This is a simple way to automatically bcc (not cc) yourself in outlook in 2 specific scenarios.Scenario 1: bcc a specific email address. Scenario 2: bcc the email account that you are using (this useful for those of us who multiple accounts set-up in outlook).
Credit: http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microsoft/how-to-automatically-bcc-in-outlook-2010/
The Elusive Nature of Context: Why We Need It and Were We Might Find ItGail Murphy
Keynote at CASCON 2016. Describes the need for software to support the work patterns of humans so that the software works for humans instead of humans working for the software.
This is a detailed Sales & Operations Financial Planning (SOFP) master-class decribing the what, how, who, and when of the process. In addition, it describes the impact of the major types of capacity planning models to the strategic planning process deployed in SOFP.
The presentation covers the details in the form of process maps showing issues and challenges in the manufacturing and supply chain management for discrete and process manufacturing.
CPFR - Model for Supply Chain Co-ordinationCHIN Kok Poh
Collaborative Planning Forecast and Replenishment is a supply chain management practice for multi-tier co-ordination. This slides incoporate CPFR, Unified Communications, RFID, RTLS and Portal Collaboration technologies to execute advanced CPFR.
This is a simple way to automatically bcc (not cc) yourself in outlook in 2 specific scenarios.Scenario 1: bcc a specific email address. Scenario 2: bcc the email account that you are using (this useful for those of us who multiple accounts set-up in outlook).
Credit: http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microsoft/how-to-automatically-bcc-in-outlook-2010/
The Elusive Nature of Context: Why We Need It and Were We Might Find ItGail Murphy
Keynote at CASCON 2016. Describes the need for software to support the work patterns of humans so that the software works for humans instead of humans working for the software.
This is a detailed Sales & Operations Financial Planning (SOFP) master-class decribing the what, how, who, and when of the process. In addition, it describes the impact of the major types of capacity planning models to the strategic planning process deployed in SOFP.
The presentation covers the details in the form of process maps showing issues and challenges in the manufacturing and supply chain management for discrete and process manufacturing.
CPFR - Model for Supply Chain Co-ordinationCHIN Kok Poh
Collaborative Planning Forecast and Replenishment is a supply chain management practice for multi-tier co-ordination. This slides incoporate CPFR, Unified Communications, RFID, RTLS and Portal Collaboration technologies to execute advanced CPFR.
Provides a basic introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP), its properties, and some common techniques such as stemming, tokenization, bag-of-words, stripping, and n-grams
Guest Lecture: Restoring Context in Distance Learning with Artificial Intelli...Daniele Di Mitri
Presentation given on the February 1st, 2022 at the "Brown Bag" presentation series organised by the Faculty of NYU Educational Communication and Technology which is part of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
https://www.ectstudent.info/news-events/brown-bag-dr-daniele-di-mitri
Presentation Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic forced more than 1.6 billion learners out of school, becoming the most challenging disruption ever endured by the global education systems. In many countries, education institutions decided to move their regular activities online, opting for remote teaching as an emergency solution to continue their education. Meanwhile, physical distancing and learning in isolation heavily challenge learners and hinder their study success. There is a compelling need to make education systems more resilient and less vulnerable to future disruptions in such a critical landscape. In particular, we have to reconsider how digital technologies can support online and hybrid teaching. If digital education technologies such as video conferencing tools and learning management systems have improved to make educational resources more available and education more flexible, the modes of interaction they implement remain essentially unnatural for the learner due to a substantial lack of context. Modern sensor-enabled computer systems allow extending the standard human-computer interfaces and facilitate richer multimodal interaction. Furthermore, advances in AI allow interpreting the data collected from multimodal and multi-sensor devices. These insights can be used to support online teaching and learning in isolation with personalised feedback and adaptation through Multimodal Learning Experiences (MLX). This guest lecture elaborates on existing approaches, architectures, and methodologies. I illustrate use cases that employ multimodal learning analytics applications that can shape the online teaching of the future.
Snips and snails and puppy dog tails: the need to preserve complexity in math...Universidade de Lisboa
Plenary address in reply to “The Use of Digital Tools in Web-based Mathematical Problem Solving: different levels of sophistication in Solving-and-Expressing” (Jacinto, Nobre, Carreira & Amado, 2014)
Conference Problem@Web | 2-4 May 2014 | Portugal
The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, The History of
Artificial Intelligence, and the State of the Art. Intelligent Agents: Introduction, How Agents
should Act, Structure of Intelligent Agents, Environments. Solving Problems by Searching:
problem-solving Agents, Formulating problems, Example problems, and searching for Solutions,
Search Strategies, Avoiding Repeated States, and Constraint Satisfaction Search. Informed
Search Methods: Best-First Search, Heuristic Functions, Memory Bounded Search, and Iterative
Improvement Algorithms.
