matviyenko, 2014
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty,
Benjamin H. Bratton, 2015
The Stack
On Software and Sovereignty
Benjamin H. Bratton
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
/
40 The Nomos of the Cloud
cells and others with hierarchical patterns, but all afford some kind of social posture
and position. Their proliferation doesn't only close off space into smaller units; it also
produces new territories that are equally physical and abstract, heavy and virtual. In
turn, this space is motivating a new land grab among state and nonstate actors alike;
it is also forcing transformations in how geography is held, conceptualized, modeled,
and defended. The order of those transformations occupies a similar location in our
architectures of sovereignty as nomos, but because it involves grids of land, air, and sea
all at once, dedifferentiating their relative weight and liquidities, the logics of this new
arrangement are also perhaps very different.42 Because these transformations are both
driven by planetary-scale computation and mediated through it, any strong distinc-
tions between a political geography supported by technical systems and technological
systems spread through agonistic geographic space are undermined.
The state takes on the armature of a machine, because the machine, The Stack, has
already taken on the roles and register of the state. While the proliferation of lines has
normalized a certain kind of reversibility, the early geopolitics of The Stack also sees the
fortification of intentional camps and bunkers, with some populations excluded from
movement and transaction and others stationed in networks of enclaves absorbing
capital by centripetal force. To design up and away from this outcome does not mean
a reestablishment of ground for an upright primate perspective of natural place or pre-
maturely freezing in place The Stack's most preliminary new geographies as the only
options. An emergent alternative to archaic and recidivist geopolitics must be based
on something more scalable than settler colonialism, legacy genomes, and Bronze Age
myths and the maps of nations that have resulted from these. 43 The discussion of the
layers of The Stack, and the productive accidents of each, is an outline platform sover-
eign ...
This document provides an overview of Karen Cham and her work in the field of digital transformation design (DTD). It discusses DTD as a design-led, user-centered method for transforming complex human systems using digital technologies. The document outlines Karen Cham's experience in sectors like technology, media, education and more. It also summarizes some of her academic writings on topics like complexity theory, systems thinking, and designing complex systems.
On 13 February 2017, the Urban Transformations programme, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), brought together a range of academics and practitioners from across Europe for a knowledge exchange event on urban living labs and smart cities. The University of Oxford convened the event, working with the European Regions Research & Innovation Network (ERRIN) and the workshop took place at one of ERRIN’s members, the Delegation of the Basque Country to the EU. This was the second in a series entitled Bridging European Urban Transformations established in partnership with the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and its Brussels Centre for Urban Studies. In this post-Brexit era, cooperation across borders and disciplines seems more important than ever before. Consequently the series, which runs from November 2016 to October 2017, emphasises the value of connections between institutions and key players in the field of urban transformations in the UK and in the rest of Europe.
The new Wonderland magazine Activate & Involve presents how young architects and planners in Europe are engaging to their cities today. The Project Space cooperative planning workshop in different cities are presented together with the work done by young offices. Enjoy the reading!
This document discusses the history and evolution of participation in disaster management and post-disaster reconstruction from the 1970s to present. It begins with an overview of the history of participation and its role in post-disaster reconstruction. It then examines different eras of participation, from the participatory approaches of the 1970s, strategic planning and public-private partnerships of the 1980s, new communication forms of the 1990s, and the integration of communicative strategies in modern case studies. New technologies like GIS, global risk modeling, and disaster photography ontologies are explored as ways to enhance participation.
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turn, this space is motivating a new land grab among state and nonstate actors alike;
it is also forcing transformations in how geography is held, conceptualized, modeled,
and defended. The order of those transformations occupies a similar location in our
architectures of sovereignty as nomos, but because it involves grids of land, air, and sea
all at once, dedifferentiating their relative weight and liquidities, the logics of this new
arrangement are also perhaps very different.42 Because these transformations are both
driven by planetary-scale computation and mediated through it, any strong distinc-
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systems spread through agonistic geographic space are undermined.
