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The issue of how to best handle the impacts of Donald Trump's U.S. presidency is becoming a priority for Canadians voting in the next federal election. SFU political scientist Sanjay Jeram joins the show to discuss how Trump's tariff threats could factor in the ballot, and we take audience members' calls to find out who you think is the best candidate to deal with Donald Trump.The United Steelworkers union is condemning Trump's plan to impose 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Guio Jacinto, the union's lead researcher on tariffs, discusses the impacts. The B.C. Securities Commission is sounding the alarm on the rise of AI scams targeting investments. Pamela McDonald, the commission's director of communications, and Ali Mahdavi Amirian, an SFU assistant professor in the School of Computing Science, discuss the concerns surrounding AI fraud. We take audience members' calls to weigh in.

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GB2RS News Sunday the 13th of October The news headlines: The RSGB 2024 Convention is taking place this weekend Two new volunteer Youth Champions have been appointed by the RSGB Celebrations are underway to mark the first trans-global two-way radio communication The RSGB Convention has been in full swing this weekend. If you haven't been able to attend, the RSGB has provided a packed live stream on each day and those live streams are available for anyone to view. Full of presentations, interviews and videos to inspire you, this is another way to enjoy your Convention, in your way. Either go directly to the RSGB YouTube channel or head over to rsgb.org/livestream to see the programme of presentations and the links to the livestreams. The RSGB is delighted to announce the appointment of two new volunteer Youth Champion roles. Chris Aitken, MM0WIC will be the RSGB's School Youth Champion and Rhys Williams, M0WGY/AJ6XD will be the University Youth Champion. Chris is a Computing Science teacher at Wick High School, Caithness. Since 2023, Chris has been running the Wick High School Radio Club, GM0WHS, providing students with a wide range of experiences in amateur radio. He has four students who have passed their Foundation licence exam and are now taking on leadership roles within the club and assisting the latest cohort in their studies. He is also a member of the RSGB Outreach Team. You can contact Chris via youthchampion.school@rsgb.org.uk  Rhys represented the RSGB at the Youngsters on the Air Camp in Prague this year. He sent back daily reports on his activities which you can still see on the website under the summer camps tab at rsgb.org/yota  He is starting a PhD in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Oxford and is keen to help the RSGB support the growth of amateur radio in universities across the UK. You can contact Rhys via youthchampion.uni@rsgb.org.uk  Ben Lloyd, GW4BML is the Board Liaison for youth activities. He said that he welcomes Chris and Rhys to their new youth volunteer roles and looks forward to working closely with them in the future to attract and grow RSGB youth membership. He explained that the three of them have already had some positive conversations and shared some good ideas, which they will be putting into place over the coming months. This week marks the centenary of the world's very first trans-global two-way radio communication. On the 18th of October 1924 Frank Bell, 4AA, from New Zealand, and Cecil Goyder, 2SZ, from North London, changed how we communicate forever by making contact on amateur bands. To commemorate this historic contact, special callsigns will be active, and awards and QSL cards will be available for those who make contact with these special stations. GB2NZ and ZM100DX have already been active since the start of the month. Starting tomorrow, until the 20th of October, calls reflecting Goyder's callsign, G2SZ, and Bell's, ZL4AA, will be active. This will include activity here in the UK from Mill Hill School in North London which is the original location from which Goyder made his contact. On Friday the 18th of October, radio amateurs will also be recreating and re-enacting the first contact between Goyder and Bell. It is hoped that the QSO will be made on a wavelength close to that used in 1924. To find out more about this unique celebration go to gb2nz.com YOTA Month is just around the corner, and the RSGB is looking for volunteers to host the GB24YOTA callsign throughout the month of December. As in previous years, schools, clubs, guide and scout groups and also individuals are invited to host young radio amateurs whilst they operate with the callsign. Each day during the month has been split into a number of operating slots that you can book. In recent years, this system has allowed many more youngsters to get on the radio throughout the month. You can see the operating calendar by visiting QRZ.com and searching for GB24YOTA. Operators should be below the age of 26. Those who do not hold a Full amateur radio licence should be supervised by an appropriate Full licensee whilst operating. The RSGB is pleased that previous activators have already reached out to book their operating slots but there are still many more up for grabs! To book an operating slot or for more information about YOTA Month, please email Jamie, M0SDV at yota.month@rsgb.org.uk During last month's Hamfest in Newark, the ICQ Podcast team spoke with RSGB President John McCullagh GI4BWM, RSGB Board Chair Stewart Bryant G3YSX and RSGB General Manager Steve Thomas M1ACB. Listen to Episode 440 of the podcast series to hear them discuss some of the many events that the Society is currently involved with. This includes the recent Amateur Radio on the International Space Station contact, which Girlguiding and HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh took part in, as well as the RSGB Convention. The second part of the interview, which features the Chair of the RSGB's Propagation Studies Committee, Steve Nichols, G0KYA will be aired during upcoming Episode 441. Visit icqpodcast.com to listen to episode 440 now. The RSGB has been delighted with the number of responses that it has received in response to its call for Jamboree on the Air participation, which is taking place between the 18th and 20th of October. The Society has compiled a list of Scouting groups that are involved with the annual event and has shared it on its website. The list is available by going to rsgb.org/jota and choosing the ‘JOTA Stations on the Air' link on the right hand side of the page. If you are planning to get involved with JOTA and would like to be added to the list, please get in touch via comms@rsgb.org.uk with a summary of your station name, callsign and any other relevant information. The RSGB would love to see your photos of Scouts getting involved with JOTA, so tag @theRSGB and also use #JOTAJOTI to be involved in the conversation on social media. If you're not involved with a JOTA station do listen out for them on the air and encourage the young operators. And now for details of rallies and events The Dartmoor Autumn Radio Rally is taking place today, the 13th. The venue is Yelverton War Memorial Hall, Meavy Lane, Yelverton in Devon. The usual bring-and-buy area, trader stands, refreshments and free parking are available. The doors are open from 10 am and admission costs £2.50. For more information visit dartmoorradioclub.uk or email 2e0rph@gmail.com Hornsea Amateur Radio Club Rally is also taking place today, the 13th, at Driffield Showground in East Yorkshire. The doors are open from 10 am. For more details visit hornseaarc.com or contact Les, 2E0LBJ on 01377 252 293. The Mexborough and District Amateur Radio Society Rally is taking place on Saturday the 19th of October at The Place, Castle Street, Conisborough, Doncaster. The doors will be open from 10 am to 4pm but traders can gain entry from 8am. Light refreshments will be available and the rally will feature a bring-and-buy sale. The cost for booking a table is £5. To book please email madarsrally@gmail.com  The date has been confirmed for the Twelfth Scottish Microwave Round Table GMRT. It will be going ahead on Saturday the 9th of November 2024 at the Museum of Communication, Burntisland in Fife. Lunch will be provided and an optional dinner will be held in the evening at a local hotel. The programme is now confirmed and, at the moment, 35 people have booked to attend the event. There are 15 places left so please book as soon as possible. Booking is available via the GMRT website at gmroundtable.org.uk or by email to Colin, GM4HWO at gm4hwo@gmail.com  Now the Special Event news Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the formation of Radio Beograd in 1924, members of the Belgrade Amateur Radio Club, YU1ANO, in Serbia, are active as YT100RB and YU1924RB until the 30th of November. For details of a certificate that is available for contacting these stations, see yu1ano.org Special callsign HB50VC is active until the 31st of December to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Swissair Amateur Radio Club, HB9VC. QSOs will be uploaded to the Logbook of the World. QSL cards will not be provided. You can download a certificate for working this special event station from tinyurl.com/HB50VC-24 Now the DX news The PX0FF Dxpedition team is active from Fernando de Noronha, SA-003, until the 21st of October. The team is working on the 160 to 6m bands, including the 60m Band, using CW, SSB and FT8. QSL via DJ4MX, ClubLog, OQRS and Logbook of the World. A team of amateurs will be active as C91BV from Mozambique from the 17th to the 24th of October. Operators will be working on the HF bands using CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8. QSL via EB7DX. For more information about the DXpedition, see QRZ.com Now the contest news On Tuesday the 15th, the RSGB 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes on the 23cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Wednesday the 16th, the RSGB Autumn Series Data Contest runs from 1900 to 2030UTC. Using RTTY and PSK63 on the 80m band, the exchange is signal report and serial number. On Thursday the 17th, the RSGB 70MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes on the 4m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The Worked All Germany Contest starts at 1500 UTC on Saturday the 19th and ends at 1500 UTC on Sunday the 20th of October. Using CW and SSB on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. On Sunday the 20th, the RSGB 50MHz Affiliated Societies Contest runs from 0900 to 1300UTC. Using all modes on the 6m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.  Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA, and G4BAO on Wednesday the 9th of October 2024 What a difference a week makes when it comes to HF propagation! This last week has been characterised by solar flares, coronal mass ejections, or CMEs for short, and an elevated Kp index. Put together, this has resulted in dire conditions on HF, reminiscent of a solar minimum. A visible aurora was seen from the UK once again after the Kp index hit 7.33 on the 8th of October. Numerous CMEs have hit the Earth and the solar proton flux has risen, resulting in a moderate S2 radiation storm as particles blasted away from the flare site. This means poor trans-polar paths until the solar wind abates and the storm settles. Maximum usable frequencies have been badly affected and struggled to get much past 14MHz over a 3,000km path on the 8th of October. Geomagnetic storms were also forecast for Thursday the 10th and Friday the 11th. That's a shame as, before the CMEs hit, HF had been humming with a lot of DX on the 28MHz band and many five-watt beacons romping in from the USA. Next week, NOAA predicts that the solar flux index may drop back into the 170s, but it's anyone's guess as to how geomagnetic conditions will pan out. We have had three X-class solar flares over the past week and on Wednesday the 9th the probability of another X-class solar flare was estimated at 30% and an M-class event at 75%. So, it may be a case of ‘batten down the hatches' on HF until the storm conditions pass. This is not uncommon at this point in the solar cycle and unsettled conditions are likely to continue as we move along the downward portion towards the solar minimum.  And now the VHF and up propagation news from G3YLA and G4BAO The current spell of unsettled weather is probably going to flip into high-pressure mode a couple of times during the coming week. The first of these will be today, the 13th, and through the first half of next week. However, by Wednesday the next change back to low pressure should be with us, closely followed by another attempt to build high pressure later in the week.  This offers something for everyone with prospects for rain scatter on the GHz bands and the possibility of Tropo. The prospects for meteor scatter are also good with October offering several useful meteor showers. While 50 and 70MHz are the best for the mode, look at 144.360MHz in MSK144 digimode. Or, if it's a shower peak, 144.200MHz, the SSB meteor scatter calling channel, to see what's around. The solar conditions continue to behave like a solar maximum and, with several recent powerful flares and CMEs to stir things up, we should continue to check the bands for signs of aurora.  The recent RSGB CW 80m Autumn Series Contest on Monday the 7th of October was about as auroral as it gets with a strong flutter on signals and a challenging hour and a half for participants – so not just an effect for VHF.  The RSGB 1.3GHz UK Activity Contest coming up next week on Tuesday the 15th may be on the changeover from high pressure to low. Tropo might be limited to eastern areas for paths across the North Sea to northern Europe. For EME operators, Moon declination is still negative but will rise to positive by Tuesday night. Path losses are falling towards a minimum at perigee on Thursday the 17th. So, we have increasing peak Moon elevations and longer Moon windows with the lowest loss for the coming week. 144MHz sky noise is low for the rest of the week. And that's all from the propagation team this week.

Neste episódio do Fronteiras da Engenharia de Software, Adolfo Neto, professor da UTFPR Curitiba, e Maria Claudia Emer, coordenadora do Emílias - Armação em Bits, entrevistam Cecília Mary Fischer Rubira, Professora Titular do Instituto de Computação da UNICAMP. Cecília possui doutorado em Computing Science pela Universidade de Newcastle Upon Tyne, orientada por Brian Randell, um dos pioneiros da Engenharia de Software, e é livre-docente em Engenharia de Software pela UNICAMP. O foco da conversa é “Arquitetura de Software e Sistemas Adaptativos”. Cecília explora o que são sistemas adaptativos e como eles se diferenciam de outros sistemas, além de discutir questões como escalabilidade, resiliência e os principais desafios de implementação. A entrevista também aborda as abordagens emergentes para a construção desses sistemas, como MAPE-K, e explora tópicos relacionados à pesquisa em engenharia de software, incluindo a provisão de garantias para sistemas auto-adaptativos. Cecília também reflete sobre sua experiência acadêmica, sua carreira e projetos atuais, oferecendo uma visão profunda sobre o estado atual e o futuro da engenharia de software. Links Cecília: Página no IC-UNICAMP: https://ic.unicamp.br/docente/cecilia-mary-fischer-rubira/ Artigos: Software engineering for self-adaptive systems: Research challenges in the provision of assurances 2017 https://bit.ly/3Z719ek  Towards a Metamodel for Supporting Decisions in Knowledge-Intensive Processes https://bit.ly/4g7QZjM Outros links: Inscrições abertas para a Turma 2025 do Mestrado em Computação Aplicada da UTFPR! Acesse o edital: https://bit.ly/ppgca2025  Mestrado e Doutorado em Ciência da Computação na UNICAMP https://ic.unicamp.br/pos-graduacao/  Fifty Years of Software Engineering - or - The View from Garmisch, Brian Randell https://bit.ly/3MBnOI5  Especialização em Engenharia de Software https://ic.unicamp.br/extensao/cursos/engenharia-de-software/ Fronteiras 13 Fernando Castor - Compreensão de Código https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fronteirases/episodes/13-Compreenso-de-Cdigo-com-Fernando-Castor-UFPE-e12ssjs "PodCast: Memórias e Histórias" do IC UNICAMP https://dev.to/fronteirases/podcast-do-ic-unicamp-3463 Notebook LLM https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/86bb8231-5bac-4cf1-bc08-65931aefa43c "Cinquenta Anos de Engenharia de Software - ou - A Visão de Garmisch" http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PDF  ICSE 2018 - Plenary Sessions - Brian Randell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdEGNpbD8FY ICSE2018 - Plenary Session - Panel: 50 years of Software Engineering & Celebrating the 40th ICSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HssVXx7xy8  ICSE 2018 - Plenary Sessions - Frederick P. Brooks Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StN49re9Nq8 Nygard https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Kristen-Nygaard-SBLP-1997-head.png  Pesquisadoras brasileiras: a trajetória de Cecília Mary Fischer Rubira na Engenharia de Software https://horizontes.sbc.org.br/index.php/2024/05/pesquisadoras-brasileiras-a-trajetoria-de-cecilia-mary-fischer-rubira-na-engenharia-de-software/  Challenges in Providing Resilience in Self-Adaptive Systems https://www.youtube.com/live/qqlLXSD6eAU?si=ynsXZtS3q3iR1tVm  Entrevistadores: Adolfo Neto (PPGCA UTFPR) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://adolfont.github.io ⁠  ⁠e Maria Claudia Emer Nosso site é: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://fronteirases.github.io ⁠   Música utilizada: Extreme Energy (Music Today 80). Composed & Produced by: Anwar Amr. Link:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZZbAkKNx7s ⁠⁠⁠⁠      Data de publicação: 20 de setembro de 2024. Como citar este episódio FRONTEIRAS DA ENGENHARIA DE SOFTWARE EP. 50:  Arquitetura de Software e Sistemas Adaptativos, com Cecília Rubira (UNICAMP). [Locução de]: Adolfo Neto e Maria Claudia Emer. Entrevistada: Cecília Rubira. S. l.: Fronteiras da Engenharia de Software, 20 set. 2024. Podcast. Disponível em: ⁠⁠⁠https://fronteirases.github.io/episodios/paginas/50. ⁠Acesso em: 20 set. 2024.