Training at AI Frontiers 2018 - Ni Lao: Weakly Supervised Natural Language Un...AI Frontiers
In this tutorial I will introduce recent work in applying weak supervision and reinforcement learning to Questions Answering (QA) systems. Specifically we discuss the semantic parsing task for which natural language queries are converted to computation steps on knowledge graphs or data tables and produce the expected answers. State-of-the-art results can be achieved by novel memory structure for sequence models and improvements in reinforcement learning algorithms. Related code and experiment setup can be found at https://github.com/crazydonkey200/neural-symbolic-machines. Related paper: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=SyK00v5xx.
MOOCs, Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Pedagogical AgentsGeorge Veletsianos
Open courses are a sociocultural phenomenon. This phenomenon represents symptoms, responses, and failures facing Higher Education. In this talk, I examined open courses and MOOCs from a variety of angles and discussed the degree to which MOOCs have portrayed education as a product that can be packaged, automated, and delivered. Empirical research on the design and development of pedagogical and intelligent agents that may be used in MOOCs was also presented. More information here: http://www.veletsianos.com/2014/06/05/moocs-automation-artificial-intelligence-seminar/
Provides a basic introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP), its properties, and some common techniques such as stemming, tokenization, bag-of-words, stripping, and n-grams
Guest Lecture: Restoring Context in Distance Learning with Artificial Intelli...Daniele Di Mitri
Presentation given on the February 1st, 2022 at the "Brown Bag" presentation series organised by the Faculty of NYU Educational Communication and Technology which is part of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
https://www.ectstudent.info/news-events/brown-bag-dr-daniele-di-mitri
Presentation Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic forced more than 1.6 billion learners out of school, becoming the most challenging disruption ever endured by the global education systems. In many countries, education institutions decided to move their regular activities online, opting for remote teaching as an emergency solution to continue their education. Meanwhile, physical distancing and learning in isolation heavily challenge learners and hinder their study success. There is a compelling need to make education systems more resilient and less vulnerable to future disruptions in such a critical landscape. In particular, we have to reconsider how digital technologies can support online and hybrid teaching. If digital education technologies such as video conferencing tools and learning management systems have improved to make educational resources more available and education more flexible, the modes of interaction they implement remain essentially unnatural for the learner due to a substantial lack of context. Modern sensor-enabled computer systems allow extending the standard human-computer interfaces and facilitate richer multimodal interaction. Furthermore, advances in AI allow interpreting the data collected from multimodal and multi-sensor devices. These insights can be used to support online teaching and learning in isolation with personalised feedback and adaptation through Multimodal Learning Experiences (MLX). This guest lecture elaborates on existing approaches, architectures, and methodologies. I illustrate use cases that employ multimodal learning analytics applications that can shape the online teaching of the future.
Snips and snails and puppy dog tails: the need to preserve complexity in math...Universidade de Lisboa
Plenary address in reply to “The Use of Digital Tools in Web-based Mathematical Problem Solving: different levels of sophistication in Solving-and-Expressing” (Jacinto, Nobre, Carreira & Amado, 2014)
Conference Problem@Web | 2-4 May 2014 | Portugal
The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, The History of
Artificial Intelligence, and the State of the Art. Intelligent Agents: Introduction, How Agents
should Act, Structure of Intelligent Agents, Environments. Solving Problems by Searching:
problem-solving Agents, Formulating problems, Example problems, and searching for Solutions,
Search Strategies, Avoiding Repeated States, and Constraint Satisfaction Search. Informed
Search Methods: Best-First Search, Heuristic Functions, Memory Bounded Search, and Iterative
Improvement Algorithms.
Training at AI Frontiers 2018 - Ni Lao: Weakly Supervised Natural Language Un...AI Frontiers
In this tutorial I will introduce recent work in applying weak supervision and reinforcement learning to Questions Answering (QA) systems. Specifically we discuss the semantic parsing task for which natural language queries are converted to computation steps on knowledge graphs or data tables and produce the expected answers. State-of-the-art results can be achieved by novel memory structure for sequence models and improvements in reinforcement learning algorithms. Related code and experiment setup can be found at https://github.com/crazydonkey200/neural-symbolic-machines. Related paper: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=SyK00v5xx.
