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Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a cryptographic primitive that enables a client to retrieve a record from a database hosted by one or more untrusted servers without revealing which record was accessed. It has a wide range of applications, including private web search, private DNS, lightweight cryptocurrency clients, and more. While many existing PIR protocols assume that servers are honest but curious, we explore the scenario where dishonest servers provide incorrect answers to mislead clients into retrieving the wrong results.We begin by presenting a unified classification of protocols that address incorrect server behavior, focusing on the lowest level of resistance—verifiability—which allows the client to detect if the retrieved file is incorrect. Despite this relaxed security notion, verifiability is sufficient for several practical applications, such as private media browsing.Later on, we propose a unified framework for polynomial PIR protocols, encompassing various existing protocols that optimize download rate or total communication cost. We introduce a method to transform a polynomial PIR into a verifiable one without increasing the number of servers. This is achieved by doubling the queries and linking the responses using a secret parameter held by the client. About the speaker: Stanislav Kruglik has been a Research Fellow at the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, since April 2022. He earned a Ph.D. in the theoretical foundations of computer science from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, in February 2022. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a recipient of the Simons Foundation Scholarship. With over 40 scientific publications, his work has appeared in top-tier venues, including IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security. His research interests focus on information theory and its applications, particularly in data storage and security.
A homemade Ouija board has more than a few quixotic messages for a group of teens.L.N. Hunter's comic fantasy novel, ‘The Feather and the Lamp,' sits alongside works in anthologies such as ‘The Monsters Next Door' and ‘Best of British Science Fiction 2022' as well as Short Édition's ‘Short Circuit' and the ‘Horrifying Tales of Wonder' podcast. There have also been papers in the IEEE ‘Transactions on Neural Networks,' which are probably somewhat less relevant and definitely less fun. When not writing, L.N. unwinds in a disorganised home in rural Cambridgeshire, UK, along with two cats and a soulmate. Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/L.N.Hunter.writer Amazon: https://amazon.com/author/l.n.hunter Linktree (publications list): https://linktr.ee/l.n.hunterYou can read "The Monster in the Dungeon" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com.Website: kaidankaistories.comOther stories by L. N. Hunter on The KaidankaiPoster ChildrenObserver EffectSkin DeepFollow us on: Twitter/XInstagramFacebookPhoto by James Fitzgerald on Unsplash
When the people are away, a few unusual characters can come out to play. Who they are and what they do is the subject of today's story.L.N. Hunter's comic fantasy novel, ‘The Feather and the Lamp,' sits alongside works in anthologies such as ‘The Monsters Next Door' and ‘Best of British Science Fiction 2022' as well as Short Édition's ‘Short Circuit' and the ‘Horrifying Tales of Wonder' podcast. There have also been papers in the IEEE ‘Transactions on Neural Networks,' which are probably somewhat less relevant and definitely less fun. When not writing, L.N. unwinds in a disorganised home in rural Cambridgeshire, UK, along with two cats and a soulmate.Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/L.N.Hunter.writer Amazon: https://amazon.com/author/l.n.hunter Linktree (publications list): https://linktr.ee/l.n.hunterYou can read "Poster Children" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com and find LN's other story featured on the Kaidankai here.Website: kaidankaistories.comFollow us on: Twitter/XInstagramFacebook
EPISODE #1051 SURVIVING THE A.I. APOCALYPSE Richard welcomes writer/philosopher Jim Elvidge to discusses the subject of his 11-part blog series: Surviving the A.I. Apocalypse. The series delves into many of the key drivers surrounding the development of A.I. systems which may ultimately lead to human extinction , as well as those that may mitigate the specter of extinction and instead lead toward stabilization and perhaps even, an AI utopia. GUEST: Jim Elvidge holds a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He has applied his training in the high-tech world as a leader in technology and enterprise management, including many years in executive roles for various companies and entrepreneurial ventures. He also holds 4 patents in digital signal processing and has written articles for publications as diverse as Monitoring Times and the IEEE Transactions on Geo-science and Remote Sensing. Beyond the high-tech realm, however, Elvidge has years of experience as a musician, writer, and truth seeker. He merged his technology skills with his love of music, developed one of the first PC-based digital music samplers, and co-founded RadioAMP, the first private-label online streaming-radio company. For many years, Elvidge has kept pace with the latest research, theories, and discoveries in the varied fields of subatomic physics, cosmology, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and the paranormal. This unique knowledge base has provided the foundation for his first full-length book, “The Universe-Solved!” WEBSITE: https://www.theuniversesolved.com BOOKS: The Universe - Solved! Digital Consciousness: A Transformative Vision SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! BIRCH GOLD GROUP - The Precious Metal IRA Specialists Diversify a portion of your savings into GOLD with Birch Gold Group. Gold is your hedge against inflation, and Birch Gold makes it EASY to own. Text STRANGE to 989898 and get your free info-kit on gold, then talk to a precious metals specialist on how to protect your savings from persistent inflation with gold. Text STRANGE to 989898 now. THE WELLNESS COMPANY - Own Your Wellness, Own Your Health, Own Your Freedom The comprehensive Med Kit is meticulously stocked with 8 potentially life saving medicines to address injuries and emergencies. It's your safety net for the unexpected. Visit https://www.twc.health/strangeplanet and secure your Emergency MED Kit. Use CODE STRANGEPLANET to receive 10% off BECOME A PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER!!! https://strangeplanet.supportingcast.fm Three monthly subscriptions to choose from. Commercial Free Listening, Bonus Episodes and a Subscription to my monthly newsletter, InnerSanctum. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our website and services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://strangeplanet.supportingcast.fm/
A groundbreaking development by researchers at Tyndall National Institute and Microelectronics Circuits Centre Ireland (MCCI), based at University College Cork (UCC), is set to transform surgical navigation. In a significant breakthrough, researchers have developed the first sensor-on-a-chip for magnetic tracking in surgery and other image-guided interventions. This development accelerates a move away from reliance on harmful radiation imaging (x-rays) towards a safer, more precise approach to navigating medical instruments within the body. Traditional image-guided interventions often use x-rays for navigation of instruments. However, a pioneering technology known as 'magnetic tracking' is revolutionising clinical practice by minimising the dependency on x-rays, while accelerating the use of surgical robotics and image-guidance. Magnetic tracking uses low-frequency magnetic fields, similar to everyday devices like electric motors and radios, to precisely detect the position of tiny sensors inside the patient. However, existing sensors are complex to manufacture, they are expensive, and are extremely delicate. Preliminary results published in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits journal report tracking accuracy of less than a millimetre, making the new sensor the most accurate on-chip sensor to date for navigating instruments inside the body. Researchers were able to demonstrate the use of the chip for tracking instruments inside the lungs, an important application for effective targeting and treatment of diseases like lung cancer, which is the leading cause of global cancer incidence and mortality (source: ncbi.nlm.gov). The sensor is manufactured using standard silicon chip technology resulting in a simplified manufacturing process. Silicon chips are cost-effective at scale allowing the technology to be manufactured at a fraction of the cost of existing medical sensor technology. Silicon chips are also easily integrated with the latest flexible circuits, making assembly quick and reliable. Pádraig Cantillon-Murphy, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tyndall and UCC, who led the research team, said: "This represents the culmination of 10 years development of magnetic tracking technology at Tyndall and UCC. I'm immensely proud of the team's achievements over that time and we look forward to translating this technology to clinical applications where it can make a significant difference in patient outcomes." Marcus Kennedy, Professor of Medicine at Cork University Hospital and President of the Irish Thoracic Society who has been collaborating with Tyndall and UCC said: "Magnetic navigation has huge potential in helping with the diagnosis of diseases like lung cancer. Accurate and low-cost access to peripheral lung cancers via bronchoscopy provides a pathway towards not only safe and low-cost biopsy, but also endo-bronchial treatment of lung cancer without the need for invasive surgery. However, the high costs of robotic-assisted interventions and the cost per tracked instrument are prohibitive in most countries. This on-chip sensor could be a real game-changer for navigation in bronchoscopy and many other image-guided interventions." The breakthrough research was made possible through funding from the European Research Council, Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, and through the Microelectronics Circuit Centre Ireland (MCCI) at Tyndall. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reac...
Dr. Kyri Baker, an assistant professor of engineering at the University of Colorado, makes a return visit to discuss the use of artificial intelligence for power grid optimization. Plus, Conleigh Byers, Farhad Billimoria, Ahlmahz Negash, and Paul Dockery wrap the interview with an explanation of AI and all its acronyms.You can find the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Share with friends that are energy enthusiasts, like us!01:19 - 30 second theoryFarhad Billimoria on “What is OPF?”Conleigh Byers on “What's the difference between artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Deep Learning, Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINN), Large Language Models (LLM), generative AI, and general intelligence?”14:28 - Dr. Kyri Baker: Using AI and Machine Learning for Power Grid OptimizationUsing AI and Machine Learning for Power Grid Optimization: How Neural Networks Can Speed Up Optimal Power FlowBaker, Kyri. "Emulating ac opf solvers with neural networks." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 37.6 (2022): 4950-4953.Baker, Kyri, and Harsha Gangammanavar. "Locational Marginal Prices Obey DC Circuit Laws." arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.19032 (2024).1:06:14 - Updating our PriorsChatzivasileiadis, Spyros, et al. "Machine learning in power systems: Is it time to trust it?." IEEE Power and Energy Magazine 20.3 (2022): 32-41. APA1:23:26 - ESA (Energy System Analogies) World Cup StandingsPublic Power Underground, for electric utility enthusiasts! Public Power Underground, it's work to watch!--------photo credit Carl Bower for The New York Times
Carola Doerr, formerly Winzen, is a CNRS research director in the Computer Science department LIP6 of Sorbonne Université in Paris, France. Carola's main research activities are in the analysis of black-box optimization algorithms, both by mathematical and by empirical means. Specifically, she is very interested in controlling the choice and the configuration of black-box optimization algorithms all along the optimization process -- with and without Machine Learning techniques. She is equally interested in complexity results, running time bounds, good benchmarking practices, empirical evaluations, and practical applications of self-adjusting black-box optimization algorithms. Carola is associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization (TELO) and Evolutionary Computation. She is/was program chair for the BBSR track at GECCO 2024, the GECH track at GECCO 2023, for PPSN 2020, FOGA 2019 and for the theory tracks of GECCO 2015 and 2017. She has organized Dagstuhl seminars and Lorentz Center workshops. Together with Pascal Kerschke, Carola leads the 'Algorithm selection and configuration' working group of COST action CA22137. Carola's works have received several awards, among them the CNRS bronze medal, the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, best paper awards at GECCO, CEC, and EvoApplications.
Neste episódio, eu e Prof. Gustavo Ferreira recebemos Jales Bussinguer, que foi meu orientando de mestrado e desenvolveu uma dissertação extremamente importante sobre separação de fitofisionomias do Cerrado por meio de índices SAR de vegetação. Na semana passada saiu o artigo da dissertação publicado no IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, um dos periódicos de grande fator de impacto em Sensoriamento Remoto. E em vídeo no Spotify e no YouTube destacamos alguns aspectos do trabalho. Se quiser conferir o artigo é só acessar o link https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2024.3381468 E nessa semana a GoodPods, que é uma comunidade global de consumidores de podcast e fazem ranks por categorias, divulgaram que nós ficamos em 5º lugar nos melhores podcasts de Ciências da Terra. Sendo que os outros são todos em língua inglesa. Segue o link que eles nos mandaram (https://goodpods.com/leaderboard/top-100-shows-by-category/science/earth-sciences?indie=true&period=alltime#34283928) e eles nos enviaram uma figura que colocamos nos cards, pois isso é uma grande conquista. Muito obrigado a toda a audiência! Vale a pena conferir o episódio! Um grande abraço! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geosensor/message
Tra vene, arterie e capillari, l’apparato circolatorio umano si sviluppa per l’incredibile lunghezza di 100 mila chilometri ed è oggetto di studio fin dall’antichità. Oggi sappiamo che una mappa accurata del sistema circolatorio può fornire informazioni preziose al medico, sia in fase di diagnosi di una patologia sia nel corso della terapia. Tuttavia finora una tale mappa si poteva ottenere solo con sofisticate apparecchiature presenti in pochi laboratori. La novità è che un gruppo di ricercatori del Dipartimento di Informatica dell’Università di Trento ha messo a punto un algoritmo innovativo che permette di ricavare immagini ad alta risoluzione dell’apparato circolatorio dagli stessi apparecchi da cui oggi otteniamo immagini a bassa risoluzione. La nuova tecnica si chiama “Time Efficient Ultrasound Localization Microscopy” ed è stata descritta sulla rivista “Ieee Transactions on Medical Imaging”. A raccontarcelo, Giulia Tuccio, dottoranda in Innovazione Industriale.
Episode 160: Artificial Intelligence in Primary Care. Future Dr. Manophinives explains the present and future of AI in diagnosing and treating diseases. Written by Rosalynn Manophinives, MS-IV, American University of the Caribbean. Editing by Hector Arreaza, MD.You are listening to Rio Bravo qWeek Podcast, your weekly dose of knowledge brought to you by the Rio Bravo Family Medicine Residency Program from Bakersfield, California, a UCLA-affiliated program sponsored by Clinica Sierra Vista, Let Us Be Your Healthcare Home. This podcast was created for educational purposes only. Visit your primary care provider for additional medical advice.Today, we embark on an intriguing journey at the crossroads of technology and healthcare: The Future of Healthcare in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Let's start by establishing the groundwork for AI and ML. Artificial Intelligence involves machines mirroring cognitive functions like learning and problem-solving, while machine learning empowers machines to learn from data and refine their capabilities over time. In healthcare, these technologies aim to elevate diagnostic precision and treatment effectiveness which are pivotal aspects in primary care medicine.Accurate diagnosis is the cornerstone of effective patient care in all forms of medicine because an accurate diagnosis guides treatment decisions and influences patient outcomes. This is why the integration of AI and ML holds immense promise in this field.Section 1: AI in Diagnostic Assistance (4 mins)Let's explore how AI utilizes algorithms to analyze extensive datasets, enhancing diagnostic accuracy significantly.AI serves as a revolutionary force in analyzing a large amount of data, particularly in medical imaging. Imagine AI algorithms as super brains, employing machine learning to decipher intricate details from X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans. Notably, studies have demonstrated their precision matching and even surpassing that of human experts. For instance, research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed AI algorithms outperforming radiologists in detecting conditions like breast cancer.AI's skills extend beyond images. It digs into genetic information, medical history, and treatment outcomes, acting as a detective to spot patterns, predict responses, and customize interventions. Studies support this, showcasing AI models outperforming dermatologists in diagnosing skin cancer from images. Will AI replace doctors?The beauty of AI is that it does not replace doctors but acts as a super investigator in your healthcare corner, expediting diagnoses, and refining treatments. So, AI isn't merely accelerating processes; it's enhancing healthcare outcomes, making diagnoses quicker, and treatments more precise, and minimizing errors. The future appears very promising with AI leading the way to more precise and tailored healthcare.Section 2: Case Studies in Diagnosis (4 mins):Help in research: Let's delve into real-life examples of AI in action, further amplifying diagnostic accuracy. In a research study, Rajkomar and collaborators crafted an AI algorithm predicting patient deterioration within hours, leveraging electronic health record data. This tool allowed for proactive care, identifying potential issues before they escalated. Taking it up a notch, Aliper and collaborators compared AI to human researchers, resulting in AI outsmarting human brains in designing drugs targeting age-related diseases. These experiments underscore AI's potential in diagnostics, from catching issues early to designing groundbreaking drugs.AI here enhances doctors' capabilities and acts as an additional set of eyes, boosting their superpowers, spotting nuances, and proposing game-changing solutions in medicine.Section 3: AI in Risk Prediction (4 mins):Let's shift our focus to AI's role in predicting risks and prognosis, particularly in conditions like COPD.AI employs sophisticated algorithms to analyze patient data comprehensively, including demographics, hospital visits, diagnoses, prescribed medications, and lab results. In COPD, AI not only predicts mortality but also anticipates hospital readmissions for respiratory issues or flare-ups. By scrutinizing various markers, AI resembles Sherlock Holmes, unraveling clues within data.And AI doesn't stop there, AI integrates risk predictions into medical practices, which fosters personalized care tailored to individual risk factors. A study led by Choi and their team analyzed retrospective patient data and they were able to identify individuals at risk of undiagnosed COPD, emphasizing the significance of catching potential issues early, finding those who might slip through the cracks otherwise, which is huge! Section 4: AI in Treatment Planning (4 mins):Let's now explore how AI is revolutionizing treatment planning within medicine.AI, equipped with machine learning algorithms, tailors treatments by analyzing patient-specific data and medical history. In cancer, for example, AI analyzes biopsy images and quantifies biomarkers, facilitating personalized treatments. Beyond cancer, AI extends its reach to cell therapies, predicting their effectiveness through genomic information and drug responses.And here's the techie part: AI employs various smart algorithms like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) to provide personalized treatment recommendations. It's like having personalized treatment recommendations by experts that fit you like a glove, catering to individual needs. Section 5: Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Reduction of Medical Errors (4 mins):Lastly, let me tell you about the impact of AI-driven treatment planning, specifically in reducing medical errors. Imagine this—medical decisions? They're tough. Sifting through tons of data, inaccessible medical records, physicians' lack of experience, and loads of conflicting info, makes the decision often not crystal clear. This is where a high percentage of medical errors occur, which is where Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) come in. FCMs are like a super-smart tool that mimics human reasoning, tackling the messiness of medical data with grace.FCMs are all about modeling complex systems, by combining fuzzy logic and neural networks, just like our brain does—connecting the dots between concepts and their cause-and-effect relationships. From patient records to test results, they make sense of it all.And FCM is not just theory—FCMs are the real deal and they're not the newbies in town; they've been around for a while, evolving from their early days. They've proven their worth in various medical areas too – in radiotherapy planning, diagnosing language impairments, and even in grading tumors!So, in a nutshell, FCMs are useful tools for medical decision support by taking on the complexities of diagnosing and treatment planning.Closing:In conclusion, the integration of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in healthcare is a thrilling frontier, offering invaluable tools to enhance diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes. As we evolve, responsible use of these advances is paramount, ensuring they optimize rather than replace the indispensable human touch in healthcare.Thank you for joining me in exploring the future of healthcare in AI and Machine Learning. I trust this discussion has sparked curiosity and appreciation for the transformative potential of technology in healthcare. -----------------------------------Conclusion: Now we conclude episode number 160, “Artificial Intelligence in Primary Care.” This is a new and somewhat unknown field of medicine that is rapidly evolving these days. Future Dr. Manophinives explained that AI and ML can be a useful tool in the diagnosis of diseases by, for example, interpreting images accurately. AI also can help develop plans of care by interpreting large amounts of complex data and predicting trends, possible complications, and the effectiveness of multiple treatments. Keep your eyes and mind wide open to learn more about this advancing technology that will continue to support our efforts to bring health and well-being to our communities.This week we thank Hector Arreaza and Rosalynn Manophinives. Audio editing by Adrianne Silva.Even without trying, every night you go to bed a little wiser. Thanks for listening to Rio Bravo qWeek Podcast. We want to hear from you, send us an email at RioBravoqWeek@clinicasierravista.org, or visit our website riobravofmrp.org/qweek. See you next week! _____________________References:Obermeyer Z, Emanuel EJ. Predicting the Future - Big Data, Machine Learning, and Clinical Medicine. N Engl J Med. 2016;375(13):1216-1219. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1606181. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5070532/.Rajkomar, Alvin, et al. "Scalable and accurate deep learning with electronic health records." npj Digital Medicine, 08 May 2018. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-018-0029-1Choi, Ellen, et al. "Retrospective analysis of real-world data to identify patients at risk for undiagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." PLoS ONE, 2020.Choi, Ellen, et al. "Machine Learning in Primary Care: Predicting Hospitalizations and Critical Events." AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2018.Beam AL, Kohane IS. Translating Artificial Intelligence Into Clinical Care. JAMA. 2016;316(22):2368-2369. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.17217. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27898974/Johnson, Kipp W., et al. "Automated Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Generation for Supporting Clinical Decisions in Primary Care." IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2020.Royalty-free music used for this episode: Gushito, “Gista Mista”, downloaded on November 16th, 2023, from https://www.videvo.net/
November 24 to December 24: Please support the Kaidankai podcast. Donate any amount via PayPal through the Kaidankai website or Ko-Fi (preferred). For select donations, receive a digital ghost story anthology, a Kaidankai t-shirt, or special readings available only to members.The Kaidankai website donation link: https://www.kaidankaistories.com/shopdonate.htmlKo-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/kaidankaighoststories#This week's story: A 9-year old boy has figured out how Santa travels around the world in one night. He plans to use his knowledge to get more gifts than he earned for being a good boy. Will his plan work?L.N. Hunter's comic fantasy novel, ‘The Feather and the Lamp,' sits alongside works in anthologies such as ‘The Monsters Next Door' and ‘Best of British Science Fiction 2022' as well as Short Édition's ‘Short Circuit' and the ‘Horrifying Tales of Wonder' podcast. There have also been papers in the IEEE ‘Transactions on Neural Networks,' which are probably somewhat less relevant and definitely less fun. When not writing, L.N. unwinds in a disorganised home in rural Cambridgeshire, UK, along with two cats and a soulmate.Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/L.N.Hunter.writer Amazon: https://amazon.com/author/l.n.hunter Linktree (publications list): https://linktr.ee/l.n.hunterYou can read "Observer Effect" at Free Kids Books, an educational rsource for elementary and middle school students. Website: kaidankaistories.comFollow us on: Twitter/XInstagramFacebook
This episode is sponsored by Innovate Audio. Innovate Audio offers a range of software-based spatial audio processing tools. Their latest product, panLab Console, is a macOS application that adds 3D spatial audio rendering capabilities to live audio mixing consoles, including popular models from Yamaha, Midas and Behringer. This means you can achieve an object-based audio workflow, utilising the hardware you already own. Immersive Audio Podcast listeners can get an exclusive 20% discount on all panLab licences, use code Immersive20 at checkout. Find out more at innovateaudio.co.uk *Offer available until June 2024.* In this episode of the Immersive Audio Podcast, Oliver Kadel and Monica Bolles are joined by the Chief Executive Scientist for Audio and Multimedia fields at Fraunhofer International Audio Laboratories - Juergen Herre from Erlangen, Germany. Juergen Herre received a degree in Electrical Engineering from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in 1989 and a Ph.D. degree for his work on error concealment of coded audio. He joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen, Germany, in 1989. There he has been involved in the development of perceptual coding algorithms for high-quality audio, including the well-known ISO/MPEG-Audio Layer III coder (aka “MP3”). In 1995, he joined Bell Laboratories for a PostDoc term working on the development of MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). By the end of 1996, he went back to Fraunhofer IIS to work on the development of more advanced multimedia technology including MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-D, MPEG-H and MPEG-I, currently as the Chief Executive Scientist for the Audio/Multimedia activities at Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen. In September 2010, Prof. Dr. Herre was appointed full professor at the University of Erlangen and the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen. He is an expert in low-bit-rate audio coding/perceptual audio coding, spatial audio coding, parametric audio object coding, perceptual signal processing and semantic audio processing. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herre is a fellow member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), chair of the AES Technical Committee on Coding of Audio Signals and vice chair of the AES Technical Council. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Juergen Herre is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing, served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing and was an active member of the MPEG audio subgroup for almost three decades. Juergen explains the science of the key technology concepts behind the worldwide adopted family of MPEG codecs and we discuss the latest addition of the reference model for the virtual and augmented reality audio standard - MPEG-I Immersive Audio. This episode was produced by Oliver Kadel and Emma Rees and included music by Rhythm Scott. For extended show notes and more information on this episode go to immersiveaudiopodcast.com If you enjoy the podcast and would like to show your support, please consider becoming a Patreon. Not only are you supporting us, but you will also get special access to bonus content and much more. Find out more on our official Patreon page - www.patreon.com/immersiveaudiopodcast We thank you kindly in advance! We want to hear from you! We value our community and would appreciate it if you would take our very quick survey and help us make the Immersive Audio Podcast even better: surveymonkey.co.uk/r/3Y9B2MJ Thank you! You can follow the podcast on Twitter @IAudioPodcast for regular updates and content or get in touch via podcast@1618digital.com immersiveaudiopodcast.com
November 24 to December 24: Please support the Kaidankai podcast. Donate any amount through Patreon or Ko-Fi (preferred). For select donations, receive a digital ghost story anthology, a Kaidankai t-shirt, or special readings available only to members.All I want for Christmas is eternal life and endless beauty. Well, today's character doesn't make a Christmas wish, she just summons a demon and begins negotiations. Luckily, she's clever and has crossed all her 'T's and dotted all her 'I's so there are none of those pesky loopholes the devil always includes so a wish backfires.L.N. Hunter's comic fantasy novel, ‘The Feather and the Lamp,' sits alongside works in anthologies such as ‘The Monsters Next Door' and ‘Best of British Science Fiction 2022' as well as Short Édition's ‘Short Circuit' and the ‘Horrifying Tales of Wonder' podcast. There have also been papers in the IEEE ‘Transactions on Neural Networks,' which are probably somewhat less relevant and definitely less fun. When not writing, L.N. unwinds in a disorganised home in rural Cambridgeshire, UK, along with two cats and a soulmate.Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/L.N.Hunter.writerAmazon: https://amazon.com/author/l.n.hunterLinktree (publications list): https://linktr.ee/l.n.hunterYou can read "Skin Deep" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com.Website: kaidankaistories.comFollow us on: Twitter/XInstagramFacebook
In this episode: Dr. Jeremy Lucabaugh, Tom Bradshaw, Christina Walsh, Aaron Helton, Dr. Martha Grajdek, Dr. Matthew Lampe, Nic Krueger, Rich Cruz, LindaAnn Rogers Visit us https://www.seboc.com/ Follow us on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/sebocLI Join an open-mic event: https://www.seboc.com/events References Amat, A. Z., Adiani, D., Tauseef, M., Breen, M., Hunt, S., Swanson, A., & Sarkar, N. (2023). Design of a desktop Virtual Reality-based Collaborative Activities Simulator (ViRCAS) to support teamwork in workplace settings for Autistic adults. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. Chen, Z. (2023). Artificial intelligence-virtual trainer: Innovative didactics aimed at personalized training needs. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 14(2), 2007-2025. Rizzo, A., Hartholt, A., Grimani, M., Leeds, A., & Liewer, M. (2014). Virtual reality exposure therapy for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Computer, 47(7), 31-37. Xie, B., Liu, H., Alghofaili, R., Zhang, Y., Jiang, Y., Lobo, F. D., & Yu, L. F. (2021). A review on virtual reality skill training applications. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2, 645153.
