The AI Index is an independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), led by the AI Index Steering Committee, an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia and industry. The annual report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence, enabling decision-makers to take meaningful action to advance AI responsibly and ethically with humans in mind.
Intel Blockscale ASICs are built for the demanding environment of cryptocurrency mining. Each ASIC has built-in temperature and voltage sensor capabilities. The accelerator can be operated across a range of frequencies, enabling system designers to balance performance and efficiency.
Cryptography Processing with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable ProcessorsDESMOND YUEN
Cryptographic operations are amongst the most compute intensive and critical operations applied to data as it is stored, moved, and processed. Comprehending Intel's cryptography processing acceleration is essential to optimizing overall platform workload, and service performance.
At Intel, security comes first both in the way we work and in what we work on. Our culture and practices guide everything we build, with the goal of delivering the highest performance and optimal protections. As with previous reports, the 2021 Intel Product Security Report demonstrates our Security First Pledge and our endless efforts to proactively seek out and mitigate security issues.
How can regulation keep up as transformation races ahead? 2022 Global regulat...DESMOND YUEN
As the pandemic drags into its third year, financial services firms face a range of challenges, from increased operational complexity and an evolving regulatory directive to address environmental and social issues to new forms of competition
and evolving technologies, such as digital assets and cryptocurrencies. Banks, insurers, asset managers and other financial services firms (collectively referred to as “firms” in
the rest of this document) must innovate more effectively — and rapidly — to keep up with the pace of change while still identifying emerging risks and building appropriate governance and controls.
NASA Spinoffs Help Fight Coronavirus, Clean Pollution, Grow Food, MoreDESMOND YUEN
NASA's mission of exploration requires new technologies, software, and research – which show up in daily life. The agency’s Spinoff 2022 publication tells the stories of companies, start-ups, and entrepreneurs transforming these innovations into cutting-edge products and services that boost the economy, protect the planet, and save lives.
“The value of NASA is not confined to the cosmos but realized throughout our country – from hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs to world-leading climate science, understanding the universe and our place within it, to technology transfers that make life easier for folks around the world,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said. “As we combat the coronavirus pandemic and promote environmental justice and sustainability, NASA technology is essential to address humanity’s greatest challenges.”
Spinoff 2022 features more than 45 companies using NASA technology to advance manufacturing techniques, detoxify polluted soil, improve weather forecasting, and even clean the air to slow the spread of viruses, including coronavirus.
"NASA's technology portfolio contains many innovations that not only enable exploration but also address challenges and improve life here at home," said Jim Reuter, associate administrator of the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) in Washington. "We’ve captured these examples of successful commercialization of NASA technology and research, not only to share the benefits of the space program with the public, but to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs."
This year in Spinoff, readers will learn more about:
How companies use information from NASA’s vertical farm to sustainably grow fresh produce
New ways that technology developed for insulation in space keeps people warm in the great outdoors
How a system created for growing plants in space now helps improve indoor air quality and reduces the spread of airborne viruses like coronavirus
How phase-change materials – originally developed to help astronauts wearing spacesuits – absorb, hold, and release heat to help keep race car drivers cool
A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues in Edge Computing-Assisted Internet o...DESMOND YUEN
Internet of Things (IoT) is an innovative paradigm
envisioned to provide massive applications that are now part of
our daily lives. Millions of smart devices are deployed within
complex networks to provide vibrant functionalities including
communications, monitoring, and controlling of critical infrastructures. However, this massive growth of IoT devices and the corresponding huge data traffic generated at the edge of the network created additional burdens on the state-of-the-art
centralized cloud computing paradigm due to the bandwidth and
resources scarcity. Hence, edge computing (EC) is emerging as
an innovative strategy that brings data processing and storage
near to the end users, leading to what is called EC-assisted IoT.
