Marija Ilic [CMU]
Abstract:
In this talk we describe an IT-enabled decision making framework for cooperative incentives-driven utilization of the existing resources and for sustainable investments in new technologies. We point out that in order to achieve a long-term sustainable energy utilization, it is essential to provide necessary information to internalize the value of just-in-time (JIT), just-in-place (JIP) and just-in-context (JIC) distributed adaptation across the entire supply chain, ranging from the smallest consumers and energy providers, through their aggregators and system coordinators. This would avoid to a large extent technology bias. We illustrate using our model-based novel simulator how a carefully designed multi-directional and multi-temporal information exchange could enable sustainable decision making while accounting for unique needs and capabilities of various resources. At the same time, information would incentivize the resources to contribute to system-wide sustainability objectives at value. We illustrate the dependence of such decisions-driven industry evolution on the industry rules (contextual factors), as well as on the operating and planning practices for implementing the industry rules (temporal and spatial factors). Conceptual simulations are provided to illustrate strong effects of these factors on the long-term industry performance without embedding IT support, and potential improvements by means of carefully designed IT. Our model-based simulator could be used as a means of designing novel regulation defining rules, rights and responsibilities regarding the type and rate of information to be exchanged while inter-operating in support of sustainable industry evolution
Biography:
Marija D. Ilic received her Doctor of Scence Degree in Systems Science at Washington University in St. Louis, MO in 1980. She is currently a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, with a joint appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy Departments. She is also the Honorary Chaired Professor for Control of Future Electricity Network Operations at Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands. She was an Assistant Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and tenured Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was then a Senior Research Scientist in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, from 1987 to 2002. She has 30 years of experience in teaching and research in the area of electrical power system modeling and control. Her main interest is in the systems aspects of operations, planning, and economics of the electric power industry. She has co-authored several books in her field of interest. Prof. Ilic is an IEEE Fellow.
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March 2, 2007
For many years, computer vision researchers have worked hard chasing the elusive goals such as “can the robot find a boy in the scene” or “can your vision system automatically segment the cat from the background”. These tasks require a lot of prior knowledge and contextual information. How to incorporate prior knowledge and contextual information into vision systems, however, is very challenging. In this talk, we propose that many difficult vision tasks can only be solved with interactive vision systems, by combining powerful and real-time vision techniques with intuitive and clever user interfaces. I will show two interactive vision systems we developed recently, Lazy Snapping (Siggraph 2004) and Image Completion (Siggraph 2005), where Lazy Snapping cuts out an object with solid boundary using graph cut, while Image Completion recovers unknown region with belief propagation. A key element in designing such interactive systems is how we model the user’s intention using conditional probability (context) and likelihood associated with user interactions. Given how ill-posed most image understanding problems are, I am convinced that interactive computer vision is the paradigm we should focus today’s vision research on.
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The video provides unique perspectives on knowledge management if used can reward businesses achieve quantum growth and enhanced efficiencies and profitability. Kumaran is an effective information analyst whose analysis and interpretations have significantly assisted individuals and firms to sometimes make drastic changes and enjoy quantum leaps. Kumaran has developed original learning modules on knowledge management that can make organisations to enjoy significant commercial benefits. For more information, please contact:kcsa@aapt.net.au
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Learning, Reasoning, and Intelligence in the Open World: From Principles to Practice
Dr. Eric Horvitz Principal Researcher & Research Area Manager, Microsoft Research
Abstract:
Systems that learn and reason from streams of data promise to provide extraordinary value to people and society. I will discuss directions with harnessing machine perception, learning, and inference in the open world, highlighting key ideas in the context of projects in transportation, energy, healthcare, and communications. After reviewing efforts in several realms, I will reflect on directions regarding the capture and use of data in accordance with the preferences of people about their privacy.