GEO satellite has been with us since the dawn of the satellite age, and it's easy for us to take it for granted. GEO 2.0 makes its contribution to the Eternal Orbit campaign by inviting today's experts in geosynchronous orbit to discuss the future of this grandfather of satellite orbits. What's new, what's sexy and what is tried and true? Let's find out together in GEO 2.0. In the second episode, SSPI's Lou Zacharilla talks with Dr. Channasandra “Ravi” Ravishankar and Bhanu Durvasula from Hughes about how integrated constellation solutions, including GEO, are meeting the demands of the day and will meet challenges of the future. You'll also hear more about where satellites in geosynchronous orbit are expanding the capabilities of their nearer Earth cousins. Dr. Channasandra “Ravi” Ravishankar is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Hughes and leads end-to-end system design activities of GSO and NGSO satellite systems. He led the development of GMR-1 Mobile Satellite System air interfaces that adapts terrestrial 3GPP specifications over satellite – these air interfaces have been standardized in ETSI and ITU. He has contributed to 3GPP 5G NTN specifications in the area of mobility management. He was a keynote speaker at the International Communication Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) in 2022. He has served as Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications journal and Guest Editor of IEEE Networks Magazine on “Integration of Satellite and 5G Networks.” He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, USA. Prior to joining Hughes, he was with Comsat Laboratories, Clarksburg, Maryland, USA. Bhanu Durvasula, Vice President of the International Division at Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), leads the company's international product and operations team, responsible for product line management of satellite broadband systems. In his 30+ years at Hughes, Mr. Durvasula has held a variety of leadership roles in engineering and product development for solutions including, among others: cellular backhaul over satellite, Mobile Satellite Systems (MSS) ground networks; and point-tomultipoint wireless products for terrestrial cell backhaul and last mile access. Most recently, Mr. Durvasula's efforts have been focused on satellite network technology for community Wi-Fi hotspot and cellular backhaul solutions in support of the company's efforts to bring connectivity to unserved and underserved areas of the world. He holds several patents, both issued and pending. Mr. Durvasula earned a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Consumers, businesses, governments and communities around the world benefit from the connected experiences enabled by Hughes technologies and services.
Dr. John Swegle works as an independent consultant through the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska on issues related to the effects of nuclear weapons and proliferation on US national security. Immediately prior to that, he was a Senior Advisory Scientist at the Savannah River National Laboratory in Aiken, South Carolina. He began his career at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he was a member of the plasma theory group, and then moved to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he conducted and managed analyses of foreign technology and nuclear programs in what was then Z Division; he also worked in a nuclear design division for several years where he was introduced to the basic concepts of nuclear design and nuclear-driven electromagnetic pulse.He is a graduate of Cornell University, where he obtained an MS and PhD in applied physics with a specialty in plasma physics, and the University of Washington in Seattle, where he earned BSEE and MSEE degrees.Dr. Swegle has also had a long career in the field of high-power microwaves. He is the co-author of High-Power Microwaves, which has been published in three editions. The book has become an international standard and has been translated into Chinese. He served as an Associate Editor of The Physics of Plasmas and co-edited a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science devoted to high-power microwaves.EPISODE NOTES:Follow NucleCast on Twitter at @NucleCastEmail comments and story suggestions to NucleCast@anwadeter.orgSubscribe to NucleCast podcastRate the show
Blog: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/can-privacy-and-traceability-exist-together-tracing-keys-and-jurisdictions-bfc395d502a Introduction Privacy and traceability are two sides of the same coin, and where the coin will never land on its side. If you want privacy in a transaction, you have to hide the payer and payee and the transaction value. All that needs to happen is that there is proof that the payer has enough currency to pay the payee. We can do this with a range proof — so that Bob can show that the sum of his previous transactions minus the current one is greater than zero. But, this stops any traceability and stops investigators from investigating the trail of an illegal transaction. It's a dilemma that can keep cybersecurity professionals awake at night and where a few bad apples can spoil the whole bunch. But, if we add traceability — such as in Bitcoin — we remove the privacy aspect, and if someone links your Bitcoin address to you and the others you trade with, they will be able to see all your transactions. “Ah, I see”, they might say, “That Bill has just bought a ticket for a bus journey in Edinburgh at 10:03 am”. Along with this, we have different requirements in different jurisdictions and where we might want to limit the investigator power in one jurisdiction to others. For this, John Gilmore — one of the original Cipher Punks — wrote: “We are literally in a race between our ability to build and deploy technology, and their ability to build and deploy laws and treaties. Neither side is likely to back down or wise up until it has definitively lost the race” And, so, the tension between strong cryptography, which protects privacy, and the ability to monitor and investigate remains as open as ever. In the UK, the Online Safety Act could aim to insert backdoors in cryptography in order to monitor communications. So, is it possible to keep things private but also make them traceable? For this, a new paper outlines the TRCT (Traceable Anonymous Transaction Protocol for Blockchain) protocol [1]: The focus of the paper is on the anonymous cryptocurrencies such as Monero, Dash and ZCash. It uses an Extractable Proof of Knowledge (EPoK) to produce a Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) for a transaction. This can then be added to the RingCT method of anonymity to produce traceable transactions for the participants and the amount transacted. The transaction, though, is still kept anonymous. The paper pinpoints the usage of Monero in a number of crimes, such as for the Wannacry ransomware attack and where the adversaries converted their Bitcoin rewards into Monero tokens [here], and which has not been since been traced. This problem has become so difficult for law enforcement that privacy-protecting cryptocurrencies have been banned in Canada, South Korea and Australia. TRCT An overview of TRCT is defined in Figure 1. With this, we have a miner which collects broadcasted transactions, and creates a consensus with other miners. An Authority is then responsible for linking account addresses and transactions and which can trace anonymous account addresses of the actual payer and payee and resolve the transaction amount. For TRCT, the payer generates a long-term key pair and then creates a one-time address (Figure 1). This can then be sent to the payer. The transaction is then anonymised for the payer address, payee address and transaction value using the Ring CT protocol, and which integrates the EPoK scheme. The miner then receives this and checks that it is valid and that the payer has enough currency in their account to make the payment. Next, the miner will check the EPoK so that it can be traced by the authority — and without discovering the secret details in the transaction. The authority can then trace the hidden content in the transaction (Figure 2). Figure 1 [1] Figure 2: [1] While applied in RingCT, the TRCT can be generally applied to any permissionless and permissioned blockchain, as it does not affect the underlying logic of the blockchain. In this, a trusted authority creates a tracing key and publicises its public key to the miners and whether these miners may be enabled or not for the integration of EPoK. In a permissioned blockchain, there are typically fewer nodes that create the consensus, and where it is thus easier to broadcast and update the tracing key. Overall, the authority is then used to oversee all the transactions, and decide whether there are illegal transactions, and also trace them. The control of the tracing key can then use attribute-based encryption to control its usage and using threshold-based sharing to control the usage of the key. For example, the FBI, CIA and GCHQ could agree on a 2-from-3 share approach, where two agencies have to come together to regenerate the tracing key. This approach allows for different jurisdictions to generate their own tracing key and where they cannot trace within any other jurisdiction. The addition of tracing tags also allows the tracing of high-value transactions. Next, let's cover ring signatures and RingCT. Ring signatures And so there has been a leak of information at the White House. Donald Trump calls in his Cyber Security leads and tells them, “I know one of you leaked the information, but I can't tell which one”. How can Donald tell that one of his leads has leaked the information but does not know which one? Well, this can be achieved with a ring signature, and which provides anonymity, unforgivably and collusion resistance. A ring signature is a digital signature that is created by a member of a group which each has their own keys. It is then not possible to determine the person in the group who has created the signature. The method was initially created by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Yael Tauman in 2001, and in their paper, they proposed the White House leak dilemma. Creating the ring In a ring signature, we define a group of entities who each have their own public/private key pairs of (P1, S1), (P2, S2), …, (Pn, Sn). If we want an entity i to sign a message (message), they use their own secret key (si), but the public keys of the others in the group (m,si,P1…Pn). It should then be possible to check the validity of the group by knowing the public key of the group, but not possible to determine a valid signature if there is no knowledge of the private keys within the group. So let's say that Trent, Bob, Eve and Alice are in a group, and they each have their own public and secret keys. Bob now wants to sign a message from the group. He initially generates a random value v, and then generates random values (xi) for each of the other participants, but takes his own secret key (si) and uses it to determine a different secret key, which is the reverse of the encryption function. He now takes the message and takes a hash of it, and thus creates a key (k). This key will be used with symmetric encryption to encrypt each of the elements of the ring (Ek), and then each element of the ring uses an EX-OR function from the previous element: Each of the random values for the other participants is then encrypted with the public key of the given participant. Bob then computes the value of ys in order to create the ring (the result of the ring must equal v). He will then inverse this value to produce the equivalent private key (xs). Bob now releases the overall signature, and the random x values, along with the computed secret key. To check the signature, the receive just computes the ring and checks that the result matches the sent signature. The basic method are: 1. Generate encryption with k=Hash(message). 2. Generate a random value (u). 3. Encrypt u to give v=Ek(u). 4. For each person (apart from the sender): 4.1 Calculate e=si^{Pi} (mod Ni) and where si is the random number generated for the secret key of the ith party, and Pi is the public key of the party. 4.2 Calculate v=v⊕e 5. For the signed party (z), calculate sz=(v⊕u)^d (mod Nz) and where d is the secret key of the signing party. We will end up with the signature (v=Ek(u)), and which completes the ring. The basic method involves creating Bob creating fake private keys for the other people in the ring: The verification of the ring is then: Ring Signatures in Monero The major problem with the Bitcoin network is that the amount of a transaction and the sender and receiver of the funds are not private, and someone who knows someone's address can trace their transactions. This is the case because the blockchain needs to check that the sender has enough funds to pay the recipient. Thus many cryptocurrencies are looking for ways of anonymising the transaction. Ethereum, for example, uses zk-Snarks to hide identities. One method of preserving identity was proposed by Rivest et al and used RSA encryption. Unfortunately, it is not efficient for modern systems, thus, Greg Maxwell's defined an elliptic curve method as a new way of creating the ring signature: the Borromean ring signature [paper]. The cryptocurrency Monero then adopted the method for anonymising transactions but has since migrated to a new method: Multi-layered Linkable Spontaneous Anonymous Group signature. This method hides the transaction amount and the identity of the payer and recipient [paper]. It is now known as RingCT (Ring Confidential Transactions), and was rolled out in January 2017 and mandatory for all transactions from September 2017. Conclusions TRCT provides a roadmap for the integration of tracing keys and the segmentation of rights of access. It is unlikely that we will see the implementation of this method is Monero anytime soon, but it could be applied to new methods. It is only interesting to see it applied to permissioned blockchains, and it could be useful in banking applications which require privacy but traceability. References [1] Duan, J., Wang, L., Wang, W., & Gu, L. (2023). TRCT: A Traceable Anonymous Transaction Protocol for Blockchain. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
Curious about the future of technical communication in the rapidly evolving AI landscape? Today's episode with our talented guest, Ryan Boettger, a distinguished professor and department chair at the University of North Texas, promises to enlighten you. Ryan is a ‘prompt engineer,' someone who acts as the valuable link between AI and humans. From his unique perspective informed by a rich background in linguistics and technical communication, Ryan brings you the latest on how socio-linguistics can inform research and curriculum related to AI. We discuss the value and challenges of Technical Communication as a standalone department. Ryan shares candid insights on the struggle technical communicators face to be recognized within traditional humanities and other fields, like product management, engineering, and user experience. He sheds light on funding challenges that often put Technical Communication departments on the chopping block during layoffs. But, it's not all gloom and doom. Ryan's passion for ensuring technical communicators are prepared with relevant AI skills sparks hope for the future.Join us for this enlightening discussion with Ryan Boetger that will surely transform your understanding of the technical communication field and its relationship with AI!Guest BioRyan Boettger is a professor and department chair of Technical Communication. He received his Ph.D. and MA in Technical Communication and Rhetoric from Texas Tech University and a graduate certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Pennsylvania State University.His NSF-funded research focuses on content analysis, data-driven learning, English for Specific Purposes, and STEM education.He is the former editor of the Wiley/IEEE Press book series on Professional Engineering Communication and the former deputy editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. He's an active consultant and a Gallup-certified Strengths Coach.Show CreditsIntro and outro music - AzAudio engineer - RJ BasilioShow notes generated by AI and curated by me.
Welcome to the Social-Engineer Podcast: The Doctor Is In Series – where we will discuss understandings and developments in the field of psychology. In today's episode, Chris and Abbie are discussing: Deception Detection. While there are many misconceptions about this topic, we are not completely in the dark; we are just not as good as we think. [July 3, 2023] 00:00 - Intro 00:18 - Dr. Abbie Maroño Intro 01:18 - Intro Links - Social-Engineer.com - http://www.social-engineer.com/ - Managed Voice Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/vishing-service/ - Managed Email Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/se-phishing-service/ - Adversarial Simulations - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/social-engineering-penetration-test/ - Social-Engineer channel on SLACK - https://social-engineering-hq.slack.com/ssb - CLUTCH - http://www.pro-rock.com/ - innocentlivesfoundation.org - http://www.innocentlivesfoundation.org/ 04:44 - The Topic of the Day: Deception Detection 06:15 - Lying About Lying 09:20 - The Dangers of Being Wrong 11:09 - The "What" is NOT the "Why" 13:41 - The False Narrative of NLP 18:37 - We Love a Myth 21:33 - Mythbusters 24:50 - That's Entertainment! 26:17 - It's Not Deception, It's Stress 31:40 - "We need to talk" 33:11 - Lying in Order 37:23 - Information is Key 38:46 - The Need for a Big-Picture Approach 41:00 - Shameless Plugs 42:27 - Wrap Up 43:21 - Next Month: Learned Helplessness 44:35 - Outro - www.social-engineer.com - www.innocentlivesfoundation.org Find us online: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/abbiejmarono - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dr-abbie-maroño-phd-35ab2611a - Twitter: https://twitter.com/humanhacker - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christopherhadnagy References: Vrij, A. (2019). Deception and truth detection when analyzing nonverbal and verbal cues. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33(2), 160-167. Vrij, A., Granhag, P. A., & Porter, S. (2010). Pitfalls and opportunities in nonverbal and verbal lie detection. Psychological science in the public interest, 11(3), 89-121. Vrij, A., Hartwig, M., & Granhag, P. A. (2019). Reading lies: Nonverbal communication and deception. Annual review of psychology, 70, 295-317. DePaulo, B.M. (2004). The many faces of lies. In A.G. Miller (Ed.), The social psychology of good and evil (pp. 303–236). New York: Guilford Press. DePaulo, B.M., Blank, A.L., Swaim, G.W., & Hairfield, J.G. (1992). Expressiveness and expressive control. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 276–285. DePaulo, B.M., Charlton, K., Cooper, H., Lindsay, J. L., & Muhlenbruck, L. (1997). The accuracy–confidence correlation in the detection of deception. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 1, 346–357. Ekman, P. (2001). Telling lies: Clues to deceit in the marketplace, pol[1]itics and marriage. New York: Norton. (Original work published 1985). Ekman, P., & Friesen, W.V. (1969). Nonverbal leakage and clues to deception. Psychiatry, 32, 88–106. Julia Hirschberg, Stefan Benus, Jason M. Brenier, Frank Enos, Sarah Friedman, Sarah Gilman, Cynthia Girand, Martin Graciarena, Andreas Kathol, Laura Michaelis, et al. 2005. Distinguishing deceptive from non-deceptive speech. In In Proceedings of In[1]terspeech 2005 - Eurospeech, pages 1833–1836. Tsikerdekis, M., & Zeadally, S. (2014). Multiple account identity deception detection in social media using nonverbal behavior. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 9(8), 1311-1321. O'Sullivan, M. (2005). Emotional intelligence and deception detection: Why most people can't “read” others, but a few can. Applications of nonverbal communication, 215-253.
Yanshan Wang, PhD, FAMIA is vice chair of Research and assistant professor within the Department of Health Information Management. His research interests focus on artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and machine/deep learning methodologies and applications in health care. His research goal is to leverage different dimensions of data and data-driven computational approaches to meet the needs of clinicians, researchers, patients and customers. Prior to joining Pitt, Wang was assistant professor in the Department of AI & Informatics at Mayo Clinic. Wang has led several NIH-funded projects, which aimed to develop NLP and AI algorithms to automatically extract information from free-text electronic health records (EHRs), such as clinical notes, radiology reports, and pathology reports. He proposed several novel NLP methodologies to improve information retrieval (IR) and information extraction (IE) from clinical notes and applied those novel NLP approaches in multiple disease areas, including depression, pediatric asthma, Alzheimer's disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and fractures. He has served as Principal Investigator (PI) on multiple awards, including an Amazon AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative (DDI) Award. He has over 60 peer-reviewed publications. Wang has been actively serving the informatics and NLP communities. He has served as a Student Paper Competition Committee for the AMIA Annual Symposium and was an associate editor for MedInfo conference. He is also a regular reviewer for a dozen of prestigious journals, such as Nature Communications, Bioinformatics, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), and PC members for multiple leading international conferences in health informatics, such as AMIA, ACM-BCB, IEEE-ICHI, and IEEE-BIBM. Wang also organized several shared tasks, including the first BioCreative/OHNLP challenge in 2018 and the second n2c2/OHNLP challenge in 2019, to encourage the informatics and NLP communities to tackle NLP problems in the clinical domain. He is also a steering committee member for the HealthNLP workshop. In 2020, he was inducted into the Fellows of AMIA (FAMIA).
Today's episode features a Q&A with our own Graham Page. Graham leads the Media Analytics business Unit as Global Managing Director of Media Analytics at Affectiva, a Smart Eye company. He pioneered the integration of biometric and behavioral measures to mainstream brand and advertising research for 26 years as Executive VP and Head of Global Research Solutions at Kantar.Over the course of the last year or so, there has been a thread of debate in the media regarding the validity and ethics of facial emotion recognition. This has often reflected the point of view of some data privacy groups who are concerned about the use of facial technologies across several use cases, or the opinions of commercial interests who offer alternative biometric technologies, or traditional research methodologies.Scrutiny of emerging technologies is vital, and the concerns raised are important points for debate. Affectiva has led the development of the Emotion AI field for over a decade, and the use of automated facial expression analysis in particular. Listen in to learn more.Links of interest: [Podcast Episode] Lisa Feldman Barrett on Challenges in Inferring Emotion from Human Facial Movement: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lisa-feldman-barrett-on-challenges-in-inferring-emotion/id1458361251?i=1000446966899 [Blog] Face Value: The Power of Facial Signals in Human Behavioral Research: https://blog.affectiva.com/face-value-the-power-of-facial-signals-in-researchAdditional Sources Referenced: [1] Barrett, Lisa Feldman, et al. "Emotional expressions reconsidered: Challenges to inferring emotion from human facial movements." Psychological science in the public interest 20.1 (2019): 1-68.[2] Ekman, Paul, and Wallace V. Friesen. "Facial action coding system." Environmental Psychology & Nonverbal Behavior (1978).[3] Rosenberg, Erika L., and Paul Ekman, eds. What the face reveals: Basic and applied studies of spontaneous expression using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). Oxford University Press, 2020.[4] Martinez, Brais, et al. "Automatic analysis of facial actions: A survey." IEEE transactions on affective computing 10.3 (2017): 325-347.[5] McDuff, Daniel, et al. "AFFDEX SDK: a cross-platform real-time multi-face expression recognition toolkit." Proceedings of the 2016 CHI conference extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems. 2016.[6] Bishay, Mina, et al. "AFFDEX 2.0: A Real-Time Facial Expression Analysis Toolkit." arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.12059 (2022). Accepted at the FG2023 conference. [7] McDuff, Daniel, et al. "Predicting ad liking and purchase intent: Large-scale analysis of facial responses to ads." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 6.3 (2014): 223-235.[8] Koldra, Evan, et al. Do emotions in advertising drive sales? https://ana.esomar.org/documents/do-emotions-in-advertising-drive-sales--8059. [9] McDuff, Daniel, and Rana El Kaliouby. "Applications of automated facial coding in media measurement." IEEE transactions on affective computing 8.2 (2016): 148-160.[10] Teixeira, Thales, Rosalind Picard, and Rana El Kaliouby. "Why, when, and how much to entertain consumers in advertisements? A web-based facial tracking field study." Marketing Science 33.6 (2014): 809-827.[11] McDuff, Daniel, et al. "Automatic measurement of ad preferences from facial responses gathered
Een muziekinstrument leren spelen, een concert van je favoriete artiest bijwonen en dansen op de nummers van je playlist. Veel mensen kunnen zich een leven zonder muziek niet voorstellen, maar is de manier waarop we omgaan met muziek en hierop reageren universeel? Als dat zo is, dan zouden mensen - ongeacht hun cultuur - muziek op eenzelfde manier moeten interpreteren. Ook zouden heel jonge kinderen dan al op muziek moeten reageren. Recent onderzoek kijkt naar bewijs voor deze twee voorwaarden voor de universaliteit van muziek. Daarnaast bespreken we enkele studies naar verrassende positieve effecten van het maken en luisteren naar muziek. Heb je een filmtip voor ons? Dan kun je hier een suggestie voor een thema vinden: https://rolfzwaan.blogspot.com/2023/02/themas-van-de-podcast.html. Je kunt ons mailen via drangcast@gmail.com. We horen graag van je!Research: Dr. Anita Eerland, Prof.dr. Rolf ZwaanMuziek: Rolf ZwaanBronnenBonus, J.A., Watts, J., & Francemone, C.J. (2022). When 'meaningless' means more: biographic resonance and audience appreciation of popular entertainment. Journal of Communication. DOI: 10.1093/joc/jqac028Kourtesis, P., Amir, R., Linnell, J., Argelaguet, F., & MacPherson, S.E. (2023). Cybersickness, cognition, & motor skills: The effects of music, gender, and gaming experience. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(5): 2326 DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3247062Marie, D., Müller, C.A.H., Altenmüller, E., Van De Ville, D., Jünemann, K., Scholz, D.S., Krüger, T.H.C., Worschech, F., Kliegel, M., Sinke, C., & James, C.E. (2023). Music interventions in 132 healthy older adults enhance cerebellar grey matter and auditory working memory, despite general brain atrophy. Neuroimage: Reports, 3(2): 100166 DOI: 10.1016/j.ynirp.2023.100166Singh, M., & Mehr, S.A. (2023). Universality, domain-specificity and development of psychological responses to music. Nature Reviews Psychology. https://doi-org.eur.idm.oclc.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00182-z Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
learning lessons about deeply decarbonized electricity markets from around the world including optimal prices in non-convex markets, reliability insurance, and system securityFarhad Billimoria, Conleigh Byers, PhD, Ahlmahz Negash, PhD, and Paul Dockery discuss adaptation of market design for the energy transition including fat tails and increased exposure to extremes; batteries and price responsive demand; natural gas fragility and marginal pricing; and inverter-driven resources and system security. Then the team plays a new game where they synthesize expert explanations of convex vs non-convex pricing and reliability insurance. You can find the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Share with friends that are electric utility enthusiasts, like us!05:30 - Lessons Learned on deeply decarbonized electric systems from electricity markets around the world with “Handbook on Electricity Markets” and P.L. Joskow's “From hierarchies to markets and partially back again in electricity: responding to decarbonization and security of supply goals” as background07:06 - Lesson 1: natural gas fragility and marginal pricing17:20 - Lesson 2: batteries and price responsive demand24:23 - Lesson 3: fat tails and increased exposure to extremes38:20 - Lesson 4: Inverter based grids and system security (synchronous condensers and grid inertia)48:15 - Wonky energy game synthesizing expert explanations Farhad Billimoria provides a 2 minute 20 second explanation of A reliability insurance overlay on energy-only electricity markets1; followed by the rest of the crew's interpretation Conleigh Byers, PhD, provides a 2 minute 20 second explanation of Long-run optimal pricing in electricity markets with non-convex costs2; followed by the rest of the crew's interpretation (and discussion of computational time for a solution using the Convex Hull pricing34) 1:27:36 - Ahlmahz's insightful question of the week1:32:18 - Conleigh Byers, PhD's Closing ThoughtsPublic Power Underground, for electric utility enthusiasts! Public Power Underground, it's work to watch!1 Farhad Billimoria, Rahmatallah Poudineh, Market design for resource adequacy: A reliability insurance overlay on energy-only electricity markets, Utilities Policy, Volume 60, 2019, 100935, ISSN 0957-1787, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2019.100935.2 Conleigh Byers, Gabriela Hug, Long-run optimal pricing in electricity markets with non-convex costs, European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 307, Issue 1, 2023, Pages 351-363, ISSN 0377-2217, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.07.052.3 P. Andrianesis, D. Bertsimas, M. C. Caramanis and W. W. Hogan, "Computation of Convex Hull Prices in Electricity Markets With Non-Convexities Using Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 2578-2589, July 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2021.3122000.4 C. Byers and G. Hug, "Flexibility Compensation with Increasing Stochastic Variable Renewable Energy in Non-Convex Markets," 2022 17th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), Manchester, United Kingdom, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PMAPS53380.2022.9810627.