Although this paradigm provides unique features and enhanced
quality of service (QoS), it also introduces huge risks in data security and privacy aspects. This paper conducts a comprehensive survey on security and privacy issues in the context of EC-assisted IoT. In particular, we first present an overview of EC-assisted IoT including definitions, applications, architecture, advantages, and challenges. Second, we define security and privacy in the context of EC-assisted IoT. Then, we extensively discuss the major classifications of attacks in EC-assisted IoT and provide possible solutions and countermeasures along with the related research efforts. After that, we further classify some security and privacy issues as discussed in the literature based on security services and based on security objectives and functions. Finally, several open challenges and future research directions for secure EC-assisted IoT paradigm are also extensively provided.
The AI Index is an independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), led by the AI Index Steering Committee, an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia and industry. The annual report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence, enabling decision-makers to take meaningful action to advance AI responsibly and ethically with humans in mind.
Intel Blockscale ASICs are built for the demanding environment of cryptocurrency mining. Each ASIC has built-in temperature and voltage sensor capabilities. The accelerator can be operated across a range of frequencies, enabling system designers to balance performance and efficiency.
Cryptography Processing with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable ProcessorsDESMOND YUEN
Cryptographic operations are amongst the most compute intensive and critical operations applied to data as it is stored, moved, and processed. Comprehending Intel's cryptography processing acceleration is essential to optimizing overall platform workload, and service performance.
At Intel, security comes first both in the way we work and in what we work on. Our culture and practices guide everything we build, with the goal of delivering the highest performance and optimal protections. As with previous reports, the 2021 Intel Product Security Report demonstrates our Security First Pledge and our endless efforts to proactively seek out and mitigate security issues.
How can regulation keep up as transformation races ahead? 2022 Global regulat...DESMOND YUEN
As the pandemic drags into its third year, financial services firms face a range of challenges, from increased operational complexity and an evolving regulatory directive to address environmental and social issues to new forms of competition
and evolving technologies, such as digital assets and cryptocurrencies. Banks, insurers, asset managers and other financial services firms (collectively referred to as “firms” in
the rest of this document) must innovate more effectively — and rapidly — to keep up with the pace of change while still identifying emerging risks and building appropriate governance and controls.
NASA Spinoffs Help Fight Coronavirus, Clean Pollution, Grow Food, MoreDESMOND YUEN
NASA's mission of exploration requires new technologies, software, and research – which show up in daily life. The agency’s Spinoff 2022 publication tells the stories of companies, start-ups, and entrepreneurs transforming these innovations into cutting-edge products and services that boost the economy, protect the planet, and save lives.
“The value of NASA is not confined to the cosmos but realized throughout our country – from hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs to world-leading climate science, understanding the universe and our place within it, to technology transfers that make life easier for folks around the world,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said. “As we combat the coronavirus pandemic and promote environmental justice and sustainability, NASA technology is essential to address humanity’s greatest challenges.”
Spinoff 2022 features more than 45 companies using NASA technology to advance manufacturing techniques, detoxify polluted soil, improve weather forecasting, and even clean the air to slow the spread of viruses, including coronavirus.
"NASA's technology portfolio contains many innovations that not only enable exploration but also address challenges and improve life here at home," said Jim Reuter, associate administrator of the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) in Washington. "We’ve captured these examples of successful commercialization of NASA technology and research, not only to share the benefits of the space program with the public, but to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs."
This year in Spinoff, readers will learn more about:
How companies use information from NASA’s vertical farm to sustainably grow fresh produce
New ways that technology developed for insulation in space keeps people warm in the great outdoors
How a system created for growing plants in space now helps improve indoor air quality and reduces the spread of airborne viruses like coronavirus
How phase-change materials – originally developed to help astronauts wearing spacesuits – absorb, hold, and release heat to help keep race car drivers cool
A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues in Edge Computing-Assisted Internet o...DESMOND YUEN
Internet of Things (IoT) is an innovative paradigm
envisioned to provide massive applications that are now part of
our daily lives. Millions of smart devices are deployed within
complex networks to provide vibrant functionalities including
communications, monitoring, and controlling of critical infrastructures. However, this massive growth of IoT devices and the corresponding huge data traffic generated at the edge of the network created additional burdens on the state-of-the-art
centralized cloud computing paradigm due to the bandwidth and
resources scarcity. Hence, edge computing (EC) is emerging as
an innovative strategy that brings data processing and storage
near to the end users, leading to what is called EC-assisted IoT.