Bio:
Eric Horvitz is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. His interests span theoretical and practical challenges with developing systems that sense, learn, and reason. His contributions include advances in principles of learning and decision making, and the development and fielding of applications in transportation, healthcare, aerospace, information retrieval, and ecommerce. Eric is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and has served as President of the organization. He has also served on the NSF CISE Advisory Board, the DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group (ISAT), the Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC), and the Carnegie-Mellon University Machine Learning Advisory Board. Eric received his PhD and MD degrees at Stanford University. More information can be found at: http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz
Duration : 1:15:12
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science is an interesting design within the unified consciousness field of this existence, which human beings perceive to be a “life experience”, in which they are, apparently, “alive and living”. Now, just to get the record straight, is that the unified consciousness field is the mind consciousness system’s design of its perception and belief of what it might, possibly mean “to live” and to “experience life”. ‘Cos human beings that think, experience emotions and feelings, think that they are “alive”. No. You are “alive” as a mind consciousness system – generating, manifesting, designing the unified consciousness field.
So, where do I, as the Design of Science, fit into all of this? Now, in a previous, specific interview, it has been mentioned that way in the beginning, when human beings were designed – manifested as mind consciousness systems – human beings had all the information and knowledge of this existence. You knew and understood and comprehended everything. How was time and space created and manifested? Through stretching out all that knowledge and information, of all of existence, in a space-time continuum, for you to… [coughs] to have a starting point of [looks around], “I don’t know where I am…uhm… I don’t know what this existence is. I don’t know what I am. Let me find out.” Thus, the mind consciousness system, was, let’s say, deactivated from the knowledge and information of all of existence perspective, and, thus, you were placed into the reincarnation cycles after cycle, after cycle, to now “experience the re-discovering of yourself”, as you, as all the knowledge and information that you have. And, that is the foundation and principle reason for science.
Science is the manifestation of human beings’ mind consciousness systems re-discovering, and re-understanding, and re-gaining, and re-attaining, and re-obtaining all the knowledge and information of this existence, which you are actually, in the first place, but, which you think you don’t know, and which you think you’ve lost, because you’ve been enslaved, and placed into a space-time continuum, within this consciousness unified field, in which you experience space and time – and, then, lost and stuck in continuous and constant reincarnation cycles
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The transition into the information and knowledge society is being accompanied by redefinition of the business processes and renewal of the information systems. There is an evident growth in the size and complexity of these systems. The consequence is that actual development problems cannot be successfully addressed and resolved by individuals. Moreover, heterogeneous and multidisciplinary teams are required and project teams should consist of members from various professional, technological and cultural environments. Teams have to respect maxims of collaborative communication in order to efficiently manage the complexity inherent to business and information systems and corresponding software and services.
The aim of the conference is to encourage potential authors to submit scientific papers as well as papers addressing applications of new techniques and methods enabling collaborative work and efficient service engineering. Topics are not limited to the domain of IS and software development – papers that address issues related to collaborative work in business systems and in community in general are also welcome.
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Advances in information technology coupled with powerful market forces are transforming just about all aspects of business and society. We can increasingly leverage the Internet and related open standards to look at a whole organization – an enterprise, an industry eco-system or an economy – as a holistic, integrated system, linking together processes, information and people. This talk will explore some of the huge challenges that we face in order to realize the potential benefits of such business and societal transformations, including the ability to effectively design and use highly complex, human oriented, market-facing systems and applications. We will also discuss the role of universities in conducting the necessary research and training the necessary talent needed in the emerging knowledge economy.
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Iran has placed a domestic research satellite into orbit for the first time, ushering in an era of independence in its space program.
The first domestic Iranian satellite has been placed into orbit via two carrier rockets.
Omid (meaning ‘Hope’ in Persian) was sent into space by the Iranian-produced satellite carrier Safir 2 early on Tuesday, Safir 2 is an upgraded model of carrier Safir 1.
Equipped with two frequency bands and eight antennae, Omid will transmit information to and from earth while orbiting the planet 15 times per day.
The lightweight telecommunications satellite is equipped with remote sensing, satellite telemetry and geographic information system technology as well as remote and ground station data processing.
Omid is a research satellite that has been designed for gathering information and testing equipment. After orbiting for one to three months, Omid will return to earth, returning with data that will help Iranian experts send an operational satellite into space.
Omid carries experimental satellite control devices, communications equipment and power supply systems to a distance of 250 to 350 kilometers from the earth’s atmosphere.