Martha White, associate professor of Computing Science at University of Alberta (

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Ian Jarvis has over 30 years of IT practical experience for the UK government and private industry, as well as some 25 years experience in body therapy and movement. Ian has one of the earliest degrees in computing science available in the UK. With a B.Sc. in Computing Science, he has dedicated himself to researching 5G in addition to the issues around all RFR/EMF/WCR, working as part of Wolves Action Group to prevent more 5G towers from being erected. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Ryan is the 'Founder' and 'Editor' of 'The Last American Vagabond'. (TLAV).

Nonostante la profilazione degli utenti sia un'attività core per realtà quali social, motori di ricerca e altri applicativi internet, questi sistemi non tengono conto di diverse sottigliezze come la sensibilità di un individuo a un determinato contenuto, o i suoi specifici interessi. In realtà, come utenti, siamo ben poco consapevoli dei criteri con cui vengono offerti contenuti sulla rete. Rendere più trasparente il rapporto tra chi offre e riceve contenuti, sono obiettivi del progetto PERSONAE, ideato da Debora Nozza - assistant professor presso il Dipartimento di Computing Sciences dell’Università Bocconi - e finanziato dall’Unione Europea con un ERC Starting Grant da 1,5 Milioni di Euro. A parlarne è proprio l'ideatrice del progetto.

Anastasiya Pak talks to Professor Wim Vanderbauwhede - lead of the Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing activity at the School of Computing Science of the University of Glasgow - about the carbon footprint of the ICT industry, misleading narratives around digitalisation, and why the notion of frugal computing is needed to move forward. 05:49 – The split of ICT emissions - 54% home, 19% data centres, 27% networks - is taken from the "Carbon impact of video streaming" white paper by the Carbon Trust, 2021. 07:13 – Problems with the claims about emission avoidance through digitalisation are discussed in "Digital Rebound – Why Digitalization Will Not Redeem Us Our Environmental Sins", Vlad C. Coroamă and Friedemann Mattern, 2019. 26:00 - The limited potential for offsetting of emission through biomass is discussed in "There aren't enough trees in the world to offset society's carbon emissions – and there never will be", Bonnie Waring, 2023. 34:37 – Wim discusses the notion of Frugal Computing in more detail in in his position paper "Frugal computing – On the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing and the path towards zero-carbon computing". A more academic version is available here. 37:09 - The potential for efficiency gains through better software is discussed in "There's plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore's law?", Charles E. Leiserson et al. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Clarence speaks to Prof Jean Greyling, Head of the Department of Computing Science at Mandela University. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this month's ARINS podcast, host Rory Montgomery is joined by Dr Philip McGuinness lecturer in the Department of Computing Science and Mathematics at Dundalk Institute of Technology to discuss the results of the local elections in Northern Ireland held on 18 May. In the elections to eleven councils across Northern Ireland the nationalist bloc gained a majority of the vote in both Belfast and L/Derry for the first time with Sinn Fein winning a larger than expected victory finding itself the largest party in six of the eleven councils with a 39 seat increase to 144 of 462 seats. The DUP retained its 122 council seats, and asserted a mandate to pursue its conditions to return to Stormont. The Alliance Party won 14 seats taking its total to 67 seats promising delivery over drama. The results demonstrate that the local electoral landscape in Northern Ireland is changing. The geographical shorthand of east and west of the river Bann no longer fits. While discussions about demographic changes and a diminishing unionist base go some way to explain the differential turnout between nationalists and unionists, McGuinness can better help us navigate our way through these local election result findings and follow on political puzzles. Philip McGuinness is a lecturer in the Department of Computing Science and Mathematics at Dundalk Institute of Technology. He studied at Athlone RTC, Trinity College Dublin, and Queen's University Belfast. His commentaries on Irish culture and politics have been published in the Times Literary Supplement, Irish Studies Review, Fortnight and the Irish dailies. He co-edited John Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious: Text, Associated Works and Critical Essays with Alan Harrison and Richard Kearney, see https://www.lilliputpress.ie/product/john-tolands-christianity-not-mysterious-text-associated-works-and-critical-essays. He writes regularly about Northern Ireland politics on Sluggerotoole https://www.sluggerotoole.com/author/philip-mcguinness/ This is episode 23 of a podcast series that provides evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. Host Rory Montgomery, MRIA, talks to authors of articles on topics such as cross border health co-operation; the need to regulate social media in referendums, education, cultural affairs and constitutional questions and the imperative for good data and the need to carry out impartial research. ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South brings together experts to provide evidence-based research and analysis on the most significant questions of policy and public debate facing the island of Ireland, north and south. The project publishes, facilitates and disseminates research on the challenges and opportunities presented to the island in a post-Brexit context, with the intention of contributing to an informed public discourse. More information can be found at www.arinsproject.com. ARINS is a joint project of The Royal Irish Academy, an all-island body, and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.

The Smart 7 is a daily podcast that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7 am, 7 days a week... With over 12 million downloads and consistently charting, including as No. 1 News Podcast on Spotify, we're a trusted source for people every day. If you're enjoying it, please follow, share, or even post a review, it all helps...Today's episode includes the following guests:Tom Clarke - Science and Technology editor at SkySarah Norcross - Director of the Progress Educational TrustJoseph Dituri - Professor of Biomedical engineering at the University of South FloridaParks Stephenson - Undersea Domain AnalystWill Guyatt - Technology reporterPhilip Wiseman - Astrophysics Research Fellow at the University of SouthamptonPetteri Taalas - Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organizationlyena Hirskyj-Douglas - Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of GlasgowJennifer Cunha - Animal Cognition Researcher at Northeastern UniversityIn Ireland? Why not try our Ireland Edition?Contact us over at Twitter or visit www.thesmart7.comPresented by Jamie East, written by Olivia Davies and produced by Daft Doris. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Smart 7 Ireland Edition is the daily news podcast that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7am, 7 days a week… Consistently appearing in Ireland's Daily News charts, we're a trusted source for people every day. If you're enjoying it, please follow, share or even post a review, it all helps… Today's episode includes references to the following guests:Tom Clarke - Science and Technology editor at SkySarah Norcross - Director of the Progress Educational TrustJoseph Dituri - Professor of Biomedical engineering at the University of South FloridaParks Stephenson - Undersea Domain AnalystWill Guyatt - Technology reporterPhilip Wiseman - Astrophysics Research Fellow at the University of SouthamptonPetteri Taalas - Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organizationlyena Hirskyj-Douglas - Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of GlasgowJennifer Cunha - Animal Cognition Researcher at Northeastern UniversityContact us over at Twitter or visit www.thesmart7.comPresented by Ciara Revins, written by Oliva Davies and Liam Thompson and produced by Daft Doris. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, an update on the legal battle between Meta and former Facebook moderators in Kenya. One of them, Trevin Brownee, tells our reporter Chris Vallance that reviewing the most extreme content on the internet cost him his "human side." We ask what's the human cost of keeping the internet safe, and what do we owe those who do that work for us? Also this week, the weird and wonderful sounds of quantum computers in action. Professor Winfried Hensinger, who heads the Sussex Ion Quantum Technology Group and is the director of the Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies, explains how they could change the world. And Professor Stephen Brewster, of the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science, and his colleague Ammar Al-Taie, on the difficulties of getting driverless cars to understand the complex and subtle interactions between cyclists and drivers. (Photo: Kenyan lawyer, Mercy Mutemi (seated 4th R) along with fellow counsel follow proceedings during a virtual pre-trial consultation with a judge and Meta's legal counsel. She appeared on behalf of 43 former content moderators for Facebook who filed a complaint in Kenya against Meta, Facebook's parent company. Credit: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)

Remote working as an option for the modern workforce is here to stay - so what advice would someone who's been working remotely for years have for others?To answer this question, I spoke with Mark Pinsent, Managing Director, Europe for The Hoffman Agency - a leading Technology PR company.Mark graduated in 1992 with a degree in Information and Computing Science but his creative streak saw him enter the world of marketing and communications.He says he's spent 28 happy years developing and delivering campaigns for B2B and B2C brands in the UK and internationally.In the second half of the podcast, from the 36:44 mark, we spoke about the art of storytelling and how PR can help organisations tell a great story.Mark is coming to us today from his “location agnostic” office in France.The episode is a long one, just over an hour, but worth listening to every minute.We recorded this back in June 2022, when things were stating to return to normal. Thankfully in March 2023, things seem much more open.More on MarkMark on LinkedInMark on InstagramMark's Landrover Sandy on InstagramMark on TwitterThe Hoffman Agency websiteThe World for Sale bookYour Host: Actionable Futurist® & Chief Futurist Andrew GrillFor more on Andrew - what he speaks about and recent talks, please visit ActionableFuturist.com Andrew's Social ChannelsAndrew on LinkedIn@AndrewGrill on Twitter @Andrew.Grill on InstagramKeynote speeches hereAndrew's upcoming book

Andrea Rainsford –Andrea had an extensive career in the corporate world, working as a Business Development Manager for Ernst & Young and Eversheds.  A career change beckoned following a stroke and in 2009, Andrea graduated with a BSc in Computing Science. A need to help and guide small businesses followed and SEO Angel was born in 2014.  SEO Angel aims to de-mystify SEO, to help small and micro businesses with their visibility and watch them thrive! Some key points from our interview:·        How she believes that Unbroken means her life had many broken shards of glass at times, but she's examined and fixed them and is thriving again·         How in 2003 she was diagnosed with ME which almost broke her as she fought against the illness and believes that could be what led to her stroke·        How once she was left hospital, she didn't leave her house for six years·        How she was unable to carry on with her work and went to university and got a degree in computing science·        How she went to university in a wheelchair, but walked in for her graduation with crutches  ·        How despite being told by her Dr's that she won't walk again she never gave up on her dream of walking unaided·        How she practices self-care ·        How at the time of this interview she has walked without the use of crutches for the last eight weeks only but is also determined to dance unaided too!·        How she recognises that it would be so easy to wallow in everything she's been through, but she chose to get back https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-rainsford-seo-angelhttps://www.subscribepage.com/o4t3y8 Hosted by Madeleine Black, the show will share stories of all the amazing people Madeleine has met on her own journey as an author/speaker and these stories will heal, motivate, inspire and bring hope when they share their wisdom and knowledge with her.She really believes in the power that comes when we share our stories, that in fact we are not story tellers but story healers. Tune in to discover what helped them to stay unbroken and together we will discover that none of us are broken beyond repair.You can find out more about Madeleine, her story and her memoir, Unbroken,  from her website: https://madeleineblack.co.uk/You can listen to the full extended series of incredible stories on https://www.buzzsprout.com/1386718    Short of time but want to tune in?Watch Short Vlog Versions on our You Tube Channel HERE

In the final episode of the AI for Information Accessibility podcast, host Ayushi Khemka talks to Dr. Eleni Stroulia and Dr. Martha White, both professors in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Stroulia is also the director of the university's AI4Society Signature Area, while White is the PI of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. They discussed the issues around AI, IA and gender, exploring both the pedagogical and industrial contexts, shedding light on how to situate gender equity as a guiding principle in AI and the different ways in which gender comes up in a computing science classroom. The conversation concluded with a discussion on the representation problem in AI and allied fields, while holding space for women's experiences in tech at large. The AI4IA podcast series is in association with the Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility 2022 Conference, which took place on September 28 to commemorate the International Day for Universal Access to Information. The AI4IA Conference and the podcast series are also being hosted in collaboration with AI4Society and the Kule Institute for Advanced Studies, both at the University of Alberta; the Centre for New Economic Diplomacy at the Observer Research Foundation in India; and the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica. To access conference presentations, use this link.