In questo audio il prezioso incontro con Cristian Secchi scienziato robotica e Sara Farnetti nutrizionista. L'intervista è in Contemporaneamente di Mariantonietta Firmani, il podcast pensato per Artribune.In Contemporaneamente podcast trovate incontri tematici con autorevoli interpreti del contemporaneo tra arte e scienza, letteratura, storia, filosofia, architettura, cinema e molto altro. Per approfondire questioni auliche ma anche cogenti e futuribili. Dialoghi straniati per accedere a nuove letture e possibili consapevolezze dei meccanismi correnti: tra locale e globale, tra individuo e società, tra pensiero maschile e pensiero femminile, per costruire una visione ampia, profonda ed oggettiva della realtà. Con Cristian Secchi e Sara Farnetti parliamo di cibo e motori, robot e logica ormonale, meccanizzazione industriale e programmazione di organi per proteggere la giovinezza cellulare. È un incontro illuminante, denso di scelte e prospettive, un po' avvincenti un po' inquietanti. Da un lato lo scienziato racconta di possibilità straordinarie per le città e le società del futuro, purché l'umano resti al centro di ogni evoluzione. Dall'altro la nutrizionista parla del corpo come sistema complesso che risponde a tante dinamiche, dove gusti, aromi e sapori, attivano circonvoluzioni cerebrali, stimolando apprendimento. Conoscenza, multidisciplinarità e ricerca delle cause, sono necessità fondamentali per un futuro migliore, e molto altro.ASCOLTA L'INTERVISTA!! GUARDA IL VIDEO!! https://youtu.be/MqonX61oQcs BREVI NOTE BIOGRAFICHE DEGLI AUTORI Cristian Secchi, ordinario di Robotica all'Università di Modena Reggio Emilia, dove consegue il dottorato in Ingegneria dell'Informazione, dopo la laurea in Ingegneria Informatica all'Università di Bologna. La sua tesi di dottorato sui sistemi robotici per l'interazione è la migliore in Europa, finalista al Georges Giralt PhD Award. Poi, ha partecipato al progetto CROW (Coordination of AGVs in Automatic Warehouses), finalista per il 2010 EURON/EUROP Technology Transfer Award. La sua ricerca verte su robotica collaborativa e robotica medica. Per l'Università di Modena Reggio Emilia è responsabile di ricerca sulla robotica del Laboratorio ARSControl, ed è responsabile di ROBOMORE, il Gruppo transdisciplinare sulla robotica. Inoltre ha partecipato e coordinato svariati progetti europei sui temi della robotica collaborativa e robotica chirurgica, tra cui TIREBOT (FP7 ECHORD), ROSSINI e SARAS (H2020). Infine, è stato Associate Editor per IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine e per IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Sara Farnetti specialista in Medicina Interna con Ph.D in Fisiopatologia della Nutrizione e del Metabolismo all'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Roma. Visiting Professor presso il Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller, School of Medicine, dove si occupa della prevenzione e cura della Sindrome Metabolica e delle malattie ad essa correlate.Attivamente impegnata e leader nella ricerca nel campo della Medicina di Precisone, è ideatrice e teorica della Nutrizione Funzionale, per la quale riceve il Ph.D Honoris Causa in Scienze Chimiche e Tecnologie Farmaceutiche e Nutraceutica-Alimentari all'Università degli studi di Messina. La Nutrizione Funzionale studia l'effetto dei cibi sul metabolismo umano, l'equilibrio ormonale, l'espressione genica e l'infiammazione. È anche grande divulgatrice in dibattiti scientifici e mediatici, a livello nazionale e internazionale, collabora con quotidiani e periodici, trasmissioni televisive RAI e radiofoniche. Inoltre è autrice di numerose pubblicazioni scientifiche e divulgative circa i temi della prevenzione primaria, la nutrizione funzionale, la salute circolare. Ha pubblicato i bestsellers “Tutto quello che sai sul cibo è falso” , “Mai Più a Dieta” e “ Ricette Funzionali” .
The use of sophisticated digital systems to control complex physical components in real-time has grown at a rapid pace. These applications range from traditional stand-alone systems to highly-networked cyber-physical systems (CPS), spanning a diverse array of software architectures and control models. Examples include city-wide traffic control, robotics, medical systems, autonomous vehicular travel, green buildings, physical manipulation of nano-structures, and space exploration. Since all these applications interact directly with the physical world and often have humans in the loop, we must ensure their robustness, security, and physical safety. Obviously, the correctness of these real-time systems and CPS depends not only on the effects or results they produce, but also on the time at which these results are produced. For instance, in a CPS consisting of a multitude of vehicles and communication components with the goal to avoid collisions and reduce traffic congestions, formal safety verification and response time analysis are essential to the certification and use of such systems. This seminar introduces two key elements for building robust real-time systems: regularity-based virtualization and functional reactive programming.Real-time resource partitioning (RP) divides hardware resources (processors, cores, and other components) into temporal partitions and allocates these partitions as virtual resources (physical resources at a fraction of their service rates) to application tasks. RP can be a layer in the OS or firmware directly interfacing the hardware, and is a key enabling technology for virtualization and cloud computing. Open, virtualized real-time systems make it easy to securely add and remove software applications as well as to increase resource utilization and reduce implementation cost when compared to systems which physically assign distinct computing resources to run different applications. The first part of this talk will describe ways based on the Regularity-based Resource Partition Model (RRP) to maintain the schedulability of real-time tasks as if they were scheduled on dedicated physical resources and increase the utilization of the physical multi-resources.The benefits of using the functional (reactive) programming (FRP) over the imperative programming style found in languages such as C/C++ and Java for implementing embedded and real-time software are several. The functional programming paradigm allows the programmer to intuitively describe safety-critical behaviors of the system and connect its components, thus lowering the chance of introducing bugs in the design phase, resulting in a robust and secure implementation. Its stateless nature of execution does not require the use of synchronization primitives like mutexes and semaphores, thus reducing the complexity in programming on parallel and multi-core platforms. Hence, FRP can potentially transform the way we implement next-generation real-time systems and CPS. However, accurate response time analysis of FRP-based controllers remains a largely unexplored problem. The second part of this talk will explore a framework for accurate response time analysis, scheduling, and verification of embedded controllers implemented in FRP. About the speaker: Dr. Albert Cheng, a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Specialist (2019-2024), is a full professor and former interim associate chair of computer science and a full professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. He was a visiting professor at Rice University and the City University of Hong Kong. He received the B.A. degree with highest honors in computer science, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, the M.S. degree in computer science with a minor in electrical engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science, all from The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.Prof. Cheng is a Distinguished Member and Speaker of the ACM, an Honorary Member of the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. An author of over 270 publications, Prof. Cheng is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) and the ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). His research interests center on the design, specification, analysis, optimization, formal verification, scheduling, and implementation of embedded and real-time systems, real-time virtualization, cyber-physical systems/Internet of things, real-time machine learning, knowledge-based systems, functional reactive systems, and security.He received the 2015 University of Houston's Lifetime Faculty Award for Mentoring Undergraduate Research. He implemented in C the first model checker, co-invented by ACM Turing Award winner E. Allen Emerson, augmented with semantics-based analysis for rule-based expert systems. He authored the popular textbook Real-Time Systems: Scheduling, Analysis, and Verification. Prof. Cheng is the Founder and CEO of AMKC Informatics, LLC.Speaker's website:Professor Albert M. K. Cheng's Homepage (uh.edu)
Para el primer episodio de Digitalizados del 2023 tenemos como invitado a Sergio Rajsbaum investigador en el Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Con Sergio hablamos sobre Cómputo Distribuido o Descentralizado, un modelo informático que, sin darnos cuenta, usamos todos los días. Con gran claridad, nuestro invitado nos describe los principios de estos modelos así como sus diferencias con el cómputo paralelo. A lo largo de la plática podemos apreciar temas centrales como lo es la tolerancia a fallas y la coordinación de procesos. En efecto la implementación de estos modelos requieren de la resolución de problemas matemáticos sumamente interesantes como por ejemplo aquellos relacionados con el blockchain o cadena de bloques. Sergio Rajsbaum estudió Ingeniería en Computación en la UNAM, y doctorado en Ciencias de la Computación en el Instituto Tecnológico de Israel-Technion. Ha realizado estancias de investigación en MIT, los Laboratorios de Investigación de HP, IBM, Universidad de Toronto, Universidad de Paris, entre otras. Es actualmente investigador en el Instituto de Matemáticas de la UNAM, del cual fue Secretario Académico. Pertenece al nivel III del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores desde 2001. Premio Nacional de Computación 2022.Su área principal de investigación es la teoría matemática de la computación, enfocada a sistemas distribuidos. Ha publicado más de 100 artículos de investigación principalmente en computación distribuida, y su libro Distributed Computing through Combinatorial Topology (Elsevier). Ha sido miembro del Comite Editorial de las revistas IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Elsevier Information Processing Letters, Elsevier Computer Science Review. Reconocido en la Gaceta de la UNAM como uno de los investigadores más citados de la UNAM. Sus contribuciones a la docencia se reflejan en su libro Conocimientos Fundamentales de Computación, en la dirección de 13 tesis de licenciatura, 34 de maestría y 6 de doctorado.NOTA: El autor de la fotografía usada en el "artwork" es Sébastien Tixeuil, a quien corresponden todos los derechos.
GUEST OVERVIEW: Robert J. Marks Ph.D. hosts the Mind Matters podcast for the Bradley Center. He is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University. Marks is a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and the Optical Society of America. He was Charter President of the IEEE Neural Networks Council, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. He is co-author of the books “Neural Smithing: Supervised Learning in Feedforward Artificial Neural Networks” (MIT Press) and “Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics” (World Scientific).
Introducing engineering students to systems thinking early in their education is critical for their development and learning success. In this episode Dr. Rea Lavi talks to us about the System Architecture-Function-Outcome (SAFO) framework he developed to help foster systems thinking in undergraduate students. He explains how this framework can be integrated in engineering teaching and used to assess systems thinking in first year engineering students.Reference(s) mentioned in this episode:Articles in peer-reviewed journals: Aubrecht, K. B., Dori, Y. J., Holme, T. A., Lavi, R., Matlin, S., Orgill, M., & Skaza-Acosta, H. (2019). Graphical tools for conceptualizing systems thinking in chemistry education. Journal of Chemical Education, 96(12), 2888-2900. Lavi, R., Dori, Y. J., Wengrowicz, N., & Dori, D. (2019). Model-based systems thinking: Assessing engineering student teams. IEEE Transactions on Education, 63(1), 39-47.Lavi, R., Dori, Y. J., & Dori, D. (2021). Assessing novelty and systems thinking in conceptual models of technological systems. IEEE Transactions on Education, 64(2), 155-162. York, S., Lavi, R., Dori, Y. J., & Orgill, M. (2019). Applications of systems thinking in STEM Education. Journal of Chemical Education, 96(12), 2742-2751. Lavi, R., Breslow, L., Salek, M. M., & Crawley, E. F. (2022, Submitted). Fostering and assessing the systems thinking of first-year undergraduate engineering students using the System Architecture-Function-Purpose framework. Other works: Presentation: Teaching and Assessing Systems Thinking in First-year Engineering Education Download link: shorturl.at/cmRUY LinkedIn article: A Cost-Effective Methodology for Tackling Ill-Defined Problems: A Case Study in an Undergraduate Project-Based Course https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cost-effective-methodology-tackling-ill-defined-problems-rea-lavi/ResearchGate discussion: Are creative thinking and systems thinking related? https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are_creative_thinking_and_systems_thinking_relatedBio:Dr. Rea Lavi is Lecturer and a Curriculum Designer with the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) undergraduate program in the School of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, where he leads the integration of 21st century skills into the program curriculum. In 2021, he received an award from the d'Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education to develop and teach a new undergraduate course at MIT School of Engineering, ‘22.s092 - Tackling Challenges in Climate and Sustainability with Ways of Thinking'.Dr. Lavi received his Ph.D. in 2019 from the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. His research interests in STEM higher education involve the fostering and assessment of systems thinking and creative thinking within the context of complex problem-solving. His doctoral research received several awards, including the Zeff Fellowship for Excelling First-year Ph.D. Students and the Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Fellowship for Excelling Ph.D. Students. Rea's method for structured creative problem-solving, SNAP Method®, is trademarked in both the US and UK. From 2009–2013, he was involved in the founding and initial funding rounds of a biotech startup,
Welcome to the Social-Engineer Podcast: The Doctor Is In Series – where we will discuss understandings and developments in the field of psychology. This is Episode 177 and hosted by Chris Hadnagy, CEO of Social-Engineer LLC, and The Innocent Lives Foundation, as well as Social-Engineer.Org and The Institute for Social Engineering. Joining Chris is co-host Dr. Abbie Maroño. Abbie is Director of education at Social-Engineer, LLC, and a perception management coach. She has a PhD in Behaviour analysis and specializes in nonverbal communication, trust, and cooperation. Today's conversation will be on the topic of Subliminal Persuasion. [Sep 05, 2022] 00:00 – Intro 00:27 – Dr. Abbie Maroño Intro 01:07 – Intro Links Social-Engineer.com Managed Voice Phishing Managed Email Phishing Adversarial Simulations Social-Engineer channel on SLACK CLUTCH innocentlivesfoundation.org 03:26 – Why this podcast? 04:28 – The topic of the day: Subliminal Persuasion 05:46 – What is Subliminal Persuasion? 07:03 – The Coca-Cola & popcorn myth 09:08 – Judas Priest Lawsuit 10:32 – Sex on ice, does it work? 15:00 – Getting warmer... 16:08 – ...and colder 18:49 – The importance of being attentive 21:28 – Does it pass the smell test? 22:59 – Can Prime lead to Persuasion? 24:34 – The necessity of Motivation 27:05 – Does Belief play a role? 28:17 – The Smell of Fear 32:52 – Applying the Subliminal 38:58 – The limitations of application 41:26 – Subtle Psychology 44:33 – Book Recommendations Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior – Leonard Mlodinow 45:42 – Find Dr. Abbie Maroño on the web Twitter: https://twitter.com/abbiejmarono LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dr-abbie-maroño-phd-35ab2611a Website: https://www.abbiemarono.com/ 46:26 – Find Chris on the web Twitter: https://twitter.com/humanhacker LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christopherhadnagy 46:41 – Wrap Up 47:59 – Outro www.social-engineer.com www.innocentlivesfoundation.org Select research: Chen, Z., Tan, Y., Zhang, Z., & Li, M. (2021). Research on subliminal visual messages based on EEG signal and convolutional neural network. In MATEC Web of Conferences (Vol. 336, p. 05014). EDP Sciences. Damaskinidis, G., & Kostopoulou, L. (2021). Intersemiotic Translation of Subliminal Messages in Brand Logos: A Qualitative Experimental Research. International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric (IJSVR), 5(1), 1-14. Dijksterhuis, A., Aarts, H., & Smith, P. K. (2005). The power of the subliminal: On subliminal persuasion and other potential applications. The new unconscious, 1, 77-106. Epley, N., Savitsky, K., & Kachelski, R. A. (1999). What every skeptic should know about subliminal persuasion. Skeptical Inquirer, 23(5), 40-45. Hsu, L., & Chen, Y. J. (2020). Neuromarketing, subliminal advertising, and hotel selection: An EEG study. Australasian Marketing Journal (AMJ), 28(4), 200-208. Li, N., Juan, L., Xin, W., & Xiang-hong, S. (2011, March). Effect of sustained subliminal auditory stimulus on human emotion. In International Conference on Information Science and Technology (pp. 381-384). IEEE. Loersch, C., Durso, G. R., & Petty, R. E. (2013). Vicissitudes of desire: A matching mechanism for subliminal persuasion. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4(5), 624-631. Riener, A. (2012). Subliminal persuasion and its potential for driver behavior adaptation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 13(1), 71-80. Smarandescu, L., & Shimp, T. A. (2015). Drink coca-cola, eat popcorn, and choose powerade: testing the limits of subliminal persuasion. Marketing Letters, 26(4), 715-726. Strahan, E. J., Spencer, S. J., & Zanna, M. P. (2002). Subliminal priming and persuasion: Striking while the iron is hot. Journal of experimental social psychology, 38(6), 556-568. Zacharia, A. B., Hamelin, N., Harcar, T., & Rodgers, P. (2020). A Neuro Analysis of Static Subliminal Advertising in Packaging. EDITORIAL 77, 29, 81-104.
Podcast: Control System Cyber Security Association International: (CS)²AIEpisode: 47: From Academia to CyberSecurity ExecutivePub date: 2022-08-23We have another interesting episode in our series of interviews with cybersecurity leaders and practitioners in the industrial controls systems or operating technology space.Derek Harp is excited to have Ron Indeck, the CEO of Q-Net Security, and a Director, Founder, and Technology Advisor to Exegy and VelociData joining him on the show. Ron grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and got his degrees from the University of Minnesota. He is an inventor (he holds more than 100 patents), a distinguished professor at Washington University, a fellow at IEEE and several other professional organizations, an expert in all things magnetic, a serial entrepreneur, a scuba diver, and a father. In this episode of the (CS)²AI Podcast, Ron discusses his career journey and shares his unique perspective on cybersecurity. He also offers some gold nuggets of career advice and gives insight into upcoming trends in the cybersecurity space.You won't want to miss this episode if you are looking for career inspiration or are interested in moving from the academic space into the world of cybersecurity. Stay tuned for more!Show highlights:Ron discusses his career path and his motivation for becoming an entrepreneur.Ron's approach to his work at Washington University.Why did he transition across various engineering disciplines before ending up in research and patents?Ron's introduction to security came early on in his career while working with people from the FBI.How security for industrial control systems evolved throughout Ron's career.How Ron built his patent portfolio.Ron's approach to solving the generational cybersecurity problem.What made Ron decide to leave his successful academic career to become an entrepreneur?Exciting and rewarding possibilities exist for academics in the industrial technology space.How can you get into tech transfer?Ron talks about his work at the Airforce Research Laboratory.How to recognize an opportunity.Teamwork and cooperation are vital for success.Ron defines the term hardsec and compares it with a software approach to security solutions for the future.Why does Ron believe that cybersecurity is an issue of human rights?You can create exciting and rewarding career opportunities in cybersecurity.Bio:Ronald S. Indeck, Ph.D., received degrees from the University of Minnesota. He is CEO of Q-Net Security and a Director, Founder, and Technology Advisor to Exegy and VelociData. He was a National Science Foundation Research Fellow at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. From 1988 to 2009 he was in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Washington University where he was the Das Family Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Security Technologies.He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed technical papers and been awarded more than a hundred patents including MagnePrint. He has received many awards including the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award from President Bush, the Missouri Bar Association Inventor of the Year, the IBM Faculty Development Award, the Washington University Distinguished Faculty Award, and the IEEE Centennial Key to the Future Award, and the IEEE Young Professional Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the American Physical Society, and many other professional organizations. He has served on many local committees and group activities, was on the board of the FBI InfraGard, chaired sessions, and served at several international conferences including General Chairman for International Magnetics Conference, was an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, President of the IEEE Magnetics Society, and IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer. Specialties: Indeck is experienced in cybersecurity, heterogeneous computing, data mining in massive databases, magnetic measurements and modeling, physical security and authentication, recording physics, and magnetic devices.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Derek Harp, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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We have another interesting episode in our series of interviews with cybersecurity leaders and practitioners in the industrial controls systems or operating technology space. Derek Harp is excited to have Ron Indeck, the CEO of Q-Net Security, and a Director, Founder, and Technology Advisor to Exegy and VelociData joining him on the show. Ron grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and got his degrees from the University of Minnesota. He is an inventor (he holds more than 100 patents), a distinguished professor at Washington University, a fellow at IEEE and several other professional organizations, an expert in all things magnetic, a serial entrepreneur, a scuba diver, and a father. In this episode of the (CS)²AI Podcast, Ron discusses his career journey and shares his unique perspective on cybersecurity. He also offers some gold nuggets of career advice and gives insight into upcoming trends in the cybersecurity space. You won't want to miss this episode if you are looking for career inspiration or are interested in moving from the academic space into the world of cybersecurity. Stay tuned for more! Show highlights: Ron discusses his career path and his motivation for becoming an entrepreneur. Ron's approach to his work at Washington University. Why did he transition across various engineering disciplines before ending up in research and patents? Ron's introduction to security came early on in his career while working with people from the FBI. How security for industrial control systems evolved throughout Ron's career. How Ron built his patent portfolio. Ron's approach to solving the generational cybersecurity problem. What made Ron decide to leave his successful academic career to become an entrepreneur? Exciting and rewarding possibilities exist for academics in the industrial technology space. How can you get into tech transfer? Ron talks about his work at the Airforce Research Laboratory. How to recognize an opportunity. Teamwork and cooperation are vital for success. Ron defines the term hardsec and compares it with a software approach to security solutions for the future. Why does Ron believe that cybersecurity is an issue of human rights? You can create exciting and rewarding career opportunities in cybersecurity. Bio: Ronald S. Indeck, Ph.D., received degrees from the University of Minnesota. He is CEO of Q-Net Security and a Director, Founder, and Technology Advisor to Exegy and VelociData. He was a National Science Foundation Research Fellow at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. From 1988 to 2009 he was in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Washington University where he was the Das Family Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Security Technologies. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed technical papers and been awarded more than a hundred patents including MagnePrint. He has received many awards including the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award from President Bush, the Missouri Bar Association Inventor of the Year, the IBM Faculty Development Award, the Washington University Distinguished Faculty Award, and the IEEE Centennial Key to the Future Award, and the IEEE Young Professional Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the American Physical Society, and many other professional organizations. He has served on many local committees and group activities, was on the board of the FBI InfraGard, chaired sessions, and served at several international conferences including General Chairman for International Magnetics Conference, was an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, President of the IEEE Magnetics Society, and IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer. Specialties: Indeck is experienced in cybersecurity, heterogeneous computing, data mining in massive databases, magnetic measurements and modeling, physical security and authentication, recording physics, and magnetic devices. Mentioned in this...
Rafael Murrieta Cid es investigador titular del Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas A.C. En este episodio platicamos sobre la reconstrucción de objetos, visión por computadora, geometría computacional y planificación de movimientos para robots. En este episodio, Rafael nos explica la importancia de la simulación de los sistemas dinámicos así como algunos problemas abiertos sumamente interesantes que lo han retado desde hace ya más de 20 añosRafael Murrieta Cid se graduó de ingeniero físico en el Tecnológico de Monterrey campus Monterrey (1990), lugar donde también obtuvo una maestría en sistemas de manufactura (1993). Obtuvo el doctorado en robótica, en el Instituto Nacional Politécnico de Toulouse Francia en 1998. Su tesis de doctorado la realizó en el grupo de Robótica e Inteligencia Artificial del LAAS-CNRS en Toulouse. En 1998-1999, fue investigador postdoctoral en el departamento de Ciencias de la Computación en la Universidad de Stanford, California. De 2002 a 2004 realizó una segunda estancia postdoctoral en el Instituto Beckman y en el departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica de la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). De 2004 a 2006 fue profesor y director del Centro de Investigación en Mecatrónica, del Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México. Desde marzo del 2006 trabaja en el grupo de Cómputo Matemático en el CIMAT. Durante el año 2016 realizó una estancia sabática en UIUC. Él tiene el nombramiento de Investigador Titular C en el CIMAT Guanajuato, es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores nivel III y es Editor Asociado de la revista IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Desde mayo de 2022 es coordinador de posgrados de matemáticas aplicadas en el CIMAT. Sus áreas de interés son: Robótica, planificación de movimientos y teoría de control.
