120 years ago the emergent field of experimental psychology became embroiled in debates as to whether plateaus in performance are real (or not) and if so whether they were due to periods in which league-stepping methods (originally defined as a hierarchy of habits that enabled experts to step leagues while novices were ``bustling over furlongs or inches'') were being acquired (or not). 20 years ago both the human-computer interaction and cognitive science communities were seized with concerns over performance plateaus (i.e., extended periods of stable suboptimal performance) from experts. I briefly review this history with the aim of drawing distinctions between performance asymptotes and performance plateaus, and argue that remediating one is the domain of design while remediating the other is the domain of training.
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.
Michelin Using TRIZ in the Product Development of Tweel Richard Platt
This is a presentation on How Michelin Tires used TRIZ to develop their Tweel design that has been making its way into the commercial market for its application on multiple automotive and wheeled vehicle applications
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.
The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) is a concept that was developed by the Russian patent officer, Genrich Altshuller Saulowich, in the former USSR in the 50s. The aim of this method was to systematically analyze technical issues, find innovative solutions as well as resolve technical and physical inconsistencies.
For this purpose, experience and knowledge levels are determined through successful innovations, from which forty innovation principles were derived, which form the core of the concept in addition to other methodological tools. These and other tools are used to analyze the problem and to abstract it, to develop ideas, implement them and evaluate in the final step.
QA-Financial Forum 2019 in New York
13 November
Iosif Itkin, CEO and co-founder
Elena Treshcheva, Business Development Manager and Researcher
An October 2019 survey by BoE and FCA found that ML in financial organizations has already passed an initial development phase, and the usage of live ML applications is about to dramatically increase over the next three years. Artificial Intelligence systems are used in market surveillance, they are providing intellectual analysis of news feeds, and they are an important part of the conversational agents facing users and helping them with their business needs from identity verification to trading and portfolio management. How to ensure that an AI-powered system is up to its task? And what would that mean from the software testing perspective?
QA Financial Forum London 2021 - Automation in Software Testing. Humans and C...Iosif Itkin
Speaker: Iosif Itkin, co-CEO & co-founder, Exactpro Systems
9th November 2021
Hilton Canary Wharf
Exactpro is an independent software testing business focused on mission-critical financial market infrastructures, primarily exchanges and clearing houses. In his presentation, Iosif will give a brief overview of research on the concept of model-based testing and the principal challenges of its application while testing complex distributed systems. He will also outline the broader context of interaction between humans and complex computer models.
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.
Michelin Using TRIZ in the Product Development of Tweel Richard Platt
This is a presentation on How Michelin Tires used TRIZ to develop their Tweel design that has been making its way into the commercial market for its application on multiple automotive and wheeled vehicle applications
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.
The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) is a concept that was developed by the Russian patent officer, Genrich Altshuller Saulowich, in the former USSR in the 50s. The aim of this method was to systematically analyze technical issues, find innovative solutions as well as resolve technical and physical inconsistencies.
For this purpose, experience and knowledge levels are determined through successful innovations, from which forty innovation principles were derived, which form the core of the concept in addition to other methodological tools. These and other tools are used to analyze the problem and to abstract it, to develop ideas, implement them and evaluate in the final step.
QA-Financial Forum 2019 in New York
13 November
Iosif Itkin, CEO and co-founder
Elena Treshcheva, Business Development Manager and Researcher
An October 2019 survey by BoE and FCA found that ML in financial organizations has already passed an initial development phase, and the usage of live ML applications is about to dramatically increase over the next three years. Artificial Intelligence systems are used in market surveillance, they are providing intellectual analysis of news feeds, and they are an important part of the conversational agents facing users and helping them with their business needs from identity verification to trading and portfolio management. How to ensure that an AI-powered system is up to its task? And what would that mean from the software testing perspective?
QA Financial Forum London 2021 - Automation in Software Testing. Humans and C...Iosif Itkin
Speaker: Iosif Itkin, co-CEO & co-founder, Exactpro Systems
9th November 2021
Hilton Canary Wharf
Exactpro is an independent software testing business focused on mission-critical financial market infrastructures, primarily exchanges and clearing houses. In his presentation, Iosif will give a brief overview of research on the concept of model-based testing and the principal challenges of its application while testing complex distributed systems. He will also outline the broader context of interaction between humans and complex computer models.