Although this paradigm provides unique features and enhanced
quality of service (QoS), it also introduces huge risks in data security and privacy aspects. This paper conducts a comprehensive survey on security and privacy issues in the context of EC-assisted IoT. In particular, we first present an overview of EC-assisted IoT including definitions, applications, architecture, advantages, and challenges. Second, we define security and privacy in the context of EC-assisted IoT. Then, we extensively discuss the major classifications of attacks in EC-assisted IoT and provide possible solutions and countermeasures along with the related research efforts. After that, we further classify some security and privacy issues as discussed in the literature based on security services and based on security objectives and functions. Finally, several open challenges and future research directions for secure EC-assisted IoT paradigm are also extensively provided.
PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST: ITS IS SMART COMMUNITIES AND CITIESDESMOND YUEN
The report covers the benefits, goals, challenges, and success factors associated with smart cities and communities and gives a glimpse of a path forward.
BUILDING AN OPEN RAN ECOSYSTEM FOR EUROPEDESMOND YUEN
Five companies—Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, and Vodafone—published a report outlining why they feel Europe as a whole is lagging behind other regions such as the U.S. and Japan in developing Open RAN. The companies point to both a lack of companies developing key components, notably silicon chips, for Open RAN technologies, as well as the need to get incumbent equipment vendors Ericsson and Nokia on board with Open RAN development.
An Introduction to Semiconductors and IntelDESMOND YUEN
Did you know that...
The average American adult spends over 12 hours a day engaged with electronics — computers, mobile devices, TVs, cars, to name just a few — powered by semiconductors.
A common chip the size of your smallest fingernail is only about 1-millimeter thick but contains roughly 30 different layers of components and wires (called interconnects) that make up its complex circuitry.
Intel owns nearly 70,000 active patents worldwide. Its first — “Resistor for Integrated Circuit,” #3,631,313 — was granted to Gordon Moore on Dec. 28, 1971.
Those are a few fun facts in a high-level presentation that provides an easy-to-understand look at the world of semiconductors, why they matter and the role Intel plays in their creation.
Changing demographics and economic growth bloomDESMOND YUEN
Demography is destiny” is an oft-cited phrase that suggests the size, growth, and structure of a nation’s population deter mines its long-term social, economic, andpolitical fabric. The phrase highlights the role of
demographics in shaping many complex challenges
and opportunities societies face, including several
pertinent to economic growth and development.
Nevertheless, it is an overstatement to say that
demography determines all, as it downplays the
fact that both demographic trajectories and their
development implications are responsive to economic
incentives; to policy and institutional reforms; and to
changes in technology, cultural norms, and behavior.
The world is undergoing a major demographic
upheaval with three key components: population
growth, changes in fertility and mortality, and
associated changes in population age structure.
Intel Corporation (“Intel”) designs and manufactures
advanced integrated digital technology platforms that power
an increasingly connected world. A platform consists of
a microprocessor and chipset, and may be enhanced by
additional hardware, software, and services. The platforms
are used in a wide range of applications, such as PCs, laptops,
servers, tablets, smartphones, automobiles, automated
factory systems, and medical devices. Intel is also in the midst
of a corporate transformation that has seen its data-centric
businesses capture an increasing share of its revenue.
This report provides economic impact estimates for Intel in terms of employment, labor income, and gross domestic product (“GDP”) for the most recent historical year, 2019.1
Discover how private 5G networks can give enterprises options to enhance services and deliver new use cases with the level of control and investment they want.