Today we're focusing on artificial intelligence by talking with an expert who researches the forefront of technological capabilities.This is for any listener who wants to better understand AI applications in business, where the field of AI is heading, and what breakthroughs may be right around the corner.Here's our conversation with Marc Mezard, Professor of the Department of Computing Sciences at Bocconi University.Looking for a new guide to drive innovation and change? The Talent Show is a new podcast series from FT Talent, a hub of innovation from the Financial Times. Hosted by under 30s for under 30s around the world. Each episode we have important conversations for you and with you. We speak to experts in different fields, and bring you in to ask them your burning questions and delve deep into the topics that really matter to the younger generation today, find inspiring tips, analyse trends and bridge generational gaps. And we didn't just rely on our own curiosity - we invite our audience of bright students and early career professionals from all over the world to ask questions directly to our guests. The FT Talent Challenge is a competition from the Financial Times that invites bright young talent from all over the world to pitch solutions aimed at solving our most pressing business challenges. This podcast gives you a taste of the creative, educational and entrepreneurial atmosphere at FT Talent Challenges. FT Talent is a commercial division of the Financial Times. This first season of The Talent Show Podcast is in partnership with Bocconi University, a leading university of business, economics and management teaching and research.The FT Newsroom is not involved in its production. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Spunta al MIT un algoritmo di Intelligenza artificiale capace di classificare ogni punto di un'immagine; insomma: di dare un nome a tutto ciò che vede.Si tratta di un passo importante nella soluzione di uno dei problemi più tosti nel campo dell'intelligenza artificiale: assegnare un'etichetta a ogni pixel di un'immagine qualunque.Per esempio, prendiamo una ipotetica fotografia scattata al parco: parliamo di stabilire quali pixel dell'immagine sono parte di una persona, di un cane, del cielo, del prato, di un pallone ecc.Il problema non solo è difficile dal punto di vista informatico, ma con l'approccio utilizzato finora, l'addestramento di queste IA richiede moltissime ore di lavoro umano.Invece STEGO - questo l'acronimo dell'algoritmo sviluppato al MIT - è un esempio di successo di una nuova famiglia di algoritmi in grado di apprendere a decodificare le immagini senza l'aiuto umano. Ospite Riccardo Zecchina, Prof. di Machine Learning del Computing Sciences dell'Università Bocconi

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Have you ever wondered what animal internet would look like? In this episode, Naturally Speaking’s Mohammad Saiful Islam Sajib and Taya Forde interview Dr. Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, a Lecturer in the School of Computing Science, and an associate at IBAHCM. Here, they talk about Ilyena's work on Animal Connected Interfaces and how technology can play an […]

My guest today Andrea Rainsford calls herself The SEO Angel. And today we are going to talk about her career in two parts. I'd like you to listen to the following excerpt:“18 years ago I was thriving, I was growing. I was climbing the ladder. Life was so so good. Great job, getting married, flying round the globe with work. It was cut short. My life path had other plans. I was out of action for 11 years. My business is 8 years old this year. It's successful, I'm helping, guiding and advising amazing businesses. We've won 3 awards my business and I.”Today we're going to learn about Andrea pre and post 2003 and if you're in any sort of challenge today: emotional, mental or physical, I'm sure you're going to walk away with dollops of inspiration and renewed grit, learning from our own resident angel. In this conversation, Andrea talks about how:- She got hired in Ernst & Young and what it was like to be a senior female leader in the 1990's.- Andrea also shares how, at the peak of her consulting career, she got diagnosed out of the blue for ME, (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, also called chronic fatigue syndrome) and suffered a major stroke that rendered her bed-ridden for 8 years. - Andrea went back to University to complete a Bachelor's in Computing Science in her late thirties in a wheelchair - Career reinvention, my favourite topic! We talk about how Andrea started working in SEO and the unforgettable way she got her first paid client - SEO for Dummies. Yes, Andrea breaks SEO down so anyone today, no matter the background, can apply SEO principles in their own careerHere's a LinkedIn post on Andrea's graduation:Follow Andrea on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-rainsford-seo-angel/Andrea's website:https://www.seoangel.co.uk/-------------------------------------------------Liked this episode? A few things:1. Share the podcast with three of your closest friends! And please leave a great review on Apple Podcasts here or Spotify here (tap on the three-dot menu under the cover art of the podcast) , as it would mean a lot to me and hopefully help others discover it. 2. You will love my weekly emails called Charge-Up! .. they're no fluff no spam, where I share my favourite career insights from movies, TV shows, news and my own personal experiences, that I don't share anywhere else. Make sure you sign up here!  3. Come hang out with me LIVE on LinkedIn and Youtube every Friday at 2 pm CET where I answer your questions and often bring in fab guests:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonalbahl/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/SuperChargeYourself4. Share your favourite takeaways and tag me on your Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/supercharge_yourself/

This discussion on the cybersecurity talent pipeline problem is unlike any other you have heard before. And you and your organization could play a part in growing the future of the cybersecurity workforce. We're talking with the founders of the Last Mile Education Fund: •  Rian Walker, Information Security Analyst, Financial Sector •  Sarah Lee, Director, School of Computing Sciences and Computer Engineering, University of Southern Mississippi •  Ruthe Farmer, CEO & Founder, Last Mile Education Fund Thank you to Trend Micro, a global leader in cloud and XDR security, for being our premier podcast partner. Resource Links: •  Last Mile Education Fund: https://www.lastmile-ed.org •  Trend Micro initiative, Cybersecurity Education for Universities: https://www.trendmicro.com/internet-safety/university •  Trend Micro's "Linux Threat Report 2021": https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/linux-threat-report-2021-1h-linux-threats-in-the-cloud-and-security-recommendations •  SecureWorld conferences: https://www.secureworld.io/events The SecureWorld Sessions podcast gives you access to people and ideas that impact your cybersecurity career and help you secure your organization.

Helen Sharman, Britain's first astronaut, hosts an expert-led discussion on autonomous systems and the ethics surrounding their use and development. How can autonomous systems help not just with dull or dangerous tasks but also improving decision-making? What about the serious ethical questions related to some of the decision making in autonomous systems? Helen's guests this week are Virginia Dignum, Professor at the Department of Computing Science at Umeå University, Sweden and Denise Garcia, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Northeastern University. Zero Pressure is a podcast from Imperial College London and Saab. A relaxed conversation with those on the cutting edge of science and technology - hosted by Britain's first astronaut Helen Sharman - Presented by Imperial College London and Saab. The Zero Pressure podcast series will be looking at how science and technology can positively contribute to solving complex, interrelated global challenges of today and tomorrow. We will be looking at pioneering technologies and speaking those on the thinking edge.

This video can be seen at: https://www.piworld.co.uk/education-videos/piworld-talks-to-edmund-shing-about-ntroducing-your-kids-or-anyone-to-investing-part-3/   Here Edmund moves onto how to invest in stocks. This is the third interview in the series where Edmund imparts the investing lessons and motivation he's given to his kids on how and why to invest. Invaluable advice for any investor, new or old! 50 minutes of investing gems to get a profitable return from stock selection. This should be listened to alongside Part 1 and Part 2. 00:56 When should an investor graduate from funds to individual stock picks? 02:18 Where do you find your stocks and how do you select them? 05:12 What growth should we be looking for? 07:08 What other metrics on the checklist? 09:38 How do you work out the valuation of a company? 13:42 Where do you get your ideas? 14:55 How long do you spend on your research? 20:22 How do you time when to buy into a position? 23:44 What technical indicators do you look at? 26:32 How do you manage risk? 28:22 How to handle a market crash? 31:29 What moves a share price? 33:30 Market makers and bulletin boards 34:44 Trading diary and record-keeping 38:15 Averaging down 39:10 Spreads, stop losses and market cap size 42:15 Size of positions 42:37 Catalysts for winners to perform 44:00 IPOs are they good opportunities? 44:37 Macro factors: Where we're at in the economic cycle? What is your view on inflation?   Edmund on Twitter: @TheIdleInvestor Edmund Shing has over 25 years of experience in financial markets in a wide variety of positions, ranging from proprietary trading to portfolio manager in a number of financial institutions in London and Paris. Since 2015, he has held the role of Global Head of Equity and Derivative Strategy at BNP Paribas in London. Edmund has a PhD in Cognitive and Computing Science from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and has done advanced studies in Knowledge-Based Systems and in Experimental Psychology. He is an EFFAS-certified financial analyst. He has also authored the book “The Idle Investor” published by Harriman House in 2015, proposing 3 simple investment strategies that take only a few minutes to execute per month.

In this episode, I discuss with my co-host Harish Prabhakar about computing science. Harish further gives interesting insight into personal growth lessons from computer science perspective.

We join Edmund Shing again to introduce us to funds, how we should construct a portfolio with funds, and what we should look for. A great introduction to the basics for any newbie investor. 1:02 What are your thoughts on using funds to invest? 04:20 When would you use a managed fund/unit trust? 05:25 How do you diversify your risk across asset classes? 07:07 How do I select funds? 10:56 How do you select an ETF? 13:17 Are there any ETF brand names that we should be more inclined to invest in? 14:53 How do I select an Investment Trust? 17:57 How many funds do you suggest someone starts off with? 20:18 Engaging your children in funds? Edmund Shing: Introducing your kids to investing - Part 1 can be seen here. Edmund on Twitter: @TheIdleInvestor Edmund Shing has over 25 years of experience in financial markets in a wide variety of positions, ranging from proprietary trading to portfolio manager in a number of financial institutions in London and Paris. Since 2015, he has held the role of Global Head of Equity and Derivative Strategy at BNP Paribas in London. Edmund has a PhD in Cognitive and Computing Science from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and has done advanced studies in Knowledge-Based Systems and in Experimental Psychology. He is an EFFAS-certified financial analyst. He has also authored the book “The Idle Investor” published by Harriman House in 2015, proposing 3 simple investment strategies that take only a few minutes to execute per month.

How do doctors measure your liver function, kidney function, cholesterol levels, and heart disease? They use biomarkers, and David Wishart helps identify biomarkers with analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, and other bioinformatics tools. He and his colleagues look at blood or urine and other biological fluids to help in the diagnosis and characterization of human diseases. He explains What characterizes a useful and reliable biomarker and how low false positive rates distinguish them, How the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve works and where common tests fall in the curve, What's the history of biomarker testing and how it's been improved, and How he's meeting the challenging task of identifying Alzheimer's biomarkers in his research. David Wishart is a professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He works with bioinformatics software, nanobiology, and machine learning in healthcare to fine tune the use of biomarkers in diagnostics. He explains that historically, most biomarkers have been proteins. But developments in identifying cancer biomarkers, for example, have focused on metabolomics. “Cancer is very much a metabolic disorder,” he explains, “and some of the very first changes that happen in cancer are fundamental changes in metabolism.” Furthermore, tests can be combined, like a “gene test with a protein test with a chemical test,” and that improves sensitivity and the chances of catching a cancer earlier. Neurodegenerative diseases pose a particular challenge, he explains. An Alzheimer's biomarker is hard to identify because the consequences of the disease and causes are not always clear. Researchers are even pointing to microbiome connections and brain metabolism. Therefore, it may actually be a gut microbiome test that indicates Alzheimer's. He adds, “we're finding, for instance, bile acids in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.” He describes what other chemicals they're finding and how this research might lead to better understandings of its pathogenesis and how earlier testing and prevention might be possible. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C

The conclusion to Emilia's adventure at the enigmatic Apfelgarten School of Computing Science. Music: Creep - Emmit Fenn; Erik Satie - Gymnopedie No.3 (Orchestrated by Debussy); The End - Coyote Hearing; To Pass Time - Godmode; Wolf Mother - Loopop; Dark Toys - SYBS; No.8 Requiem - Esther Abrami. Note: this episode did not go as I had envisioned it, which is why it took so long to come out. To those who have been patient enough to wait this whole time: thank you.

Links: WEBSITE: https://www.thesmilesyndicate.comBecome a Citizen of Smileton by supporting the show! Do that here:https://smilesyndicate.locals.comhttps://www.patreon.com/thesmilesyndicateFollow Liz and Jason on social media for show updates and excerpts:https://www.facebook.com/TheSmileSyndicatehttps://twitter.com/smilesyndicatehttps://www.instagram.com/thesmilesyndicate/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjd8K87WyNrY8jFmg_nzk3wSubscribe to the podcast on your favourite podcast platform, such as Apple, Google, and Spotify:https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-smile-syndicate-music-hour/id991133901?mt=2https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlc21pbGVzeW5kaWNhdGUuY29tL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BvZGNhc3QvZmVlZC8=https://open.spotify.com/show/20FOqa0A708GdhSWZRSIos?si=RUX_vSFESUavd_AHTshpfQElizabeth has been podcasting for two years as the character “Miss Elizabeth.” She has and MA in English, experience as an educator in English Literature, as well as over a decade of experience as a business owner developing websites for businesses of different types and sizes.Jason has been podcasting and creating original music from his home studio for over two years. He is a Computing Sciences graduate, and works in IT as a leading business intelligence consultant.Miss Elizabeth and her husband and co-host Jason present music and comedy in a variety show format. They tell stories about characters and events in their fictional town of Smileton, “the podcasting capital of the world,” and present regular segments including the Accuscope Horoscope. It’s a fun, uplifting hour of entertainment.

This video can be seen at:    The first in a series of introducing your kids to investing. Here, Edmund Shing outlines why we should all be interested in investing summarised by The Rule of 72, the number of years required to double your money at a given interest rate. Powerful! Edmund shares his experience of engaging his children in investing and covers some considerations valuable to introduce anyone to investing. Later episodes will cover further steps of the investing journey. 01:01 How many children do you have? And, are interested in investing? 03:00 How did you get them interested? And, how old were they when you started their accounts? 11:48 Why should children or people generally take an interest in investing? 14:45 What attributes does a child or a person need to be able to successfully invest? 16:20 How much money does an individual need to start investing? 17:07 What sort of returns and goals should an early stage investor look to achieve from their investments? 19:06 How do you deal with risk? 22:05 Where should people start? Edmund on Twitter: @TheIdleInvestor Edmund Shing has over 25 years of experience in financial markets in a wide variety of positions, ranging from proprietary trading to portfolio manager in a number of financial institutions in London and Paris. Since 2015, he has held the role of Global Head of Equity and Derivative Strategy at BNP Paribas in London. Edmund has a PhD in Cognitive and Computing Science from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and has done advanced studies in Knowledge-Based Systems and in Experimental Psychology. He is an EFFAS-certified financial analyst. He has also authored the book “The Idle Investor” published by Harriman House in 2015, proposing 3 simple investment strategies that take only a few minutes to execute per month. He is married with four children.

Kat Arney speaks with Carron Shankland, Professor of Computing Science at the University of Stirling (Maths and Computing Suffrage Science Awardee, 2016) about her prolific work in computer modelling, how she's trying to fix the gender ratio in computing and why it's important to discuss mental health in academia. 