Cecily’s fun and inspiring programs take groups on a guided tour of the future where they find fresh answers to the age-old questions, “Who are you?” “Where are you going?” and “What’s your territory?” Whether an industry forecast, innovation challenge, leadership development, or for future-proofing a brand, Cecily is able to penetrate core issues and get to the best questions quickly. Her provocative and engaging programs offer a practical approach to connecting near-term realities with long-term objectives.
All programs are tailored to the interests and objectives of each group.
Ever wondered why some organisations have the ability to re-invent entire industries, time and time again?
Where does this source of continuous innovation and foresight come from?
Ever considered that these organisations have two separate innovation cycles in motion?
Good organisations are able to innovate and improve what they know. What the great organisations are able to achieve is the continuous ability to regenerate its own core strategies, based on what they don’t yet know, re-inventing entire industries along the way.
Using game-design pedagogies to embed skills in the law or social science curriculum - a 1 day conference held at Staffordshire University on behalf of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
“Horizon-scanning: A brave new world or re-inventing wheels” By Kris Lines, Senior Lecturer & Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Business Education & Law
Session outline: This session will explore how feature technologies (MOOCs, Wearable devices, Learning Analytics etc) will impact on the current educational pedagogies, and what implications this will have for learning, teaching and assessment strategies
Foresight driven innovation - boosting pulp and paper with scienceFredrik Rosén
What does self-opening packaging, textile like paperboard and the world’s first lignin-based carbon fibre composite have in common? They are all demonstrators of future use of wood fibres developed by Innventia – a world leading research institute that works with innovations based on forest raw materials.
Fredrik Rosén will present Innventia’s approach to foresight driven innovation at the RISI European Conference. Highlights from the Innventia Global Outlook Reports “Packaging 2020” and “Papermaking Towards the Future” will be presented. Packaging 2020 describes seven global forces and their impact on the packaging industry and the packaging of the future. The conclusions are based on a survey carried out among consumers in the US, India and Sweden. “Papermaking Towards the Future” is based on an expert survey with 150 respondents from 21 different countries and maps the most important trends and driving forces for tomorrow’s papermaking.
The CfWI horizon scanning team has produced a series of posters to represent the key messages from the CfWI report Big picture challenges for health and social care - implications for workforce planning, education, training and development which is due to be published shortly.
The posters focus on the five domains of Health Education England's Education Outcomes Framework
excellent education
competent and capable staff
adaptable and flexible workforce
NHS values and behaviours
widening participation
using them as a basis to put forward thought-provoking questions.
The posters are available to download below.
If you would like to contribute to our horizon scanning work, contact horizonscanning@cfwi.org.uk.
Presentation made at the 4th Workshop on Strategic Crisis Management (Paris, 28-29 May 2015). For more information, visit the meeting webpage: http://www.oecd.org/gov/risk/4th-workshop-strategic-crisis-management.htm.
Farmers manage large areas of landscapes that are altogether designed by heterogeneous actors. Conflicts may eventually arise in complex regions like the Mediterranean where the urban and agricultural actors’ spaces for action easily overlap and concur for the use and management of soil and water. A territorial or landscape perspective is therefore required to inform the design of land management systems capable to meet the place-based development goals. A greater involvement of agronomy in the landscape arena would help to design landscape management policies that are better informed of farming systems. Our aim is to present a territorial approach that supported a prospective analysis for the design of shared land management actions using the territory game.
- - -
Oral communication presented at the 14th conference of the European Society for Agronomy, Edinburgh 5-9 September 2016: "Growing landscapes: cultivating innovative agricultural systems"
Final session of executive session at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management's Allen Center program "Leading into the Future." http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/execed/programs/century.aspx
Athletes, Firemen and Doctors train everyday to be the best at their chosen profession. As engineers we spend much of our time getting stuff to production and making sure our infrastructure doesn’t burn down out right. We however spend very little time learning to understand and respond to outages.