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normalized a certain kind of reversibility, the early geopolitics of The Stack also sees the
fortification of intentional camps and bunkers, with some populations excluded from
movement and transaction and others stationed in networks of enclaves absorbing
capital by centripetal force. To design up and away from this outcome does not mean
a reestablishment of ground for an upright primate perspective of natural place or pre-
maturely freezing in place The Stack's most preliminary new geographies as the only
options. An emergent alternative to archaic and recidivist geopolitics must be based
on something more scalable than settler colonialism, legacy genomes, and Bronze Age
myths and the maps of nations that have resulted from these. 43 The discussion of the
layers of The Stack, and the productive accidents of each, is an outline platform sover-
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turn, this space is motivating a new land grab among state and nonstate actors alike;
it is also forcing transformations in how geography is held, conceptualized, modeled,
and defended. The order of those transformations occupies a similar location in our
architectures of sovereignty as nomos, but because it involves grids of land, air, and sea
all at once, dedifferentiating their relative weight and liquidities, the logics of this new
arrangement are also perhaps very different.42 Because these transformations are both
driven by planetary-scale computation and mediated through it, any strong distinc-
tions between a political geography supported by technical systems and technological
systems spread through agonistic geographic space are undermined.
The state takes on the armature of a machine, because the machine, The Stack, has
already taken on the roles and register of the state. While the proliferation of lines has
normalized a certain kind of reversibility, the early geopolitics of The Stack also sees the
fortification of intentional camps and bunkers, with some populations excluded from
movement and transaction and others stationed in networks of enclaves absorbing
capital by centripetal force. To design up and away from this outcome does not mean
a reestablishment of ground for an upright primate perspective of natural place or pre-
maturely freezing in place The Stack's most preliminary new geographies as the only
options. An emergent alternative to archaic and recidivist geopolitics must be based
on something more scalable than settler colonialism, legacy genomes, and Bronze Age
myths and the maps of nations that have resulted from these. 43 The discussion of the
layers of The Stack, and the productive accidents of each, is an outline platform sover-
eign ...
This document provides an overview of Karen Cham and her work in the field of digital transformation design (DTD). It discusses DTD as a design-led, user-centered method for transforming complex human systems using digital technologies. The document outlines Karen Cham's experience in sectors like technology, media, education and more. It also summarizes some of her academic writings on topics like complexity theory, systems thinking, and designing complex systems.
On 13 February 2017, the Urban Transformations programme, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), brought together a range of academics and practitioners from across Europe for a knowledge exchange event on urban living labs and smart cities. The University of Oxford convened the event, working with the European Regions Research & Innovation Network (ERRIN) and the workshop took place at one of ERRIN’s members, the Delegation of the Basque Country to the EU. This was the second in a series entitled Bridging European Urban Transformations established in partnership with the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and its Brussels Centre for Urban Studies. In this post-Brexit era, cooperation across borders and disciplines seems more important than ever before. Consequently the series, which runs from November 2016 to October 2017, emphasises the value of connections between institutions and key players in the field of urban transformations in the UK and in the rest of Europe.
The new Wonderland magazine Activate & Involve presents how young architects and planners in Europe are engaging to their cities today. The Project Space cooperative planning workshop in different cities are presented together with the work done by young offices. Enjoy the reading!
This document discusses the history and evolution of participation in disaster management and post-disaster reconstruction from the 1970s to present. It begins with an overview of the history of participation and its role in post-disaster reconstruction. It then examines different eras of participation, from the participatory approaches of the 1970s, strategic planning and public-private partnerships of the 1980s, new communication forms of the 1990s, and the integration of communicative strategies in modern case studies. New technologies like GIS, global risk modeling, and disaster photography ontologies are explored as ways to enhance participation.
Keynote talk at the Web Science Summer School, Singapore, 8 December 2014. Today we see the rise of Social Machines, like Twitter, Wikipedia and Galaxy Zoo—where communities identify and solve their own problems, harnessing commitment, local knowledge and embedded skills, without having to rely on experts or governments.
The Social Machines paradigm provides a lens onto the interacting sociotechnical systems of our hybrid digital-physical world, citizen-centric and at scale—emphasising empowerment and sociality in a world of pervasive technology adoption and automation.
This talk will present the Social Machines paradigm as an approach to social media analytics and a rethinking of our scholarly practices and knowledge infrastructure.
1. Modernist principles shaped 20th century city-building and led to low-density urban sprawl characterized by single-family homes, car reliance, and separated land uses.
2. Three key tenets of Fordism informed modernist planning: specialization, mass production, and standardization. This led to separated zones for living, work, shopping, and more.
3. Zoning further separated uses and prioritized car movement over pedestrians. Neighborhood designs like Radburn isolated housing from roads. Transportation focused on cars over public transit or community design.
Similar to Responsibly Imprecise: Topology, Engineering, and the Politics of the City (20)
Altair offers a unique set of simulation tools to evaluate product feasibility, optimize the manufacturing process, and run virtual try-outs for many traditional, subtractive, and additive manufacturing processes.