#iit #iitdelhi #nanotechnology #education #futureofeducation #technology NANOTECH & THE FUTURE OF LEARNING - PROF V RAMGOPAL RAO- EX DIRECTOR IIT DELHI Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao is currently a Professor in EE and the immediate Past Director of IIT Delhi. Before joining IIT Delhi as the Director in April 2016, Dr. Rao served as a P. K. Kelkar Chair Professor for Nanotechnology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and as the Chief Investigator for the Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics project at IIT Bombay. Dr. Rao has over 480 research publications in the area of nano-scale devices & Nanoelectronics and is an inventor on 49 patents and patent applications, which include 18 issued US patents. Thirteen of his patents have been licensed to industries for commercialization. Prof. Rao is a co-founder of two deep technology startups at IIT Bombay (Nanosniff & Soilsens) which are developing products of relevance to the society. Dr. Rao is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Indian National Science Academy. Prof. Rao's research and leadership contributions have been recognized with over 30 awards and honors in the country and abroad. He is a recipient of three honorary doctorates. The recognitions Prof. Rao received include the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences, Infosys Prize, IEEE EDS Education Award, Excellence in Research awards from IIT Bombay, DAE and DRDO, Swarnajayanti Fellowship award from the Department of Science & Technology, IBM Faculty award, Best Research award from the Intel Asia Academic Forum, Techno-Visionary award from the Indian Semiconductor Association, J.C.Bose National Fellowship among many others. Prof. Rao was an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices during 2003-2012 for the CMOS Devices and Technology area and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Nano Letters, a leading international journal in the area of Nanotechnology. He also serves as an Editor for the IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics. Dr. Rao served as the Chairman, IEEE AP/ED Bombay Chapter and as a Vice-Chairman, IEEE Asia Pacific Regions/Chapters sub-committee for two terms. He was the first elected Chairman for the India section, American Nano Society during 2013-2015. https://in.linkedin.com › ramgopalrao https://twitter.com › ramgopal_rao https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in › ~rrao
Welcome to the second episode of Carry the Two! We’re the show for people who enjoy discovering hidden elements that impact our lives in the most unexpected ways. In this episode, Ian and Sadie talk about how honeybees decide on new hive locations when they outgrow their current home. With the help of mathematician Dario Bauso, they learn how researchers use mean field games to model such decision-making and how it applies to other cases as well. Find our transcript here: LINK Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links: https://www.imsi.institute/videos/mean-field-game-for-collective-decision-making-in-honeybees-via-switched-systems/ (Dario’s talk at IMSI) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9529000 L. Stella, D. Bauso, P. Colaneri, "Mean-Field Games for Collective Decision-Making in Honeybees via Switched Systems", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, online doi: 10.1109/TAC.2021.3110166 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005109818305375 L. Stella and D. Bauso, “Bio-inspired evolutionary dynamics on complex networks under uncertain cross-inhibitory signals", Automatica vol. 100, 2019, pp. 61--66 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0073216 D. Pais et al., "A mechanism for value-sensitive decision-making", PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 9, Sep. 2013 10.1109/LCSYS.2018.2838445 L. Stella and D. Bauso, “Bio-Inspired Evolutionary Game Dynamics in Symmetric and Asymmetric Models", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2.3 2018 pp. 405--410 Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (twitter) @IMSI_institute, (instagram) IMSI.institute Follow Dario Bauso: @g_t_engineering This episode was audio engineered by Tyler Damme. Music by Blue Dot Sessions. Special thanks to Dario Bauso, the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, the University of Chicago, and the National Science Foundation. The Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) is funded by NSF grant DMS-1929348.
Czemu służą nużeńce żyjące na naszych twarzach i jak się zmieniają na przestrzeni pokoleń? Czy nowe terapie oparte na bakteriach jelitowych mogą pomóc w leczeniu depresji? Czym jest pęseta akustyczna i do czego może służyć? Czy uda się wprowadzić powszechne, proste, tanie i szybkie badanie równowagi u osób starszych i właściwie po co to robić? Jak skuteczne i czy w ogóle są tak powszechne suplementy diety w zapobieganiu nowotworom i chorobom serca? O tym wszystkim opowiem w tym odcinku podkastu Naukowo :)Jeśli uznasz, że warto wspierać ten projekt to zapraszam do serwisu Patronite, każda dobrowolna wpłata od słuchaczy pozwoli mi na rozwój i doskonalenie tego podkastu, bardzo dziękuję za każde wsparcie!Zapraszam również na Facebooka, Twittera i Instagrama, każdy lajk i udostępnienie pomoże w szerszym dotarciu do słuchaczy, a to jest teraz moim głównym celem :) Na stronie Naukowo.net znajdziesz więcej interesujących artykułów naukowych, zachęcam również do dyskusji na tematy naukowe, dzieleniu się wiedzą i nowościami z naukowego świata na naszym serwerze Discord - https://discord.gg/mqsjM5THXrŹródła użyte przy tworzeniu odcinka:O'Connor EA, Evans CV, Ivlev I, Rushkin MC, Thomas RG, Martin A, Lin JS. Vitamin and Mineral Supplements for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force. JAMA. 2022 Jun 21;327(23):2334-2347. doi: https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.15650. PMID: 35727272.US Preventive Services Task Force, Mangione CM, Barry MJ, Nicholson WK, Cabana M, Chelmow D, Coker TR, Davis EM, Donahue KE, Doubeni CA, Jaén CR, Kubik M, Li L, Ogedegbe G, Pbert L, Ruiz JM, Stevermer J, Wong JB. Vitamin, Mineral, and Multivitamin Supplementation to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. JAMA. 2022 Jun 21;327(23):2326-2333. doi: https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2022.8970. PMID: 35727271.Elana Spivack, "Beer might actually improve gut health study finds", https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/beer-improves-gut-health-studyY. Zeng et al., "Manipulation and Mechanical Deformation of Leukemia Cells by High-Frequency Ultrasound Single Beam," in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 69, no. 6, pp. 1889-1897, June 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2022.3170074.Sophia Chen, "Forget Lasers. The Hot New Tool for Physicists Is Sound", https://www.wired.co.uk/article/acoustic-sound-waves-engineers-physicsAraujo CG, de Souza e Silva CG, Laukkanen JA, et alSuccessful 10-second one-legged stance performance predicts survival in middle-aged and older individualsBritish Journal of Sports Medicine Published Online First: 21 June 2022. doi: http://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2021-105360Najwyższa Izba Kontroli, https://www.nik.gov.pl/aktualnosci/system-opieki-geriatrycznej.htmlRoss Pomeroy, "10-second balance test is a powerful predictor of death for older adults", https://bigthink.com/health/balance-predicts-death-older-adults/Schaub, AC., Schneider, E., Vazquez-Castellanos, J.F. et al. Clinical, gut microbial and neural effects of a probiotic add-on therapy in depressed patients: a randomized controlled trial. Transl Psychiatry 12, 227 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-01977-zGilbert Smith,...
The mobile network (e.g., 4G LTE and 5G NR), the only large-scale wireless network infrastructure on par with the Internet, plays a critical role in interconnecting various mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, massive/critical IoT devices) and providing them with ubiquitous network services. In recent years, more users are accessing the Internet through mobile networks; since the first quarter of 2021, mobile devices (excluding tablets) have generated more than 54% of global website traffic. However, the security of the nowadays mobile networked systems is still far from being satisfactory. Unprecedented malicious attacks against mobile devices and the mobile network infrastructure cannot be effectively defended by the current complicated and error-prone design and pose real threats to a large number of users. In this talk, I would like to share with you my research experience in identifying various security vulnerabilities in essential mobile network services using formal and/or empirical approaches and securing billions of mobile users and the infrastructure. About the speaker: Dr. Guan-Hua Tu is an assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering at Michigan State University. He is the director of the Security, Networking, and Mobile Systems Research (SNMS) laboratory. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to that, he worked at MediaTek as a wireless communication software engineer, project manager, and researcher (invented eight U.S. patents). His research interests are in the broad areas of security, IoT, mobile systems, and wireless networking, with a recent focus on innovating 5G/4G mobile network architecture/protocol/technologies, cellular/Wi-Fi IoT, secure cloud computing/services, blockchain technologies. He and his research group have identified a large number of security vulnerabilities in operational 4G/5G mobile ecosystems. The research results have been published in the most prestigious networking and security conferences and journals, e.g., ACM CCS, MobiCom, MobiSys, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, etc. The solutions they proposed have been adopted by tier-one industrial partners, e.g., AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Facebook. He was a recipient of the Facebook security award, Google security rewards, best paper award at IEEE CNS'18, UCLA dissertation year fellowship award, and the IBM Ph.D. fellowship award.https://www.cse.msu.edu/~ghtu
Data center operators who want to be sustainable tend to focus in on carbon - but there are a lot more elements in the Periodic Table, And as we progress towards sustainability, we are going to have to consider all of them. In this podcast, Astrid Wynne Rogers, sustainability lead at TechBuyer tells us why we should pay close attention to the lifecycle of our physical servers and the other equipment in our facilities. It takes a lot of materials and energy to make equipment, and keeping it out of the waste stream could avoid wasting those resources. But there's more to it than sticking it in a skip for recycling. The circular economy has to join up. With a value put on refurbished equipment, and people actively working to reuse and extend that kit. It used to be said that replacing old kit with new always saved energy, because Moore's law meant the new equipment was much faster. That is no longer the case, and TechBuyer did the research to prove it. TechBuyer's paper is available here from IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing or here from Techbuyer. Want another reason to increase your hardware's life? It's a powerful way to reduce "Scope 3" emissions from your supply chain. And you can't get to Net Zero without dealing with Scope 3.
Dr. Casey McArdle is the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University. He directs the undergraduate programs: Experience Architecture (an undergraduate user experience degree housed in the Arts and Humanities), Professional and Public Writing, and a Minor in Writing. His research is centered around user experience, instructional design, technical communication, rhetoric and writing, accessibility, project management, and online writing instruction. His latest publications include “Finding a Teaching A11y: Designing an Accessibility-Centered Pedagogy” appearing in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, which he co-authored with Kate Sonka and Dr. Liza Potts. His book, Personal, Accessible, Responsive, Strategic: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors, which he co-authored with Dr. Jessie Borgman, won the 2020 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award. The book was followed by their edited collection, PARS In Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors. These texts were inspired by the website he co-founded with Dr. Borgman, The Online Writing Instruction Community (owicommunity.org), created in 2015 as an open resource for contingent faculty struggling to find support for teaching writing online. In this episode of Room 42 we discuss the ways accessible technologies and curriculum are impacting pedagogy and how programs are preparing students for professional spaces beyond their institutions. He will discuss how using his role as an admin can better connect his faculty and students with innovative spaces that create equitable learning environments while also modeling such practices to be used post graduation. For transcript, links, and show notes: https://tccamp.org/episodes/how-accessible-technologies-impact-teaching-methodologies-and-practice/
Quando Giulio ed il sottoscritto hanno iniziato a lavorare i sistemi di source control erano pochi e rozzi. Spesso lo "zippone" con i sorgenti era il modo per fare versioning. Oggi il mondo è cambiato.Il problema non è come fare versioning, piuttosto quale strategia di versioning usare: GitFlow, GitHub Flow, Release Flow, o Trunk Based development sono alcune tra le opzioni sul tavolo.Oh mamma mia, che confusione. Cerchiamo di mettere ordine nella complessità.Riferimenti bibliografici:- Rochkind, Marc J. “The Source Code Control System.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering SE-1, no. 4 (December 1975): 364–70. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.1975.6312866.- Appleton, Brad, Berczuk, Stephen, Cabrera, Ralph, and Orenstein, Robert. “Streamed Lines: Branching Patterns for Parallel Software Development.” Pattern Languages of Programs, February 8, 1998. http://www.hillside.net/plop/plop98/final_submissions/P37.pdf.- Cabrera, Ralph, Appleton, Brad, and Berczuk, Stephen. “Software Reconstruction: Patterns for Reproducing Software Builds.” Pattern Languages of Programs, 1999. https://hillside.net/plop/plop/plop99/proceedings/cabrera/softwarereconstruction.pdf.- https://martinfowler.com/articles/branching-patterns.html
The 365 Days of Astronomy, the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009
https://youtu.be/BX-SICfFvB8 Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )Special Guest: This week we are excited to welcome Dr. Jake Abbott, director of the Telerobotics Laboratory at the University of Utah to the WSH. The proliferation of Space Debris has become an increasingly alarming reality. In fact, as recently as December 3, 2021, "The International Space Station (ISS) had to swerve away from a fragment of a U.S. launch vehicle" (source: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sci...). In a paper published in November 2021 in the science journal Nature , Jake and his research team have proposed a new method of dealing with the debris: using a series of spinning magnets to move these objects. You can read more about their proposed solution here https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/.... Jake Abbott is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah, and he is the director of the Telerobotics Laboratory. He joined the University of Utah in 2008. Before coming to Utah, he spent three years in Switzerland as a postdoctoral researcher working with Brad Nelson at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich. Dr. Abbott received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in 2005 working with Allison Okamura, his M.S. from the University of Utah in 2001, and his B.S. from Utah State University in 1999, all in Mechanical Engineering. Jake Abbott's research has been funded by the NSF (including the CAREER Award), the NIH, NASA, the Air Force, and industry. He and his co-authors have won a number of Best Paper and Best Poster Awards at international conferences. He is currently an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Robotics Research, and was previously an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics. In Jake's spare time, he's a movie buff, a foodie, and an all-around supporter of the arts and the community in Salt Lake City. Jake's wife is a flamenco dancer and instructor in Salt Lake City, and he plays guitar and sings as part of her group. You can learn more about Jake and his research by visiting https://www.telerobotics.utah.edu/ind... and https://www.mech.utah.edu/directory/f.... Regular Guests: Dr. Nick Castle ( @PlanetaryGeoDoc ) C.C. Petersen ( http://thespacewriter.com/wp/ & @AstroUniverse & @SpaceWriter ) Pam Hoffman ( http://spacer.pamhoffman.com/ & http://everydayspacer.com/ & @EverydaySpacer ) This week's stories: - JWST & what it's going to be looking at. - A comet, 2 meteor showers, 2 contests & a citizen science project! - Crazy Pluto geology. - New information on the clouds of Venus. - Hyabusa samples. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.
This week we are excited to welcome Dr. Jake Abbott, director of the Telerobotics Laboratory at the University of Utah to the WSH. The proliferation of Space Debris has become an increasingly alarming reality. In fact, as recently as December 3, 2021, "The International Space Station (ISS) had to swerve away from a fragment of a U.S. launch vehicle" (source: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/international-space-station-swerves-dodge-space-junk-2021-12-03/). In a paper published in November 2021 in the science journal Nature , Jake and his research team have proposed a new method of dealing with the debris: using a series of spinning magnets to move these objects. You can read more about their proposed solution here https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/waste-of-space/. Jake Abbott is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah, and he is the director of the Telerobotics Laboratory. He joined the University of Utah in 2008. Before coming to Utah, he spent three years in Switzerland as a postdoctoral researcher working with Brad Nelson at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich. Dr. Abbott received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in 2005 working with Allison Okamura, his M.S. from the University of Utah in 2001, and his B.S. from Utah State University in 1999, all in Mechanical Engineering. Jake Abbott's research has been funded by the NSF (including the CAREER Award), the NIH, NASA, the Air Force, and industry. He and his co-authors have won a number of Best Paper and Best Poster Awards at international conferences. He is currently an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Robotics Research, and was previously an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics. In Jake's spare time, he's a movie buff, a foodie, and an all-around supporter of the arts and the community in Salt Lake City. Jake's wife is a flamenco dancer and instructor in Salt Lake City, and he plays guitar and sings as part of her group. You can learn more about Jake and his research by visiting https://www.telerobotics.utah.edu/index.php/People/JakeAbbott and https://www.mech.utah.edu/directory/faculty/jake-abbott/. **************************************** The Weekly Space Hangout is a production of CosmoQuest. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are some specific ways you can help: ► Subscribe FREE to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest ► Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! ► Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx – follow and subscribe! ► Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx ► Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast ► Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx ► Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/X8rw4vv ► Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ Don't forget to like and subscribe! Plus we love being shared out to new people, so tweet, comment, review us... all the free things you can do to help bring science into people's lives.
How can technology help Parkinson's disease patients to manage their tremor? In this episode, I feature a paper by Zhou and colleagues who optimized the design of a glove that can suppress tremor simultaneously, but independently, in the knuckle of the index finger, the thumb, and the wrist. In preliminary assessments, this glove achieved tremor suppression of 70 to 80%. Considering that the number of Parkinson's disease patients is estimated to double in the next 15 years, this type of technology will be an important contribution to society at large. Full citation: Zhou, Y., Ibrahim, A., Hardy, K. G., Jenkins, M. E., Naish, M. D., & Trejos, A. L. (2021). Design and Preliminary Performance Assessment of a Wearable Tremor Suppression Glove. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
In this episode of Cyber Ways, Craig interviews co-host Dr. Tom Stafford about his 2021 paper, Platform-Dependent Computer Security Complacency: The Unrecognized Insider Threat, which was published in the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.Dr. Stafford is the J.E. Barnes Eminent Scholar in Data Analytics at Louisiana Tech University. He holds doctorates in Marketing from the University of Georgia, and Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Arlington. In addition to publishing dozens of articles in high-quality journals, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Decision Sciences Journal, and is currently co-Editor-in-Chief of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, which is the oldest continuously-published journal in information systems. Dr. Stafford also co-chaired the 2018 Americas Conference on Information Systems, and the 2019 IFIP 8.11/11.13 Information Security Workshop. He is also co-chairing the 2025 International Conference in Information Systems. Tom's paper discusses how many problematic security behaviors are the result of complacency or ignorance, rather than explicit malicious behavior. He also describes the concept of cyber-complacency, which he defines as an unconcerned dependence on technological security protections.Abstract (direct copy from the paper)This article reports on a grounded theory investigation of subject response anomalies that were encountered in the course of a neurocognitive laboratory study of computer user cybersecurity behaviors. Subsequent qualitative data collection led to theoretical development in specification of three broad constructs of computer user security complacency. Theoretical insights indicate that states of security complacency can arise in the form of a naïve lack of concern about the likelihood of facing security threats (inherent complacency), from ill-advised dependence upon specific computing platforms and protective workplace technology implementations for protection (platform complacency), as well as the reliance on the guidance on advice from trusted social others in personal and workplace networks (social complacency). Elements of an emergent theory of cybersecurity complacency arising from our interpretive insights are discussed.Link to the paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9373614The Cyber Ways podcast is brought to you by the Center for Information Assurance, at Louisiana Tech University's College of Business. Cyber Ways is funded through a Just Business grant, made possible through the generosity of donors to the Louisiana Tech University College of Business.Intro audio for the Cyber Ways Podcast Outro audio for Cyber Ways PodcastCyber Ways is brought to you by the Center for Information Assurance, which is housed in the College of Business at Louisiana Tech University. The podcast is made possible through a "Just Business Grant," which is funded by the University's generous donors.https://business.latech.edu/cyberways/
Dr. Engin Erzin is a professor at Koç University, a member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, and Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. In this episode, we talk about multimedia signal processing and the role of deep learning with a focus on audio-visual signal processing.
Rapid progress in machine learning, computer vision and graphics leads to successive democratization of media manipulation capabilities. While convincing photo and video manipulation used to require substantial time and skill, modern editors bring (semi-) automated tools that can be used by everyone. Some of the most recent examples include manipulation of human faces, e.g., by their replacement or semantic manipulation (expression, age, etc.). At the same time, dissemination of fake news and misinformation campaigns are picking up speed which challenges trust in the society. Our media distribution platforms lack content integrity features as they were designed and optimized for the quality of (human) experience with strict bandwidth / storage constraints. Such an approach fails to recognize an increasing role of automated analysis by machine learning models, e.g, strong lossy compression applied to media assets removes imperceptible statistical traces indicative of content manipulation and is often referred to as media "laundering" process. In this talk, we explore end-to-end optimization of photo acquisition and distribution pipelines for media authentication. We show that feedback from forensic analysis can be used to optimize upstream components like the camera ISP or lossy compression codecs to support media authentication on the receiving end. Modern machine learning tools allow us to discover new approaches to the problem with surprising connections to other fields like information hiding, computational photography, lossy compression and machine learning security. To enable this line of work, we are currently developing a Tensorflow-based open source toolbox for modeling and optimization of various imaging applications (https://github.com/pkorus/neural-imaging). About the speaker: Nasir Memon is a professor in the Departmentof Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon. He is an affiliatefaculty at the computer science department in the Courant Institute ofMathematical Sciences at NYU. He introduced cyber security studiesto New York University Tandon School of Engineering ands is a founding directorof the Center for Cyber Security, New York University,and the Center for Cyber Security at New York University AbuDhabi. He is the founder of OSIRIS and CSAW, the worlds largest student run cybersecurity event. As the Associate Dean for Online Learning, helaunched the Bridge to Tandon program thatprovides pathways to Non-STEM students to Computer Science and Cyber Security Cyber Fellows program thatprovides a highly affordable, industry partnered online MS in cybersecurity to domestic students and the MS in Cyber Risk and Strategy in collaborationwith NYU Law. He has published more than 300 papers andreceived several best paper awards and awards for excellence in teaching. Hehas been on the editorial boards of several journals, and was theEditor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Security and Forensics.He is an IEEE, IAPR and SPIE Fellow for his contributions to image compressionand media security and forensics. His research interests include digitalforensics, biometrics, data compression, network security and security andhuman behavior.
Sorularınız için: https://bit.ly/3xuKeBR Canlı yayın linki: https://bit.ly/3dYvFhZ Kariyer sohbetlerini takip etmek için: https://bit.ly/2HuqQya Websitemiz: https://kesisenyollar.org/ Youtube kanalımızı takip etmek için: http://bit.ly/KesisenYollarYoutube Geri bildirimleriniz için: https://bit.ly/3xvWe69 Gözde Ünal Lisans derecesini ODTÜ, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Bilkent Üniversitesi'nden aldıktan sonra doktora çalışmalarını 2002 senesinde North Carolina State University'de Elektrik ve Bilgisayar Mühendisliği bölümünde, Matematik doktora yandalı ile birlikte aldı. Ardından Georgia Institute of Technology'ye doktora sonrası araştırmacı olarak katıldı. Daha sonra 2003-2007 seneleri arasında Siemens Corporate Technology, Princeton, New Jersey'de araştırmacı bilim insanı olarak çalıştı.2007 senesinde Türkiye'ye akademisyen olarak döndü. İlk olarak Sabancı Üniversitesi'nde Mühendislik ve Doğa Bilimleri Fakültesi'nde Yrd. Doç. Dr. ve Doç. Dr. olarak çalıştı. Ardından İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Bilgisayar ve Bilişim Fakültesi'ne katıldı, ve halen bu kurumda Profesör olarak görev yapmakta. 2018-2020 arasında İTÜ Yapay Zeka ve Veri Bilimi Uygulamalı Araştırma Merkezi'nin (ITU-AI) Kurucu Direktörü olarak görev yapan Prof. Ünal uluslararası ve ulusal birçok organizasyonda görev aldı. Bunlar arasında MICCAI 2016, MIDL 2019 ve SİU 2017 konferansları Teknik Program Başkanlığı, Women in MICCAI kurucu üyeliği, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing dergisinde Yardımcı Editörlükleri sayılabilir. 30'dan fazla uluslararası patente sahip olan Prof. Ünal, 2010 senesinde L'Oreal Türkiye Yılın Genç Bilim Kadını ve TÜBA GEBİP Genç Bilim İnsanı ödülleri, 2016 senesinde Marie Curie Alumni Association Kariyer Ödülünü almıştır. 2020 senesinde öğretime başlayan İTÜ Yapay Zeka ve Veri Mühendisliği Lisans Bölümü kurucu profesörlerindendir. Halen ITU AI kurucu üyesi ve ITU Vision Lab direktörlüğünü yürütmekte olan Prof. Ünal yapay zeka, derin öğrenme ve bilgisayarla görü alanlarında araştırma çalışmalarına devam etmekte.
In this episode, Tonya Oaks Smith talks cybersecurity with J.E. Barnes Professor of Computer Information Systems Dr. Tom Stafford. He recently had a new article, “Platform-Dependent Computer Security Complacency: The Unrecognized Insider Threat” published in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Stafford recently evolved the theory of Cybersecurity Complacency to describe the actions and views of well-meaning, but bumbling workers who unintentionally violate security. He’ll tell you more about what you should or shouldn't do to ensure the safety of your information on the web. College of Business: https://business.latech.edu/ Website: https://1894.latech.edu/beyond/ Email: 1894@latech.edu
For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/ken-goldberg-artist-and-roboticist/?preview=true Our guest this week is Ken Goldberg. Ken is an artist, inventor, and roboticist. He is William S. Floyd Jr Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley and Chief Scientist at Ambidextrous Robotics. Ken’s artwork involving robots such as the Telegarden has been exhibited internationally and he founded the Art, Technology, and Culture public lecture series in 1997. He co-founded the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. As Director of UC Berkeley’s AUTOLab, Ken and his students have published 300 peer-reviewed papers and 9 US patents. He has presented over 600 invited lectures worldwide. You can find out everything about Ken at goldberg.berkeley.edu.
Bio: Dieter Fox is Senior Director of Robotics Research at Nvidia. His research is in robotics, with strong connections to artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning. He is currently on partial leave from the University of Washington, where he is a Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. At UW, he also heads the UW Robotics and State Estimation Lab. From 2009 to 2011, he was Director of the Intel Research Labs Seattle. Dieter obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn, Germany. He has published more than 200 technical papers and is the co-author of the textbook "Probabilistic Robotics." He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAI, and he received several best paper awards at major robotics, AI, and computer vision conferences. He was an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, program co-chair of the 2008 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and program chair of the 2013 Robotics: Science and Systems conference.