Things like Infrastructure as Code, Service Discovery and Config Management can and have helped us to quickly build and rebuild infrastructure but we haven’t nearly spend enough time to train our self to review, monitor and respond to outages. Does our platform degrade in a graceful way or what does a high cpu load really mean? What can we learn from level 1 outages to be able to run our platforms more reliably.
In this talk we ll discuss the need for and the options of creating a game day culture. Where we as engineers not only write, maintain and operate our software platforms but actively pursue ways to learn and predict its (non-functional) behavior. We ll look at tools like toxiproxy and the simian army for ways to prepare teams to tweak their testing and monitoring setup and work instructions to quickly observe, react to and resolve problems.
OVERALL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS USING FUZZY LOGICIJCI JOURNAL
In this paper we use Fuzzy logic instead of the classical methods of performance evaluation of the students.
In classical methods mathematical calculations are being used. This performance evaluation is done for the
engineering students mainly. The overall evaluation cannot be just based on the total marks he/she
obtained in various subjects. A complete engineer is the one who is skilled in lab experiments , theory
papers as well as in projects. So Through this paper we put forward a fuzzy method for the same. Even
though this method requires additional software this is very helpful for teachers to evaluate a student. This
method is flexible as they can change the membership function and also its value.
Cecily’s fun and inspiring programs take groups on a guided tour of the future where they find fresh answers to the age-old questions, “Who are you?” “Where are you going?” and “What’s your territory?” Whether an industry forecast, innovation challenge, leadership development, or for future-proofing a brand, Cecily is able to penetrate core issues and get to the best questions quickly. Her provocative and engaging programs offer a practical approach to connecting near-term realities with long-term objectives.
All programs are tailored to the interests and objectives of each group.
Ever wondered why some organisations have the ability to re-invent entire industries, time and time again?
Where does this source of continuous innovation and foresight come from?
Ever considered that these organisations have two separate innovation cycles in motion?
Good organisations are able to innovate and improve what they know. What the great organisations are able to achieve is the continuous ability to regenerate its own core strategies, based on what they don’t yet know, re-inventing entire industries along the way.
Using game-design pedagogies to embed skills in the law or social science curriculum - a 1 day conference held at Staffordshire University on behalf of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
“Horizon-scanning: A brave new world or re-inventing wheels” By Kris Lines, Senior Lecturer & Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Business Education & Law
Session outline: This session will explore how feature technologies (MOOCs, Wearable devices, Learning Analytics etc) will impact on the current educational pedagogies, and what implications this will have for learning, teaching and assessment strategies
Foresight driven innovation - boosting pulp and paper with scienceFredrik Rosén
What does self-opening packaging, textile like paperboard and the world’s first lignin-based carbon fibre composite have in common? They are all demonstrators of future use of wood fibres developed by Innventia – a world leading research institute that works with innovations based on forest raw materials.
Fredrik Rosén will present Innventia’s approach to foresight driven innovation at the RISI European Conference. Highlights from the Innventia Global Outlook Reports “Packaging 2020” and “Papermaking Towards the Future” will be presented. Packaging 2020 describes seven global forces and their impact on the packaging industry and the packaging of the future. The conclusions are based on a survey carried out among consumers in the US, India and Sweden. “Papermaking Towards the Future” is based on an expert survey with 150 respondents from 21 different countries and maps the most important trends and driving forces for tomorrow’s papermaking.
The CfWI horizon scanning team has produced a series of posters to represent the key messages from the CfWI report Big picture challenges for health and social care - implications for workforce planning, education, training and development which is due to be published shortly.
The posters focus on the five domains of Health Education England's Education Outcomes Framework
excellent education
competent and capable staff
adaptable and flexible workforce
NHS values and behaviours
widening participation
using them as a basis to put forward thought-provoking questions.
The posters are available to download below.
If you would like to contribute to our horizon scanning work, contact horizonscanning@cfwi.org.uk.
Presentation made at the 4th Workshop on Strategic Crisis Management (Paris, 28-29 May 2015). For more information, visit the meeting webpage: http://www.oecd.org/gov/risk/4th-workshop-strategic-crisis-management.htm.