Smart Product Development: Scalable Solutions for Your Entire Product LifecycleAltair
Being connected to your products opens doors to recurring and value-based revenue streams. It not only solves your customer's toughest challenges; it also helps build a sustainable future for your company. Try SmartWorks IoT today, for free trial .
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation needed to automate their manual post-processing workflow for calculating combined stresses from hundreds of beam elements with varying cross-sections in large naval systems models. Altair and NGSC engineers collaborated to develop an Altair Compose script that reads FEA results, processes the data according to engineering equations, and outputs new results files, addressing the pain points of time consumption and error. The script provides a streamlined, flexible, and scalable solution for post-processing beam stress results across a variety of models.
Designing for Sustainability: Altair's Customer StoryAltair
Bush Bohlman was required to perform the structural analysis and timber design for the British Columbia Institute of Technology, (BCIT), student plaza, a pedestrian and public transport user gateway for the institute. The structure needed to establish a strong campus identity with a biophilic design and demonstrable support for sustainable building practices while ensuring structural safety according to local design codes. The hybrid mass timber structure consists of a Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) canopy, CLT columns, and steel columns. By using S-TIMBER, the engineers were able to simulate the complex two-way bending behavior of the cantilevering roof panels and asymmetrical column layout. Having the model in S-TIMBER allowed for changes to be analyzed and re-designed, without the need to manually design individual timber and steel elements. S-TIMBER's design reports presented the design calculations concisely, yet transparently, for faster and easier reviews.
why digital twin adoption rates are skyrocketing.pdfAltair
Even though digital twin technology isn’t necessarily new, its adoption is sweeping regions and industries at astonishing rates. Organizations are rushing to adopt digital twins, learning how they can use it for different applications and purposes, and foresee even more growth in the coming few years. In this infographic, remember the big story about digital twin adoption and find out what companies worldwide have in store for their digital twin futures.
Digital twin technology has the potential to usher in unprecedented sustainability breakthroughs in industries around the world. As the world sprints toward a net zero future, organizations are rushing to adopt solutions that will create a more sustainable planet filled with technology that will enable people to minimize their impact on the people, wildlife, and environments around them. In this infographic, see how companies are flocking to digital twin technology to meet their sustainability objectives and where digital twin can have the greatest impact.
Altair’s industrial design tools allow designers, architects, and digital artists to create, evaluate, and visualize their vision faster than ever before. Focus on ideas instead of being hindered by shortcomings of the software tools and liberate creativity with design software that lets the user model freely, make changes effortlessly, and render beautifully.
Analyze performance and operations of truck fleets in real timeAltair
Altair’s event processing and data visualization tools enable fleet operators to analyze critical data streaming in from sensors and other sources. This real-time visibility into vehicle and driver performance helps reduce operating costs, improve driver safety, and increase fleet productivity. Analysts can display maps showing the current position of all assets, examine route deviations, program alerts on any set of parameters, and compare drivers’ behavior. Analysts can design and modify analytical dashboards as needed without writing a single line of code.
Knowledge Studio text analytics add-on is an industry-first application that combines visual text discovery and sentiment analysis with the power of predictive analytics. It delivers unparalleled voice of the customer insights to support customer experience management.
Altair’s Data Analytics solutions help reduce healthcare IT complexities and add efficiencies in areas like claims/reimbursement processing, revenue cycle management, interoperability, patient adherence and satisfaction analysis, and physician performance analysis.
Altair allows healthcare organizations to access, cleanse, and transform data—helping to break down data application silos and building automated workflows into standardized, shareable assets for optimizing strategic planning, streamlining operations, and maximizing resources.
Altair’s artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) software helps materials scientists understand how to best fill gaps in their material databases, even when it’s impossible to test all possible variants. These advanced tools also optimize testing programs, improve efficiency, and reduce the time required to complete materials testing.
Altair High-performance Computing (HPC) and CloudAltair
Altair’s industry-leading HPC tools let you orchestrate, visualize, optimize, and analyze your most demanding workloads, easily migrating to the cloud and eliminating I/O bottlenecks. Top500 systems and small to mid-sized computing environments alike rely on Altair to keep infrastructure running smoothly. With longstanding hardware and cloud provider partnerships, we handle the integrations for you so your team can focus on moving business forward.
No Code Data Transformation for Insurance with Altair MonarchAltair
Altair Monarch is the fastest and easiest way to extract data from dark, semi-structured sources like PDFs, spreadsheets, and text files, as well as from Big Data and other structured sources. Monarch cleans, transforms, blends, and enriches data with an easy-to-use interface free of coding and scripting. For 30 years Monarch has helped insurers worldwide save time and money by enabling people of different skill sets to transform data quickly and precisely for efficient analysis around calculating premiums, identifying fraudulent claims, optimizing customer retention strategies, and more.