Tackle more data science challenges than ever before without the need for discrete acceleration with the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Learn about the built-in AI acceleration and performance optimizations for popular AI libraries, tools and models.
The document describes how the latest Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) instructions and Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI) enabled in the latest Intel® 3rd Generation Xeon® Scalable Processor are used to significantly increase and achieve 1 Tb of IPsec throughput.
"Life and Learning After One-Hundred Years: Trust Is The Coin Of The Realm."DESMOND YUEN
The former secretary of state George Shultz passed away last weekend. He is one of the most influential secretaries of state in US history. Around the time of his hundredth birthday this past December, he published a short book on Trust and Effective Relationships
Telefónica views on the design, architecture, and technology of 4G/5G Open RA...DESMOND YUEN
This whitepaper is a blueprint for developing an Open RAN solution. It provides an overview of the main
technology elements that Telefónica is developing
in collaboration with selected partners in the Open
RAN ecosystem.
It describes the architectural elements, design
criteria, technology choices, and key chipsets
employed to build a complete portfolio of radio
units and baseband equipment capable of a full
4G/5G RAN rollout in any market of interest.
The field of machine programming — the automation of the development of software — is making notable research advances. This is, in part, due to the emergence of a wide range of novel techniques in machine learning. In today’s technological landscape, software is integrated into almost everything we do, but maintaining software is a time-consuming and error-prone process. When fully realized, machine programming will enable everyone to express their creativity and develop their own software without writing a single line of code. Intel realizes the pioneering promise of machine programming, which is why it created the Machine Programming Research (MPR) team in Intel Labs. The MPR team’s goal is to create a society where everyone can create software, but machines will handle the “programming” part.
Early Benchmarking Results for Neuromorphic ComputingDESMOND YUEN
An update on the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community’s growth and benchmark results, including the addition of new corporate members and numerous new benchmarking updates computed on Intel’s neuromorphic test chip, Loihi.
At Intel Labs Day 2020, Intel spotlighted research initiatives across multiple domains where its researchers are striving for orders of magnitude advancements to shape the next decade of computing. Themed “In Pursuit of 1000X: Disruptive Research for the Next Decade in Computing,” the event featured several emerging areas including integrated photonics, neuromorphic computing, quantum computing, confidential computing, and machine programming. Together, these domains represent pioneering efforts to address critical challenges in the future of computing, and Intel’s leadership role in pursuing breakthroughs to address them. Rich Uhlig, Intel senior fellow, vice president, and director of Intel Labs was joined by several domain experts across the research organization to share perspectives on the industry and societal impact of these technologies.
Road infrastructure solutions can play an important part in helping cities become safer, greener, and smarter. Governments throughout the world have initiated plans to deploy technologies for Smart
City, traffic management, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and road safety projects to mitigate the
challenges faced due to rapid urbanization.3 Road safety represents measures that can be taken to reduce
the risk of accidents and fatalities for road users (cyclists, motorists, pedestrians, vehicle passengers, and
public transport passengers) in the road network of built-up urban streets, non-built-up rural roads, and major highways.
Back in 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT), under the leadership of Secretary Anthony Foxx, has
leveraged nearly $350 million in public and private funds for smart city and advanced transportation technologies. Building on
Beyond Traffic 2045, the Smart City Challenge provided a spark for cities looking to revolutionize their transportation systems
to help improve people’s lives. Through the Smart City Challenge, the Department committed up to $40 million to one winning
city. In response, cities leveraged an additional $500 million in private and public funding to help make their Smart City visions
real. And, in October 2016, Secretary Foxx announced an additional $65 million in grants to support community-driven
advanced technology transportation projects in cities across America, including 4 of the finalists in the Smart City Challenge.
By challenging American cities to use emerging transportation technologies to address their most pressing problems, the
Smart City Challenge aimed to spread innovation through a mixture of competition, collaboration, and experimentation.