Professor Dr. Nasir Memon is Vice Dean for Academics and Student Affairs and a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering. He is a co-founder of NYU's Center for Cyber Security (CCS) at New York as well as NYU Abu Dhabi. He is an affiliate faculty at the Computer Science department in NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and department head of NYU Tandon Online. He introduced cyber security studies to NYU Tandon in 1999, making it one of the first schools to implement the program at the undergraduate level. He is the founder of the OSIRIS Lab, CSAW, The Bridge to Tandon Program as well as the Cyber Fellows program at NYU. He has received several best paper awards and awards for excellence in teaching. He has been on the editorial boards of several journals, and was the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Security and Forensics. In this podcast, Professor Memon traces the highlights in the evolution of AI technologies, and how breakthrough work in “deep” neural network powered by the rapid development in processing power led to the explosion of today’s “deepfakes”. Giving examples of convincing “deepfakes”, he also notes the emergence of “cheapfakes” and “shallowfakes”. He points out the changing landscape as the prevalence of “deepfakes” grows, including the development of “deepfake-as-a-service” and other monetization opportunities for threat actors, and the potential of misinformation being weaponised by nation state actors as “deepfakes” are added to their cyber attacks arsenal. As the world of “deepfakes” creation and detection becomes a cat-and-mouse game, he stresses the need for going beyond passive detection to a proactive approach of embedding integrity measures for image provenance. With truth under attack as “deepfakes” technologies grow more sophisticated, he also sees the need for a societal shift towards becoming more sceptical in general and advises us: “do not jump into conclusions, look for corroborative evidence”. Recorded Singapore 17th March 2021 7.15am / New York 16th March 2021 7.15pm.
Dr. Sara Doan is an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication at Kennesaw State University, where she teaches data visualization, information design, and Health and Medicine in Technical Communication. Dr. Doan's previous research on instructor feedback has appeared in IEEE Transactions on Technical Communication; her research on COVID-19 charts is appearing this January in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication. In this session, we talk about some very important lessons learned in a look back at what the COVID crisis has taught us all. We discuss guidelines for creating accurate, accessible, and eye-catching charts about COVID-19, particularly for sharing via social media. There is nothing like a global pandemic to bring to the front and center the need for accurate and understandable graphics.The use of visual aids in communicating important information to a diverse audience is nothing new. We know the importance of citing sources and accuracy, but stunning graphics with colors and lines influence our understanding and can shape behaviours and beliefs. With the advent of Social media and non-traditional news outlets, a new emphasis on stimulating data visualization is first priority. As professional communicators, it is paramount that we understand data visualization so that we can pair our technical accuracy with the human psychology of aesthetics. From good graphics gone bad when taken out of context to blatant manipulations to sway opinion with no foundation in fact. We’ll also talk about the need for us to focus on accessibility and the democratization of information especially in times of crisis.
Whitworth physics professor, Kamesh Sankaran is known to his colleagues at NASA for his expertise in space propulsion. His students appreciate the foundational faith commitments he has, alongside aerospace smarts. This and more can be credited to his studious diligence, extroverted personality, and foremost, humble walk with Jesus.Dr. Sankaran hails from a town in southern India about two hours outside the city of Chennai. At only 17, he received a scholarship to come to the Illinois Institute of Technology, so he packed his bags and moved to Chicago. And from there, he would go on to study at Princeton University. "It was the most significant phase of my life," he says. After a fellow research student shared the gospel with him, he began following Jesus and became involved in campus ministry while flourishing in his academic career; earning masters' degrees and a Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Plasma science and technology. Since joining the Whitworth University, Dr. Sankaran has been honoured as their Most Influential Professor (2014), featured in Christian Today Magazine, received the Dean's Junior Faculty Award (2006) and an Academic Mentoring Award (2012), authored and co-authored numerous articles on spacecraft propulsion, and has been an active reviewer for the Journal of Propulsion and Power and the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. Even with these lofty accomplishments, and many more, one of his favourite joys is to just have lunch with his students and listen to their stories. "The one thing that stands out is God's goodness," he says, "and the many ways I've been blessed, first and foremost, with relationships with my colleagues and my students."Connect with Dr. SankaranPublications________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram
Silvia Regina Vergilio é Professora Titular da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). Conversamos com ela sobre Engenharia de Software Baseada em Busca e IA em Engenharia de Software. Sites da Silvia http://www.inf.ufpr.br/silvia/ https://dblp.org/pid/99/4290.html https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2bkThnAAAAAJ&hl=en Citações (pessoas e artigos): José Carlos Maldonado: https://sites.icmc.usp.br/jcmaldon/ Mario Jino: https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/pesquisador/89271/mario-jino/ Mark Harman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Harman_(computer_scientist) Christian Kästner: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckaestne/ Aurora Pozo: http://www.inf.ufpr.br/aurora/ Vivek Nair, Amritanshu Agrawal, Jianfeng Chen, Wei Fu, George Mathew, Tim Menzies, Leandro L. Minku, Markus Wagner, Zhe Yu: Data-driven search-based software engineering. MSR 2018: 341-352 Mark Harman, Bryan F. Jones: Search-based software engineering. Inf. Softw. Technol. 43(14): 833-839 (2001) COLANZI, T. E. ; ASSUNÇÃO, WESLEY K.G. ; VERGILIO, SILVIA R. ; FARAH, P. R. ; GUIZZO, G. The Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering: Past, Present and Future. INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY, 2020. J. M. Zhang, M. Harman, L. Ma and Y. Liu, "Machine Learning Testing: Survey, Landscapes and Horizons," in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, doi: 10.1109/TSE.2019.2962027. João Lucas Correia, Juliana Alves Pereira, Rafael de Mello, Alessandro Garcia, Baldoino Fonseca, Márcio Ribeiro, Rohit Gheyi, and Willy Tiengo. Data Scientists: Revealing their Challenges and Practices on Machine Learning Model Development. In XIX Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2020), São Luis. Christian Kästner, Eunsuk Kang: Teaching software engineering for AI-enabled systems. ICSE (SEET) 2020: 45-48 Building Intelligent Systems A Guide to Machine Learning Engineering Hulten, Geoff. author. 2018 https://ckaestne.github.io/seai/S2020/#course-content https://ckaestne.medium.com/on-the-process-for-building-software-with-ml-components-c54bdb86db24 https://ckaestne.github.io/seai/S2020/#course-content F. Ishikawa and N. Yoshioka, “How do engineers perceive difficulties in engineering of machine-learning systems? - Questionnaire survey,” in Joint Intl. Workshop on Conducting Empirical Studies in Industry and Intl. Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice (CESSER-IP), 2019 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fronteirases/message
Guiseppe Getto is an Associate Professor of Technical and Professional Communication at East Carolina University and is President and Founder of Content Garden, Inc., a digital marketing, content strategy, and UX firm: http://contentgarden.org/. His research focuses on utilizing user experience (UX) design, content strategy, and other participatory research methods to help people improve their communities and organizations. He has published a co-edited collection, Content Strategy in Technical Communication, with Routledge. The findings of his research have been published in many peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication; Technical Communication; and Computers and Composition. His work has also appeared in industry-based publications such as Intercom and Boxes and Arrows. In this episode of Room 42, he discusses how technical communicators can create user-focused, context-driven content to improve the customer experience. Technical content is increasingly valuable to organizations as savvy consumers search for reviews, tutorials, and technical specifications for their favorite products and services. Technical communicators exist at the crossroads of the customer journey, where information gathering, buying habits, and loyalty coalesce. But in many organizations, no one is truly in charge of improving the customer experience across all content channels. Someone needs to be. And maybe that someone is you!
Vijay Kumar is the Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering with appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Computer and Information Science, and Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kumar served as the Deputy Dean for Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2000-2004. He directed the GRASP Laboratory, a multidisciplinary robotics and perception laboratory, from 1998-2004. He was the Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from 2005-2008. He served as the Deputy Dean for Education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2008-2012. He then served as the assistant director of robotics and cyber physical systems at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2012 – 2013). Dr. Kumar’s research interests are in robotics, specifically multi-robot systems, and micro aerial vehicles. He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics and the Springer Tract in Advanced Robotics (STAR). He is the recipient of the 1991 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award, the 1996 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (University of Pennsylvania), the 1997 Freudenstein Award for significant accomplishments in mechanisms and robotics, the 2012 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Award, the 2012 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award, a 2012 World Technology Network (wtn.net) award, a 2014 Engelberger Robotics Award and the 2017 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation. He has won best paper awards at DARS 2002, ICRA 2004, ICRA 2011, RSS 2011, and RSS 2013, and has advised doctoral students who have won Best Student Paper Awards at ICRA 2008, RSS 2009, and DARS 2010.
Guk, K., Han, G., Lim, J., Jeong, K., Kang, T., Lim, E. K., & Jung, J. (2019). Evolution of Wearable Devices with Real-Time Disease Monitoring for Personalized Healthcare. Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 9(6), 813. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9060813 Research News. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2020, from https://www.dgist.ac.kr/en/html/sub06/060202.html?mode=V Sungho Lee, Srinivas Gandla, Muhammad Naqi, Uihyun Jung, Sunju Kang, Hyungsoon Youn, Dogi Pyun, Yumie Rhee, Hyuk-Jun Kwon, Heejung Kim, Min Goo Lee and Sunkook Kim, "All-day Mobile Healthcare Monitoring System Based on Heterogeneous Stretchable Sensors for Medical Emergency", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, on-line published on 7th November, 2019.
When The Sun Meets Culture © 2020 PodcastISBN978-976-96512-2-7 During my academic tenure at New Jersey State University I was exposed to theory and practical of analysis of film a wide, shot, very wide shot, extreme wide shot, established shot, master shot and closeup a student of film and a cinematographer as Media Arts Major. The aforesaid description can be characterized as a testimony which qualifies me too tightly frame and control this intellectual conversation When The Sun Meets Culture.At the outset When The Sun Meets Culture is not only a theoretical expression but a thought which was existing coupled together and an idea that underpins the citing of physical and concrete existence. The more that I analyse this construct in this space I decided to metaphorically through my lens as an author, license cultural practitioner and Media Arts Specialist navigate this conversation through several different camera angles because these cinematic techniques allowed for greater detail. Bordwell, David, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thomson. The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 . New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.Chapter 8 – Measurement of sunshine duration" (PDF). CIMO Guide. World Meteorological Organization. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-02. Retrieved 2008-12-01.Gittens,William Anderson Author, Cinematographer,Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ Editor-in-Chief License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher, Student of Film, CEO Devgro Media Arts ServicesHigham, Charles. Hollywood Cameramen: Sources of Light . Bloomington: University of Illinois Press, 1970.LoBrutto, Vincent. Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers . Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.Lowell, Ross. Matters of Light and Depth: Creating Memorable Images for Video, Film, and Stills through Lighting . Philadelphia: Broad Street Press, 1992.Madanjeet Singh: The Sun: Symbol of Power and Life, Harry N Abram, 1993. ISBN 9780810938380Malkiewicz, Kris. Film Lighting: Talks with Hollywood's Cinematographers and Gaffers . New York: Prenctice-Hall, 1986.Rasheed, Z., Y. Sheikh, and M. Shah, "On the Use of Computable Features for Film Classification." IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems for Video Technology 15, no. 1 (2005).Read more: http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Independent-Film-Road-Movies/Lighting-LIGHTING-TECHNOLOGY-AND-FILM-STYLE.html#ixzz6VXw9agYmSalt, Barry, Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis. 2nd ed. London: Starword, 1992. Original edition published in 1983.http://needtoknow.nas.edu/energy/energy-sources/the-sun/http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/GreenSun.htmlhttp://webexhibits.org/http://www.differencebetween.net/object/difference-between-daylight-and-soft-white-led-bulbs/http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Sp-Tl/Sun.htmlhttps://biblehub.com/commentaries/deuteronomy/4-19.htmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-uphttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_timekeepinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlighthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlighthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_in_culturehttps://sciencetrends.com/5-examples-of-abiotic-factors/https://sciencing.com/https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunhttps://space-facts.com/https://www.answers.com/https://www.biologydiscussion.com/https://www.builtbrooklyn.org/https://www.careersinfilm.com/https://www.careersinfilm.com/https://www.dw.com/en/tv/tomorrow-today/s-3062https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/2-Kings-Support the show (http://www.buzzsprout.com/429292)
Gözde Ünal Kimdir? Gözde Ünal Lisans derecesini ODTÜ, Yüksek Lisans derecesini Bilkent Üniversitesi'nden aldıktan sonra doktora çalışmalarını 2002 senesinde North Carolina State University'de Elektrik ve Bilgisayar Mühendisliği bölümünde, Matematik doktora yandalı ile birlikte aldı. Ardından Georgia Institute of Technology'ye doktora sonrası araştırmacı olarak katıldı. Daha sonra 2003-2007 seneleri arasında Siemens Corporate Technology, Princeton, New Jersey'de araştırmacı bilim insanı olarak çalıştı. 2007 senesinde Türkiye'ye akademisyen olarak döndü. İlk olarak Sabancı Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yaptı. Ardından İTÜ Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü'ne katıldı ve halen bu kurumda Profesör olarak görev yapmakta. İTÜ Yapay Zeka ve Veri Bilimi Uygulamalı Araştırma Merkezi'nin (ITU-AI) Kurucu Direktörü olarak görev yapan Prof. Ünal uluslararası ve ulusal birçok organizasyonda görev aldı. Bunlar arasında MICCAI 2016, MIDL 2019 ve SİU 2017 konferansları Teknik Program Başkanlığı, Women in MICCAI kurucu üyeliği, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine dergisinde Yardımcı Editörlükleri sayılabilir. 30'dan fazla uluslararası patente sahip olan Prof. Ünal, 2010 senesinde L'Oreal Türkiye Yılın Genç Bilim Kadını ve TÜBA GEBİP Genç Bilim İnsanı ödülleri, 2016 senesinde Marie Curie Alumni Association Kariyer Ödülünü almıştır. Halen ITU AI üyesi ve ITU Vision Lab direktörlüğünü yürütmekte olan Prof. Ünal yapay zeka, derin öğrenme ve bilgisayarla görü alanlarında araştırma çalışmalarına devam etmektedir.
Jessy Grizzle is the Director of the Michigan Robotics Institute. We discuss how his experience as an undergraduate researcher led him to pursue a research career and he shares some useful ideas about scientific writing. He received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1983. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, where he holds the titles of the Elmer Gilbert Distinguished University Professor and the Jerry and Carol Levin Professor of Engineering. He jointly holds sixteen patents dealing with emissions reduction in passenger vehicles through improved control system design. Professor Grizzle is a Fellow of the IEEE and IFAC. He received the Paper of the Year Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 1993, the George S. Axelby Award in 2002, the Control Systems Technology Award in 2003, the Bode Prize in 2012 and the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award in 2014. His work on bipedal locomotion has been the object of numerous plenary lectures and has been featured on CNN, ESPN, Discovery Channel, The Economist, Wired Magazine, Discover Magazine, Scientific American and Popular Mechanics. See some of his work here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMfDV8rkQqWhUwnTAYAq0tQ Changing World by Ben Beiny: www.premiumbeat.com
En este podcast reconocerás los aspectos que intrínsecamente lleva su proyecto, como por ejemplo: criptografía y seguridad informática, un tema muy importante en este momento, ya que se trata de la protección de los datos privados de los ciudadanos. La Encuesta Nacional sobre Disponibilidad y Uso de Tecnologías de la Información en los Hogares 2019 estima que en México 86 millones 500 mil personas usan teléfono celular. Teniendo en cuenta estos números, un grupo de investigación del Departamento de Computación del Cinvestav, integrado por Francisco Rodríguez Henríquez, Brisbane Ovilla Martínez y Cuauhtémoc Mancillas López, trabaja en el diseño de una aplicación (app) gratuita para teléfonos celulares inteligentes con el propósito de notificar al usuario sobre un posible riesgo de contagio por covid-19. La idea es que los aparatos intercambien, vía bluetooth, identificadores anónimos para preservar la privacidad de las personas, con el objetivo de que los usuarios puedan saber en todo momento si durante su recorrido por la ciudad, ya sea caminando o en los diversos medios de transporte público, han tenido contacto con alguna persona infectada de Covid-19 y podrían ahora ser portadores del virus. Para alertar sobre un posible riesgo de contagio, la aplicación considera diversos factores, tales como: el número de contactos, tiempo de interacción y distancia mantenida durante el encuentro con una persona portadora de covid-19. Estas variables se tienen en cuenta para calcular la probabilidad de contagio. Francisco Rodríguez obtuvo el grado de doctor en junio del 2000 en el departamento de ingeniería eléctrica y computación de la universidad de Oregon, EE. UU. De julio de 2000 a mayo de 2002 el doctor Rodríguez trabajó en compañías de seguridad informáticas de Estados Unidos y Alemania. A partir de mayo de 2002 colabora con el Departamento del CINVESTAV-IPN en la ciudad de México, donde actualmente es profesor titular y jefe del Departamento. Es coautor de más de 80 artículos técnicos y capítulos de libro. Asimismo, él es el primer autor del libro: “Cry-cryptographic Algorithms on Reconfigurable Hardware”, publicado por Springer. Desde noviembre del 2006. El Dr. Rodríguez es miembro de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias y ha sido o es miembro del comité editorial de las revistas “Journal of Universal Computer Science” de la Universidad de Graz, Austria, “Journal of Cryptographic Engineering” de Springer, “the VLSI journal” de Elsevier, e “IEEE Transactions on Computers”. Sus principales áreas de investigación son criptografía, aritmética computacional y seguridad informática. “La aplicación te pedirá acceso al uso de bluetooth (...), ya que el bluetooth va a estar intercambiando datos en todo momento a un radio de 10 metros de forma bilateral y anónima con otros dispositivos móviles…”
Why should practitioners care about research and journals? Ah, that’s the question, isn’t it? George Hayhoe worked a technical communicator in industry for 17 years, taught for 19 years, and has always spent part his career editing journals like STC’s Technical Communication and the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. He has co-authored and co-edited three books, including “A Research Primer for Technical Communication.” George says that these three things—professional practice, teaching, and journal editorship—have informed his approach to the role of the technical communicator. In this session, learn more about how practitioners and researchers work together to advance the profession. We’re looking forward to exploring the answer to this question and others in Room 42.
I learned about the iStride device when the initial research paper came out last year. It made a big difference in subjects’ ability to walk. I thought you’d like to learn more about it. I know I did. So I reached out to the developer Dr. Kyle Reed. We talk about it, how it works, and the research in this episode. So what’s the principle behind how it works? When we start walking after stroke, it’s liberating. As we get more and more mobile we start to compensate for our affected side by walking differently. But that can cause problems later on. And our skills can top out. At a certain point to get better, we need to break those new bad habits. The iStride is a therapeutic device that you wear on your unaffected foot. It teaches you to rely more on your affected leg to ultimately improve your walking ability years after stroke. Bio Dr. Kyle B. Reed is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF). His rehabilitation research focuses on low-cost methods to restore abilities in individuals with asymmetric impairments, such as from stroke or unilateral amputations. His research on Haptics focuses on thermal responses of the skin, coordinated motions, and human-robot interaction. He has over 100 publications and has 18 patents issued or pending with three patents licensed for commercialization. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Haptics, an IEEE Senior Member, a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors, and was a 2019 Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Florida High Tech Corridor, the Orthotic and Prosthetic Education and Research Foundation, the American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association, and industry. Prior to USF, he was a post-doctoral scholar at Johns Hopkins University. He received his Ph.D. and master’s from Northwestern University and his B.S. from the University of Tennessee, all in Engineering. iStride in Action Research Here’s the pilot study that initially caught my attention: https://jneuroengrehab.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12984-019-0569-x There are couple more studies coming out soon showing the benefits of the iStride. Check out the abstracts here: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/str.51.suppl_1.TP144 https://apta.confex.com/apta/csm2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/23350 Always be skeptical of new approaches to recovery, but if it’s not harmful, and it doesn’t interfere with other treatments in terms of time or money, those new treatments may be a great choice. Thoughts on the Protests The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong negatively impacted people’s treatment because they couldn’t get to clinics. The recent anti-police brutality / Black Lives Matter protests in the US also likely disrupted people’s care, which was already disrupted by COVID-19. It’s okay to acknowledge that. But that doesn’t mean the protests are bad or need to stop. Every group that is fighting for its rights also has people with disabilities in its ranks. With all the upheaval, now is not the time for people with disabilities to stay silent. Now is the time to speak up even louder. Disability doesn’t mean we can’t or shouldn’t be part of the fight — it just means we may have a different role. Hack of the Week An umbrella stand or tall vase is a great place to store canes by the door. It can also be a great place to swap from an indoor to an outdoor cane a you venture into the larger world. And as long as you have to use a cane, make it awesome. You can find hundreds of great options on Etsy:https://www.etsy.com/search?q=walking%20cane&ref=auto-1&as_prefix=walk I’ve also acquired most of mine through FashionableCanes.com. Links Reed Lab http://reedlab.eng.usf.edu/ Dr. Kyle Reed’s email address kylereed@eng.usf.edu iStride Device http://reedlab.eng.usf.edu/iStrideDevice/ Moterum Technologies https://moterum.com/ Clinical Trials https://moterum.com/clinical-trials/ iStride video by USF https://youtu.be/vlv7T5PynIM USF Article about iStride https://www.usf.edu/news/2019/stroke-patients-relearning-how-to-walk-with-peculiar-shoe.aspx iStride on NBC DFW https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/stroke-shoe-retrains-the-brain/15/ Pilot Study https://jneuroengrehab.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12984-019-0569-x Abstract from the AHA Journal https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/str.51.suppl_1.TP144 Abstract from the APTA Conference https://apta.confex.com/apta/csm2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/23350 Constraint Induced Movement Therapy from Physiopedia https://www.physio-pedia.com/Constraint_Induced_Movement_Therapy Amy Bastion at the Kennedy Kreiger Institute https://www.kennedykrieger.org/patient-care/faculty-staff/amy-bastian Fashionable Canes http://FashionableCanes.com Canes on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/search?q=walking%20cane&ref=auto-1&as_prefix=walk Where do we go from here? Check out the video above to see the iStride in action, and visit http://Moterum.com to learn more about participating in studies. Share this episode with 3 people you know by giving them the link http://strokecast.com/istride Lift your literal or metaphorical voice high and don’t be ignored in this time of social change Don’t get best…get better Strokecast is the stroke podcast where a Gen X stroke survivor explores rehab, recovery, the frontiers of neuroscience and one-handed banana peeling by helping stroke survivors, caregivers, medical providers and stroke industry affiliates connect and share their stories.
This week we chat with author Jim Elvidge about our assumptions of reality. Jim is the author of the excellent 'The Universe Solved'. In this weeks episode, we discuss alternate realities, living in a programmed reality, Quantum and String theories, existence, and over-clocking time and space.Claire remains absent for now, however, DaddyTank fires a barrage of musical excellence from his secret bunker. This week's heavy artillery is:DJ Lobsterdust - It's Fun To Smoke Dust www.myspace.com/djlobsterdustXicana Machete - A Sordid Flavour www.myspace.com/xicanamacheteUnder Embellished - Pill Farm www.myspace.com/filmtapeArs Dada - Butcher www.myspace.com/arsdadaWe return next Friday with 'Behind Closed Doors - Broadcast #002' and Saturday with Episode 26 of SittingNow!EnjoyJim Elvidge bio from his excellent http://theuniversesolved.comJim Elvidge holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He has applied his training in the high-tech world as a leader in technology and enterprise management, including many years in executive roles for various companies and entrepreneurial ventures. He also holds 4 patents in digital signal processing and has written articles for publications as diverse as Monitoring Times and the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Beyond the high-tech realm, however, Elvidge has years of experience as a musician, writer, and truth seeker. He merged his technology skills with his love of music, developed one of the first PC-based digital music samplers, and co-founded RadioAMP, the first private-label online streaming-radio company. For many years, Elvidge has kept pace with the latest research, theories, and discoveries in the varied fields of subatomic physics, cosmology, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and the paranormal. This unique knowledge base has provided the foundation for his first full-length book, “The Universe-Solved!”