MOOCs, Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Pedagogical AgentsGeorge Veletsianos
Open courses are a sociocultural phenomenon. This phenomenon represents symptoms, responses, and failures facing Higher Education. In this talk, I examined open courses and MOOCs from a variety of angles and discussed the degree to which MOOCs have portrayed education as a product that can be packaged, automated, and delivered. Empirical research on the design and development of pedagogical and intelligent agents that may be used in MOOCs was also presented. More information here: http://www.veletsianos.com/2014/06/05/moocs-automation-artificial-intelligence-seminar/
Software that requires maintenance and evolution presumably has value that causes the producers of the software—individuals and organizations—to invest in these activities. Given that there is almost always more that any given software package or product can provide, software producers should be motivated in enabling maintenance and evolution activities and should be interested in the software engineering research efforts that are undertaken to address identified pain points. Yet, despite efforts by providers of research results (software engineering researchers) and interest by recipients (software producing individuals and organizations), a gap remains and too few research results make their way into use. In this keynote talk from ICSME 2021, I focus on research results that take the form of software tools for software producers and explore what this gap is and how the gap might be bridged. This exploration aims to provide some practical tips for how to orient research to create usable and useful software tools.
Is software engineering research addressing software engineering problems?Gail Murphy
Keynote from Automated Software Engineering 2020. (See https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphy for video)
Brian Randell described software engineering as “the multi-person development of multi-version programs”. David Parnas has expressed that this “pithy phrase implies everything that differentiates software engineering from other programming”. How does current software engineering research compare against this definition? Is there currently too much focus on research into problems and techniques more associated with programming than software engineering? Are there opportunities to use Randell’s description of software engineering to guide the community to new research directions? In this talk, I will explore these questions and discuss how a consideration of the development streams used by multiple individuals to produce multiple versions of software opens up new avenues for impactful software engineering research.
In this talk, I explore what productivity means to software developers, how we might track the value that is delivered in software produced by developers and how we might begin to think about measuring the productive delivery of effective software.
Keynote at International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) 2020.
The Need for Context in Software EngineeringGail Murphy
2018 IEEE Harlan Mills Award Keynote at the Automated Software Engineering Conference that discusses reducing the accidental complexity in software development so that the tools software professionals use amplify human intelligence.
Human-centric Software Development ToolsGail Murphy
What characteristics research into software development tools? This talk explores how research can help understand why some tools are effective and some are not and can help drive to the development of more effective tools for software developers.
Implications of Open Source Software Use (or Let's Talk Open Source)Gail Murphy
A talk given to the UBC Computer Science Alumni group discussing a number of implications of the use of open source as part of the global software supply chain.
Is Continuous Adoption in Software Engineering Achievable and Desirable? Gail Murphy
ICSE 2016 Software Engineering in Practice keynote.
Continuity in software development is all about shortening cycle times. For example, continuous integration shortens the time to integrating changes from multiple developers and continuous delivery shortens the time to get those integrated changes into the hands of users. Although it is now possible to get multiple new versions of complex software systems released per day, it still often takes years, if ever, to get software engineering research results into use by software development teams. What would software engineering research and software engineering development look like if we could shorten the cycle time from taking a research result into practice? What can we learn from how continuity in development is performed to make it possible to achieve continuous adoption of research results? Do we even want to achieve continuous adoption? In this talk, I will explore these questions, drawing from experiences I have gained in helping to take a research idea to market and from insights learned from interviewing industry leaders.
Keynote at MODELS 15 conference held in Ottawa, October 2015.
Discusses the spectrum of software supply chains presenting results of an analysis of open-source component production and providing an overview of challenges with both loose and tight software supply chains.
Getting to Flow in Software Development (ASWEC 2014 Keynote)Gail Murphy
Humans are amazing at processing information. It is a good thing that they are because software development projects generate a tremendous amount of information of various forms from predominantly natural language documents like requirements to blended natural language and structured artifacts like issues to predominantly structured source and test code. For some time, the amount of information produced daily in a large software development has exceeded a human’s ability to process that information. Instead of producing tools that allow a software developer to focus on information pertinent to a task, too many tools have been built that focus solely on producing as much information as possible. In this talk, I will discuss interaction styles for tools that may bring us closer to keeping a developer in the flow of a task. By improving flow, we can enable developers to work smarter, work better and have more fun.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...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 the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: Passkeys at Amazon.pdf
The Human Element
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Gail C. Murphy
University of British Columbia
Tasktop Technologies Incorporated
@gail_murphy
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