The launch of Omid comes amid celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In a Tuesday message, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad congratulated the nation on the new aerospace achievement.
“Dear people of Iran, your children have sent Iran’s first domestic satellite into orbit… May this be a step toward… justice and peace,” he said. “Iran’s official presence in space has been added to the pages of history.”
In August 2007, Tehran announced plans to carry out the domestic satellite launch after testing its first domestically-produced satellite carrier Safir 1.
Head of the Iranian Aerospace Organization, Reza Taqipour, told Press TV that Iran has plans to put a series of satellites into orbit by 2010 that will improve national disaster management programs and the country’s telecommunications network.
Omid is the third Iranian-made satellite to be sent into space. Russia launched Iran’s first satellite in 2005. Three years later, another satellite, which had been jointly designed by Iran, China and Thailand, was also sent into orbit. So far, only eight countries have launched domestically-made satellites into orbit.
The recent completion of the semi-domestic research satellite Mesbah is another success added to the accomplishments of Iranian aerospace experts.
Mesbah, which is ready for launch into outer space, has been equipped with a store and forward communications receiver that gathers information from various parts of the planet and then forwards the transmission.
Iranian scientists have also finished designing a satellite called Besharat, which is to be launched in a joint effort with the members of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).
Tehran also plans to send its first astronaut to space by 2021.
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Iran has placed a domestic research satellite into orbit for the first time, ushering in an era of independence in its space program.
The first domestic Iranian satellite has been placed into orbit via two carrier rockets.
Omid (meaning ‘Hope’ in Persian) was sent into space by the Iranian-produced satellite carrier Safir 2 early on Tuesday, Safir 2 is an upgraded model of carrier Safir 1.
Equipped with two frequency bands and eight antennae, Omid will transmit information to and from earth while orbiting the planet 15 times per day.
The lightweight telecommunications satellite is equipped with remote sensing, satellite telemetry and geographic information system technology as well as remote and ground station data processing.
Omid is a research satellite that has been designed for gathering information and testing equipment. After orbiting for one to three months, Omid will return to earth, returning with data that will help Iranian experts send an operational satellite into space.
Omid carries experimental satellite control devices, communications equipment and power supply systems to a distance of 250 to 350 kilometers from the earth’s atmosphere.
The launch of Omid comes amid celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In a Tuesday message, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad congratulated the nation on the new aerospace achievement.
“Dear people of Iran, your children have sent Iran’s first domestic satellite into orbit… May this be a step toward… justice and peace,” he said. “Iran’s official presence in space has been added to the pages of history.”
In August 2007, Tehran announced plans to carry out the domestic satellite launch after testing its first domestically-produced satellite carrier Safir 1.
Head of the Iranian Aerospace Organization, Reza Taqipour, told Press TV that Iran has plans to put a series of satellites into orbit by 2010 that will improve national disaster management programs and the country’s telecommunications network.
Omid is the third Iranian-made satellite to be sent into space. Russia launched Iran’s first satellite in 2005. Three years later, another satellite, which had been jointly designed by Iran, China and Thailand, was also sent into orbit. So far, only eight countries have launched domestically-made satellites into orbit.
The recent completion of the semi-domestic research satellite Mesbah is another success added to the accomplishments of Iranian aerospace experts.
Mesbah, which is ready for launch into outer space, has been equipped with a store and forward communications receiver that gathers information from various parts of the planet and then forwards the transmission.
Iranian scientists have also finished designing a satellite called Besharat, which is to be launched in a joint effort with the members of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).
Tehran also plans to send its first astronaut to space by 2021.
Duration : 0:5:37
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2009. 6m49s. English with English Subtitles.
Open Technologies refer to a collection of tools and techniques that contirbute to an open approach towards deveoping and implementing eHealth and health information systems. The hallmarks of the approach are collaboration, standardization, reusability and interoperability.
This video details the OASIS project, an applied example of the open approach. Supported by Connectivity Africa since 2007, the project aims to facilitate the development of free and open source software tools to manage the massive amounts of medical information that health care demands, here in the African context.
For more information:
http://openmrs.org
http://openrosa.org
Directed by Rana Ghose and Connectivity Africa.
Duration : 0:6:49
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