This month, Jeannette Chin from our School of Computing Sciences is joined by former computing science student Nik, to talk about the range of subjects included within computing, the different skills students can develop and how to prepare for the transition from school/college to university. To find out more about our courses, visit www.uea.ac.uk/computing We're also kicking off a fantastic season of online taster lectures, designed to give Year 12-13/Level 3 students a feel for their subject at university. Sessions are free, easy to join and cover a range of subjects from across the university. View the programme at www.uea.ac.uk/study/tasters Questions? Email us on schools@uea.ac.uk

In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak with Jian Pei, Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University. His research spans data science, big data, data mining, and database systems. But in this podcast we talk about tools for estimating the economic value of data. Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.Subscribe to The Gradient Flow Newsletter.

This video can be seen at: https://www.piworld.co.uk/2021/02/26/piworld-interview-with-edmund-shing-the-idle-investor/   Edmund is CIO at BNP Paribas Wealth management. He talks to us about his approach to investing, which he's been doing since he was 14 years old. Today, he targets a 20%+ return pa. We learn more about his asset allocation, how he selects investments, some of his top holdings, and his outlook for the retail market and equities. An engaging and informative interview. Thank you Edmund! 00:32 Edmund's background 02:53 Edmund's investing journey 03:54 The Idle Investor, the book 04:50 Performance 06:35 Asset allocation 07:19 Property 08:12 Commodities 10:49 Equity selection 12:35 Top holdings: Mpac (MPAC), Caledonia Mining (CMCL); Sylvania Platinum (SLP) 14:00 Equities to ETFs 14:14 ETFs: Semi Conductor; Video Games & eSports 15:26 Cybersecurity: Intercede (IGP); Kape (KAPE) 17:24 Renewable Energy Infrastructure: Gresham House Energy Storage Fund (GRID) 18:36 Retail investor environment 20:44 Equities outlook for 2021 Edmund on Twitter: @TheIdleInvestor Edmund Shing has over 25 years of experience in financial markets in a wide variety of positions, ranging from proprietary trading to portfolio manager in a number of financial institutions in London and Paris. Since 2015, he has held the role of Global Head of Equity and Derivative Strategy at BNP Paribas in London. Edmund has a PhD in Cognitive and Computing Science from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and has done advanced studies in Knowledge-Based Systems and in Experimental Psychology. He is an EFFAS-certified financial analyst. He has also authored the book “The Idle Investor” published by Harriman House in 2015, proposing 3 simple investment strategies that take only a few minutes to execute per month. He is married with four children.    

Welcome to another episode! I have a fun interview for you today. Liz and Jason Medwid are my guests and they come to the show full of wisdom from their experiences hosting their own podcast as well as all the bumps and bruises along the way.  In this episode, Liz and Jason share some powerful insights about improv, leadership, and just plain having fun.  The importance of reimagining roles and how that can impact a team and leadership Having mutually shared goals Determining and maintaining a vision and purpose to stay focused on  The importance of discovering and training your own voice Harnessing the power of outside the box thinking Elizabeth has been podcasting for two years as the character “Miss Elizabeth.” She has an MA in English, experience as an educator in English Literature, as well as over a decade of experience as a business owner developing websites for businesses of different types and sizes. Jason has been podcasting and creating original music from his home studio for over two years. He is a Computing Sciences graduate and works in IT as a business intelligence analyst. Elizabeth and Jason are passionate about making the world better by sharing uplifting music and comedy fiction. They believe that communication through the arts can have a significant positive impact on each individual, including the creator and the audience. They also believe that “culture leads politics,” meaning that culture and the arts are the best way to have an impact on individuals and society.   Website https://www.thesmilesyndicate.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheSmileSyndicate Twitter https://twitter.com/smilesyndicate Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thesmilesyndicate/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjd8K87WyNrY8jFmg_nzk3w SUPPORT: Join our communities and get exclusive bonus material https://smilesyndicate.locals.com Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thesmilesyndicate Liz LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-medwid-2a182611/

In this episode we host Eric Bond to go through some real cool projects happening in the PL World and some of the companies behind them. We discuss some technical differences between the major interactive theorem provers out there, some of their most popular projects, and a few companies that work in the realm. Eric Bond works at 47 degrees, a consulting company on Functional Programming Languages, specially on Scala and Haskell. You can find Eric @ericbond10 on Twitter. During the episode we mention PL Talks and the Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science 2021.

In this episode we host Eric Bond to go through some real cool projects happening in the PL World and some of the companies behind them. We discuss some technical differences between the major interactive theorem provers out there, some of their most popular projects, and a few companies that work in the realm. Eric Bond works at 47 degrees, a consulting company on Functional Programming Languages, specially on Scala and Haskell. You can find Eric @ericbond10 on Twitter. During the episode we mention PL Talks and the Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science 2021.

In this episode we host Eric Bond to go through some real cool projects happening in the PL World and some of the companies behind them. We discuss some technical differences between the major interactive theorem provers out there, some of their most popular projects, and a few companies that work in the realm. Eric Bond works at 47 degrees, a consulting company on Functional Programming Languages, specially on Scala and Haskell. You can find Eric @ericbond10 on Twitter. During the episode we mention PL Talks and the Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science 2021.

Former UP Baguio Chancellor Prof. Priscilla Supnet-Macansantos of the Department of Mathematics and Computing Science joins us for the last CSC Fieldnotes episode for 2020, and talks to us about the sometimes funny, often circuitous ways that life works out, the versatility of mathematics as a field, and self-care in academia.

On today’s episode, we sit down with Professor Paul M. Jackowitz '77, assistant professor of computing sciences at the University, to discuss the 50thanniversary of the computing sciences at Scranton, his student days and the lone, room-sized computer the University housed, his time on the faculty, and the evolution of the program from punch cards to pcs to smartphones and beyond. Read The Scranton Journal's profile on Paul at https://bit.ly/2HIG1pv.

We sit down and discuss research, product development, technology transfer and the magic of creation (on several levels) with Prof. Dora Balangcod of the Dept. of Biology and Prof. Ashlyn Balangcod of the Dept. of Math and Computing Science, UPB.

The Scott Thompson Show Podcast Amazon has announced that they will build two new fulfilment centres – One in Hamilton and one in Ajax. Scott talked with MPP Donna Skelly about what this means for the city and the province, and how Hamilton's LRT project might factor in. Guest: Donna Skelly, MPP for Flamborough Glanbrook - How will Amazon's new facilities in Hamilton and Ajax benefit the local communities? Guest: Elkafi Hassini, Professor, Degroote School of Business, McMaster University - British Columbia has once again implemented some familiar pandemic restrictions, particularly for bars and nightclubs. Has the second wave arrived? Could we see the same happen elsewhere in the country? Guest: Dr. Fiona S. L. Brinkman, PhD FRSC, Distinguished Professor, , Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Dept, Associate Professor, School of Computing Science, and Faculty of Health Sciences. Simon Fraser University - Susie Golding is the founder of the COVID Longhaulers support group. She joined the show to talk about the heart, lung and neurological symptoms that have persisted long after she "recovered" from what appeared to be a mild case of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Guest Susie Golding - Children that participated in a Brock University study on the pandemic say that they missed aspects of school but are worried about becoming sick upon returning and bringing the virus home to families. Guest: Rebecca Raby, Brock University Professor of Child and Youth Studies

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“We are all positively or negatively biased towards certain people. It is a natural phenomenon. We cannot think of everything we do and say, and so automatic processes run in the background, and these are unconsciously biased. Artificial intelligence (AI) can detect these types of biases and show individuals (and society) where they have a negative model about certain types of person. AI can help us to mitigate the effects of these types of biases and reduce conflict.” This is a conversation with Professor Alessandro Vinciarelli. Alessandro is a full Professor at the University of Glasgow. He’s with both the School of Computing Science and the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology. His research interest is Social Signal Processing, the computing domain aimed at modelling, analysing and synthesizing non-verbal behaviour in human to machine interaction. In this episode, Alessandro talks about his work to educate a new generation of AI practitioners that are endowing artificial agents with social intelligence; attitudes intentions, feelings, personality and expectations. We explored the capabilities and limitations at this time of emotion-creating/reading machines and the current use cases. I asked Alessandro what relationships between humans and machines will look like in the future.

This episode is co-hosted by GGV Colleague Dimitra Taslim. It was recorded a while back, so we also caught up with George and Gaery for an covid update in the second part of the podcast. In this episode, we have George Hendrata and Gaery Undarsa from Tiket.com. Tiket.com is the fastest growing Online Travel Agency platform in Indonesia. The site offers travel and entertainment related products, including flight tickets, hotel booking, train tickets, car renting and events services. Since August 2011, Tiket.com has become the top agent for Indonesian Airlines and an online partner of Indonesian Railways Company. In 2017, Tiket was acquired by Blibli, an ecommerce site backed by Indonesia's conglomerate Djarum. George Hendrata is the CEO of Tiket.com. Prior to joining Tiket.com, he was a business development director at Djarum and chairman of BMJ, one of the world's largest specialty paper companies. George has a Bachelor degree from Columbia University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Gaery Undarsa is a Co-Founder of Tiket.com. He is currently operating as the Chief Marketing Officer. Before founding Tiket.com, He worked at IBM Canada as an IT Analyst & Developer for 4 years. He graduated from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada with a dual degree in Computing Science and Business. For the full transcript of the show, go to nextbn.ggvc.com Join our listeners' community, go to https://nextbn.ggvc.com/engage/

This episode is co-hosted by GGV Colleague Dimitra Taslim. It was recorded a while back, so we also caught up with George and Gaery for an covid update in the second part of the podcast. In this episode, we have George Hendrata and Gaery Undarsa from Tiket.com. Tiket.com is the fastest growing Online Travel Agency platform in Indonesia. The site offers travel and entertainment related products, including flight tickets, hotel booking, train tickets, car renting and events services. Since August 2011, Tiket.com has become the top agent for Indonesian Airlines and an online partner of Indonesian Railways Company. In 2017, Tiket was acquired by Blibli, an ecommerce site backed by Indonesia's conglomerate Djarum. George Hendrata is the CEO of Tiket.com. Prior to joining Tiket.com, he was a business development director at Djarum and chairman of BMJ, one of the world's largest specialty paper companies. George has a Bachelor degree from Columbia University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Gaery Undarsa is a Co-Founder of Tiket.com. He is currently operating as the Chief Marketing Officer. Before founding Tiket.com, He worked at IBM Canada as an IT Analyst & Developer for 4 years. He graduated from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada with a dual degree in Computing Science and Business. For the full transcript of the show, go to nextbn.ggvc.com Join our listeners' community, go to https://nextbn.ggvc.com/engage/

TONY VIZZA Tony Vizza has been involved in the information technology and information security fields for more than 25 years. Tony completed a Bachelor of Science in Computing Science from the University of Technology, Sydney, Global Executive MBA from the University of Sydney which included study at Stanford University, The London [...]

Dr. Juan Gilbert is passionate about diversifying computer science and the professoriate. He is a first generation college student whose parents instilled in him the value of education. Juan purposefully chose to be a scholar-athlete but by serendipitously became a computer scientist. His attempts to avoid graduate school obviously didn't pan out and we are so grateful. Learn more about how he developed his model for recruiting underrepresented students, and in particular, black students and how he translated that into the Institute African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences.

Dr. Juan Gilbert is passionate about diversifying computer science and the professoriate. He is a first generation college student whose parents instilled in him the value of education. Juan purposefully chose to be a scholar-athlete but by serendipitously became a computer scientist. His attempts to avoid graduate school obviously didn’t pan out and we are so grateful. Learn more about how he developed his model for recruiting underrepresented students, and in particular, black students and how he translated that into the Institute African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences.

Thank you for listening to the Leaders, Innovators and Big Ideas podcast, supported by Rainforest Alberta.  The podcast that highlights those people who are contributing to and/or supporting the innovation ecosystem in Alberta. Another episode from Edmonton, this one is hosted by Anthea Sargeaunt.  Anthea is the CEO of 2S Water, and a longtime ecosystem supporter. With an MBA from Athabasca University, Anthea is a 3-time entrepreneur and has more than 15 years of business experience in a variety of fields. Her current project is focused around environmental stewardship and natural resource protection. 2S water has created a sensor for real time water quality monitoring, helping communities and industry to understand what is in their water. Jennifer Lam is the CEO of Discover Coding.  Combining her background in Montessori methods, Education, Computing Science and business, she founded Discover Coding.  She is a passionate technology and coding educator. She believes that computer science and coding are core, fundamental knowledge for the 21st century. Every child should have a chance to learn about algorithms, how to make an app, or how computers and the internet works.  With Discover Coding, Jennifer has developed programs to get kids excited about creating with code and technology. They run after-school classes, camps and workshops in over 14 locations in Edmonton and surrounding areas. It is a progressive program that nurtures kids interest in coding and advances their skills to create music, stories, games and apps.  Jennifer strongly believes in the development of computational thinking as it helps nurture problem-solving skills, logic and creativity. By starting early, students will have a foundation for success for the rest of their lives. Please be sure to share this episode with everyone you know. If you are interested in being either a host, a guest, or a sponsor of the show, please reach out.  We are published in Google Podcasts and the iTunes store for Apple Podcasts.  We would be grateful if you could give us a rating as it helps spread the word about the show. Show Summary: Jennifer of Discover Coding tells us about what drove her to start her company, combining her unique skill sets of teaching and IT into a business that helps change the lives of children and young adults. From technical sales to teaching to starting her own business, Jennifer tells us how her career has evolved. Show Quote: "My main objective is to help kids gain the confidence to enjoy coding"  Credits... This Episode Sponsored By: Capturing Legacies Inc. Episode Audio Editing: Kate Day - KD Sound Design Graphic Design: Mackenzie Bedford Episode Music: Tony Del Degan Creator & Producer: Al Del Degan 