Farmers manage large areas of landscapes that are altogether designed by heterogeneous actors. Conflicts may eventually arise in complex regions like the Mediterranean where the urban and agricultural actors’ spaces for action easily overlap and concur for the use and management of soil and water. A territorial or landscape perspective is therefore required to inform the design of land management systems capable to meet the place-based development goals. A greater involvement of agronomy in the landscape arena would help to design landscape management policies that are better informed of farming systems. Our aim is to present a territorial approach that supported a prospective analysis for the design of shared land management actions using the territory game.
- - -
Oral communication presented at the 14th conference of the European Society for Agronomy, Edinburgh 5-9 September 2016: "Growing landscapes: cultivating innovative agricultural systems"
Final session of executive session at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management's Allen Center program "Leading into the Future." http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/execed/programs/century.aspx
Athletes, Firemen and Doctors train everyday to be the best at their chosen profession. As engineers we spend much of our time getting stuff to production and making sure our infrastructure doesn’t burn down out right. We however spend very little time learning to understand and respond to outages.
Things like Infrastructure as Code, Service Discovery and Config Management can and have helped us to quickly build and rebuild infrastructure but we haven’t nearly spend enough time to train our self to review, monitor and respond to outages. Does our platform degrade in a graceful way or what does a high cpu load really mean? What can we learn from level 1 outages to be able to run our platforms more reliably.
In this talk we ll discuss the need for and the options of creating a game day culture. Where we as engineers not only write, maintain and operate our software platforms but actively pursue ways to learn and predict its (non-functional) behavior. We ll look at tools like toxiproxy and the simian army for ways to prepare teams to tweak their testing and monitoring setup and work instructions to quickly observe, react to and resolve problems.
OVERALL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS USING FUZZY LOGICIJCI JOURNAL
In this paper we use Fuzzy logic instead of the classical methods of performance evaluation of the students.
In classical methods mathematical calculations are being used. This performance evaluation is done for the
engineering students mainly. The overall evaluation cannot be just based on the total marks he/she
obtained in various subjects. A complete engineer is the one who is skilled in lab experiments , theory
papers as well as in projects. So Through this paper we put forward a fuzzy method for the same. Even
though this method requires additional software this is very helpful for teachers to evaluate a student. This
method is flexible as they can change the membership function and also its value.
Athletes, Firemen and Doctors train everyday to be the best at their chosen profession. As engineers, we spend much of our time getting stuff to production and making sure our infrastructure doesn’t burn down out right. In this talk, we'll discuss the need for and the options of creating a game day culture. Where we as engineers not only write, maintain and operate our software platforms but actively pursue ways to learn and predict its (non-functional) behavior. We'll look at tools like toxiproxy and the simian army for ways to prepare teams to tweak their testing and monitoring setup and work instructions to quickly observe, react to and resolve problems.
Daniel Samaan: ChatGPT and the Future of WorkEdunomica
Daniel Samaan: ChatGPT and the Future of Work
People Analytics Conference 2023 Summer
Website: https://pacamp.org
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeHtPZ_ZLZ-nHFMUCXY81RQ
FB: https://www.facebook.com/pacamporg
In this deck, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich presents: Scientific Benchmarking of Parallel Computing Systems.
"Measuring and reporting performance of parallel computers constitutes the basis for scientific advancement of high-performance computing. Most scientific reports show performance improvements of new techniques and are thus obliged to ensure reproducibility or at least interpretability. Our investigation of a stratified sample of 120 papers across three top conferences in the field shows that the state of the practice is not sufficient. For example, it is often unclear if reported improvements are in the noise or observed by chance. In addition to distilling best practices from existing work, we propose statistically sound analysis and reporting techniques and simple guidelines for experimental design in parallel computing. We aim to improve the standards of reporting research results and initiate a discussion in the HPC field. A wide adoption of this minimal set of rules will lead to better reproducibility and interpretability of performance results and improve the scientific culture around HPC."
Learn more: https://htor.inf.ethz.ch/
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
The more potent AI becomes, the more important it becomes to get it right. Todays most pressing problem is bias in AI. Here you can find an indepth analysis about the current status of bias mitigation algorithms and the exciting new findings that some bias can not be mitigates (impossibility theorem).