This is Listen to the Editors, a series of interviews with journal editors to unveil the trends in research for Operations and Supply Chain Management. In this episode, we are interviewing two of the guest editors for the Journal of Operations Management (JOM) Special Issue on Covid-19, Chris Voss and Xiande Zhao. The host for this show is Iuri Gavronski, Associate Professor for the Graduate Program in Business for the UNISINOS Jesuit University. Listen to the editors is an initiative of the Operations and Supply Chain Management division of the Academy of Management. We post our interviews monthly in our division website. You can discuss any of the topics of this episode using our interactive tool, https://connect.aom.org. Using the discussion section of our site, you can also post suggestions for questions, journal editors you would like to hear from, and requests for clarifications. You can also subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or with the Podcast Addict app on Android. Website for the Journal: ======================== https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/18731317 Call for Papers: ================ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/18731317/JOM%20CFP%20-%20COVID-19%20and%20Global%20Supply%20Chains-1586282145923.pdf Editors’ Bios: ============== Dr. Hau L. Lee is the Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His areas of specialization include global value chain innovations, supply chain management, global logistics, inventory modeling, and environmental and social responsibility. He was the founding director of the Stanford Institute for Innovations in Developing Economies, and is a co-director of the Stanford Value Chain Innovation Initiative. He has published widely in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Supply Chain Management Review, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, and Interfaces, etc. He has served on the editorial boards of many international journals. From 1997-2003, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Management Science. In 2006, he was President of the Production and Operations Management Society. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010. Dr. Xiande Zhao is JD.COM Chair Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). His recent research interests mostly focus on supply chain and business model innovations, supply chain finance, digital supply chain, and supply chain optimization using big data. He has published over 150 journal articles in leading journals including Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Consumer Research, European Journal of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research and International Journal of Production Economics. He is an Associate Editor for Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management. He is also the co-Chief Editor for Journal of Data, Information and Management. He is the founder and honourable president of Association of Supply Chain and Operations Management (ASCOM), and was the President of Asia Pacific Institute of Decision Sciences (APDSI). He also received more than 10 academic awards including the Jack Meredith best paper award from Journal of Operations Management. Dr. Xiang Li is a professor with the School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Chemical Technology. His recent research interests mostly focus on transport management, logistics management, and optimization under uncertainty, big-data analytics and applications. He has published over 80 articles in international journals including Transportation Research Part B, Transportation Research Part C, Information Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, Computer and Industrial Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and so on. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Data, Information and Management, Associate Editor for Information Sciences, Transportmetrica B, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, and editorial board member for International Journal of General Systems. He was the president of International Conference on Intelligent Transportation and Logistics with Big Data (2017, 2018, and 2019). Dr. Chris Voss is Professor of Operations Management at Warwick Business School and Emeritus Professor of Operations Management at London Business School where he has served as deputy dean. His recent research has included supply-chain management, service supply chains, architecture and modularity, e-services, and service innovation. He has published in leading journals including Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Production and Operations Management, IEEE Transactions, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Decision Science Journal, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Journal of Production Economics, and Journal of Service Research. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Service Research. He was co-founder and long-term chair of the European Operations Management Association, and serves on several editorial boards. He has received many academic awards including distinguished scholar of the OM division of the Academy of Management. Deadlines: ========== The full-paper submission: January 31, 2021 First Round Review and decisions: April 30, 2021 Second Round Revision Submission: July 31, 2021 Final round review and decisions: September 30, 2021 Acknowledgements: ================= Background music: ================= “Night & Day” by Dee Yan-Key is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/years_and_years_ago/08--Dee_Yan-Key-Night___Day 2020-04-14 - Episode 014
Katina Michael holds a joint professorial appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Computing, Informatics and Decisions Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. She is the director of the Society Policy Engineering Collective and is also a board member of the Australian Privacy Foundation. She is the editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society and is interested in public interest technology. For more visit www.katinamichael.com
Daniel has spent his entire professional and personal career in the field of Industrial Engineers. In this episode, we explore the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a “Black Swan” event, on the way businesses might operate post-pandemic. We start by discussing how telephony in education and the corporate world will be embraced more readily to its becoming ubiquitous. While both Dan and myself have been working virtually long before it was cool, institutions for learning, from grade-school through university, and a great many companies that are not tech-companies, are getting a crash-course. Dan shares that the technology is not new – companies like Google, Facebook, and others have been using “vc” for “visual chat” a long time. And the benefits for time, efficiency, and effectiveness which, while known by some, will be more readily embraced by all – mostly because they discover how it can be an accelerant for achieving objectives. One of the biggest transformations will come in the field of education. For decades, traditional institutes of higher learning have looked down upon those that delivered education telephonically – only to embrace it enthusiastically when faced with a crisis. The challenge is to maintain quality, as if the quality of education delivered telephonically is inherently inferior. But what if the quality of delivering education telephonically is actually superior – once its learned how to make it superior. This leads us to a discussion on the value of face-to-face. Humans are social beings and we need that close interaction. This is not only necessary to make the learning experience more enjoyable and “sticky”, but also the primary driver for why people go to conferences. The sessions are (usually) very good, but it’s the interaction with peers in a casual setting where the real value of attending is gained. The conversation continues with deep dives into the various ways companies are discovering there is a “silver lining” during this pandemic cloud; the various ways they are realizing how they can improve the performance in their operations, increase health and safety, accelerate the achievement of strategic initiatives, reduce operating costs (such as the overhead of real estate and travel) and so on. Come take a listen, open your mind, and start using your imagination as to what can be, what good can come from all this bad. Host: Joseph Paris, Founder of the; XONITEK Group of Companies, Operational Excellence Society & Readiness Institute Guest: Daniel P. Bumblauskas, Ph.D. Daniel P. Bumblauskas, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Management and the Hamilton / ESP International Fellow of Supply Chain and Logistics Management at the University of Northern Iowa; a visiting professor at the University of Washington; and holds a courtesy appointment at the University of Missouri where he previously held a faculty appointment. Dan conducts research, teaches, and consults on various areas related to operational excellence and business development. He has published over 45 peer reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings, including publications in journals such; as Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and Business Process Management. He earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Economics from Iowa State University, a master of liberal arts in general management from Harvard University, and received both his M.S. and Ph.D in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University. Prior to his faculty appointments, he was employed in industry by ABB Incorporated and Sears Holding Corporation. He currently serves as a Vice President of PFC Services, Inc., a consulting firm based in Marietta, Georgia. Family: wife, Kendra, and four children (Addilyn, Taryn, Grayson and Weston; ages 11, 10, 7, and 5 respectively) Hobbies: golfing, ice hockey (Waterloo Youth Hockey Association – WYHA, USA Hockey 6U/8U Level 1 coach) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-bumblauskas/ Company details: University of Northern Iowa https://uni.edu/ Headquarters; Cedar Falls, Iowa Founded in 1876 Company type; Higher Education Company size; ~ 639 academic staff PFC Services https://pfcservicesinc.com/ Headquarters; Marietta, Georgia Founded in 2000 Company type; Management Consulting Specialties; Industrial Engineering, Operations & Supply Chain Management, General Management
"SOBs, Never Grow Up, Yesterday's Tomorrows, YOLO & More: An Interview with Dr. Benn Konsynski" The “Supply Chain is Boring” Series Supply Chain Now, Episode 273 This episode is the first in our new "Supply Chain is Boring" Series. This episode features Dr. Benn Konsynski. Benn R. Konsynski arrived at Goizueta Business School following six years on the faculty at the Harvard Business School where he taught in the MBA program and several executive programs. Prior to arriving at HBS, he was a professor at the University of Arizona where he was a co-founder of the university's multi-million dollar group decision support laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. He has published in such diverse journals as Communications of the ACM, Harvard Business Review, IEEE Transactions on Communications, MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, Data Communications, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Learn more: https://goizueta.emory.edu/faculty/profiles/benn-konsynski Upcoming Events & Resources Mentioned in this Episode Subscribe to Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnowradio.com/subscribe/ Connect with Benn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benn-konsynski-2a4b001/ Connect with Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisrbarnes/ SCN Ranked #1 Supply Chain Podcast via FeedSpot: https://tinyurl.com/rud8y9m Reverse Logistics Association Conference & Expo: https://rla.org/event/80 SCNR to Broadcast Live at MODEX 2020: https://www.modexshow.com/ SCNR to Broadcast Live at AME Atlanta 2020 Lean Summit: https://www.ame.org/ame-atlanta-2020-lean-summit 2020 Atlanta Supply Chain Awards: https://www.atlantasupplychainawards.com/ SCNR on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/scnr-youtube The Latest Issue of the Supply Chain Pulse: https://conta.cc/2UmsuI3 Check Out News From Our Sponsors The Effective Syndicate: https://www.theeffectivesyndicate.com/blog U.S. Bank: https://www.usbpayment.com/transportation-solutions Capgemini: https://www.capgemini.com/us-en/ Vector Global Logistics: http://vectorgl.com/ APICS Atlanta: https://apicsatlanta.org TalentStream: https://talentstreamstaffing.com/ Verusen: https://www.verusen.com/ ProPurchaser.com: https://tinyurl.com/y6l2kh7g Supply Chain Real Estate: https://supplychainrealestate.com/ This episode was hosted by Chris Barnes. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: www.supplychainnowradio.com/episode-273
The following panel discussion took place at our Defense Innovation night at Venture Café Cambridge. The panel discusses the role of government labs in defense innovation.To find out more about our Defense Innovation program, please visit us online at venturecafecambridge.org/defenseinno.PANELISTSModerator: Dr. Francesca Scire-Scappuzzo, BAE Systems, Inc.Dr. Scire-Scappuzzo is Sr. Dir. of Advanced Technology & Innovation and Tech Scouting Lead at BAE Systems FAST Labs. She was Co-founder and CEO at Ondetech LLC, Cambridge, MA; Vice President of R&D/CTO at Metamagnetics Inc., Canton, MA; Principal Research Scientist at Physical Sciences Inc., Andover, MA; and tenured Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Catania, Italy. Francesca obtained her BS and MS, in EE at Univ. of Catania, Italy; MS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA; PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland; and she was Post Graduate Fellow at the European Space Agency ESA/ESTEC in The Netherlands. Dr. Scire-Scappuzzo has published over 30 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds 7 patents. She is serving as Chair of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Boston Section, and Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation, Plasma Science, and Antenna and Propagation Letters.Dr. Bernadette Johnson, MIT Lincoln LaboratoryDr. Bernadette Johnson is the Chief Technology Ventures Officer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The Technology Ventures Office was established in 2018 to support access to and development of commercial technologies relevant to national security. Prior to this appointment, she was the Chief Science Officer (CSO) at Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), which focuses on accelerating commercial innovation for the Department of Defense. As CSO, her primary responsibilities were to provide strategic guidance on emergent technologies and support development of a technical workforce. Dr. Johnson is a 2007 recipient of the Lincoln Laboratory Technical Excellence Award for her system-level architecting, technical innovation, and prototype demonstration. She holds a BS degree in physics from Dickinson College, an MS degree in condensed matter theory from Georgetown University, and a PhD degree in plasma physics from Dartmouth College. She attended the Harvard Kennedy School’s Senior Executives in National and International Security Program in 2015 and has served as a member of the Naval Studies Board since 2012.Dr. Charlene Stokes, U.S. Army CCDC Army Research LaboratoryDr. Stokes is the Army Research Lab (ARL) Human Research and Effectiveness Directorate’s (HRED) Lead for human-centered research and innovation in the Northeast region, operating out of ARL Open Campus, Northeast, and serving as the Deputy Program Manager of STRONG. She completed a dual-focused Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational & Human Factors Psychology at Wright State University. Beginning with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and most recently joining ARL/HRED, she has over 14 years of experience as a defense researcher and program manager working to push the boundaries of DoD innovation, particularly in the area of human-agent teaming and artificial intelligence. She established and directed the Human-Machine Social Systems (HMSS) Lab as an AFRL resource at Yale University from 2011-2016. She then moved the HMSS Lab from Yale to a Boston robotics innovation hub for startups, MassRobotics, to increase engagement with the commercial sector and spur Government S&T innovation. Her primary research focus is on the social dynamics of human-machine interaction, with numerous publications on the topic of trust in autonomy and human-machine teaming. She is heavily involved with service activities in the Boston local area, she serves on various NATO research task gro
Information, not just data, is key to today's security challenges. To solve these security challenges requires not only advancing computer science and big data analytics but requires new analysis and decision-making environments that enable reliable, decisions from trustable, understandable information. These environments are successful when they effectively couple human decision making with advanced, guided analytics in human-computer collaborative discourse and decision making (HCCD). Our HCCD approach builds upon visual analytics, traceable information, and human-guided analytics and machine learning and focuses on empowering the decision maker through interactive visual analytic environments where non-digital human expertise and experience can be combined with state-of-the-art and transparent analytical techniques. When we combine this approach with real-world application-driven research, not only does the pace of scientific innovation accelerate, but impactful change occurs. I'll describe how we have applied these techniques to homeland and community security, resiliency,public safety and disaster management. About the speaker: David Ebert is the Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, a Fellow of the IEEE, interim director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, and director of the Visual Analytics for Command Control and Interoperability Center (VACCINE), the Visualization Science team of the Department of Homeland Security's Command Control and Interoperability Center of Excellence. Ebert performs research in visual analytics, volume rendering, illustrative visualization, and procedural abstraction of complex, massive data. He is the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Computer Society vgTC Technical Achievement Award for seminal contributions in visual analytics. He has been very active in the visualization community, serving as Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, serving as IEEE Computer Society Vice President and the IEEE Computer Society's VP of Publications, and successfully managing a large program of external funding to develop more effective methods for visually communicating information.
Auke Ijspeert is a professor at the EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne), and head of the Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob). Auke is interested in using numerical simulations and robots to get a better understanding of animal locomotion and movement control, and in using inspiration from biology to design novel types of robots and locomotion controllers.His popular TED Talk of the robot that runs and swims like a salamander has been viewed nearly 2M times and he has won close to 20 awards, including the University of Edinburgh "robot-rugby" competition 1996, the best paper award at the IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2007 conference and the Overall Best Paper Award (out of 1,172 submitted, 689 accepted papers) at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2002).He is member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine, and associate editor for Soft Robotics and for the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. He has acted as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2009-2013) and as a guest editor for the Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Autonomous Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, and Biological Cybernetics. He has been the organizer of 6 international conferences and been a program committee member of over 50 conferences.You can listen right here on iTunesIn our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * The purpose and value of biomicking robots * Why Auke is worried about drones and robots in future battlefields * The difference between theory and practice for robot design * Why Auke works with AI researchers but not that closely * How we should think about regulating robotics * Why Auke thinks we're still a long way off from AGI * The problem with scientists and researchers forgetting to think about ethics * When we can expect large scale robotics in modern life * Why C3PO isn't an ideal answer to home robotics * How hype cycles drive robotics and tech development and * Why AI research and progress may in fact be slowing down * The reason Auke is so excited and optimistic about autonomous vehicles * Why scientists are fascinated and frustrated with Boston DynamicsMake a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support The DisruptorsThe Disruptors is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.Donate
The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Future-Ready? Understanding AI's Future Impact In Partnership with The University of Toronto. Join us for this Evening Event focused on Future-Ready? Understanding AI's Future Impact. Sven Dickinson, Professor and past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto; Vice President, Chief Scientist, and Head of the Samsung Toronto AI Research Center Sven Dickinson received the B.A.Sc. degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, in 1983, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He is Professor and past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, and is also Vice President, Chief Scientist, and Head of the new Samsung Toronto AI Research Center, which opened in May, 2018. Prior to that, he was a faculty member at Rutgers University where he held a joint appointment between the Department of Computer Science and the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, RuCCS. His research interests revolve around the problem of shape perception in computer vision and, more recently, human vision. He has received the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Government of Ontario Premiere's Research Excellence Award, PREA, and the Lifetime Research Achievement Award from the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, CIPPRS. He currently serves on eight editorial boards, including the role of Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and the role of co-editor of the Morgan and Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Computer Vision. He is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, IAPR. Speaker: Sven Dickinson, Professor and past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto; Vice President, Chief Scientist, and Head of the Samsung Toronto AI Research Center *The content presented is free of charge but please note that the Empire Club of Canada retains copyright. Neither the speeches themselves nor any part of their content may be used for any purpose other than personal interest or research without the explicit permission of the Empire Club of Canada.* *Views and Opinions Expressed Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the speakers or panelists are those of the speakers or panelists and do not necessarily reflect or represent the official views and opinions, policy or position held by The Empire Club of Canada.*
Vom 10. - 13. Mai 2018 fand im ZKM und in der Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) die GPN18 statt. Dort traf sich Sebastian mit Dennis Gnad, um mit ihm über Seitenangriffe auf Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) zu sprechen. FPGAs sind veränderliche Computerchips, die hervorragend bei der Entwicklung von logischen Schaltkreisen oder spezieller Glue Logic helfen, und kommen inzwischen auch als Rechenbeschleuniger zum Einsatz. Man kann FPGAs als Vorstufe zu Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) sehen, auf denen Strukturen noch viel feiner, für höhere Taktraten und sparsamer abgebildet werden können, das Design aber um Größenordnungen teurer ist. Und während einem ASIC die Funktion ab Werk einbelichtet ist, können FPGAs nahezu beliebig oft zur Laufzeit umprogrammiert werden. Wie im Podcast zu digitalen Währungen erwähnt, spielen Graphical Process Units (GPUs), FPGAs und ASICs eine große Rolle bei Kryptowährungen. Hier ist ein einzelner FPGA-Chip beim so genannten Mining meisst nicht schneller als eine GPU, verbrauchen jedoch im Vergleich deutlich weniger Strom. Spezialisierte ASICs hingegen übersteigen in Effizienz und Geschwindigkeit alle anderen Lösungen. FPGAs finden sich aktuell in vielen Consumer-Produkten, wie dem Apple iPhone 7, im Samsung Galaxy S5, Smart-TVs und selbst auch der Pebble Smartwatch. Ihren besonderen Vorteil spielen FPGAs bei der Verarbeitung von großen Datenmengen wie Videodaten aus, da sie in der Parallelisierung nur durch den verfügbaren Platz beschränkt sind. Die Beschreibung von FPGAs und ASICs, oder deren Programmierung, erfolgt eher strukturell in Hardwarebeschreibungssprachen wie Verilog oder VHDL. Diese Beschreibungen unterscheiden sich sehr von imperativen Programmiersprachen, wie sie oft für CPUs oder GPUs verwendet werden. Es werden in logischen oder kombinatorischen Blöcken Daten verarbeitet, die dann in Taktschritten von und in Datenregister übertragen werden. Die erreichbare Taktfrequenz hängt von der Komplexität der kombinatorischen Blöcke ab. Ein Beispiel für logische Blöcke können Soft-Cores sein, wo zukünftige oder nicht mehr erhältliche CPU-Designs in FPGAs zur Evaluation oder Rekonstruktion abgebildet werden. Eine Variante ist die Entwicklung in OpenCL, wo verschiedene Architekturen wie GPUs, CPUs und FPGA unterstützt werden. Für die effiziente Umsetzung ist dafür weiterhin großes Hardwarewissen erforderlich, und man kann nicht erwarten, dass Code für FPGAs ebenso auf GPU, oder umgekehrt CPU-Code in FPGAs darstellbar ist. Das Interesse von Dennis Gnad liegt bei den FPGAs darin, deren Daten, Logik oder Inhalte durch Seitenkanalangriffe in von den Entwicklern unvorhergesehener Art und Weise auszulesen. Ein Beispiel ist das Erkennen von Fernsehsendungen aus dem Stromverbrauch des Fernsehgeräts wie es auch schon im Podcast zu Smart Metern beschrieben wurde. Ebenso wurden schon Kryptoschlüssel aus Geräuschen einer CPU bestimmt. Mit Soundkarten kann man Funkuhren verstellen und auch Grafikkarten können als UKW-Sender verwendet werden. Die elektromagnetische Abstrahlung ist ein sehr klassischer Seitenkanal und ist als Van-Eck-Phreaking seit 1985 bekannt. Gerade wurden die Timing- und Speculative-Execution-Covered-Channel-Angriffe Spectre und Meltdown für einen großteil aktueller CPUs bekannt, die aktiv Seitenkanäle für verdeckten Informationszugriff nutzen. Normalerweise benötigen Power-Side-Angriffe, die den Stromverbrauch auswerten, physischen Zugang zum Gerät oder der Stromversorgung. Überraschenderweise ist es auf FPGAs hingegen möglich den Stromverbrauch anderer Schaltungsbestandteile rein durch Software zu bestimmen. Dazu werden FPGAs an der Grenze der Timing-Parameter betrieben, und statistisch die erfolgreiche Ausführung gemessen. Mit verschieden langen Pfaden können auch gleichzeitig die Zeitschranken verschieden stark belastet werden und damit gleichzeitig für mehrere Spannungsstufen ausgewertet werden. Damit kann der relative Spannungsverlauf kontinuierlich gemessen werden. Im Zuge seiner Forschung zu Voltage Fluctuations in FPGAs konnte Dennis Gnad die Qualität der Messungen nachweisen. Für die eigentliche Auswertung der Messungen werden hier die Verfahren der Differential Power Analysis verwendet, die nicht absolute Messungen, sondern mit relativen Messungen den Verlauf oder Unterschiede in den Verläufen statistisch analysieren. Speziell wurden mit dem Pearson Korrelations-Koeffizient verschiedene Schlüssel-Hypothesen mit modellierten Stromverläufen aufgestellt, um den Suchraum für einen kryptographischen AES-Schlüssel jeweils stückweise einzuschränken. Dafür musste die spezielle AES-Implementation auf dem FPGA bekannt sein, um entsprechende Leakage-Modelle für die Korrelationsauswertung aufstellen zu können. Insgesamt wurde so ein rein software-getriebener Angriff auf FPGAs demonstriert, der ohne sehr aufwändiges Code-Review-Verfahren, dessen Umsetzung bei VHDL ohnehin große Fragen aufwirft, kaum zu entdecken ist. Dennis betreibt die Forschung als Doktorand am Chair of Dependable Nano Computing (CDNC) am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), deren Forschung besonders auf die Verlässlichkeit und auch der Sicherheit von Computersystemen abzielt. Die Forschungsarbeiten zu Seitenkanälen über den Stromverbrauch haben ebenso Anwendungen für die Zuverlässigkeit von den Systemen, da ebenso mit der Messung auch eine entsprechende Beeinflussung bis zur Erzeugung von Fehlerzuständen möglich wird, wie es von Dennis durch Fehlerzustände in der Stromversorgung zum Neustart von FPGAs demonstriert werden konnte. Mit Stuxnet wurde bekannt, dass auch Industrieanlagen mit Software zerstört werden konnten, es gab aber auch Computermonitore, die kreativ in neue Nutzungszustände gebracht wurden. Literatur und weiterführende Informationen D. Gnad: Seitenkanal-Angriffe innerhalb FPGA-Chips, Vortrag auf der GPN18, Karlsruhe, 2018. F. Schellenberg, D. Gnad, A. Moradi, M. Tahoori: An Inside Job: Remote Power Analysis Attacks on FPGAs, Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2018/012, Proceedings of Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), 2018. D. Gnad, F. Oboril, M. Tahoori: Voltage Drop-based Fault Attacks on FPGAs using Valid Bitstreams, International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Belgium, 2017. A. Moradi, F.-X. Standaert: Moments-Correlating DPA, Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2014/409, Theory of Implementations workshop, 2016. P. Kocher, J. Jaffe, B. Jun, et al: Introduction to differential power analysis, J Cryptogr Eng 1: 5, 2011. E. Brier, C. Clavier, F. Olivier: Correlation power analysis with a leakage model, International workshop on cryptographic hardware and embedded systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2004. Cryptology ePrint Archive Search Portal Side Channel Cryptanalysis Lounge - Ruhr-Universität Bochum D. Gnad, F. Oboril, S. Kiamehr, M. Tahoori: An Experimental Evaluation and Analysis of Transient Voltage Fluctuations in FPGAs, in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), 2018. F. Schellenberg, D. Gnad, A. Moradi, M. Tahoori: Remote Inter-Chip Power Analysis Side-Channel Attacks at Board-Level], In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), USA, 2018. (to appear Nov. '18) J. Krautter, D. Gnad, M. Tahoori: FPGAhammer: Remote Voltage Fault Attacks on Shared FPGAs, suitable for DFA on AES], in IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), Vol.1, No.3, 2018. (to appear Sept. '18)Podcasts A.-L. Baecker, C. Schrimpe: Crypto for the Masses – Grundlagen, Request for Comments, Der RFC Podcast, Folge 15, 2018. M. Lösch, S. Ritterbusch: Smart Meter Gateway, Gespräch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 135, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2017. S. Ritterbusch, G. Thäter: Digitale Währungen, Gespräch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 32, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2014. B. Heinz, T. Pritlove: FPGA, CRE: Technik, Kultur, Gesellschaft, Folge 117, Metaebene Personal Media, 2009.GPN18 Special D. Gnad, S. Ritterbusch: FPGA Seitenkanäle, Gespräch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 177, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2018. http://modellansatz.de/fpga-seitenkanaele B. Sieker, S. Ritterbusch: Flugunfälle, Gespräch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 175, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2018. http://modellansatz.de/flugunfaelle A. Rick, S. Ritterbusch: Erdbebensicheres Bauen, Gespräch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 168, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2018. http://modellansatz.de/erdbebensicheres-bauenGPN17 Special Sibyllinische Neuigkeiten: GPN17, Folge 4 im Podcast des CCC Essen, 2017. A. Rick, S. Ritterbusch: Bézier Stabwerke, Gespräch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 141, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2017. http://modellansatz.de/bezier-stabwerke F. Magin, S. Ritterbusch: Automated Binary Analysis, Gespräch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 137, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2017. http://modellansatz.de/binary-analyis M. Lösch, S. Ritterbusch: Smart Meter Gateway, Gespräch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 135, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2017. http://modellansatz.de/smart-meterGPN16 Special A. Krause, S. Ritterbusch: Adiabatische Quantencomputer, Gespräch im Modellansatz Podcast Folge 105, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2016. http://modellansatz.de/adiabatische-quantencomputer S. Ajuvo, S. Ritterbusch: Finanzen damalsTM, Gespräch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 97, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2016. http://modellansatz.de/finanzen-damalstm M. Fürst, S. Ritterbusch: Probabilistische Robotik, Gespräch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 95, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2016. http://modellansatz.de/probabilistische-robotik J. Breitner, S. Ritterbusch: Incredible Proof Machine, Gespräch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 78, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2016. http://modellansatz.de/incredible-proof-machine
Dr Shanthi Pavan is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai Dr. Pavan is the recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Sciences (2012), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award (2009), the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship (2010, from the Government of India) , the Young Faculty Recognition Award from IIT Madras (2009, for excellence in teaching) , the Technomentor Award from the India Semiconductor Association (2010) and the Young Engineer Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2006). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems: Part I - Regular Papers (2014-2015), and earlier served on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II - Express Briefs (2006-2007). He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society, and on the technical program committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Dr Pavan's website: http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~shanthi/index.html SSCS: https://sscs.ieee.org
State of the Art Podcast was invited to attend and speak with participants in CODAME's Art + Tech Festival, ARTOBOTS at The Midway earlier this month. Part 1 features one-on-one on-site conversations with artists Alexander Reben and Meredith Tromble on art and AI. We conclude the episode with a fascinating conversation with UC Berkeley artist and professor, Ken Goldberg, on the "uncanny valley."Thank you CODAME for inviting us to cover this awesome event, and a special shoutout to Vanessa Chang, CODAME curator, for personally extending the invitation to us. You can listen to our interview with Vanessa Chang here.-About Alexander Reben-Alexander Reben is an artist and roboticist who explores humanity through the lens of art and technology. His work probes the inherently human nature of the artificial. Using tools such as artificial philosophy, synthetic psychology, perceptual manipulation and technological magic, he brings to light our inseparable evolutionary entanglement to invention which has unarguably shaped our way of being. This is done to not only help understand who we are, but to consider who we will become in our continued codevelopment with our artificial creations.Projects referred to in this episode: Boxie, Headgasmatron, and Pulse MachineLearn more at http://areben.com/-About Meredith Tromble-Meredith Tromble is a multimedia artist, writer, performer, and teacher at the San Francisco Art Institute. Learn more about Meredith at http://meredithtromble.net/-About Ken Goldberg-Ken Goldberg is an artist, inventor, and UC Berkeley Professor focusing on robotics. He was appointed the William S. Floyd Jr Distinguished Chair in Engineering and serves as Chair of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department. He has secondary appointments in EECS, Art Practice, the School of Information, and Radiation Oncology at the UCSF Medical School. Ken is Director of the CITRIS "People and Robots" Initiative and the UC Berkeley AUTOLAB where he and his students pursue research in machine learning for robotics and automation in warehouses, homes, and operating rooms. Ken developed the first provably complete algorithms for part feeding and part fixturing and the first robot on the Internet. Despite agonizingly slow progress, he persists in trying to make robots less clumsy. He has over 250 peer-reviewed publications and 8 U.S. Patents. He co-founded and served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Ken's artwork has appeared in 70 exhibits including the Whitney Biennial and films he has co-written have been selected for Sundance and nominated for an Emmy Award. Ken was awarded the NSF PECASE (Presidential Faculty Fellowship) from President Bill Clinton in 1995, elected IEEE Fellow in 2005 and selected by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for the George Saridis Leadership Award in 2016. He lives in the Bay Area and is madly in love with his wife, filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain, and their two daughters. Tweet him @Ken_Goldberg-About CODAME-Sparked by the network of creative coders, designers, and artists that Bruno Fonzi and Jordan Gray knew from around the world, CODAME was founded to celebrate their passion for art and technology. The CODAME brand of immersive, engaging, and out of the ordinary experiences was coined at the inaugural CODAME ART+TECH Festival in 2010 on a foggy rooftop in downtown San Francisco. CODAME builds ART+TECH projects and nonprofit events to inspire through experience.Follow them @codameTweet them @codameLearn more here-About ARTOBOTS-June 4-7, 2018 @ The Midway, San FranciscoThe annual CODAME ART+TECH Festival is a four-day conference with workshops, talks and nightlife events with immersive, engaging, out of the ordinary experiences. The festival features gallery installations, screenings, and performances.This year’s ART+TECH Festival, codenamed #ARTOBOTS, examines the sphere of robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence. Through art, discussion, play and performance, CODAME probes these potentials.