แขกรับเชิญตอนนี้ได้แก่ อ.ม็อค ผนวกเดช สุวรรณทัต (บน) และอ.ท็อป วัชรพัฐ เมตตานันท (ล่าง) ทั้งสองมาร่วมแชร์ประสบการณ์อยู่ในทีมออกแบบหลักสูตร+ตำราใหม่ ที่จะเริ่มสอน "Computing Science" หรือ "วิทยาการคำนวณ" ให้กับเด็กไทยตั้งแต่ ป.1 ผม (แทนไท ประเสริฐกุล) ฟังอ.ม็อค กับอ.ท็อป เล่าถึงตำราชุด "โป้งก้อยอิ่ม" ของ สสวท. แล้วทึ่งมาก ทำออกมาได้ทันสมัยสุดๆ ตั้งแต่การดำเนินเรื่องด้วยการ์ตูนทั้งเล่ม ไปจนถึงบทเรียนที่แทรกอยู่อย่างเนียนมากๆ จนเด็กไม่รู้ตัวว่ากำลังเรียน นึกว่าเล่นเกมสนุกสนานอย่างเดียว ที่ไหนได้ พอเล่นกิจกรรมเสร็จ ปรากฏว่าได้เข้าใจการ "คิดอย่างเป็นระบบ" ไปแล้ว ซึ่งเป็นพื้นฐานที่จะนำสู่หลายสิ่งต่อไป ตั้งแต่การเขียนโปรแกรม ไปจนถึงการรู้เท่าทันเทคโนโลยีต่างๆ ในโลกที่เปลี่ยนแปลงตลอดเวลา นอกจากเขียนตำราแล้ว จารย์ท็อปกับจารย์ม็อคยังเป็นโค้ชพาเด็กไปแข่งคอมพิวเตอร์โอลิมปิกระหว่างประเทศด้วย มีเกร็ดสนุกๆ มาเล่าให้ฟังมากมาย ทั้งหมดอยู่ในตอน 79.1 นี้ครับ ขอเชิญรับฟัง รู้นี้อ.ท็อปถ่ายคู่กับรูปปั้น al-Khwarizmi ผู้ให้กำเนิดอัลกอริทึม ระหว่างพาเด็กไปแข่งคอมพิวเตอร์โอลิมปิกที่อิหร่าน ในตอน อ.ท็อปเล่าว่าเคยเอาโปรแกรมสกัดสไตล์ศิลปะจากภาพอาจารย์เฉลิมชัย แล้วเอามาใส่รูปถ่ายซูชิ ผลงานได้ออกมาประมาณนี้ครับ อันนี้ อัลกอริทึมการเต้น Koisuru Fortune Cookie ที่จารย์ม็อคพูดถึง ตำราสอน "วิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์" ชุด "โป้งก้อยอิ่ม" ใครสนใจสอบถามมาได้ทาง INBOX เพจ WiTcast หรือติดตามข้อมูลต่างๆ ได้ทางเว็บ Pongkoiim.com และเพจ "บันทึกของโป้งก้อยอิ่ม" ตัวอย่าง PDF ป.1 https://academic.obec.go.th/textbook/web/images/book/1545362383_example.pdf ป.2 https://academic.obec.go.th/textbook/web/images/book/1547785561_example.pdf ป.3 (รอประมาณเดือน เม.ย. 2563) ป.4 https://academic.obec.go.th/textbook/web/images/book/1545362561_example.pdf ป.5 https://academic.obec.go.th/textbook/web/images/book/1547785633_example.pdf ป.6 (รอประมาณเดือน เม.ย.​ 2563) ตัวอย่างบทเรียนป.1 มีแนะนำตัวละคร และสอนให้รู้จัก "คิด" ตั้งแต่ก่อนจะให้เปิดคอมพิวเตอร์อะไรทั้งสิ้น บทนับกุ้งบนพิซซ่าอย่างเป็นระบบ มุกสอดแทรก ป.2 มีการทำความสะอาดบ้าน แล้วต้องคิดว่าจะเลื่อนตู้ยังไงให้ย้ายจากห้องหนึ่งไปอีกห้องหนึ่งได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพที่สุด ป. 4 เริ่มมีความซับซ้อนมากขึ้น เช่นไปเที่ยวบ้านย่าแล้วต้องคิดอัลกอริทึมแยกลูกปิงปองออกจากลูกกอล์ฟ เบื้องหลังการออกแบบ เดี๋ยวจะทยอยเอาตัวอย่างมาลงเพิ่มอีกนะครับ โปรดติดตามเรื่อยๆ อย่าลืมแวะไปกดไลค์เพจ บันทึกของโป้งก้อยอิ่ม กันด้วยนะ

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Scotiabank is donating $1.25 million across five years to fund the Scotiabank Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative in the University of Alberta’s Department of Computing Science, G2V Optics has raised a $1.875M seed round, Alberta Innovates is cutting 125 jobs, DrugBank has been accepted into CDL-West, Dr. Ray Muzyka has won the VCAA Rod Charko Service Award, and nine individuals have been selected to serve on the new E-RIN steering committee.

Season 2 of the Inspire Excellence podcast is now live! We have a new studio, new co-host and a bunch of new guests lined up! Our first guest is Pat Sewall. Pat is currently the CEO and Founder of Forsta, Inc., a software company that builds tools that make it easy to add Secure Encrypted messaging into other applications. This episode you will learn why there’s never been a better time to start a company in the Treasure Valley. The wealth of knowledge Pat brought to the table was incredible. Pat shares with us some of his leadership tips that will transform your business, he also explains why he hasn't been too public with his successful career. Pat is a serial entrepreneur, starting several technology companies including the most notable being Cradlepoint, where he was CEO and Chairman of the Board until 2012. Pat is passionate about start-ups and technology. Pat willingly shares his time and expertise with the next generation of founders to help them better navigate the challenges of building a successful business. He is an active Angel investor within the Treasure Valley. Pat is also an avid outdoorsman, spending his spare time hunting, hiking and fishing Idaho’s great outdoors. Pat holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Iowa and a MS in Computing Science from the University of California, Davis. His wife, Laura is a professor at Boise State. He has two children – son Matt and daughter Leigh. ----------------------------------------------------------- Connecting with the community is a priority for BVA. The goal of this podcast is to have conversations that shed new light on different perspectives to create a dialog that inspires excellence. The Inspire Excellence podcast is an Idaho based show that is hosted by Troy McClain, CEO of Tovuti Learning Systems and Tommy Ahlquist the CEO of BVA. Each episode features different guests and compelling topics. Leave a review on whatever platform you decide to listen on and tell your friends! Follow Us Online At: Anchor: https://anchor.fm/inspireexcellencepo... Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/bvadev/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs0R... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bvadev/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bvadev LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bva-... Companies mentioned in podcast: https://forsta.io https://cradlepoint.com

Christian and Dominic speak with Dr. Uwe Glasser, Professor, Computing Science at Simon Fraser University about his take on cyber security and cyber crime. Cyber attacks are more common and more sophisticated than ever. It is very attractive for organized crime to move into cyber space - more interesting and more profitable than traditional crime.