Multitasking: Maximum Effectiveness, Minimum Errors.Rommie Duckworth
Multitasking has long been a part of emergency services but only recently have advances in neuroscience, cognitive psychology and functional MRI studies allowed us to peer into the multitasking mind and the parts of the brain that control it. New information shows us how we can better train our students and ourselves to improve multitasking, filter out “task noise” and identify when to sidestep multitasking to avoid costly clinical, tactical and managerial mistakes.
Teaching Formats:
-Lecture
-Demonstration Exercises
-Question and Answer
Learning Objectives: Students will learn:
- The difference between multitasking and task-switching.
- The function of the Executive System of the brain.
- The difference between automatic and controlled thought processes.
- How to focus training to prepare students for a multitasking environment.
- When and how to avoid multitasking for better trouble-shooting and decision-making (clinical, tactical, managerial).
Find more at www.romduckworth.com
In this session, I talk about how empirical data (which I’m calling agile numbers) can serve as signposts on our journey to reach the goal of delivering customer value faster with maximum reliability and minimum issues. I’ll show how agile numbers can help us determine if a practice is worth the investment and whether it will improve our team’s performance. I will also share examples of agile numbers that can assist you in your agile journey. Those numbers are pulled from different sources like scientific studies, research from Google, and the 2017 State of DevOps Report.
The talk explores what empirical data tells us about what works and what doesn’t in software delivery:
* What is the best team structure that leads to high IT performance?
* What is the best architecture that leads to high IT performance?
* Do skills, experience and personalities on a team what distinguishes great teams?
* What leadership attributes are tied to high IT performance?
Is estimation scientifically valid?
* Do code review works? How much time should we spend on them?
* How long is too long for a branch?
* And much more
Teaching cognitive computing with ibm watsondiannepatricia
Ralph Badinelli, Lenz Chair in the Department of Business Information Technology, Pamplin College of Business of Virginia Tech. presented "Teaching Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson" as part of the Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series.
Cognitive systems institute talk 8 june 2017 - v.1.0diannepatricia
José Hernández-Orallo, Full Professor, Department of Information Systems and Computation at the Universitat Politecnica de València, presentation “Evaluating Cognitive Systems: Task-oriented or Ability-oriented?” as part of the Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series.
Building Compassionate Conversational Systemsdiannepatricia
Rama Akkiraju, Distinguished Engineer and Master Inventor at IBM, presention "Building Compassionate Conversational Systems" as part of the Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series.
“Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing and Innovating in Practice”diannepatricia
Cristina Mele, Full Professor of Management at the University of Napoli “Federico II”, presentation as part of Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series
Eric Manser and Will Scott from IBM Research, presentation on "Cognitive Insights Drive Self-driving Accessibility" as part of the Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series
Roberto Sicconi and Malgorzata (Maggie) Stys, founders of TeleLingo, presented "AI in the Car" as part of the Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series.
“Semantic PDF Processing & Document Representation”diannepatricia
Sridhar Iyengar, IBM Distinguished Engineer at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, presention “Semantic PDF Processing & Document Representation” as part of the Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series.
Joining Industry and Students for Cognitive Solutions at Karlsruhe Services R...diannepatricia
Gerhard Satzger, Director of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute and two former students and IBMers, Sebastian Hirschl and Kathrin Fitzer, presention"Joining Industry and Students for Cognitive Solutions at Karlsruhe Services Research Center" as part of the Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series.
170330 cognitive systems institute speaker series mark sherman - watson pr...diannepatricia
Dr. Mark Sherman, Director of the Cyber Security Foundations group at CERT within CMU’s Software Engineering Institute. , presention “Experiences Developing an IBM Watson Cognitive Processing Application to Support Q&A of Application Security Diagnostics” as part of the Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series.
“Fairness Cases as an Accelerant and Enabler for Cognitive Assistance Adoption”diannepatricia
Chuck Howell, Chief Engineer for Intelligence Programs and Integration at the MITRE Corporation, presentation “Fairness Cases as an Accelerant and Enabler for Cognitive Assistance Adoption” as part of the Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series.