Altair Data analytics for Banking, Financial Services and Insurance Altair
Altair provides data analytics solutions to over 3,000 banks, financial services, and insurance companies. Their solutions help with automated data preparation, predictive analytics, real-time data visualization, and more. They work with subject matter experts to ensure their tools seamlessly transition and provide a competitive advantage. Altair offers applications for processes like risk analysis, fraud detection, and marketing analytics.
Altair data analytics and artificial intelligence solutionsAltair
Altair enables organisations worldwide to compete more effectively by operationalizing data analytics and AI with secure, governed, and scalable strategies. We deliver world-class, self-service analytics solutions for data preparation, predictive modeling, stream processing, visualization, and more. With a no-code, cloud-ready interface, organisations can harness the full power of analytics and AI throughout their complete data lifecycle, driving next-level business results.
Are You Maximising the Potential of Composite Materials?Altair
This document discusses the challenges of designing with composite materials and how Altair simulation technologies can help address them. It outlines five key points: 1) Reducing the weight of composite products through optimization. 2) Accurately predicting and improving impact performance using FEA. 3) Rapidly assessing performance to deliver innovative designs. 4) Driving down costs through simulating efficient manufacturing processes. 5) Providing a complete platform for composite design and analysis with HyperWorks. The document promotes setting up a meeting to discuss how Altair can help maximize the potential of composite materials for a company's products.
Lead time reduction in CAE: Automated FEM Description ReportAltair
For each deliverable FE-Model a FEM description report needs to be generated. Since this document contains always the same type of information, it is an ideal candidate to automate the creation of this report. Based on the Hyper Report Tool from Altair, RUAG Space and Altair developed a tool to automatically generate the FEM Description Report. The tool requires the HyperMesh data base and the output files from FEM checks as inputs. Together with the tool template, guidelines are provided on how the data base needs to be set up, such that the report can be created automatically. The main structure of the FEM Description Report is dependent on the assembly structure of the HM data base.
Car makers have to reduce consumption of vehicles and so, are continually looking for solutions to lighten components. For powertrain, components generally mean screwed assembly, contact and fitting interfaces, with different kind of loading to take into account (static and dynamic). Hence, we decided to apply with Altair assistance, a process of topology optimization on an assembly of gearbox housing in order to check its feasibility and efficiency. Several steps had to be solved from exhaustive identification of all mechanical constraints to execution of large models with Optistruct. By the end, the process has been defined and implemented on an existing gearbox and will be soon apply on the next one to design.
Speakers
Philippe Dausse, Modelization Specialist, PSA Peugeot Citroen Automobiles
The Team H2politO: vehicles for low consumption competitions using HyperWorks Altair
The Team H2politO is a group of students of the Politecnico di Torino. The student’s background and profiles are very diverse, everyone comes from a different discipline of engineering and together they compose a complete Team. The disciplines range from Automotive and Mechanical to Electronics, Aerospace, Energy, Mathematics, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Management, Cinema and Media and Industrial Design. The Team mission is to shape a new generation of engineers, leaders in their fields, who represent the educational excellence in regard of each of their competencies.
The results of Team passion and hard work are three low-energy consumption vehicles completely designed and made by the Team: IDRA - hydrogen powered prototype; XAM – bioethanol powered parallel hybrid urban concept; XAM 2.0 –EREV city vehicle.
The main goal is to take part and win in Shell Eco-marathon, a competition that every year involves more than one hundreds of students teams arriving from all over Europe. Especially we would like to spread the Shell Eco-marathon values through ours, combining the sustainable development with a vehicle that uses the least possible amount of energy.
H2politO is a different, innovative and somehow unique project, is not just a Team but something more: it is a new type of conceiving educational, professional and personal growth. Team members aim at being perceived as an experimental laboratory where competences, capabilities and potentialities of future’s engineers are fostered. Students strive to become not only solid and advanced technical experts but, equally important, down-to-earth managers having excellent communication, leadership and teamwork skills.
Practical and hands-on experiences are doubtlessly a complementary and enriching form of educational path where it is very important the use of simulation software like HyperWorks. Team members have a real opportunity to lead their educational path by building and crafting their own thesis. Final papers are indeed part of a cluster of thesis which combines all the technological and organizational areas of development H2politO has envisioned and embraced.