Data Scientist Vincent Lostanlen recommends Katherine Kinnaird's “Aligned Hierarchies: A Multi-Scale Structure-Based Representation for Music-Based Data Streams”, published in the proceedings of ISMIR (2016). Vincent and Finn interview Dr. Kinnaird about this method for abstracting structure in music through repetition, how it has been implemented for fingerprinting on Chopin's Mazurkas, and how Aligned Hierarchies could be used for other tasks and on other musics. Show notes Recommended article: Kinnaird, K. M. (2016). Aligned Hierarchies: A Multi-Scale Structure-Based Representation for Music-Based Data Streams. In ISMIR (pp. 337-343). http://m.mr-pc.org/ismir16/website/articles/020_Paper.pdf Interviewee: Dr. Katie Kinnaird, Data Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, Affiliated to the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University twitter @kmkinnaird Co-host: Dr. Vincent Lostanlen, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Visiting scholar at MARL at NYU, twitter: @lostanlen Papers cited in the discussion: M. Casey, C. Rhodes, and M. Slaney. Analysis of minimum distances in high-dimensional musical spaces. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 16(5):1015 – 1028, 2008. J. Foote. Visualizing music and audio using self- similarity. Proc. ACM Multimedia 99, pages 77–80, 1999. M. Goto. A chorus-section detection method for musical audio signals and its application to a music listening station. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 14(5):1783–1794, 2006. P. Grosche, J. Serrà, M. Müller, and J.Ll. Arcos. Structure-based audio fingerprinting for music retrieval. 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2012. Time Stamps [0:00:10] Intro with Vincent Lostanlen [0:17:22] Interview: Origins of the Aligned Hierarchies [0:30:22] Interview: Implementation & Fingerprinting on the Mazurkas [0:52:55] Interview: New applications and developments for Aligned Hierarchies [1:02:57] Closing with Vincent Lostanlen Credits The So Strangely Podcast is produced by Finn Upham, 2018. The closing music includes a sample of Diana Deutsch's Speech-Song Illusion Sound Demo 1.
Dr Gert Cauwenberghs is Professor of Bioengineering and Co-Director of the Institute for Neural Computation at UC San Diego, La Jolla CA. Received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from CalTech in 1994 and undergraduate in his native Brussels in 1988. Previously Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and Visiting Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT. Co-founded Cognionics Inc. and chairs its Scientific Advisory Board. His research focuses on micropower biomedical instrumentation, neuron-silicon and brain-machine interfaces, neuromorphic engineering, and adaptive intelligent systems. He received the NSF Career Award in 1997, ONR Young Investigator Award in 1999, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2000. He was a Francqui Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He served IEEE in a variety of roles including as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, as General Chair of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2011, San Diego), as Program Chair of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2012, San Diego), and as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. UCSD Webpage: http://isn.ucsd.edu/ Cognionics: https://www.cognionics.net/ SSCS: https://sscs.ieee.org
In this eight episode of the bodymindself™ podcast psychologist and cognitive scientist John Francis Leader (JFL) meets Professor of Creative Technologies Aljosa Smolic to discuss the relationship between technology and creativity. Professor Aljosa Smolic is the Professor of Creative Technologies at Trinity College Dublin. Before joining Trinity, Prof. Smolic was with Disney Research Zurich as Senior Research Scientist and Head of the Advanced Video Technology group, and with the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz- Institut (HHI), Berlin, also heading a research group as Scientific Project Manager. At Disney Research he led over 50 industrial R&D projects that have resulted in technology transfers to a range of Disney business units. They include film studios, TV broadcasters, consumer products and are used in professional production today. Prof Smolic is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and served as Guest Editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on CSVT, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, and other scientific journals. He is a Committee Member of several conferences, and served in several Chair positions of conferences. The core objective of his research at TCD V-SENSE is to extend the dimensions of visual sensation through novel algorithms and workflows for image-based visual computing expanding the classical 2D video viewing experience common today, and to enable and support new consumer behaviours and preferences in consumption and creation of such content. The bodymindself™ podcast is an ongoing series of conversations between JFL and others on the topics of applied psychology and cognitive science, experiential learning, perception, virtual and mixed reality, embodiment, mental processes and identification. The aim of the series is to include the voices of people from very diverse backgrounds, ranging from academia to those working on the frontline in applied fields, with the hope of gaining an even greater systematic understanding of the topics being explored. All references and views expressed are those of the person who expressed them and not necessarily those of JFL. Your comments, shares, likes and dislikes are very welcome and will help guide future discussions. To stay up to date follow on twitter.com/jfldotcom, subscribe on @jfldotcom or itun.es/i67P795 and visit jfl.com . References Full references, the video version of the episode and other information can be found at: http://jfl.com/x/technology-creativity-professor-aljosa-smolic-jfl-bodymindself Special thanks to Dr Abraham Campbell at University College Dublin for coordinating this episode.
Links and references from this episode: Camera obscura Wikipedia: Camera obscura Encyclopædia Britannica: Photography Nicéphore Niépce Maison Nicéphor Niépce: The History of Photography Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre Mental Floss: Daguerreotype Q&A Henry Fox Talbot Wikipedia: Calotype Later photography Wikipedia: Collodion process Smiling in early photographs IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging: A Century of Portraits: A Visual Historical Record of American High School Yearbooks Library of Congress: Her Majesty’s gracious smile. An instantaneous photograph from life Critical Studies in Media Communication: Why We Say “Cheese”: Producing the Smile in Snapshot Photography
Wal has published two books with David Talbott (author of ‘The Saturn Myth’)—the first titled 'Thunderbolts of the Gods' and the second, 'The Electric Universe,' on the combined subjects of the recent history of the solar system and the electrical nature of the universe. More volumes are planned. Also e-books are available online: ‘The Big Bang?,’ ‘The Electric Sun’ and ‘The Comet’ being the first. The peer- reviewed paper ‘The Z-Pinch Morphology of Supernova 1987A and Electric Stars’ was published in the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol 35 No. 4, Special Issue on Space & Cosmic Plasmas, August 2007. ‘Toward a Real Cosmology in the 21st Century’ was published in special issue #2 of the Open Astronomy Journal in 2011. Wal was awarded a gold medal in 2010 by the European Telesio- Galilei Academy of Science. He presented the Natural Philosophy Alliance John Chappell memorial lecture, 'Stars in an Electric Universe' in 2011 at U. Maryland and was awarded the NPA 2013 Sagnac Award for Lifetime Achievement. Wal has a website, HOLOSCIENCE, at www.holoscience.com. It summarizes the Electric Universe Model and provides alternative views on scientific news. He is chief science advisor to the Thunderbolts Project [www.thunderbolts.info] and vice president of the non-profit U.S. TBolts Group Inc. His Youtube ‘Space News’ presentations are very popular on the Thunderbolts website. Since 2012 there have been annual Electric Universe conferences and a Special Workshop in 2014. Wal was again the keynote speaker at EU2016 in Phoenix, AZ, where he delivered ‘The Elegant Simplicity of the Electric Universe.’ He is in regular worldwide demand for interviews and presentations. The Thunderbolts Project is responsible for initiating a unique experiment to independently test the electrical model of stars. Phase 2 of that experiment is in progress in Toronto.
Die Arbeit von Staffan Ronnas in der Münchner Firma Brainlab befasst sich mit der Anwendung von Augmented Reality (AR) in der Chirurgie - vor allem in der Neurochirurgie. Ziel ist es, virtuelle, präoperativen Daten mit der "Realität" in Form von live Video auf dem chirurgischen Mikroskop so zu verblenden, dass der Chirurg vor und während der OP einen Nutzen davon hat. Staffan stammt aus Schweden und hat in Karlsruhe in Mathematik in der Arbeitsgruppe promoviert in der auch Gudrun Thäter und Sebastian Ritterbusch tätig waren. Nach seiner Verteidigung 2012 hat er einige Zeit als Postdoc in Karlsruhe und Heidelberg gearbeitet, bevor er zur Firma COMSOL in Stockholm ging. Seit September 2015 wohnt er in München und bringt seine Fähigkeiten als Softwareingenieur bei Brainlab ein. Welche Rolle spielt denn AR zur Zeit in der Chirurgie? Digitale Daten sind schon weit verbreitet in der Medizintechnik und insbesondere in der Chirurgie. Dabei handelt es sich z.B. um CT- oder MR-Bilder, aus denen man virtuelle Objekte durch Segmentierung gewinnen kann. Diese Daten können vor oder während der Behandlung (prä-/intraoperativ) entstehen und werden zur Planung der OP oder zur Navigation während des Eingriffs verwendet. Zum größten Teil werden sie klassisch auf Bildschirmen dargestellt und zur Interaktion dienen eine Maus oder ein Touchscreen oder auch Instrumente, die über Infrarotkameras getracked werden. Speziell in der Neurochirurgie kommen große Mikroskope zum Einsatz, die auch Video aufnehmen können. Das Ziel von Staffans Arbeit ist dabei präoperative virtuelle Daten mit Videodaten zu verblenden um eine erweiterte Darstellung zu zeigen, mit der der Chirurg während der OP navigieren kann. Zu dieser Zweck werden nützliche Informationen wie die aktuelle Position, das Zielobjekt und dazwischen liegende Strukturen im Video dargestellt. Um ein solches System umsetzen zu können, werden Methoden aus vielen verschiedenen Bereichen der angewandten Mathematik benötigt, wie z.B. Bildbehandlung, geometrische Modellierung, 3D Grafik und Computer Vision. Themen wie maschinelles Lernen und Robotik spielen auch eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle. Eine grundlegende Fragestellung mit der sich Staffan viel beschäftigt hat, ist die Modellierung der Optik chirurgischer Mikroskope mit variablem Fokus und Zoom. Ein genaues Modell wird benötigt, um die Lage und Größe der virtuellen Daten bei der Verblendung mit dem Videobild bestimmen zu können. Als grundlegendes Kameramodell dient das Pinholemodell, d.h. eine perspektivische Projektion von Punkten gemessen in einem 3D Koordinatensystem auf die planare Bildebene. Extrinsische Parameter sind dabei die Lage und Orientierung der Kamera im Raum (die Richtung der "optische Achse"). Die intrinsischen Parameter sind abhängig von der Optik z.B. die Brennweite (Skalierung von mm auf pixel-Maß) und verschiedene Arten von Verzerrung. Die Parameter des nichtlinearen Kameramodells werden bestimmt durch Minimierung der Reprojektionsfehler in Aufnahmen von einer bekannten Geometrie. Typischerweise wird der Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithmus benutzt um das Optimierungsproblem zu lösen. Es gibt aber mehrere Schwierigkeiten: Der Modell ist nicht konvex wodurch lokale Minima möglich sind; Die Berechnung der Parameter wird vom Messfehler beeinflusst; Die begrenzte Schärfentiefe und großer Arbeitsabstand erschweren die Messungen; Als Lösung bietet es sich an ein einfacheres Modell zu verwenden und dadurch zu vermeiden, dass redundante Parameter geändert werden. Allerdings muss man darauf achten, dass das Ergebnis immer noch ausreichend Genauigkeit bietet. Literatur und weiterführende Informationen Z. Yaniv, C. A. Linte: Applications of Augmented Reality in the Operating Room (Preprint), in Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality, Second Edition, ch. 19, CRC Press, 2015. I. Cabrilo, P. Bijlenga, K. Schaller: Augmented reality in the surgery of cerebral aneurysms: a technical report, Operative Neurosurgery, 10.2: 252-261, 2014. Z. Zhang: A Flexible New Technique for Camera Calibration, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, pp. 1330–1334, 2000. Übersicht Brainlab Mikroskopintegration Podcasts Y. Liang: Bewegte Computertomographie, Gespräch mit S. Ritterbusch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 6, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2013. I. Waltschläger: Windsimulation, Gespräch mit S. Ritterbusch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 14, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2014. D. Breitenbach, U. Gebhardt, S. Gaedtke: Raketen, CT-MRT-PET-etc, Widerstände, Proton Podcast, Folge 17, 2017. F. Rau: Augmented Reality Gaming, Gespräch mit T. Nowak im Kulturkapital Podcast, Folge 28, 2017.
This talk evaluates the California cut flower industry's current transportation practices and investigates the feasibility and cost of establishing a shipping consolidation center in Oxnard, California. The problem is formulated using a Mixed-Integer programming model. The model estimates a 34.8% shipping cost decrease, $20M, if all California farms participated in the consolidation center. Our analysis of estimated cut-flower trade flows originating from Miami shows that the magnitudes of these flows are relatively sensitive to shipping cost, controlling for market size. Maged Dessouky Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering USC Viterbi School of Engineering Wentao Zhang Ph. D. Candidate, Industrial Systems and Engineering USC Viterbi School of Engineering Maged M. Dessouky is a Professor in the Daniel. J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California and the Director of the Epstein Institute. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is area/associate editor the Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, IIE Transactions and Computers and Industrial Engineering, on the editorial board of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, and previously served as area editor/associate of ACM Transactions of Modeling and Computer Simulation and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is a Fellow of IIE and was awarded the 2007 Transportation Science and Logistics Best Paper Prize.
Prof. L. Alfredo Grieco, the author of more than 100 scientific papers published in international journals, Editor in Chief of the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (Wiley) and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular, participates in Risk Roundup to discuss Internet of Things to Internet of Everything. Internet of Things to the Internet […] The post Internet of Things to Internet of Everything appeared first on Risk Group.
Technological advances and novel applications, such as sensors, cyber-physical systems, smart mobile devices, cloud systems, data analytics, and social networks, are making possible to capture, and to quickly process and analyze huge amounts of data from which to extract information critical for security-related tasks. In the area of cyber security, such tasks include user authentication, access control, anomaly detection, user monitoring, and protection from insider threat. By analyzing and integrating data collected on the Internet and Web one can identify connections and relationships among individuals that may in turn help with homeland protection. By collecting and mining data concerning user travels and disease outbreaks one can predict disease spreading across geographical areas. And those are just a few examples; there are certainly many other domains where data technologies can play a major role in enhancing security. The use of data for security tasks is however raising major privacy concerns. Collected data, even if anonymized by removing identifiers such as names or social security numbers, when linked with other data may lead to re-identify the individuals to which specific data items are related to. Also, as organizations, such as governmental agencies, often need to collaborate on security tasks, data sets are exchanged across different organizations, resulting in these data sets being available to many different parties. Apart from the use of data for analytics, security tasks such as authentication and access control may require detailed information about users. An example is multi-factor authentication that may require, in addition to a password or a certificate, user biometrics. Recently proposed continuous authentication techniques extend access control system. This information if misused or stolen can lead to privacy breaches.It would then seem that in order to achieve security we must give up privacy. However this may not be necessarily the case. Recent advances in cryptography are making possible to work on encrypted data – for example for performing analytics on encrypted data. However much more needs to be done as the specific data privacy techniques to use heavily depend on the specific use of data and the security tasks at hand. Also current techniques are not still able to meet the efficiency requirement for use with big data sets.In this talk we will discuss methods and techniques to make this reconciliation possible and identify research directions. About the speaker: Elisa Bertino is professor of computer science at Purdue University and serves as Research Director of the Center for Information and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). She is also an adjunct professor of Computer Science & Info tech at RMIT. Prior to joining Purdue in 2004, she was a professor and department head at the Department of Computer Science and Communication of the University of Milan. She has been a visiting researcher at the IBM Research Laboratory (now Almaden) in San Jose, at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, at Rutgers University, at Telcordia Technologies. Her recent research focuses on database security, digital identity management, policy systems, and security for web services. She is a Fellow of ACM and of IEEE. She received the IEEE Computer Society 2002 Technical Achievement Award and the IEEE Computer Society 2005 Kanai Award. She is currently serving as EiC of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Hi everyone! We have designer and activist Mushon Zer-Aviv on the show today. Mushon is an NYU ITP graduate and instructor at Shenkar University, Israel. mushon_bw-pic_2015He wrote the very interesting Disinformation Visualization piece for Tactical Tech's Visualizing Information for Advocacy and we decided to invite him to discuss the million different facets of disinformation through visualization. Is data and data visualization bringing some truth or should it always be considered an argument? Is there a way we can mitigate or even prevent disinformation? What strategies can designers use to make their opinions more apparent? These are some of the questions we discuss on the show. And don't miss the part on "data obfuscation," that is, how to use disinformation to increase our privacy! Enjoy this thought-provoking show! This episode is sponsored by Tableau Software, helping people connect to any kind of data, and visualize it on the fly - You can download a free trial at http://tableau.com/datastories – check the new Tableau 9! LINKS Mushon Zer-Aviv - http://mushon.com Shual Design Studio - http://shual.com Eyebeam / ShiftSpace - http://eyebeam.org Mushon’s Article: Disinformation visualization - How To Lie With Data Visualization Enrico et al.’s papers on vis persuasion and deception: How Deceptive are Deceptive Visualizations?: An Empirical Analysis of Common Distortion Techniques. A. V. Pandey, K. Rall, M. Sattarthwaite, O. Nov, E. Bertini. Proc. of ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2015. The Persuasive Power of Data Visualization. A. V. Pandey, O. Nov, A. Manivannan, M. Satterthwaite, and E. Bertini. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. of InfoVis), vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 2211 - 2220, 2014. Encoding / Decoding Model of Communication (wikipedia page) Edward Tufte’s Book: Beautiful Evidence Weinberger’s Book: Too Big To Know ISVIS http://www.isvisshenkar.org/ (israeli data visualization conference) Visualizing the Israeli Budget - oBudget.org AdNauseam - http://adnauseam.io (data obfuscation tool) Floodwatch - https://floodwatch.o-c-r.org (privacy vis tool from OCR) Columbia Professor Laura Kurgan NYU Professor Helen Nissenbaum Artist and Researcher Daniel C. Howe
"Many medical interventions today are qualitatively and quantitatively limited by human physical and cognitive capabilities. Professor Allison Okamura will discuss robotic systems that will extend humans’ ability to improve patient care by minimizing invasiveness and improving accuracy. Allison Okamura, MS '96, PhD '00, is an associate professor in mechanical engineering. Her academic interests include haptics (tactile feedback technology), virtual environments and simulators, medical robotics, neuromechanics, prosthetics, and engineering education. She has served as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics, editor of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Conference Editorial Board, and co-chair of the IEEE Haptics Symposium. Classes Without Quizzes are presented by the Stanford Alumni Association. Filmed on location at Stanford Reunion Homecoming 2014."
Data collected by organizations and agencies are a key resource intoday's information age. The use of sophisticated data mining techniquesmakes it possible to extract relevant knowledge that can then be used for avariety of purposes, such as research, developing innovative technologiesand services, intelligence and counterterrorism operations, and providinginputs to public policy making. However the disclosure of those data posesserious threats to individual privacy. In this talk, we will present the evolvement of privacy notions fordata publishing and analysis, leading to our proposed membership privacyframework, which formalizes the intuition that privacy means that theadversary cannot significantly increasing its ability to conclude that anentity is in the input dataset. We show that several recently proposedprivacy notions, including differential privacy, are instantiations of themembership privacy framework, and that the framework provides a principledapproach to developing new privacy notions under which better utility can beachieved than what is possible under differential privacy. About the speaker: Ninghui Li is a Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. Hisresearch interests are insecurity and privacy. Prof. Li is currently Vice Chair of ACM SpecialInterest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) and Program Chair of 2015 ACM Conference on Computer andCommunications Security (CCS). He is on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and SecureComputing, Journal of Computer Security, and ACM Transactions on InternetTechnology.