From complex Systems to Networks: Discovering and Modeling the Correct Network"diannepatricia
From complex Systems to Networks: Discovering and Modeling the Correct Network" by Nitesh Chawla as part of the Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series
Nitesh Chawla is the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and director of the research center on network and data sciences (iCeNSA) at the University of Notre Dame.
Developing Cognitive Systems to Support Team Cognitiondiannepatricia
Steve Fiore from the University of Central Florida presented “Developing Cognitive Systems to Support Team Cognition” as part of the Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series
Kevin Sullivan from the University of Virginia presented: "Cyber-Social Learning Systems: Take-Aways from First Community Computing Consortium Workshop on Cyber-Social Learning Systems" as part of the Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series.
“IT Technology Trends in 2017… and Beyond”diannepatricia
William Chamberlin, IBM Distinguished Market Intelligence Professional, presented “IT Technology Trends in 2017… and Beyond” as part of the Cognitive Systems Institute Speaker Series on January 26, 2017.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
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Wayne gray presentation
1. Asymptotes, Plateaus, and Limits to Human Performance
Wayne D. Gray
Cognitive Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Presentation to the IBM Cognitive Systems Institute – 2015.Feb.05
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2. THANKS TO THESE SUPPORTERS!
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3. The Cognitive Science of The Little Engine that Could
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A view of human systems (aka people) as attempting to optimize
performance under constraints. Where these constraints come from:
Bounds on our innate cognitive capacities.
Limits to our acquired skill and knowledge.
The structure of the external task environment in which we
operate.
The goals we are trying to achieve.
If this human system is chugging along, like the Little Engine that
Could, at some given performance ceiling – we can then ask whether
this limit this due:
to external factors that can be altered,
to internal factors that can be altered, or
to factors that cannot be altered.
4. PERFORMANCE GENERALLY IMPROVES WITH
PRACTICE. . . BUT WHY?
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W. L. Bryan
With practice, performance whether it is with
telegraphy, typing, software programs,
arithmetic, programming, mnemonics, or
video games generally improves.
But experts are not simply faster than
novices; rather, they develop a hierarchy of
habits than enable them to “step leagues”
while novices are “bustling over furlongs or
inches”.
CITATION
Bryan, W. L. & Harter, N. (1897). Studies in the physiology and psychology of
the telegraphic language. Psychological Review, 4(1), 27–53
Bryan, W. L. & Harter, N. (1899). Studies on the telegraphic language: the
acquisition of a hierarchy of habits. Psychological Review, 6(4), 345–375
5. PERFORMANCE GENERALLY IMPROVES WITH
PRACTICE . . . EXCEPT WHEN IT DOESN’T!
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Hypothesized that telegraphic expertise consisted of a hierarchy
of habits.
Plateaus were periods in which elements at one level of the
hierarchy were being combined so as to be used at a higher level.
dots and dashes → letters → words → phrases
But . . .
6. THESE PLATEAUS COULD LAST A LONG LONG TIME
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E. L. Thorndike
“I venture to prophesy that the thousand
bookkeepers in, say, the grocery stores of New
York who have each had a thousand hours of
practice at addition, are still, on the average,
adding less than two-thirds as rapidly as they
could, and making twice as many errors as they
would at their limit.”
“It appears likely that the majority of teachers make no gain in
efficiency after their third year of service, but I am confident that
the majority of such teachers could teach very much better than
they do.”
“It seems to me therefore that mental training in schools, in
industry and in morals is characterized, over and over and over
again, by spurious limits – by levels or plateaus of efficiency
which could be surpassed.”
CITATION
Thorndike, E. L. (1913). Educational Psychology Vol II: The Psychology of
Learning. NYC: Teachers College, Columbia University
7. PLAN FOR THIS TALK
Skip the remainder of the first 90 years (1897 – 1987) of scientific
research on expert performance.
Jump to 1987 to Carroll & Rosson’s Paradox of the Active User and
Ericsson’s (1993) Deliberate Practice and the view shared by both
that expert is not good enough.
Three types of performance asymptotes and one type of plateau.
Summarize everything in time for questions!
