The experts at Popular Mechanics, the world’s largest science and technology magazine, provide an in-depth look at 21st century warfare. From sophisticated network information systems and remote-controlled robot warriors to smart munitions and unmanned aerial vehicles, this five-part series investigates amazing advances that are revolutionizing the new technology of war. Packed with sophisticated CG animation, weapons testing footage and more — episodes include: Ground Forces, Air Power, Sea Power, Counter-Terrorism and The Future of War.
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Lecture by Dr. Art Langer, author. Analysis & Design of Information Systems (3nd Ed),
Langer, Springer-Verlag 2007 (ISBN978-1-844628-654-4)
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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.
Duration : 0:57:30
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Michael Bieber is a Professor and the Acting Chair for the Information Systems Department of the College of Computing Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He teaches both on-campus and in the distance learning program, often combining the students in both modes.
Dr. Bieber is conducting research in several related areas: lightweight systems integration, digital library integration,hypermedia functionality and link-based services, automatically generating hypermedia links and services for analytical applications and for digital libraries, Web engineering, incorporating hypermedia into WWW applications, relationship analysis (as part of the software engineering process), participatory learning, peer assessment, supporting knowledge and learning within virtual communities, asynchronous learning networks and distance education, and infrastructures for future educational software. He has published many articles in these and other areas. He also is active in several of these research communities, co-organizing conference minitracks and co-editing special journal issues.
Dr. Bieber co-directs NJIT’s Collaborative Hypermedia Research Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. Further information about Dr. Bieber may be found at http://web.njit.edu/~bieber. He may be contacted at bieber@njit.edu.
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ACU National graduate, Drew, discusses studying a Business / Information Systems degree at ACU National and how this helped him in his current job.
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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.
Duration : 1:1:5
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What is the role of technology in strategic management of the health care challenges facing the nation? Join Dr. Harvey Fineberg, president of The Institute of Medicine for a report from the front lines of the debate arising throughout the country about the national system of health care. Series: “Science Futures” [5/2005] [Science] [Show ID: 9102]
Duration : 0:56:32
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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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Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for the Rural Developing World
Tapan Parikh [Assistant Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley]
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People living in the rural developing world have many information needs that could, but are not, being met by information technology. Technologies for this context must be low-cost, accessible to diverse populations and appropriate for the local infrastructure, including conditions of intermittent power and connectivity. In this talk, drawing from the results of an extended design study conducted with microfinance group members in rural India (many of whom were semi-literate or illiterate), I outline a set of user interface design guidelines for accessibility to such users. The results are used to motivate the design of CAM, a mobile phone application toolkit including support for paper-based interaction; multimedia input and output; and disconnected operation.
Through ekgaon technologies, a company that I co-founded, over 10,000 microfinance group members in India are using CAM to maintain their monthly records. In Mexico, we are conducting a pilot where over 1,000 small coffee farmers will use CAM to document their compliance with organic certification requirements. I will also discuss some of the more recent directions I have been pursuing with my students – including building mobile tools to improve the standard of health care delivery in sub-Saharan Africa, and designing information systems linking farmers to premium markets in South Asia.
Biography:
Tapan Parikh is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Tapan’s research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), user interfaces for semi-literate users, mobile computing and information systems for microfinance, smallholder agriculture and global health. For the past eight years, Tapan has been designing, developing and deploying information systems in the rural developing world – initially in Asia, and now also in Latin America and Africa. He holds a Sc.B. degree in Molecular Modeling from Brown University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Tapan was named Technology Review magazine’s Humanitarian of the Year in 2007.
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http://tinyurl.com/esri-careers ESRI designs and develops the world’s leading geographic information system (GIS) technology. Many people are drawn to ESRI because of its outstanding technical reputation, unique culture, and the opportunity to work with smart, creative people in an open, collaborative environment. Employees at ESRI are passionate about their work because they know their opinions and innovations make a difference in our society. Our technology helps fight forest fires, determine new national boundaries during peace negotiations, find promising sites for new facilities, support optimal land-use planning, route emergency vehicles, monitor climate change, contain oil spills, and perform countless other vital tasks.
GIS is a collaboration of integrated technologies for sharing geographic knowledge. GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts. It helps us answer questions and solve problems by looking at data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared. Finally, GIS technology can be integrated into any enterprise information system framework and must constantly evolve to meet the changing needs of business, industry, government, and education. At ESRI, we are ready for these changes. (Visit http://tinyurl.com/esri-gis for more info.)
ESRI employs thousands of skilled workers who work closely with hundreds of business partners and international distributors and tens of thousands of users. Each one makes a unique contribution to this remarkable technology — each one makes a difference.
Map out your new career with ESRI today. Create an account on our careers page and tell us about yourself and the challenge you are seeking. Completing and maintaining your personal profile will give you more visibility to ESRI recruiters when they are searching for potential candidates for open positions.
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