Helpful links from the episode: UpWork Conferences:  LocalU Advanced, Swivel, Content Jam Copper CRM Pipedrive sales CRM ClickUp Asana FULL SHOW NOTES [intro music]00:11 Aaron Weiche: Episode 12: Building Process in the Process.00:16 INTRO: Welcome to the SaaS Venture Podcast, sharing the adventure of leading and growing a bootstrap SaaS company. Hear the experiences, challenges, wins and losses, shared in each episode. From Aaron Weiche of GatherUp and Darren Shaw of Whitespark. Let's go.00:40 AW: Welcome to the SaaS Venture Podcast. I'm Aaron.00:43 Darren Shaw: And I'm Darren.00:45 AW: And today, we are going to be tackling all kinds of things related to processes, building processes, why have processes, and how you do all those things while you're extremely over your head in the process of building the business as a whole. So that'll be a fun topic to dive into and one that's absolutely never ending in the business. But before we get to that, Darren, What is new with you since we last talked? 01:19 DS: What is new? What is new? Let's see. So our platform is really coming together now. I've probably mentioned this on previous episodes, where we're trying to integrate our software. We're building a new account system with Stripe and it's starting to really look great. We've had Nick, who's taken on a role as a product manager, putting together designs and thinking about user interface and user flow through the software. So now that the dev team has design-oriented development things are moving so much better. And it's a real wake up call for me actually to make sure we never... We have this problem actually at Whitespark where it's like, "Okay, I want you guys to build this thing." So I'll put together a scope document. I define it pretty well. And then they build it, and then it's a lot of back and forth with trying to fix up the user interface, and the look of it and the feel of it and all that stuff. So I want to never do that again now that I'm seeing the huge success with this design-driven development. And so, the platform has been a really valuable thing to build that way, and so we're pushing towards that. And it looks great, and it feels great to use. I'm just really happy with it.02:33 AW: Now if I remember this right, this is your process of you're taking your tools from being siloed and one-off and bringing them all together? 02:42 DS: Yeah, and it will happen over a series of phases. So, the first thing is we need a new account system. Account means our users, our authentication, like our sign-up, sign-in, all of this like ordering any of our services and software, so if you sign up for anything it happens through accounts. So we're building all of that, and then same with our citation services, we're changing it. Like right now if you order citations, either audit and clean up or building, you're gonna have to give us a spreadsheet with your location data. So it's totally 1998 janky process. And so speaking of processes, it's terrible. [chuckle] And so, we're building what we call the location manager, where you'll just add your locations to the location manager, it syncs with Google My Business. And so that's phase one, just brand new accounts and a better ordering process for our customers.03:37 DS: Phase two is pulling in all of the functionality so it just all happens in one platform. And so that's GMB management features, Google posts creation, GMB synching, GMB notifications, a lot of that stuff is happening in the platform, is being developed right now. And then things around listings, things around rankings, all that stuff will be pulled into here. So rather than our rank tracker being a separate tool, we will still maintain that for people, but we're going to have rank tracking in the platform too. And it'll be location-centric, right? So you'll just be like, "Enable rank tracking for this location? Yes." And so you can just... It's like a new paradigm and slowly everything will be built within the platform and other applications will slowly die. People will move over to our platform, and we'll have incentives for them to do that.04:32 AW: Nice.04:33 DS: So yeah, that's coming around great. I had this really great success with Upwork this week. So one of our large enterprise clients wanted to do a big audit across one of the sites. I don't know if I wanna say this publicly. So we built a scraper to scrape the site and pull in all the listings. And I've been working with this developer out of the Ukraine on Upwork and I can't believe how well it's gone. The guy is sharp as a whip. He's got seven years of experience doing web data mining projects. He's been so easy to work with, he's been working lots of hours, and it's just been kind of a dream, and I'm like, "Man, I should do more of this." And so I've always wanted to have a side projects guy. And so I think that I'm gonna start putting more time into scoping up projects and putting them on Upwork and having side project development happen. So I was pretty happy about that.05:33 DS: That happened this week and we're gonna start building some new stuff that way too. And then I'm just really busy getting ready for these upcoming conferences. I have one in two weeks. I have a series... Over the next four weeks, so starting in two weeks, I have three auto-dealer conferences that I'm speaking at. So fortunately I get to use the same deck and the same presentation, so that's good. But yeah, I'm busy with that. That's what's going on for me. How about you? What's up? 06:00 AW: Yeah. Yeah, I get to start there as well. The same conference season, fall and spring are always heavy there, and just speaking a lot, which is always both... It's fun, it's exciting, it's great to get out there, but as we were talking before we started recording, it's like when these come in one at a time, one request comes in in January, and then the next request is in March. But then, all of a sudden, they all line up 'cause the events are just all right on top of each other that following fall. So it's like the next six weeks, next week, Swivel and Bend, and straight to there to LocalU Advanced, speaking to a bunch of Kubota dealers. One of our customers, I speak at their franchise e-conference, speaking at Content Jam in Chicago in the end of October. So yeah, just a lot of that. And the majority of these based on the structure, a couple of them are workshops. So it's a lot of...07:01 DS: Oh boy.07:01 AW: Like new slide deck creation. That's always the hard part as you well know. Presentations don't magically create themselves, and it becomes a job within itself.07:15 DS: Well, you're a veteran. You've done how many events? I don't know, so many. But, yeah. You won't have a problem pulling it off.07:20 AW: But it's a catch-22, right? Sometimes that makes me so confident 'cause I've done 100+ where it's like, "Oh yeah, I can wait", like, "Yeah, I'll get that done", and whatever. And then you push it up and then all of a sudden you're like, "Okay, I cannot say that anymore", right? 07:36 DS: Totally. It's hard to make presentations when you're busy running a company. That's the problem. And so, you end up doing all of this presentation work after hours. It's like kids go to bed, and then you spend another two, three hours every night trying to get your decks together so that you can go on and present at these conferences.07:53 AW: Yeah. No, I pretty much... I'm a lot better, and maybe it's just 'cause I've gotten older, too. I definitely hit a point now where I just can't go any more at it just 'cause how long you've been looking at it. Now that happens closer to 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock at night at the least, where once upon a time, man, if you were in the zone, you kept going till 2:00 or 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning and just went for it. But I can't do that. Lack of sleep kills me now more than anything else in life.08:21 DS: I know. How much you get? I get about between six and seven on average on a week night.08:26 AW: Yep, I would probably say I'm close to that. There's times where it sparks and it's higher. I've developed this new thing where if I wake up any time from like 3:30 on...08:39 DS: Oh, really? 08:40 AW: I'm probably gonna be up for the day.08:42 DS: That's tough.08:43 AW: And that's... Yeah, that's really the biggest headache is I can't fall back asleep. So, yeah. And that hasn't worked out well with... I have four kids, and our oldest ones are 15, 13, 10. They're in a pretty easy zone. You rarely will... Maybe sometime the 10-year-old will come up in the middle night for an issue or storm wakes her up or whatever else. But then also, we have our three-year-old and he's still in that phase of getting up. He's in potty training right now though, so I have more than... He does a good job multiple times of week of possibly waking me up before 5:00 AM.09:23 DS: Oh, great.09:24 AW: And causing me to be up for the day.09:27 DS: Yeah. Yep.09:28 AW: I'm keeping the list. He's gonna know about all those someday when we can...09:33 DS: Yeah, good, keep that list. You can present it to him.09:34 AW: Yeah.09:34 DS: When you want him to mow the lawn, you can just present the list.09:37 AW: Yes. Oh, I will air those grievances and he will realize he's in a hole he'll never get out of.[laughter]09:43 AW: But yeah, it's awesome. But yeah, probably the same... It's amazing when you get an eight plus hour night and, yeah, when you get short-handed it's a little bit of a grind, but you try to get back to a regular schedule.09:57 DS: Yeah, for sure.09:58 AW: Putting in a lot of planning for... In two weeks we have our team summit, so we fly all of our North American team into Minneapolis, and then we drive about three hours into Northern Minnesota. We stay at a resort, and just a fully planned out week where we eat every meal together, we have talks and strategy sessions, collaboration, and we do fun things, we play games. It's just really to help bring our remote company together, get FaceTime, focus on bigger company things, building collaboration and teamwork, and getting everybody to have buy-in on that. So, really looking forward to that. It's just a fabulous week. And I know our employees, even though everybody is leaving behind family, busy life, all those other things, I think everybody really loves it and gets great energy off of it. So I'm really looking forward to that.10:58 DS: What do you do... Okay, so if everyone in the company is doing this, who stays behind and manages support or incoming sales, and that kind of stuff? 11:05 AW: Yeah, we just carve out some times on that. I was just talking with our exec team today, we really ask everyone to plan around it. We say, "This is that one time that we have to do this, and we get business must go on, so if it isn't an emergent have to do thing, get it done the week before or push it the week after. And then we don't start our team stuff till 9:00 AM, so if you need to get stuff, do a little bit before we start in the morning." That always happens. We leave a full hour or so for lunch, and so people can pick up work and reply to stuff during that, and then we knock off earlier in the afternoons, usually around 3:00 PM or 4:00 PM, and then people can catch up, make sure that they keep things moving. So, it's worked well for us so far, but we do ask, "Plan well, be dedicated to it, and just understand the importance of it." And obviously, if something for you is on fire, we have to take care of that, but we try to do our best to be proactive into making it so that we can engage as much with each other as possible.12:19 DS: Yeah. Well, makes sense. That sounds like it's gonna be awesome. I'd like to do that kind of thing with my company when we get there. I'm not there yet.12:28 AW: And then the last thing, just more and more with our sales team. It's challenging, it's rewarding, it's fun, but between progressing the things that they're doing. Each of them has landed a couple of small sales which is awesome to ink their first deals and be able to get through a process end to end, which builds confidence and gives insight. Also un-earths to me... And we'll probably hit a great segue here to our topic. But it un-earths to me where I have to build more process for them, and some of those things. But it's going well. It's been a lot of work but it's very rewarding work, and I really have enjoyed it. And I've also managed to take some steps outside of it to look at it from the 10,000 foot view to understand what have we done right in this, what could be better, what else should we be thinking about that we need to shore up, what should we repeat, all those kind of things. So it's been a very interesting and fulfilling process, for sure.13:41 DS: Has it taken longer than you're expected? So in terms of, "Okay we're gonna hire this salesperson, give them some training, after a couple weeks they should be closing out sales like crazy." Are your expectations being met or not quite? Did you need to temper your expectations, is what I'm wondering.14:00 AW: Yeah, I think my expectations are pretty on point. I feel pretty good in that. What I've had to see with probably our sales hires is, it's like with anything, when you look at it from the outside you always form your own opinion on, "Alright, this part will be easy, this part will be hard." Things like that, and just kinda understanding it. And then when you get into it, then a lot of times you're getting a more accurate view 'cause you're actually in it and part of it. And so I think for them it's probably been some of their expectations, even though in the interview process I'm a very frontal, as far as expectations, this is what's gonna be really hard. We put a huge focus on how much you have to know and understand the product. We gave them a lot of homework on making that happen, and all those pieces. But I think we're getting... Now it's like we have a few inbound leads and that's been the majority of what they've been closing, which is great. There are smaller ones that would be really hard for me to have as much time on and to follow up and... They can be very on point in working through those, which has been great.15:12 AW: And I think this next stage is probably gonna be the hardest because they're working on getting their pipelines built up, they're developing their own talk track and story to what they're doing, and all of those elements. And I see that's that gray area where there's not gonna be as many deals closed in wins like that because it's more of building, getting things in motion, getting your confidence, getting more the details. I think that's the next... From now to the end of the year is gonna be the hardest part, I think, for them. And then I think they'll cross over to having those things in gear further down the line, more confidence, etcetera.15:51 DS: Yeah, I wanna get to talking about process, but just quickly since we're on sales, I have been using this CRM called Copper, and I don't know if I mentioned this on previous podcasts, but I am in love with that application. It is awesome. For a really simple, inexpensive CRM for sales process, gosh, it's amazing. It's really revolutionized my ability to stay on top of sales, and so I've been really happy with it. That's all.16:18 AW: Nice. Is it just Copper.com, or CopperCRM.com? 16:24 DS: Yeah. I think if you just go CopperCRM in Google, you'll find it.16:27 AW: Okay, nice. Yeah, on the sales side, we use PipeDrive. It mirrors to our sales process, we have five stages in our sales process, and that gives a really great visual mirror to what we're doing and what stage that that prospect is falling into. So...16:46 DS: That's exactly what Copper does too. And you can define those steps, and you can make more steps and all that kinda stuff.16:51 AW: Awesome. Totally Awesome. Cool. Yeah, alright. The topic of the day, let's talk process. And always an interesting thing, right? Because when you zoom out on this, building your company is a process all within itself. And then what we're probably gonna talk moreso about today is all these micro-processes that contribute to the macro-process of building the company. One area where I did wanna start at just a thought level of the why to build the process, and let's maybe talk a little bit about what stage or time in the company do you start thinking about that process. 'Cause especially in the early days, you're just scrambling, or the buzzword all the time, hustle. You're just working every angle you can, and process isn't easy to build, 'cause it's not just doing something, it's documenting what you're doing so you can repeat it. So how have you always... Do you have a philosophy around it? How do you look at it? What's part of some of your why with process? 18:05 DS: So yeah, I think for the longest time Whitespark operated with very little process in place. And so the question about when would you start implementing process, how big do you have to be, how many employees, when is it necessary. As we have started implementing some processes, I think immediately. Let's say you are a sole proprietor, single person company, I think defining your process is extremely valuable, whether that's a sales process, how you do your client work, processes around everything are super valuable. So I would say the sooner the better you get into defining your processes the more organized you'll be, the easier it will be to do your work. I find that... Well, a great example is our new GMB management service, where we designed that thing, fully processitized it before we even took on a customer. So, there's huge value in doing that. And now, the thing is just running really smoothly. I'm lucky to have good people working in that department, really great people. Ally and Sydney are doing a great job over there. And then, our team that has helped design the processes around that, Jesse and Nick and myself. I just feel like by doing it process first, we've had huge success with it. And I think that any other way, we just would have been scrambling.19:32 AW: Yeah, totally agree. And I feel like this is one that has taken me a long time to learn it, because I'm kinda wired as like a doer instead of a documenter, and some of those other pieces to realize that you should format it that way and be able to teach, and repetition, and all of those kind of things. In the past for me, especially when running digital marketing agencies, so much of our process almost always came out of some disaster of some sort happening. Not a true disaster, but something where a fire, a client issue, whatever else... And as soon as you're done calming it and bringing order back to it, then you'd usually be like, "How do we never have that happen again?" That was...20:24 DS: We need a process.20:25 AW: Yes. Yes. That was painful, it sucked, people weren't happy, customer wasn't happy, our team wasn't happy, whatever else. And it really gets you in the mind of thinking through things and being, to me, just a key to so many elements in businesses as spending the amount of time being proactive so you don't have to spend the amount of time being reactive. 'Cause I'm totally the ilk that reactive work is twice as costly, it's twice as damaging, 'cause it's usually... Yeah, under pressure, under timelines, your team gets burnt out, it crushes their confidence in things. It's just, it's hard all the way around.21:02 DS: Yeah. If I think about that, and we just decided we're gonna put up a landing page and start selling our GMB management service and we'll figure out as we go without any processes in place, then we'd probably have a lot of churn. People would sign up for it, they would be using it, they would be unhappy for some reason, and we would fix it as we go, and over time, we would eventually develop processes. But there's damage there, because some of the early customers might talk to other people and be like, "Yeah, I tried that. It really sucked." And then, we have people not staying on. So far, our retention rate has been 97%. It's been really fantastic since we launched the service. And so...21:44 AW: Nice.21:45 DS: Being proactive with that versus reactive, it makes a lot of sense.21:49 AW: Yeah. And then, as we were talking about the emotional cost that can go into when you do things without a process and wild west, just trying to get it done and everything else, that's one area that where I really realized is one of the biggest benefits is your internal team. Employees have frameworks that help guide them, so they don't have to make one-off decisions or be paralyzed or traumatized by them, or anything else. There's a path to follow that can take a lot of that hard work out of it.22:24 DS: Absolutely, yeah. We have that really well with our citation services and our new GMB management service. And so, there's very specific workflow that you have to go through. And so, that's really helpful for the employees. In other areas, it's harder to do. And so, I think you're probably working on this. We're working on this in terms of processes around sales, processes around maybe marketing, processes around support, even development processes, that's where it's Whitespark has weaknesses. And this whole thing that you're talking about where employees really benefit from the frameworks, we do a good job in some areas, but we have a lot of employees that aren't gonna have benefits. That's where I'm looking to develop new processes.23:06 AW: Yeah, totally. So, with that, that covered some of the why and probably a lot of our listeners are like, "The why does not need to be answered." But timing right from the start, as early as possible, just realizing all you're gonna do is cash in benefits at every step down the line. The next part in the how, what does that look like for you guys? Are you creating most of these processes? Is it tasked to certain people in certain areas? Is everyone free to create a process? What does that look like for you guys? 23:44 DS: So, at Whitespark, where we've been successful with process is when I'm not doing it. So, if I'm completely out of the picture, that's probably the best thing. So, on the citation side, Yagoslav is our guy there, and he does a great job of directing that whole service and the team and developing processes within that service. And on the GMB management side, it's quite collaborative, but Ally is certainly the frontrunner there, and she's really done a good job of setting up our tasks. And Nick has also really played a role there in getting us set up with a task management system. We use this ClickUp, which we also love that software. So, ClickUp has been very good for us in terms of defining our processes, making templates around the processes. And then... A new client comes on board, it's like, "Boom," you just go through the process in ClickUp, and we make a new client in ClickUp, copy over the template and work through it. It's been really nice that way. So, generally, the way we've been building them... It's nice to actually have a software system like ClickUp, that can help you define what are the steps, what is the process, it's kind of a series of steps you go through. And so, ClickUp has been great to provide a software that structures that for us.25:06 AW: Yeah, we do the same with Asana. Create those process flows and checklists.25:13 DS: Right. Yep.25:14 AW: I agree with you, the same way. Probably all of our great processes are not created by me. I usually... I'm gonna weigh in and really make sure that the right business case is presented for us, and just try to have as much peripheral vision in how it folds into other things going on. But the same words, like I look who's in charge of that specific area or that line of work, or whatever else, and that's the person I wanna empower, work with to do those things. And then, as a leader, it's such a... You feel like you get this gift when they're like, "Hey, I'm gonna share with you the process that we've built to do this." And then, you just get to be like...25:57 DS: That's a huge gift.25:58 AW: Yeah, awesome. This is a success map, and now you're showing me and what the journey is gonna look like, and what we get at the end of it, and it's definitely a very rewarding thing. But yeah, I think the team is really key inside of that, and even back to your earlier comment, even if you're just solo, it's thinking through, "Alright, what are the things I should be building on process myself?" So, when I do need to make that jump from one person to two, it's not just conversation. These are these documented things, and then hopefully, they build on top of that, so when you go from two to four, you have a head start on that. It continues to multiply and get better as you grow.26:40 DS: Absolutely. Imagine that you're just a solo freelancer, you've developed your own process, you grow to this point where you hire somebody and you're like, "Here you go, we got it all ready for you. You don't have to get it all out of your head". So, it's smart to just process at times everything [26:58] ____.