But the Smart City Challenge was about more than just technology. We called on mayors to define their most pressing
transportation problems and envision bold new solutions that could change the face of transportation in our cities by meeting
the needs of residents of all ages and abilities; and bridging the digital divide so that everyone, not just the tech-savvy, can be
connected to everything their city has to offer.
Intel® Ethernet Series Delivering Real-World Value. As computing and networking scale in performance, interconnect technologies play a critical role in ensuring systems reach their full potential in the speed at which they move data. Intel has been at the forefront of research and development into interconnect technologies since the dawn of the PC era. Today in the data center, Intel is working to deliver greater levels of intelligence within its connectivity solutions to overcome network bottlenecks and accelerate applications. Between PC and peripherals, Intel is heavily involved with the industry as it brings the latest technologies to market for the best user experiences. At the chip level, Intel is leading the industry in advanced packaging with technologies that connect chiplets and modules in order to deliver Moore’s Law advances, while also working to reduce latency between memory and CPU. From “Microns to Miles,” Intel’s investments in interconnect technologies are among the broadest in the industry.
On January 28, Truth in Accounting released its fourth annual Financial State of the Cities report, a comprehensive analysis of the fiscal health of the nation's 75 most populous cities based on fiscal year 2018 comprehensive annual financial reports.
Cities have become more transparent over the last few years, thanks to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles set by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, which now require governments to disclose pension and other post-employment (OPEB) benefits on their balance sheets. If these benefits have not been fully funded, they are considered liabilities, or debt, because they represent money owed to government employees in their retirement.
This year, the study found that 63 cities do not have enough money to pay all of their bills, and in total, the cities have racked up $323 billion in municipal debt. The study ranks the cities according to their Taxpayer Burden or Taxpayer Surplus™, which is each taxpayer's share of city bills after available assets have been tapped.
An Overview of USDOT Connected Vehicle Roadside Unit Research ActivitiesDESMOND YUEN
This paper provides an overview of USDOT-sponsored research and development activities for a key enabling component of connected vehicle (CV) vehicle-infrastructure (V2I) technology,
Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) roadside units (RSUs). USDOT has engaged in connected vehicle research during the last decade that has focused on enabling vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and V2I communications-based applications to achieve safety, mobility, and environmental benefits. The vision behind connected vehicle technologies includes a variety of
applications that can address differing needs, supported by standards and interoperable components that satisfy Infrastructure Owners and Operators’ (IOOs) requirements. By providing a synopsis of the background and current and planned RSU-related activities, this paper offers stakeholders information to understand, plan for, and engage in V2I research, development, and deployment efforts
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.
PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST: ITS IS SMART COMMUNITIES AND CITIESDESMOND YUEN
The report covers the benefits, goals, challenges, and success factors associated with smart cities and communities and gives a glimpse of a path forward.
BUILDING AN OPEN RAN ECOSYSTEM FOR EUROPEDESMOND YUEN
Five companies—Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, and Vodafone—published a report outlining why they feel Europe as a whole is lagging behind other regions such as the U.S. and Japan in developing Open RAN. The companies point to both a lack of companies developing key components, notably silicon chips, for Open RAN technologies, as well as the need to get incumbent equipment vendors Ericsson and Nokia on board with Open RAN development.
An Introduction to Semiconductors and IntelDESMOND YUEN
Did you know that...
The average American adult spends over 12 hours a day engaged with electronics — computers, mobile devices, TVs, cars, to name just a few — powered by semiconductors.
A common chip the size of your smallest fingernail is only about 1-millimeter thick but contains roughly 30 different layers of components and wires (called interconnects) that make up its complex circuitry.
Intel owns nearly 70,000 active patents worldwide. Its first — “Resistor for Integrated Circuit,” #3,631,313 — was granted to Gordon Moore on Dec. 28, 1971.
Those are a few fun facts in a high-level presentation that provides an easy-to-understand look at the world of semiconductors, why they matter and the role Intel plays in their creation.