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8. Outline
1 Mere Expertise is Not Good Enough
2 Plateaus and Asymptotes
3 Outside the Lab: Good → Better → Best!
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9. OUTSIDE THE LAB – THE PARADOX OF THE ACTIVE
USER
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Jack Carroll Mary Beth Rosson
In 1987, Carroll and Rosson coined the term,
Paradox of the Active User, to refer to the
“suboptimal use of office productivity software”
by people who use the systems daily across the
course of weeks, months, and years.
Carroll and Rosson, who at that time worked for
the IBM Watson Research Center, shared the
HCI community’s concern that the expected
productivity gains of the computer revolution
were not occurring.
10. MERE EXPERTISE IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH
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Anders Ericsson
A few years later, based on his studies of human
expertise, Ericsson (1993) concluded that, “the
belief that a sufficient amount of experience or
practice leads to maximal performance appears
incorrect”.
CITATION
Ericsson, K. A., Krampe, R. T., & Tesch-Römer, C. (1993). The role of
deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. Psychological
Review, 100(3), 363–406
11. LIMITS TO EXPERTISE
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After years of lurking in the background, the
plateau had returned to front and center.
12. RESOLVING THE PARADOX OF THE ACTIVE USER
Suboptimal performance can be amazingly stable! Fu and Gray (2004).
What is optimal?
Is it optimal to learn 100 different commands and procedures that
each do one thing very well (fast, precisely, . . . )?
Is it optimal to learn one command and procedure that can be
tweaked into doing 100 different things? (slowly, approximately, . . . )
Breaking a habit – the case of hunt & peck versus touchtyping
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CITATION
Fu, W.-T. & Gray, W. D. (2004). Resolving the paradox of the active user:
Stable suboptimal performance in interactive tasks. Cognitive Science,
28(6), 901–935
13. Outline
1 Mere Expertise is Not Good Enough
2 Plateaus and Asymptotes
3 Outside the Lab: Good → Better → Best!
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14. PLATEAUS VERSUS ASYMPTOTES: POLE VAULTING
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A history of technological innovations as the composition of the
pole changed from ash (wood), to bamboo (wood), to
fiberglass/carbon.
Each technology, enabled pole vaulters to break new records
Followed by invention of new methods that resulted in new
rounds of record breaking as those methods were adopted and
adapted by athletes.
Asymptote → New technology → New methods → Asymptote
15. PLATEAUS VERSUS ASYMPTOTES: HIGH JUMPING
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A history of innovations in methods.
Method – Fosbury Flop could have been invented earlier.
Plateau → New Method → New Plateau
The Scissors and Straddle technique for high jumping.
The Fosbury Flop technique for high jumping.
16. PLATEAUS AND ASYMPTOTES
How do plateaus and asymptotes come about??
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17. ASYMPTOTE DUE TO ARTIFACT DESIGN
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Crossman’s (1959) study of cigar rollers in Cuba. Plot shows a continued
increase in performance over a two year period (estimated as 3 million
cigars) and then a flattening of the curve.
Newell and Rosenbloom (1981, p. 7) attribute this flattening to a “known
lower bound for the performance time” in this task; namely, the “cycle time
of the machine.”
18. ASYMPTOTE DUE TO SYSTEM DESIGN
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A field trial of two workstations for Telephone Operators
(Gray, John, & Atwood, 1993).
Expected call times to decrease across the 4-mon trial.
But after 2-mon worktimes stabilized with times per call
slower than for the old workstation
Slow enough to increase annual operating costs by $6.2
million (in 2014 dollars).
Diagnosis:
Designers believed call time driven by the # of keys-per-call.
Predicted savings of 4.1 s in mean item per call for annual savings of $24m.
BUT cognitive modeling showed that old workstation enabled Operators to
interleave keypresses, chats with customer, and wait time for external
databases.
Conclusion:
Based on the models, Operators were becoming more expert at the new
workstation but asymptotes due to systems design prevented these gains in
expertise from yielding performance increments.
19. ASYMPTOTE DUE TO MEASUREMENT METHOD
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Example from Space Fortress in which a measurement method was introduced
about 1994 that has affected many of the conclusions reached by researchers ever
since.