[overlapping conversation]26:58 AW: What are some of the key things that you look at that are just key processes for you guys over the years, that you've developed, that you're like, "Oh, we couldn't live without this one now. This is really helps guide some of the things that we do"? 27:15 DS: I would say... Yeah, so I've touched on them before. The citation ones, we've been doing that for a long time, so we have a very clear process for how we do a citation audit, we have a very clear process for how we do citation clean up. Every single site that we do clean up, there's a process, you step through the steps. And so, we have documentation on all of that. And so, that's been really successful for us, for sure. And we've done the same thing around our GMB management service, where it's just a series of steps, and then you break it down into smaller tasks, and then you define the tasks, and this is what you have to do to do the task. I don't know, is that what a process is? Is that kind of what yours look like too? 28:00 AW: Yeah, yeah, really, for the most part, it's just defining and creating a playbook on what it is and putting the rules of the game together that everybody is gonna play by follow and go through in that same manner so that you can repeat it over and over again, the same method to achieve the same results.28:22 DS: Yeah, and it becomes your training guide, too. When you've got that process, training is much easier.28:27 AW: Yeah, for sure. For us, and this goes all the way back to one of our early episodes, when we were talking about sprints and things like that, that was something that I really saw evolve over my first couple of years with GatherUp and that was our development process, where it was something that was really, really loose, then we ended up figuring out all the right pieces of it, from where ideas collected, then how are they turned into a feature spec, how are they socialized to get buy-in and make people aware and contribute to it that way, then how do we create low-fidelity mockups that we can click through and see it in action, and then how do we socialize that so our team can poke some holes and see what's wrong, and then it gets to design. Then, once it's in design and we poke holes in it there, then it goes to front-end development. And then, finally, at the end is the engineering team to get their hands on it to make it living and breathing. And then, once that happens, it's dev servers and then internal testing.29:35 AW: Then we almost always know if it's a bigger feature it'll go into beta with us and we'll invite beta users and we're able to flag it and just turn that feature on or off per account or per location in our system. And then, once we feel like, "Alright, it's solid," we have some user feedback, we don't have any big holes or issues, then we're able to roll it out. And even then, content has already been riding alongside of it, and so they have blog posts ready to go and the user guide and an update to our changes log and all those areas. So, it's been really fun to watch something that once upon a time was just an idea, and then you just built it, and didn't think about any of the 20 other steps we have in our process, now, to this just well-oiled machine on how it goes down the track and what happens with it. And it's still not to say we don't have bumps with certain areas of the process. One thing we continue to have to get better on is that future spec should be living and breathing throughout the cycle, and sometimes people don't read enough into it, they don't continue to update it, they don't use it as the guide that it should be in the process.30:47 DS: And by the time you get to the end of it, what you've developed is completely different from the feature spec.30:51 AW: Yeah, it can be a little bit. Or you just end up missing something. Sometimes it was like, "This was a very core piece of the feature spec, so how did we miss this?" Sp yeah, both sides of that can happen a little bit. But it's using all those things. It's like anything, you still... You have to... A process is only as good if you're gonna adhere to it and you're gonna do check-ins and check-points on it to make sure it's staying in line with what you're doing.31:20 DS: So, all of that sounds so great. We've done a pretty good job with processes on the service side, but we are quite loose in terms of processes on the development side. Our software... I don't know, our teams are operating in silos on different projects, and it all comes together, but I do think we have problems there, and that's an opportunity for us to tighten up and when we tighten up there, I think we'll be able to develop faster. 'Cause right now, we end up with roadblocks or problems or reversions. So, you build something and then we will then come in with designs after, and you've gotta step back for a few days and rework it to match with the actual vision of the product. So, by not going through the proper steps of a process, we waste time. And so, this is an area that I really wanna work on and improve processes in. And so, actually I had a meeting with one of my developers yesterday and we started talking about some of this stuff and processes we could put in place. And so, it's coming, but it's certainly an area that we need to work on.32:30 AW: Yeah, and just to share from my experience with it, I would say if anything... What ended up happening for us and where we place more of our value is much less on speed and just more so in reliability of: It's built right, it has the right aspects to it, it performs right, it meets the needs of the user and it allows you to pull... To some extent, nothing is ever fast enough in software, From the minute you have the idea, you would love if it was already in play. Yesterday, I was just doing... I was writing a feature spec for something, and it's something that I could completely do manually, so I started doing it manually and making it happen, and it's something related to social, so I was putting it out on social, and it definitely got me excited, it allowed me to see pieces in the process and decisions I need to make, what kind of settings and things need to be part of it. But then, at the same time, I also realized, "Alright, all of this excitement, this is gonna probably be three months to build this. So now, I gotta put all that excitement on the shelf so that... "33:44 DS: I know. Painful.33:46 AW: Yeah, the speed part can be hard, but when it comes to getting enough sleep at night, not making customers mad, not rolling out something that affects other dependencies. That, to me, is really the biggest win in all the process is, it just can put your mind and your emotions and the product at ease and not have to worry about some of those other things.34:12 DS: Right. It's funny, I think about how small my company is. I have a friend, a fellow developer I went through Computing Science with, he works at Salesforce now, he's one of the team leads over at Salesforce. And the amount of process they have over there is mind-blowing. And so, for an organization of that size, every piece of code they write goes through a massive series of unit testing, then it goes through an integration process, which has its own series of testing, then it goes on to a code server thing that they run against it for a month, it goes through all this process. A feature never makes it into the actual public-facing system until... It takes months and months for that stuff to hit production. And it's because they have all of these processes in place with their development. In one sense, you have to do it that way when you're as big as Salesforce, because you can't release broken stuff, 'cause it's gonna affect millions of customers. It can really bog you down. Do you ever feel bogged down by this, the processes you've put in place? 35:21 DS: 'Cause sometimes it's nice for us at Whitespark to be like, "Wow, this is gonna be great, it's super valuable. Developers, stop what you're doing. [chuckle] We're gonna pound this out in the next few days and put it in the software." And we've done that many times, and it's been great, it's been successful. And then, they get back to the regular flow. But when you have a strict process, you're not allowed to do that. You're like, "Okay, well, you got an idea. Cool, we'll put it on the queue." So, do you ever feel bogged down by your current process? 35:52 AW: I don't think I feel bogged down. I guess I always realized the trade-off. We can re-shuffle priorities or bring something to the front. We definitely have something like that that we're doing right now that we wanna get done by our customer webinar in two weeks from now.36:13 DS: Right, exactly.36:14 AW: And that causes some shuffling. But even when we do that, it still follows a process. I have enough personal experiences of, when you go outside the process, it eventually, almost every time has bit me in the rear end. And it might not be immediate, it's just later on when it's like, "Oh yeah, well, we built that really quick and we didn't really do much with the interface or we didn't even put it here and now it's been drifting in this no-man's land even though we got a quick win for a handful of clients that know where it's hidden in the product. We didn't build it right. We didn't roll it out right. And now, we're gonna have to go back and do that work."36:52 DS: Yeah, my development team would ask me to re-listen to this podcast and hear you say that five times.[laughter]36:58 DS: So that I stopped doing exactly that. I love to derail them, and be like, "Oh my god, guys, great idea," 'cause one customer asked for it. So, one customer asks for something, and I'm like, "That's gonna be amazing." And so, then we roll it out and then it's like, "Yeah, that one customer thinks it's kinda cool," but it doesn't really improve the business. And so, that's the thing about taking the time to think about, what is the actual customer adoption of this feature and will it move forward or should we stay the course on what we're currently building? 37:31 AW: Yeah, no, totally. I mean, those are always... I think the hardest thing in running a software company is prioritization. I think it is the bottom line hardest thing 'cause it's like we are not short between myself and my Blumenthal and people on our team. We are not short of ideas, our customers have ideas.37:54 DS: Yeah. Totally.37:55 AW: But you only have so much time to execute and it really comes down to how do you prioritize them to get the maximum value out of how you prioritize it, right? So...38:06 DS: Yeah.38:06 AW: That's the tricky part. And I'm like, emotionally, I'm right with you. When I'm excited about something like the test I was doing, I want it built already because I know it'll unlock emotional value for our customers, and so that's gonna be a really big win. And it's like, "Oh, I want that win. I wanna play the game right now. I don't wanna have to go through the practices, training camp, whatever else." But then I'm reminded and when I'm writing that feature spec, I'm reminded like, wow, there's a lot to think about with this.38:39 DS: Every time. I know, you're always seems like, "Okay, cool, we could definitely build that." But then once you start speccing it out, you're like, "Oh, this is growing," as we've got a lot of things you got to consider, right? It's like, well, there's all the edge cases, If this then that. There's a lot of stuff to figure out in the spec process.38:56 AW: Yeah, no, there definitely is. But I would say, for the couple of drawbacks in process and whatever else, just as you point out, you have to understand your time and place with process and we couldn't run gather up like Salesforce, right? Like that would, it would be over overdoing it, but you can definitely take the core concepts and look at like, "Well, why do they do it?" Right? Well, it's for protection of this, right? 39:24 DS: Exactly.39:25 AW: It's protection of the product, or it's protection of the customer, or protection of your internal team and your employees. And so when you see that, that's where you can look like, "Okay, we can build a little bit of process around that, and then as we grow, then we can grow the process more."39:40 DS: And I think that's exactly how it happens. Like, obviously look at the size of Salesforce, right? So their process wasn't always like that. It's evolved and developed into that as their team has grown and the complication of their product has grown. So then your processes have to grow along with it, makes sense.39:57 AW: Yeah. Have you seen anything with your employees over time when you introduce a new process where either non-existed or you're revamping a process where they're a little resistant to that change? Or it's a little harder for it to catch gear? 40:12 DS: I don't think I can speak to that question very well because on the citation side, I don't get direct feedback from the citation team, really. I just interface mostly with Nyagoslav over there. And so he would get that feedback and he could probably answer that question better than me. On the GMB management service side of things, we've always developed from process. But I'll be able to answer that question in a few weeks because we'll be rolling out a development process pretty soon. So it'll be interesting to see how that gets picked up. How about you? Have you implemented new processes that didn't exist before? And how has that been received by your employees? 40:49 AW: Yeah, there are definitely can be ones where there is a little bit of tension, especially with things like when we started implementing more financial controls, so like expense reports, and things like that. There's more than a few people that were little up in arms about it. And in some cases, it's like, all right, do the process a few times and then let's talk about it. If you feel like it's too cumbersome or whatever else but it can be hard when people look at like, "Oh, well, that's a little bit of busy work," and they don't understand, "Okay, well, this is what it's for protection or structure with." They don't always see those part.41:26 DS: Yeah, definitely.41:28 AW: And yeah, with certain processes there can be things. If there's a process that exists and they're comfortable and used to doing it. And it's easy for someone to look at and be like, "Well, there's nothing wrong with what we're doing right now. It's not failing." But they don't understand, Well, here's why we're adding on to it, or making it further, or whatever outright the business reasons. And that's where I look at like, that should probably be my job then to help connect those dots and explain it, support the person who's putting the process into place to say like, "This was created out of a conversation we have with here's we're expanding the scope of what we need to address, protect, ensure, and that's why there's a change since. It's not that the current one is wrong, or you're doing the current one wrong, or we wanna... It's not because we wanna add more stuff to your plate, it's just we have to assure bigger things in a bigger way."42:22 DS: Yeah, absolutely. Alright, that's a good note there is that when you roll out a process, it's pretty valuable and important to make sure you communicate the whys and the hows, you ask the team when you do that. So if you're gonna roll out a process, make sure that everybody understands it's bigger than just you doing the process, this is the overall value to the company.42:48 AW: Yeah, I think explaining wise in anything is important. If you ever even look at like our monthly customer webinars, anytime we roll out a new feature, we start with a, "Why are we building this feature?" And it's not the tactical reasons, it's more the strategic. We created this because these are benefits that people have asked for or that we see is important to the strategy that we're trying to align our tool with. And I think that helps, really helps people understand more and wrap their mind around the feature and the things that are part of it when you lead with the why.43:26 DS: Sweet, I'm taking that one and will be using it this week 'cause we have a big update to our Rank Tracker about to launch. It's done. It's just waiting for me to communicate it properly to our customer base. So I'm gonna be doing some videos, and I'm gonna do a blog post on what we've changed and why. And so, I'll lead with why, I think that's a great tip.43:49 AW: There you go. Check out our... We post all of our webinars on our blog, just click on the webinar category and we post the recordings in the slides so you can see how we presented if you need a little guide for yourself there.44:01 DS: Gonna do it. Thanks for the tip.44:02 AW: Right, yeah, so let's wrap up. What's one area where, and talking about this are we looking at, what's one area where you feel like I really, I wanna develop more process. This is on my short to mid-term radar to build out the first process, or to edit and mature an existing process even further.44:27 DS: Yeah, so 100% for me is on the development side. So we need processes around how we develop, how we communicate. We have problems like sometimes staying on track where someone can start working on a feature and then they realize, "Oh, all this code is total crap." And so they start rewriting everything but then that rewrite affects other things and so we're building processes around that to try and keep focused on the task at hand and trying to make sure everyone's on the same page. Code review, I have some processes around that on my mind, and something that I want to build out there and really getting into a real flow of like, "These are the steps that we go through for software development and these are the checks and balances we have in there." So that's a process that we're really working on and need to get ironed out. And then we're also going into a great place with that... You know, a lot of our legacy code is being mostly phased out, we rebuilt everything, and so we're in a good spot now to really define those processes where we don't have to deal with old crap that can't even fit to our processes. That's a big one for me. Development. How about you? 45:37 AW: Yeah. Yeah. I think that'll make a big impact for you.45:41 DS: I think so too.45:43 AW: Yeah, for me, it's one where I probably need to be the most critical of myself and that's just to employ development within our team. In growing, our employee size has doubled in the last 18 months from sub-10 to... I think we're about at 22 now.46:02 DS: Wow.46:04 AW: So, yeah, just... And we've cleaned up some things like our interview process and offer job descriptions. Some of those things have definitely improved but it's at next step on really solidifying a clear review schedule and those check points and expectations within those, and then when you get further out, just laying out like, I wanna get to the point where we can lay out some career path expectations, right? It's not just...46:31 DS: For sure. Yeah.46:31 AW: Here's a six-month review and what you did well, here's challenges and areas to work on, here's looking forward but really being able to help people understand, here's where you are and here are some possible paths. And that's one where I look at mature companies really have that nailed really well now. Do they move people through those paths? Well, that can be debatable here and there but I think it's really important for people to have a clear line of sight because when we have a great team and everybody works so hard... I never really have to... I never have to coach anyone on our team to work harder, I have to help coach on priorities, efficiencies, and things like that so to me that's one thing that I need to champion a little bit harder and we need to get better at, like, we're implementing some of those things but probably not fast enough. And we need to get that long-term vision, we need that career path piece and phased to be in there, not just a review cycle to be there.47:40 DS: Yeah, totally. Do you find, as the company grows, that this sort of employee development stuff becomes hard for you to personally manage? Like, it finds quite a bit of time and it's the kind of thing that I don't do a good enough job of staying on top of and one day, I would hope to have an HR manager of some sort, like an HR person that work through all this stuff or managers of specific teams, they do the check points and stuff, right? 48:10 AW: Yeah. And your second comment there is what I think is really key. Even though we've had this growth and explosion, I still have way too many people that are direct reports with me.48:21 DS: Yeah.48:22 AW: So it's finding someone to lead each of those areas where I can only have two or three or four direct reports and then they have teams underneath them and...48:33 DS: That's the way to go, I think. For sure.48:35 AW: Yeah, we've got half that structure built in. I have a couple areas where that happens but then we still have a couple that don't. And then if you have... You know, right? Like, the sales team all falls under me. So there's basically three people on the sales team that all become direct reports. I think that's the challenging part in that growth is like you have the growth, you can't always afford to or you don't even... It's really important to find the right person to be that manager, director, VP, whatever you wanna look at. So you're very cautious about those or you're specific with a lot of intent to recruit them or whatever else that might be. So you have to eat up a lot of gap in that time and it becomes tricky. You're already taxed for time and it's more time and then it's also not fair to those that are underneath it. I mean, any time we've plugged someone into a leadership position in a department or on a team, that's the first thing I tell them, I'm like, "You are gonna benefit from having someone focused on you instead of 5% of my time." Right? 49:38 DS: Yeah.49:39 AW: That's the biggest win right upfront amongst all the other things that will come with it.49:43 DS: Yeah, totally. That's a great point.49:44 AW: Yeah. Alright. Well, hey, great topic. I think I picked up a few things, reminded me of a few more things I need to work on.49:55 DS: Same.49:56 AW: Process is never ending. That's for sure.50:00 DS: Yeah. And then the more you can... Everything could be process-itized. If you put in the time to do it, I think there's benefit there so I don't know, it's a note to self to start working on some of that. I'm definitely thinking about sales processes, I'm thinking about processes with the support team, how we handle incoming tickets, how you divide them up based on what the subject matter is, there's so many things that we could do better at adding process to and we're gonna work on it.50:26 AW: There you go. Let's make sure from time to time we sneak in some of our process wins or challenges into our periodic updates when we start our episodes. I think that's good and allows you and I to hear what's going on as we continue to evolve our processes.50:42 DS: Great idea. Let's do that.50:44 AW: Alright. Perfect. Thanks, Darren. Another productive show. Episode 12 is in the books.50:51 DS: Yep.50:51 AW: As always, it's been great getting feedback from some of you guys. I thank, shout out to Will Scott. He sent me an email that he had binged all of our episodes and the number of other people always touching base with us. Take the time, write us an iTunes review, or hit Darren and I up on Twitter and we'd love to hear if you have episode ideas or specific questions that you would like us to touch on, cover, or just say we have no idea and try to go from there on it. So with that we'll hopefully talk to you in a couple of weeks. Good luck with your upcoming speaking gigs and we'll talk soon, Darren.51:29 DS: Thanks. Yeah, same to you. You got a lot coming up there so good luck with all of that and good luck with the retreat and we'll talk to you in a couple of weeks, maybe three, I don't know. We both have a busy upcoming schedule so talk to you soon.51:42 AW: Alright, sounds good. Thanks Darren and thanks everybody for listening.51:44 DS: Thanks everybody. Bye.