Ocean colour remote sensing has often been used to study polar seas, especially in Antarctica where the optical properties of the upper ocean are not as complex as they are in the Arctic (Comiso et al., 1990, Comiso et al., 1993, Sullivan et al., 1993, Arrigo et al., 1998, Stramski et al., 1999, Arrigo et al., 2008b). It was shown based on OC data that primary production in Antarctic waters has changed little over the last 14 years (Arrigo et al., 2008b). In contrast, the few studies that have been conducted to date in the Arctic Ocean suggest that pan‐Arctic primary production, as well as photooxidation of coloured dissolved organic matter have been increasing (Belanger et al., 2006, Pabi et al., 2008, Arrigo et al., 2008a) as a consequence of receding perennial ice. The annual maximum phytoplankton biomass is now reached earlier in several Arctic seas (Kahru et al., 2010). As the extent of the seasonal ice zone increases (difference between the annual maximum and minimum extents), ice‐edge blooms may play a heightened role (Perrette et al., 2011). The on‐going changes within the context of accelerating climate change necessitate a vastly improved understanding of the polar ecosystems based on an intensive observation program. The use of ocean colour remote sensing in polar regions is, however, impeded by a number of difficulties and intrinsic limitations including: The prevailing low solar elevations. At high latitudes, the Sun zenith angle is often larger than the maximum (generally 70°) for which atmospheric correction algorithms have been developed based on plane‐parallel radiative transfer calculations. Consequently, at high latitudes, a large fraction of the ocean surface is undocumented for a large part of the year even though primary production may be significant. The impact of ice on remotely sensed reflectance. Belanger et al (2007) and Wang et Shi (2009), used radiative transfer simulations to examine the effects of the sea ice adjacency and sub‐pixel ice contamination on retrieved seawater reflectance and level‐2 ocean products. They found significant impacts within the first several kilometres from the ice‐edge and for concentrations of sub‐pixel ice floes exceeding a few percent. The deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM). A DCM is very often observed both in the Antarctic and Arctic Oceans. In the Arctic Ocean, the freeze‐thaw cycle of sea ice and the large export of freshwater to the ocean by large Arctic rivers create pronounced haline stratification within the surface layer. In post‐bloom conditions, a deep‐chlorophyll maximum is associated with such vertical stratification. Contrary to the DCM observed at lower latitudes (Cullen, 1982), the Arctic DCM often corresponds to a maximum in particulate carbon and primary production (Martin et al., 2010). The statistical relationships between surface chlorophyll and chlorophyll concentration at depth developed for lower latitudes (Morel et Berthon, 1989) are most probably not valid for the polar seas (Martin et al., 2010). Ignoring the vertical structure of the chlorophyll profile in the Arctic Ocean leads to significant errors in the estimation of the areal primary production (Pabi et al., 2008, Hill et Zimmerman, 2010). The peculiar phytoplankton photosynthetic parameters. The low irradiance and seawater temperature prevailing in polar seas are associated with unique biooptical and photosynthetic parameters characteristic of extreme environments (Rey, 1991) that must be accounted for in primary production models. To date, only a few studies have attempted to do so in the Arctic Ocean (Arrigo et al., 2008b). The optical complexity of seawater, especially over the Arctic shelves. Because of the important freshwater inputs, the Arctic continental shelves, which occupy 50% of the area, are characterized by high concentrations of CDOM (Matsuoka et al., 2007, Belanger et al., 2008). Also, as a consequence of photoacclimation to low irradiances, phytoplankton cells often contain large amounts of pigments. The chlorophyll‐specific absorption coefficient is therefore particularly low due to pronounced pigment packaging (Cota et al., 2003, Wang et al., 2005). Because of these optical peculiarities, standard ocean colour algorithms do not work in the Arctic Ocean (Cota et al., 2004, Matsuoka et al., 2007). The persistence of clouds and fog. High latitudes are known to present a heavy cloud cover. In addition, as soon as sea ice melts and opens waters come in direct contact with the atmosphere, fog develops near the sea surface. These features limit the usage of ocean colour data. This lecture will cover all of the topics mentioned above and will be organized into two parts (90’ each) as detailed below : 1 Ocean colour remote sensing in polar seas Ocean, sea ice and atmosphere in Arctic and Antarctic: relevant features Seawater optical properties Retrieval of ocean properties from ocean colour: Atmospheric corrections Contamination of the signal by sea ice Retrieval of IOPs and AOPs, and biogeochemically relevant variables Availability of data as favoured by polar orbits and limited by elevated Cloudiness 2 Primary production estimates from OC in polar seas General features of Arctic and Antarctic Oceans related to PP (phytoplankton species, annual cycle of PP, nutrients, DCM) PP models and their validation Results from PP models Bibliography Arrigo KR, Van Dijken G, Pabi S, 2008a. Impact of a shrinking Arctic ice cover on marine primary production. Geophysical Research Letters 35. Arrigo KR, Van Dijken GL, Bushinsky S, 2008b. Primary production in the Southern Ocean, 1997 2006. Journal of Geophysical ResearchOceans 113. Arrigo KR, Worthen D, Schnell A, Lizotte MP, 1998. Primary production in Southern Ocean waters. Journal of Geophysical ResearchOceans 103, 15587‐600. Belanger S, Babin M, Larouche P, 2008. An empirical ocean color algorithm for estimating the contribution of chromophoric dissolved organic matter to total light absorption in optically complex waters. Journal of Geophysical ResearchOceans 113. Belanger S, Ehn JK, Babin M, 2007. Impact of sea ice on the retrieval of water‐leaving reflectance, chlorophyll a concentration and inherent optical properties from satellite ocean color data. Remote Sensing of Environment 111, 51‐68. Belanger S, Xie HX, Krotkov N, Larouche P, Vincent WF, Babin M, 2006. Photomineralization of terrigenous dissolved organic matter in Arctic coastal waters from 1979 to 2003: Interannual variability and implications of climate change. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 20. Comiso JC, Maynard NG, Smith WO, Sullivan CW, 1990. Satellite Ocean Color Studies of Antarctic Ice Edges in Summer and Autumn. Journal of Geophysical ResearchOceans 95, 9481‐96. Comiso JC, Mcclain CR, Sullivan CW, Ryan JP, Leonard CL, 1993. Coastal Zone Color Scanner Pigment Concentrations in the Southern‐Ocean and Relationships to Geophysical Surface‐Features. Journal of Geophysical ResearchOceans 98, 2419‐51. Cota GF, Harrison WG, Platt T, Sathyendranath S, Stuart V, 2003. Bio‐optical properties of the Labrador Sea. Journal of Geophysical ResearchOceans 108. Cota GF, Wang H, Comiso JC, 2004. Transformation of global satellite chlorophyll retrievals with a regionally tuned algorithm. Remote Sensing of Environment 90, 373‐7. Cullen JJ, 1982. The Deep Chlorophyll Maximum ‐ Comparing Vertical Profiles of Chlorophyll‐A. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 39, 791‐803. Hill VJ, Zimmerman RC, 2010. 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Ocean colour remote sensing has often been used to study polar seas, especially in Antarctica where the optical properties of the upper ocean are not as complex as they are in the Arctic (Comiso et al., 1990, Comiso et al., 1993, Sullivan et al., 1993, Arrigo et al., 1998, Stramski et al., 1999, Arrigo et al., 2008b). It was shown based on OC data that primary production in Antarctic waters has changed little over the last 14 years (Arrigo et al., 2008b). In contrast, the few studies that have been conducted to date in the Arctic Ocean suggest that pan‐Arctic primary production, as well as photooxidation of coloured dissolved organic matter have been increasing (Belanger et al., 2006, Pabi et al., 2008, Arrigo et al., 2008a) as a consequence of receding perennial ice. The annual maximum phytoplankton biomass is now reached earlier in several Arctic seas (Kahru et al., 2010). As the extent of the seasonal ice zone increases (difference between the annual maximum and minimum extents), ice‐edge blooms may play a heightened role (Perrette et al., 2011). The on‐going changes within the context of accelerating climate change necessitate a vastly improved understanding of the polar ecosystems based on an intensive observation program. The use of ocean colour remote sensing in polar regions is, however, impeded by a number of difficulties and intrinsic limitations including: The prevailing low solar elevations. At high latitudes, the Sun zenith angle is often larger than the maximum (generally 70°) for which atmospheric correction algorithms have been developed based on plane‐parallel radiative transfer calculations. Consequently, at high latitudes, a large fraction of the ocean surface is undocumented for a large part of the year even though primary production may be significant. The impact of ice on remotely sensed reflectance. Belanger et al (2007) and Wang et Shi (2009), used radiative transfer simulations to examine the effects of the sea ice adjacency and sub‐pixel ice contamination on retrieved seawater reflectance and level‐2 ocean products. They found significant impacts within the first several kilometres from the ice‐edge and for concentrations of sub‐pixel ice floes exceeding a few percent. The deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM). A DCM is very often observed both in the Antarctic and Arctic Oceans. In the Arctic Ocean, the freeze‐thaw cycle of sea ice and the large export of freshwater to the ocean by large Arctic rivers create pronounced haline stratification within the surface layer. In post‐bloom conditions, a deep‐chlorophyll maximum is associated with such vertical stratification. Contrary to the DCM observed at lower latitudes (Cullen, 1982), the Arctic DCM often corresponds to a maximum in particulate carbon and primary production (Martin et al., 2010). The statistical relationships between surface chlorophyll and chlorophyll concentration at depth developed for lower latitudes (Morel et Berthon, 1989) are most probably not valid for the polar seas (Martin et al., 2010). Ignoring the vertical structure of the chlorophyll profile in the Arctic Ocean leads to significant errors in the estimation of the areal primary production (Pabi et al., 2008, Hill et Zimmerman, 2010). The peculiar phytoplankton photosynthetic parameters. The low irradiance and seawater temperature prevailing in polar seas are associated with unique biooptical and photosynthetic parameters characteristic of extreme environments (Rey, 1991) that must be accounted for in primary production models. To date, only a few studies have attempted to do so in the Arctic Ocean (Arrigo et al., 2008b). The optical complexity of seawater, especially over the Arctic shelves. Because of the important freshwater inputs, the Arctic continental shelves, which occupy 50% of the area, are characterized by high concentrations of CDOM (Matsuoka et al., 2007, Belanger et al., 2008). Also, as a consequence of photoacclimation to low irradiances, phytoplankton cells often contain large amounts of pigments. The chlorophyll‐specific absorption coefficient is therefore particularly low due to pronounced pigment packaging (Cota et al., 2003, Wang et al., 2005). Because of these optical peculiarities, standard ocean colour algorithms do not work in the Arctic Ocean (Cota et al., 2004, Matsuoka et al., 2007). The persistence of clouds and fog. High latitudes are known to present a heavy cloud cover. In addition, as soon as sea ice melts and opens waters come in direct contact with the atmosphere, fog develops near the sea surface. These features limit the usage of ocean colour data. This lecture will cover all of the topics mentioned above and will be organized into two parts (90’ each) as detailed below : 1 Ocean colour remote sensing in polar seas Ocean, sea ice and atmosphere in Arctic and Antarctic: relevant features Seawater optical properties Retrieval of ocean properties from ocean colour: Atmospheric corrections Contamination of the signal by sea ice Retrieval of IOPs and AOPs, and biogeochemically relevant variables Availability of data as favoured by polar orbits and limited by elevated Cloudiness 2 Primary production estimates from OC in polar seas General features of Arctic and Antarctic Oceans related to PP (phytoplankton species, annual cycle of PP, nutrients, DCM) PP models and their validation Results from PP models Bibliography Arrigo KR, Van Dijken G, Pabi S, 2008a. Impact of a shrinking Arctic ice cover on marine primary production. Geophysical Research Letters 35. Arrigo KR, Van Dijken GL, Bushinsky S, 2008b. 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Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 84! The interview in the SPaMCAST 84 is with Ricardo Valerdi. We discussed software cost estimation and behavioral economics. This was a great interview that anyone working in the IT field will find immediately useful and thought provoking in the long term. Dr. Valerdi's current research interests include systems engineering cost estimation, system level metrics and models, dynamics in large-scale government system acquisition, and system-of-systems ontologies. His contributions to the field include the Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model (COSYSMO), a model for estimating systems engineering effort, which has been calibrated with data provided by BAE Systems, Boeing, General Dynamics, L-3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and SAIC. He is also the co-founder of the Systems Engineering Advancement Research Initiative (SEAri), which was launched in 2007. He received his B.S./B.A. in electrical engineering from the University of San Diego in 1999, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in systems architecting and engineering from USC in 2002 and 2005. Between 1999 and 2002, he worked as a systems engineer at Motorola where he was responsible for the design and implementation of mission critical public safety communications systems for clients such as the Los Angeles Police Department, Orange County Sheriff, and San Diego Police Department. He has been affiliated with The Aerospace Corporation's Economic and Market Analysis Center as a member of the technical staff since 2003 and he supports cost analysis of programs for the Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center at the Los Angeles Air Force Base. Dr. Valerdi is the author of more than 45 technical publications for IEEE, AIAA, and INCOSE conferences. His work has appeared in several journals, including Journal of Systems Engineering, Journal of Systems and Software, and CrossTalk - The Journal of Defense Software Engineering. He has also served as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and IEEE Software. He served as program chair of the 20th Forum on COCOMO and Software Cost Modeling and is involved with INCOSE in the Measurement Working Group, the Systems Engineering and Architecting Doctoral Student Network, and since 2007 has served on the Board of Directors as associate director for international growth. He is a visiting associate at the Center for Systems & Software Engineering at USC. Contact information:Email: rvalerdi@mit.edu Website: http://rvalerdi.mit.edu Remember to check out GoTo Assist Express! The essay is titled Outsourcing: Metrics and Governance. The essay discusses why it is important to get the link between metrics and governance right in outsourcing contracts. It goes on to stress why it is important to engage process and metrics experts when negotiating the linkages. One of the new features you will notice in SPaMCAST 84 is an ad. I do not take adding ads lightly but have decide to occasionally run ads to help defray the cost of hosting, bandwidth and equipment. When I do run ads I will only run those I feel comfortable with. Let me know your thoughts on the matter. Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Email: spamcastinfo@gmail.com Voicemail: +1-206-888-6111 Website: www.spamcast.net Twitter: www.twitter.com/tcagley Facebook: http://bit.ly/16fBWV Conferences and Speaking Engagements in 2010 (To Date) ISMA Cinco in São Paulo September 13-15. I will be one of the featured speakers. More on the topic the near future. The website to get more information is http://www.ifpug.org/conferences/ I hope to see you there! Next! The interview in the SPaMCAST 85 is with Cory Foy. We talked agile and agile coaching. Whether you are using SCRUM, xP or any software development methodology I think you will have a lot to think about after listening to Cory.
Abstract 1:Real-time logic (RTL) is useful for the verification of a safety assertion with respect to the specification of a real-time system. Since the satisfiability problem for RTL is undecidable, the systematic debugging of a real-time system appears impossible. With RTL, each propositional formula corresponds to a verification condition. The number of truth assignments of a propositional formula can help us determine the specific constraints which should be added or modified to derive the expected solutions. This talk describes this debugging approach and how it can be embedded into autonomous systems. We have implemented a tool called ADRTL for automatic debugging of RTL specifications. The confidence of our approach is high as we have effectively evaluated ADRTL on several existing industrial applications, including the NASA X-38 Crew Return Vehicle avionics.Abstract 2:Embedded systems are becoming ubiquitous and are increasingly interconnected or networked, making them more vulnerable to security attacks. A large class of these systems such as SCADA and PCS has real-time and safety constraints. Therefore, in addition to satisfying these requirements, achieving system security emerges as a critical challenge to ensure that users can trust these embedded systems to perform correct operations. One objective in a secure system is to identify attacks by detecting anomalous system behaviors. This part of the talk describes the challenges in the design and implementation of such intrusion detection system (IDS), addressing (1) accuracy: the IDS identifies no or as few false positives as the resource (time, space, power, etc.) and/or policy constraints allow, and no or as few false negatives as the resource and/or policy constraints allow; (2) efficiency/timeliness: the IDS does not violate the host embedded system's application deadlines and has a reasonable space overhead; (3) scalability: the IDS can scale to work with large embedded systems; and (4) power-awareness: the IDS does not significantly reduce the operational period of battery-powered embedded systems. We conclude with an outline of one of several promising embedded IDS approaches under investigation. This approach is based on automatic rule-base generation and semantic analysis. About the speaker: Albert M. K. Cheng received the B.A. with Highest Honors in Computer Science, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, the M.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Electrical Engineering, and the Ph.D. in Computer Science, all from The University of Texas at Austin, where he held a GTE Foundation Doctoral Fellowship. Dr. Cheng is currently a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston, where he is the founding Director of the Real-Time Systems Laboratory. He has served as a technical consultant for several organizations, including IBM, and was also a visiting faculty in the Departments of Computer Science at Rice University (2000) and at the City University of Hong Kong (1995).Dr. Cheng is the author/co-author of over 100 refereed publications in real-time/embedded systems and related areas, and has received numerous awards, including the U.S. National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award (now known as the NSF CAREER award). His recent paper titled ``Automatic Debugging of Real-Time Systems Based on Incremental Satisfiability Counting'' in the July 2006 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Computers has been selected as its Featured Article. He has been invited to present seminars, tutorials, and panel positions at over 30 conferences, has given invited seminars/keynotes at over 30 universities and organizations. He is and has been on the technical program committees of over 100 conferences, symposia, workshops, and editorial boards (including the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1998-2003). Currently, he is on the TPC of RTSS, RTAS, RTCSA, ESO, EC, ICEIS, ICINCO, SE, SEA, AIA, CNIS, CCN, ISC, and PDCN, and is the Program Chair of the 10th International Conference on SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND APPLICATIONS (SEA), November 2006, Dallas, Texas. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. Dr. Cheng is the author of the new senior/graduate-level textbook entitled Real-Time Systems: Scheduling, Analysis, and Verification (John Wiley & Sons), 2nd printing with updates, 2005.
Information permeates every corner of our lives and shapes ouruniverse. Understanding and harnessing information holds the potential forsignificant advances. The breadth and depth of underlying concepts ofthe science of information transcend traditional disciplinary boundariesof scientific and commercial endeavors. Information can be manifestedin various forms: business information is measured in dollars; chemical information is contained in shapes of molecules; biological information stored and processed in our cells prolongs life. So what is information? In this talk we first attempt to identify the most important features of information and define it in the broadest possible sense. We subsequently turn to the notion and theory of information introduced by Claude Shannon in 1948 that served as the backbone for digital communication. We go on to bridge Shannon information with Boltzmann's entropy, Maxwell's demon, Landauer's principle and Bennett's irreversible computations. We point out, however, that while Shannon created a successful and beautiful theoryof information for communication, a wide spread application of informationtheory to economics, biology, life science and complex networks seems to bestill awaiting us. We shall discuss some examples that recently crop up inbiology, chemistry, computer science, and quantum physics. We concludewith a list of challenges for future research.We hope to put forward some educated questions, rather than answers, to the issues and tools that lay before researchers interested in information. About the speaker: Before coming to Purdue, Wojciech Szpankowski was assistant professor at the Technical University of Gdansk, and in 1984 he was assistant professor at the McGill University, Montreal. During 1992-93, he was professeur invité at INRIA, Rocquencourt, France. His research interests cover analysis of algorithms, data compression, information theory, analytic combinatorics, random structures, networking, stability problems in distributed systems, modeling of computer systems and computer communication networks, queueing theory, and operations research. His recent work is devoted to the probabilistic analysis of algorithms on words, analytic information theory, and designing efficient multimedia data compression schemes based on approximate pattern matching. He is a recipient of the Humboldt Fellowship. He has been a guest editor for special issues in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Theoretical Computer Science, Random Structures & Algorithms, and Algorithmica. Currently, he is editing a special issue on "Analysis of Algorithms" in Algorithmica. He serves on the editorial boards of Theoretical Computer Science, Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, and the book series Advances in the Theory of Computation and Computational Mathematics.
Invariably, new technologies introduce new vulnerabilities which, in principle, enable new attacks by increasingly potent adversaries. Yet new systems are more adept at handling well-known attacks by old adversaries than anticipating new ones. Our adversary models seem to be perpetually out of date: often they do not capture adversary attacks enabled by new vulnerabilities and sometimes address attacks rendered impractical by new technologies. In this talk, I provide a brief overview of adversary models beginning with those required by program and data sharing technologies, continuing with those required by computer communication and networking technologies, and ending with those required by mobile ad-hoc and sensor network technologies. I argue that mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks require new adversary models (e.g., different from those of Dolev-Yao and Byzantine adversaries). I illustrate this with adversaries that attack perfectly sensible and otherwise correct protocols of mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks. These attacks cannot be countered with traditional security protocols as they require emergent security properties. About the speaker: Virgil D. Gligor received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been at the University of Maryland since 1976, and is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is an Editorial Board member of the ACM Transactions on Information System Security, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Computers. Over the past three decades, his research interests ranged from access control mechanisms, penetration analysis, and denial-of-service protection to cryptographic protocols and applied cryptography.
Applications and Trends in Wireless Consumer Networking. Recordings of the Distinguished Experts Panel (DEP) at the 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2006), which was held April 3-7, 2006 in Vancouver, Canada. Alexander D. Gelman holds ME and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, from the City University of New York. Since 1998 Alex is the Chief Scientist at Panasonic Digital Networking Laboratory in Princeton, NJ and San Jose, California managing projects in consumer communications and networking. During 1984-1998 Alex was with Bellcore, lately as Director, Residential Internet Access Architectures Research. Some of most prominent projects in Bellcore were related to multimedia communications and DSL applications. In 1989 Alex pioneered the concept and the architecture of the Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexor (DSLAM). Alex consulted Bell Atlantic on early ADSL trial, architected Telia's DSL Multimedia, VOD, and Internet Access trial and the Telecom'95 World Wide Demo by TINA-C consortium. Alex holds some of the earliest DSL system patents, e.g. on xDSL-based Access Router. He has published in journals, conference proceedings and magazines, served as editor of magazines and journals, served on the Inaugural Steering Committee for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, served on Organizing and program committees of several ComSoc conferences, initiated the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC). Alex is a past Chair of the ComSoc Multimedia Technical Committee, served as ComSoc VP-Society Relations and VP-Membership Development. Presently Alex is ComSoc Director of Standards and serves on BoG of the IEEE Standards Association.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) has resulted in the presence of very descriptive privacy policies on healthcare websites. These policies are intended to notify users about the organization's privacy practices; however, they are typically not easy to read, leading few people to actually read them. Given the fact that these policies are not optional, but required by HIPAA, they should be presented in a clear and concise manner that encourages consumers to read them. At the present time, this is not the case. This seminar will present the preliminary results of our study that compares various ways to present privacy management information to healthcare consumers. The study involved an online experiment and survey of 993 Internet users. About the speaker: Julie Earp is an Associate Professor of Information Technology in the Business Management Department of the College of Management at NCSU. She is heavily involved with the cooperative electronic commerce initiative and The Privacy Place, both which involve the College of Management and the College of Engineering. Her research focuses on Internet security and privacy issues from several different perspectives, including data management, consumer values, policy, economics and law. The ultimate goal of her work is to demonstrate the need for supporting the early stages of the software lifecycle, specifically addressing the need for novel approaches to security and privacy coverage in web-based systems. Her research recently gained international recognition as the best paper awarded by the Organizational and Communication Information Systems (OCIS) division of the Academy of Management in 2003. An extended version of this award winning paper is available at IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Her involvement in educational activities has included her role as co-founder and co-director of the NCSU E-Commerce Studio. The Studio is a lab in which management and computer science graduate students collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams to develop Web-based e-commerce applications for industrial partners. In keeping with her research focus, students in the Studio are taught how to develop appropriate security and privacy policies as well as systems that are in compliance with those policies. She has also been a leader in developing the Information Technology curriculum under the Business Management degree at NCSU. She has initiated, designed, and taught several courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Resource-constrained devices are becoming ubiquitous. Examples include cell phones, palm pilots, and digital thermostats. It can be difficult to fit required functionality into such a device without sacrificing the simplicity and clarity of the software. Increasingly complex embedded systems require extensive brute-force testing, making development and maintenance costly. This is particularly true for system components that are written in assembly language. Static checking has the potential of alleviating these problems, but until now there has been little tool support for programming at the assembly level. In this paper we present the design and implementation of a static checker for interrupt-driven Z86-based software with hard real-time requirements. For six commercial microcontrollers, our checker has produced upper bounds on interrupt latencies and stack sizes, as well as verified fundamental safety and liveness properties. Our approach is based on a known algorithm for model checking of pushdown systems, and produces a control-flow graph annotated with information about time, space, safety, and liveness. Each benchmark is approximately 1000 lines of code, and the checking is done in a few seconds on a standard PC. Our tool is one of the first to give an efficient and useful static analysis of assembly code. It enables increased confidence in correctness, significantly reduced testing requirements, and support for maintenance throughout the system life-cycle. Joint work with Dennis Brylow and Niels Damgaard. About the speaker: Jens Palsberg received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Aarhus, Denmark in 1992. In 1992-1996 he was a visiting scientist at various institutions, including MIT. In 1996 he joined the faculty at Purdue University where he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science. His research interests are programming languages, compilers, software engineering, and software security. He has authored over 50 technical papers in these areas. His 1994 book with Michael Schwartzbach is entitled Object-oriented Type Systems. In 1998 he received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, and in 1999 he received the Purdue University Faculty Scholar award. Dr. Palsberg's research has been supported by NSF, DARPA, IBM, and British Telecom. He is a member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
How can one automatically identify classified documents? This is a vital question for the Department of Energy (DOE), which is reviewing millions of classified documents for possible declassification, and for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), which is checking its unclassified computing storage systems for the presence of classified documents. The DOE, having already developed an expert rule system for automatic document classification, provided LANL with a small set of documents with which to explore a statistical classifier as an alternative. We represented documents as vectors of character trigram frequencies, used a chi-square statistic to select the optimal trigrams, and trained a linear classifier to distinguish classified and unclassified documents. Results ranged from 60% to 87% accuracy, depending on the training set size and other variables. In contrast, the LANL effort started "from scratch" and needed to be moved rapidly into large-scale production. We implemented an expert system tailored to the classified documents of most concern to LANL. The talk will discuss the practical issues that arose in canvassing large amounts of files in a variety of formats, and the security issues involved in the sampling, analysis, and notification processes. About the speaker: Judy Hochberg is a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She received a B.A. in linguistics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford. Before joining the Laboratory in 1989, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Chicago, then a visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. She has published in journals including Computers and Security, IEEE Transactions in Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and Language. She has been an R&D 100 award winner and a national finalist in the Johns Hopkins National Search for Computing to Assist Persons with Disabilities. Judy is interested in all manifestations of human language, including document analysis -- text and images -- and speech.