This document discusses smarter commerce at work and introduces a "smarter silhouette" series. It provides contact information for The Curiosity Shop, including their Flickr page, YouTube channel, and an email address for further information.
The document provides contact information for the IBM Curiosity Shop on Flickr, YouTube, and email. It lists social media and online channels where one can find and engage with content from IBM's Curiosity Shop program.
The document provides contact information for the IBM Curiosity Shop on Flickr, YouTube, and email. It lists social media and online channels where one can find and engage with content from IBM's Curiosity Shop program.
Take a closer look at any large city today and you’ll find another city pulsating within it, made up of interconnected systems of many different functions and activities.
Healthcare is a complex system with many interconnected parts. Advanced technologies like analytics, sensors, electronic health records, and monitoring devices are helping improve patient care by enabling doctors to more accurately diagnose issues, collaborate remotely, track devices and patient data, identify fraudulent claims, and coordinate seamless care among providers. The goal is a fully connected healthcare system centered around the patient.
Stories of a Smarter Planet: What makes you sickChris Luongo
This one-sentence document provides a link to view an infographic and other related infographics. The link is intended to allow the reader to access additional visual representations and explanations of data on a given topic presented through the infographic series.
As devices and tools become smarter, the way people work and connect is changing dramatically. New devices and social collaboration tools are transforming how work gets done through information sharing, relationship building, and decision making from anywhere. Businesses are becoming social by creating dialogues with customers and targeting the right content using web and analytics data. As the world becomes more interconnected and intelligent, organizations are transforming work by connecting and collaborating in new ways while unleashing creativity.
The document provides contact information for the IBM Curiosity Shop on Flickr, YouTube, and email. It lists social media and online channels where one can find and engage with content from IBM's Curiosity Shop program.
The document provides contact information for the IBM Curiosity Shop on Flickr, YouTube, and email. It lists social media and online channels where one can find and engage with content from IBM's Curiosity Shop program.
Take a closer look at any large city today and you’ll find another city pulsating within it, made up of interconnected systems of many different functions and activities.
Healthcare is a complex system with many interconnected parts. Advanced technologies like analytics, sensors, electronic health records, and monitoring devices are helping improve patient care by enabling doctors to more accurately diagnose issues, collaborate remotely, track devices and patient data, identify fraudulent claims, and coordinate seamless care among providers. The goal is a fully connected healthcare system centered around the patient.
Stories of a Smarter Planet: What makes you sickChris Luongo
This one-sentence document provides a link to view an infographic and other related infographics. The link is intended to allow the reader to access additional visual representations and explanations of data on a given topic presented through the infographic series.
As devices and tools become smarter, the way people work and connect is changing dramatically. New devices and social collaboration tools are transforming how work gets done through information sharing, relationship building, and decision making from anywhere. Businesses are becoming social by creating dialogues with customers and targeting the right content using web and analytics data. As the world becomes more interconnected and intelligent, organizations are transforming work by connecting and collaborating in new ways while unleashing creativity.
This document discusses analytics at work and introduces a "smarter silhouette" series. It provides contact information for The Curiosity Shop on Flickr, YouTube, and an email address for further information about their analytics and series.
Today's customers expect personalized, convenient experiences across all channels from companies. They want to share their opinions and receive relevant, timely information. Companies are analyzing vast amounts of customer data and gaining insights to anticipate customer needs, personalize each interaction, and engage customers in product development. Leaders are building dynamic business networks across human, digital, social and mobile modes to continuously improve based on customer feedback.
Customers in every industry are feeling pressure to respond quickly to changes. IBM's strategy is to understand each client's needs within their specific industry. Industries like healthcare, financial services, retail, and transportation all have different issues but require smarter solutions to work more efficiently. IBM has created industry frameworks with proven technologies tailored to each sector to help clients easily apply solutions.
Vern Watts is a distinguished engineer at IBM who has worked there for over 52 years. He still works three days a week at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab at the age of 80. Watts was an early pioneer in computer programming and database management systems, helping to develop IMS, one of the first commercially successful database systems. Despite his long career, Watts remains passionate about his work and keeps up with new technologies. He serves as a role model for other employees due to his ongoing curiosity and creativity.
IBM is partnering with various educational institutions to provide students with skills for improving cities, such as developing smart city applications. For example, Columbia University students can access IBM software for sustainability projects. IBM also opened an analytics center with DePaul University to train students in predictive analytics. A new lab at Carnegie Mellon will allow IBM researchers and students to collaborate on creating smarter cities.
A system of cars, trains, planes, ships and peopleChris Luongo
When looking at the vast network of transportation systems, there are many examples across road, rail, air and sea where new innovations and technologies are changing how people and things move from here . . . to there.
The document discusses how cities are becoming smarter through the use of new technologies that are improving infrastructure systems. Key systems discussed include transportation, energy grids, water management, data collection and analytics. These smarter systems allow cities to better accommodate growing populations, improve services for residents, and address challenges around issues like traffic, resource use and public safety. The technologies described are helping to transform cities and make them more efficient, sustainable and livable.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
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.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
This document discusses analytics at work and introduces a "smarter silhouette" series. It provides contact information for The Curiosity Shop on Flickr, YouTube, and an email address for further information about their analytics and series.
Today's customers expect personalized, convenient experiences across all channels from companies. They want to share their opinions and receive relevant, timely information. Companies are analyzing vast amounts of customer data and gaining insights to anticipate customer needs, personalize each interaction, and engage customers in product development. Leaders are building dynamic business networks across human, digital, social and mobile modes to continuously improve based on customer feedback.
Customers in every industry are feeling pressure to respond quickly to changes. IBM's strategy is to understand each client's needs within their specific industry. Industries like healthcare, financial services, retail, and transportation all have different issues but require smarter solutions to work more efficiently. IBM has created industry frameworks with proven technologies tailored to each sector to help clients easily apply solutions.
Vern Watts is a distinguished engineer at IBM who has worked there for over 52 years. He still works three days a week at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab at the age of 80. Watts was an early pioneer in computer programming and database management systems, helping to develop IMS, one of the first commercially successful database systems. Despite his long career, Watts remains passionate about his work and keeps up with new technologies. He serves as a role model for other employees due to his ongoing curiosity and creativity.
IBM is partnering with various educational institutions to provide students with skills for improving cities, such as developing smart city applications. For example, Columbia University students can access IBM software for sustainability projects. IBM also opened an analytics center with DePaul University to train students in predictive analytics. A new lab at Carnegie Mellon will allow IBM researchers and students to collaborate on creating smarter cities.
A system of cars, trains, planes, ships and peopleChris Luongo
When looking at the vast network of transportation systems, there are many examples across road, rail, air and sea where new innovations and technologies are changing how people and things move from here . . . to there.
The document discusses how cities are becoming smarter through the use of new technologies that are improving infrastructure systems. Key systems discussed include transportation, energy grids, water management, data collection and analytics. These smarter systems allow cities to better accommodate growing populations, improve services for residents, and address challenges around issues like traffic, resource use and public safety. The technologies described are helping to transform cities and make them more efficient, sustainable and livable.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
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.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
Mydbops Managed Services specializes in taking the pain out of database management while optimizing performance. Since 2015, we have been providing top-notch support and assistance for the top three open-source databases: MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Our team offers a wide range of services, including assistance, support, consulting, 24/7 operations, and expertise in all relevant technologies. We help organizations improve their database's performance, scalability, efficiency, and availability.
Contact us: info@mydbops.com
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"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...Fwdays
We will talk about system monitoring from a few different angles. We will start by covering the basics, then discuss SLOs, how to define them, and why understanding the business well is crucial for success in this exercise.
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.