If you could make your online avatar as attractive as you wanted, would you? It turns out that for most, some minor tweaks will do, according to a new study. Eleni Stroulia, professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta joins the show.

In this talk the concept of Cyber Physical Human Systems security in the context of aviation systems will be introduced. The talk will also coverthe proposed security framework involving the detecting and responding to the attacks. In addition, the talk will describe the results of vulnerability assessment experiments from Aviations Cyber-Physical Systems pespective and the simulation experiments conducted for several attacks in the context of Internet of Things (IoT). About the speaker: Dr. Sathish A.P. Kumar is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at the Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina, USA. He earned his PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA in 2007. His current research and teaching interests are in cybersecurity, machine learning, big data analytics and distributed systems. He has published more than 40 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings.

Thinking Fast and Slow, if i were to surmise its essence, would be about the two states of your mind. He refers to these states as systems. System 1 being your almost reactionary / auto pilot state, and System 2 being your more conscious and deliberate

This week Hugo speaks with Dr. Brandeis Marshall, about people of color and under-represented groups in data science. They’ll talk about the biggest barriers to entry for people of color, initiatives that currently exist and what we as a community can do to be as diverse and inclusive as possible.Brandeis is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Spelman College. Her interdisciplinary research lies in the areas of information retrieval, data science, and social media. Other research includes the BlackTwitter Project, which blends data analytics, social impact and race as a lens to understanding cultural sentiments. Brandeis is involved in a number of projects, workshops, and organizations that support data literacy and understanding, share best data practices and broaden participation in data science.LINKS FROM THE SHOWDATAFRAMED GUEST SUGGESTIONSDataFramed Guest Suggestions (who do you want to hear on DataFramed?)FROM THE INTERVIEWBrandeis on TwitterThe BlackTwitter ProjectThe Impact of Live Tweeting on Social Movements (By Brandeis Marshall, Takeria Blunt, Tayloir Thompson)EvergreenLP: Using a social network as a learning platform (By Brandeis Marshall, Jaye Nias, Tayloir Thompson, Takeria Blunt)Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (By Brandeis Marshall)DSX (Data Science eXtension Faculty development and undergraduate instruction in data science) African American Women Computer Science PhDs500 Women ScientistsBlack in AIWomen in Machine LearningFROM THE SEGMENTSWhat Data Scientists Really Do (with Hugo Bowne-Anderson & Emily Robinson ~21:30 & ~41:40)What Data Scientists Really Do, According to 35 Data Scientists (Harvard Business Review article by Hugo Bowne-Anderson)What Data Scientists Really Do, According to 50 Data Scientists (Slides from a talk by Hugo Bowne-Anderson)Original music and sounds by The Sticks.

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Another fantastic guest on the podcast this week and this one is a little different because his scope of work falls far outside any of my areas of expertise. Dr. Pierre Boulanger is a professor and researcher at the University of Alberta in both the departments of Computing Science and Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging. He is also the Director of both the Advanced Man-Machine Interface Laboratory and the SERVIER Virtual Cardiac Centre. One of Dr. Boulanger’s main focus is expanding the capabilities of Telemedicine; that is, allowing doctors to assist, or even operate on, patients from a remote location. We cover a wide array of topics of which I am admittedly undereducated in, but it was a fascinating conversation nonetheless.

Come along with Dr. Angelica Lim and Best of the WWEST host Danniele on a windy journey through Angelica's discovery of computing science and her passion for robots! Angelica talks about her studies taking her all over the globe and how she settled in at Simon Fraser University. You'll also find out how robots can connect people in a "human-like and grounded way."  Angelica is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, who has studied and worked in robotics for over 10 years in Canada, France and Japan. She has been featured on the BBC, given talks at SXSW and TEDx, hosted a TV documentary on robotics, and was recently featured in Forbes 20 Leading Women in AI. Relevant Links:   Angelica's Twitter (@petitegeek) Grace Hopper Celebration Invent the Future AI Scholars Program Jane the Virgin (TV show) Tessa Lau Women in Computing Science at SFU Publications: Collection at angelicalim.com Hosted by: Danniele Livengood (@livengood) Theme Music: “Positive and Fun” by Scott Holmes Produced by: Vanessa Reich-Shackelford Please consider leaving us a review on iTunes or Stitcher! For more from Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology, you can follow us on Twitter at @WWEST_SFU, on Facebook at @WWEST.SFU, and subscribe to our biweekly newsletter at wwest.ca.

Dr. Sue Black is a computer scientist, academic and social entrepreneur. She was instrumental in saving Bletchley Park, the home of vital codebreaking during the second world war. Currently an honorary professor at UCL, she founded BCS Women for women in science and the social enterprise Tech Mums, which teaches parents about computing. She is also on an advisory board for the government's digital services.Born in Fareham, Hampshire, she was 12 when her mother died of a brain haemorrhage. She left school and home at the earliest legal age, 16, and by the age of 20 she was the mother of three children. She returned to education by taking a maths access course at night school which led to a degree in computing from London South Bank University in 1993. She gained a PhD in software engineering in 2001 and became a lecturer. She was Head of Department of Computing Science at the University of Westminster before leaving in 2012 to become a technology evangelist. In 2016 She was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to for services to technology.Presenter: Kirsty Young Producer: Cathy Drysdale.

Dr. Sue Black is a computer scientist, academic and social entrepreneur. She was instrumental in saving Bletchley Park, the home of vital codebreaking during the second world war. Currently an honorary professor at UCL, she founded BCS Women for women in science and the social enterprise Tech Mums, which teaches parents about computing. She is also on an advisory board for the government's digital services. Born in Fareham, Hampshire, she was 12 when her mother died of a brain haemorrhage. She left school and home at the earliest legal age, 16, and by the age of 20 she was the mother of three children. She returned to education by taking a maths access course at night school which led to a degree in computing from London South Bank University in 1993. She gained a PhD in software engineering in 2001 and became a lecturer. She was Head of Department of Computing Science at the University of Westminster before leaving in 2012 to become a technology evangelist. In 2016 She was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to for services to technology. Presenter: Kirsty Young Producer: Cathy Drysdale.

With Greg Kondrak, Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. 

ความสำคัญและองค์ประกอบของ Computational Thinking บันทึกเสียงจากการอบรมเชิงปฏิบัติการพัฒนาวิทยากรแกนนำคอมพิวเตอร์ หลักสูตร Computing Science จัดโดย สถาบันส่งเสริมการสอนวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี (สสวท.) ณ โรงแรมรอแยล เบญจา วันที่ 2 ส.ค. 2560

Elenia Stroulia, professor in Computing Science at the University of Alberta – speaks about developing technologies for smart cities.                                                                      

Faculty Candidate Xiang Cao gives his presentation to the Department of Computing Science at Villanova University.

Faculty Candidate Xiang Cao gives his presentation to the Department of Computing Science at Villanova University.

Douglas E. Norton, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mary-Angela Papalaskari, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Computing Sciences, Heidi Rose, PhD, Department of Communication will share their thoughts with us at this event, which is the first event this semester in the Reading Villanova series.

Douglas E. Norton, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mary-Angela Papalaskari, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Computing Sciences, Heidi Rose, PhD, Department of Communication will share their thoughts with us at this event, which is the first event this semester in the Reading Villanova series.

Materials Available here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Cassidy-Leverett-Lee-Switches-Get-Stitches.pdf Switches Get Stitches Colin Cassidy Senior Security Consultant at IOActive Éireann Leverett Robert M. Lee This talk will introduce you to Industrial Ethernet Switches and their vulnerabilities. These are switches used in industrial environments, like substations, factories, refineries, ports, or other homes of industrial automation. In other words: DCS, PCS, ICS & SCADA switches. The researchers focus on attacking the management plane of these switches, because we all know that industrial system protocols lack authentication or cryptographic integrity. Thus, compromising any switch allows the creation of malicious firmwares for further MITM manipulation of a live process. Such MITM manipulation can lead to the plant or process shutting down (think: nuclear reactor SCRAM) or getting into a unknown and hazardous state (think: damaging a blast furnace at a steel mill) Not only will vulnerabilities be disclosed for the first time, but the methods of finding those vulnerabilities will be shared. All vulnerabilities disclosed will be in the default configuration state of the devices. While these vulnerabilities have been responsibly disclosed to the vendors, SCADA/ICS patching in live environments tends to take 1-3 years. Because of this patching lag, the researchers will also be providing live mitigations that owner/operators can use immediately to protect themselves. At least four vendors switches will be examined: Siemens, GE, Garrettcom and Opengear. Colin Cassidy is a security consultant for IOActive where he focuses on Industrial Control Systems. He has a strong development and software engineering background. He is also a seasoned leader in the areas of security and software engineering. Before joining IOActive, Cassidy served for a number of years as Technical Manager and Security Technical Lead for IGE Energy Services, Ltd, part of GE Energy. He has hands-on experience with PowerOn Fusion, a leading Outage Management System/Distribution Management System (OMS/DMS) solution for electricity distribution management. He also led a team of developers in producing new functionality within the core product and worked with customers to understand their requirements. Colin Cassidy has a BSc (Hons) in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow. Twitter: @parttimesecguy Éireann Leverett hates writing bios in the third person. He once placed second in an Eireann Leverett impersonation contest. He likes teaching the basics, and learning the obscure. He is sometimes jealous of his own moustache for being more famous than he is. If he could sum up his life in one sentence; he wouldn't. That would be a life-sentence! He is primarily known for smashing the myth of the air-gap in industrial systems with his master's thesis, finding authentication bypasses for industrial ethernet switches, and working with incident response teams to improve their understanding of industrial control systems security. He believes security takes an awful lot more than penetration-testing and speaks often about the wider effects of embedded system insecurity. Twitter: @blackswanburst Robert M. Lee is a co-founder of Dragos Security LLC where he has a passion for control system protocol analysis, digital forensics, and threat intelligence research. He is also an active-duty U.S. Air Force Cyber Warfare Operations Officer where he has been a member of multiple computer network defense teams including his establishing and leading of a first-of-its-kind ICS/SCADA threat intelligence and intrusion analysis mission. Robert received his BS from the United States Air Force Academy and his MS in Cybersecurity Digital Forensics from Utica College. He is a passionate educator and teaches in the ICS and Forensics programs at SANS and is an Adjunct Lecturer at Utica College where he teaches in their MS Cybersecurity program. Robert is also the author of 'SCADA and Me' and is currently pursuing his PhD at Kings College London with research in control system cyber security. He routinely publishes academic and industry focused works in a wide variety of journals and publications; additionally he has presented at conferences around the world. Twitter: @RobertMLee

M.Sc. in Computing Science

Professor John Campbell was the Professor of Computing Sciences at Univerity College London. He contributed several columns and reports to Media Network in the early eighties because of his fascination with clandestine radio stations. He was a brilliant storyteller. We lost contact until he came through The Netherlands on a lecture tour and we had a chance to sit down and talk about computers and the media. We ended up talking about how computing might look in 2010. Check it out for yourself. I believe John was spot on in describing what would happen to applications. Remember you heard it first on Media Network.

Kathy Yelick, Associate Berkeley Lab Director for Computing Sciences, an organization that advances computational science throughout lab’s research programs, chats with Jeff Miller, head of Public Affairs. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 24390]

Kathy Yelick, Associate Berkeley Lab Director for Computing Sciences, an organization that advances computational science throughout lab’s research programs, chats with Jeff Miller, head of Public Affairs. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory " [Science] [Show ID: 24390]

Many of the fundamental ideas of computer science have been invented, explored and discussed by leading philosophers and logicians, long before computers were invented (by logicians, of course). This presentation by Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research, looks at the ideas of philosophers and logicians such as Aristotle, Euclid, St. Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, Leibnitz, George Boole, and of course Alan Turing, and explains their relevance to computing of the present day.