Changing demographics and economic growth bloomDESMOND YUEN
Demography is destiny” is an oft-cited phrase that suggests the size, growth, and structure of a nation’s population deter mines its long-term social, economic, andpolitical fabric. The phrase highlights the role of
demographics in shaping many complex challenges
and opportunities societies face, including several
pertinent to economic growth and development.
Nevertheless, it is an overstatement to say that
demography determines all, as it downplays the
fact that both demographic trajectories and their
development implications are responsive to economic
incentives; to policy and institutional reforms; and to
changes in technology, cultural norms, and behavior.
The world is undergoing a major demographic
upheaval with three key components: population
growth, changes in fertility and mortality, and
associated changes in population age structure.
Intel Corporation (“Intel”) designs and manufactures
advanced integrated digital technology platforms that power
an increasingly connected world. A platform consists of
a microprocessor and chipset, and may be enhanced by
additional hardware, software, and services. The platforms
are used in a wide range of applications, such as PCs, laptops,
servers, tablets, smartphones, automobiles, automated
factory systems, and medical devices. Intel is also in the midst
of a corporate transformation that has seen its data-centric
businesses capture an increasing share of its revenue.
This report provides economic impact estimates for Intel in terms of employment, labor income, and gross domestic product (“GDP”) for the most recent historical year, 2019.1
Discover how private 5G networks can give enterprises options to enhance services and deliver new use cases with the level of control and investment they want.
Tackle more data science challenges than ever before without the need for discrete acceleration with the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Learn about the built-in AI acceleration and performance optimizations for popular AI libraries, tools and models.
The document describes how the latest Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) instructions and Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI) enabled in the latest Intel® 3rd Generation Xeon® Scalable Processor are used to significantly increase and achieve 1 Tb of IPsec throughput.
"Life and Learning After One-Hundred Years: Trust Is The Coin Of The Realm."DESMOND YUEN
The former secretary of state George Shultz passed away last weekend. He is one of the most influential secretaries of state in US history. Around the time of his hundredth birthday this past December, he published a short book on Trust and Effective Relationships
Telefónica views on the design, architecture, and technology of 4G/5G Open RA...DESMOND YUEN
This whitepaper is a blueprint for developing an Open RAN solution. It provides an overview of the main
technology elements that Telefónica is developing
in collaboration with selected partners in the Open
RAN ecosystem.
It describes the architectural elements, design
criteria, technology choices, and key chipsets
employed to build a complete portfolio of radio
units and baseband equipment capable of a full
4G/5G RAN rollout in any market of interest.
The field of machine programming — the automation of the development of software — is making notable research advances. This is, in part, due to the emergence of a wide range of novel techniques in machine learning. In today’s technological landscape, software is integrated into almost everything we do, but maintaining software is a time-consuming and error-prone process. When fully realized, machine programming will enable everyone to express their creativity and develop their own software without writing a single line of code. Intel realizes the pioneering promise of machine programming, which is why it created the Machine Programming Research (MPR) team in Intel Labs. The MPR team’s goal is to create a society where everyone can create software, but machines will handle the “programming” part.
Early Benchmarking Results for Neuromorphic ComputingDESMOND YUEN
An update on the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community’s growth and benchmark results, including the addition of new corporate members and numerous new benchmarking updates computed on Intel’s neuromorphic test chip, Loihi.
At Intel Labs Day 2020, Intel spotlighted research initiatives across multiple domains where its researchers are striving for orders of magnitude advancements to shape the next decade of computing. Themed “In Pursuit of 1000X: Disruptive Research for the Next Decade in Computing,” the event featured several emerging areas including integrated photonics, neuromorphic computing, quantum computing, confidential computing, and machine programming. Together, these domains represent pioneering efforts to address critical challenges in the future of computing, and Intel’s leadership role in pursuing breakthroughs to address them. Rich Uhlig, Intel senior fellow, vice president, and director of Intel Labs was joined by several domain experts across the research organization to share perspectives on the industry and societal impact of these technologies.