To simplify the story . . . changed scoring so that it included 4 component scores
and one overall score. These measures can be shown to be (1) not independent of
each other and (2) two of these measures asymptote even as skilled performance
increases.
20. ASYMPTOTE OR PLATEAU? THE CASE OF DIGIT SPAN
The Digit Span Task – An important part of the Wechsler Adult
Intelligence Scale (WAIS) IQ test (and others).
Digits (0-9) are read at the rate of 1 per sec.
Followed immediately by ordered recall.
If all digits were recalled correctly, the length of the next run of digits
was increased by 1.
If all are not correct, the next run is decreased by 1.
The population norm is 7 ± 2.
Is this an asymptote due to limitations built into the human brain? or
Is this a plateau due to massive stable suboptimal performance on the
part of the entire human population?
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21. ASYMPTOTE OR PLATEAU? THE CASE OF DIGIT SPAN
Well? . . . This is an IQ test item!! Therefore it MUST be measuring an
individual difference variable that differs between humans but is stable, or
asymptotic, for any given individual.
Right . . . ?
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22. IS HUMAN DIGIT SPAN A POPULATION ASYMPTOTE
OR PLATEAU? – PLATEAU!!
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The difference between a plateau and asymptote is made clear by the
existence of extreme experts with a known history of transcending the
plateau.
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23. Strategy Plateaus and the Paradox of the Active User.
Issue: The difference between a plateau and an asymptote may be
hard to determine.
Asymptotes may reflect a problem that can be fixed by design
(whether artifact design or system design); however, plateaus due to
strategy-induced suboptimality may arise when the strategies deployed
do not enable utility maximization in the task environment.
Overcoming such strategy-induced suboptimality is usually very
difficult.
Example of transfer from visually-guided to touch typing.
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24. Outline
1 Mere Expertise is Not Good Enough
2 Plateaus and Asymptotes
3 Outside the Lab: Good → Better → Best!
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28. Outside the Lab – Resolving the Paradox of the Active User
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If “most people and professionals reach a stable performance
asymptote within a limited time period” (Ericsson, 2004), then
practice does not make perfect.
Unless, as a society, we can be content with “stable suboptimal
performance plateaus” then something more is needed. We
suggest that this “something more” is research into the
acquisition of expertise in mundane (i.e., everyday) task
environments.
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Thank You!!
30. REFERENCES I
Bryan, W. L. & Harter, N. (1897). Studies in the physiology and psychology
of the telegraphic language. Psychological Review, 4(1), 27–53.
Bryan, W. L. & Harter, N. (1899). Studies on the telegraphic language: the
acquisition of a hierarchy of habits. Psychological Review, 6(4),
345–375.
Crossman, E. R. F. W. (1959). A theory of the acquisition of speed-skill.
Ergonomics, 2(2), 153–166.
Ericsson, K. A. (2004). Deliberate practice and the acquisition and
maintenance of expert performance in medicine and related domains.
Academic Medicine, 79(10, S), S70–S81.
Ericsson, K. A., Krampe, R. T., & Tesch-Römer, C. (1993). The role of
deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance.
Psychological Review, 100(3), 363–406.
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31. REFERENCES II
Fu, W.-T. & Gray, W. D. (2004). Resolving the paradox of the active user:
Stable suboptimal performance in interactive tasks. Cognitive Science,
28(6), 901–935.
Gopher, D., Weil, M., & Bareket, T. (1994). Transfer of skill from a
computer game trainer to flight. Human Factors, 36(3), 387–405.
Gray, W. D., John, B. E., & Atwood, M. E. (1993). Project Ernestine:
Validating a GOMS analysis for predicting and explaining real-world
performance. Human-Computer Interaction, 8(3), 237–309.
Newell, A. & Rosenbloom, P. S. (1981). Mechanisms of skill acquisition and
the law of practice. In J. R. Anderson (Ed.), Cognitive skills and their
acquisition (pp. 1–55). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Thorndike, E. L. (1913). Educational Psychology Vol II: The Psychology of
Learning. NYC: Teachers College, Columbia University.
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