The Team believes in hard work as the basis of future success. Students crave for continuously improving and strive for exceeding expectations by nurturing the team spirit in order to create those synergies able to add value to individual performances and capabilities. As a consequence, passion and team-spirit are really the foundation of H2politO values.
Speakers
Prof. Massimiliana Carello, Politecnico di Milano
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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
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
This presentation provides valuable insights into effective cost-saving techniques on AWS. Learn how to optimize your AWS resources by rightsizing, increasing elasticity, picking the right storage class, and choosing the best pricing model. Additionally, discover essential governance mechanisms to ensure continuous cost efficiency. Whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, this presentation provides clear and practical tips to help you reduce your cloud costs and get the most out of your budget.
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
Trusted Execution Environment for Decentralized Process MiningLucaBarbaro3
Presentation of the paper "Trusted Execution Environment for Decentralized Process Mining" given during the CAiSE 2024 Conference in Cyprus on June 7, 2024.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
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Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
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.
Salesforce Integration for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions A...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on integration of Salesforce with Bonterra Impact Management.
Interested in deploying an integration with Salesforce for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
5. It seems as though all cities
Are in 100% conflict. Not with
Each other, but within themselves.
6. How do you design for the city of today?
And tomorrow?
And what means Responsibility
And how do we use Precision?
7. Topology has been formalized as a
way of thinking about
connectedness.
Today the idea of “connectedness”
is as political as it is formal.
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9. Euler’s Königsberg
Bridge Problem
Silk Trade Route Topological Optimization
Social Networking, Crisis
Mapping, Google Earth
10. Two of the most important aspects of
computation today involve algorithmic
combinatorials (which produce
connections)
And emergent networks (which
produce e.g. commerce, new forms of
social organization, and self-organized
political awareness)
12. Dirty Geometry Pavilion: Case
Study with a structure conceived as
topological network.
Stochastic Primary Structure,
Building to suspend over vacant lot
in order to free up urban space for
random public use.
Design based on capturing thermal
gain from existing building surfaces
in order to ventilate the pavilion by
bringing cooler air off the shaded
ground and through the structure
through convection.
Problem was the concept of
structure.
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18. Topological Tower: Generative FEM analysis and topological network
tower. Secondary structural network has flexibility in Primary
structural network.
22. Responsibly Imprecise 1: The Sciarc experiment with
SolidThinking/InspiredMorphogenesis
The research involved taking a class of students who
would
A) develop schemes for a large cantilever in front of the
school.
B) select a project,
C) Materialize the Morphogenesis diagram into a
construction logic that transformed the pictorial logic of
the Morphogenesis results into something else.
D) The “something else” was a fiberglass/composite
series of panels, the seams of which would provide a new
structural network.
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32. Responsibly Imprecise 2: The Audi
Experiment
Asked by Audi to redefine the city for 2030, the
agenda was to lift buildings off the street in
order to generate as much urban public space
as possible while allowing the mixture of
pedestrian and auto traffic throughout based
on embedded sensor technology within the
road surface which communicates directly with
automobiles.
The entire endeavor was inspired by the Stevie
Wonder Video Living for the City
The Structural Insight came from
Morphogenesis.
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43. Responsibly Imprecise 3: The United Nations
Center for Performing Arts.
A theoretical project that would allow the
building to function as an open public space
situated in the middle of a roadway, that would
encourage an intersection between global
politics and performance art, open to
dictatorships and democracies around the
world.
Here the structural base rises up through the
building in a really intense and almost
impossibly gross manner from which to
cantilever performance platforms inside and
outside
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55. Responsibly Imprecise 4: The Pratt
Experiment
Find a way to use Morphogenesis such that it
raises two questions:
1) how to rethink the relation between
structure and building in terms of space?
2) how to rethink the building in terms of
public urban space.
The move takes us from the practical to the
political.
Imprecision here means: you are free to
interpret the use of the technology for things
other than its intended use.
56. Joy Tennanbaum: An open air birdcage prison structure for
convicts specializing in performance art, constantly
surveyed by the city. Calatrava meets Foucault meets Elvis
63. Vivi Wei: The universal church which turns the Gothic cathedral
inside out for open air public space. Christianity meets Hinduism
meets Judaism meets whatever you want for religion on that day
of the week.
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67. Vida Chang: An aspiring Super Hero converts the top of a
building for today’s politically and environmentally
conscientious youth, all of whom are unemployed or really hate
their jobs.
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70. Towards the next step: Irresponsibly Precise
We have at the moment no “logical” way to treat the
Morphogenesis results as a material fact.
This means we need to experiment wildly with materials and
construction techniques.