Road infrastructure solutions can play an important part in helping cities become safer, greener, and smarter. Governments throughout the world have initiated plans to deploy technologies for Smart
City, traffic management, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and road safety projects to mitigate the
challenges faced due to rapid urbanization.3 Road safety represents measures that can be taken to reduce
the risk of accidents and fatalities for road users (cyclists, motorists, pedestrians, vehicle passengers, and
public transport passengers) in the road network of built-up urban streets, non-built-up rural roads, and major highways.
Back in 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT), under the leadership of Secretary Anthony Foxx, has
leveraged nearly $350 million in public and private funds for smart city and advanced transportation technologies. Building on
Beyond Traffic 2045, the Smart City Challenge provided a spark for cities looking to revolutionize their transportation systems
to help improve people’s lives. Through the Smart City Challenge, the Department committed up to $40 million to one winning
city. In response, cities leveraged an additional $500 million in private and public funding to help make their Smart City visions
real. And, in October 2016, Secretary Foxx announced an additional $65 million in grants to support community-driven
advanced technology transportation projects in cities across America, including 4 of the finalists in the Smart City Challenge.
By challenging American cities to use emerging transportation technologies to address their most pressing problems, the
Smart City Challenge aimed to spread innovation through a mixture of competition, collaboration, and experimentation.
But the Smart City Challenge was about more than just technology. We called on mayors to define their most pressing
transportation problems and envision bold new solutions that could change the face of transportation in our cities by meeting
the needs of residents of all ages and abilities; and bridging the digital divide so that everyone, not just the tech-savvy, can be
connected to everything their city has to offer.
Intel® Ethernet Series Delivering Real-World Value. As computing and networking scale in performance, interconnect technologies play a critical role in ensuring systems reach their full potential in the speed at which they move data. Intel has been at the forefront of research and development into interconnect technologies since the dawn of the PC era. Today in the data center, Intel is working to deliver greater levels of intelligence within its connectivity solutions to overcome network bottlenecks and accelerate applications. Between PC and peripherals, Intel is heavily involved with the industry as it brings the latest technologies to market for the best user experiences. At the chip level, Intel is leading the industry in advanced packaging with technologies that connect chiplets and modules in order to deliver Moore’s Law advances, while also working to reduce latency between memory and CPU. From “Microns to Miles,” Intel’s investments in interconnect technologies are among the broadest in the industry.
On January 28, Truth in Accounting released its fourth annual Financial State of the Cities report, a comprehensive analysis of the fiscal health of the nation's 75 most populous cities based on fiscal year 2018 comprehensive annual financial reports.
Cities have become more transparent over the last few years, thanks to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles set by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, which now require governments to disclose pension and other post-employment (OPEB) benefits on their balance sheets. If these benefits have not been fully funded, they are considered liabilities, or debt, because they represent money owed to government employees in their retirement.
This year, the study found that 63 cities do not have enough money to pay all of their bills, and in total, the cities have racked up $323 billion in municipal debt. The study ranks the cities according to their Taxpayer Burden or Taxpayer Surplus™, which is each taxpayer's share of city bills after available assets have been tapped.
An Overview of USDOT Connected Vehicle Roadside Unit Research ActivitiesDESMOND YUEN
This paper provides an overview of USDOT-sponsored research and development activities for a key enabling component of connected vehicle (CV) vehicle-infrastructure (V2I) technology,
Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) roadside units (RSUs). USDOT has engaged in connected vehicle research during the last decade that has focused on enabling vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and V2I communications-based applications to achieve safety, mobility, and environmental benefits. The vision behind connected vehicle technologies includes a variety of
applications that can address differing needs, supported by standards and interoperable components that satisfy Infrastructure Owners and Operators’ (IOOs) requirements. By providing a synopsis of the background and current and planned RSU-related activities, this paper offers stakeholders information to understand, plan for, and engage in V2I research, development, and deployment efforts
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.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
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.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.