Week 3 - 24.04--30.04.2017 Augmented reality and architecture

As TED presentation was not enough (mea culpa) I also want to present an article related with the Holy Grail of mobile augmented reality. It is a flexible and comfortable usage of AR in outdoor solutions: http://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:8ee2f813-3d3e-4fc5-8a1c-0a4596a4292b/datastream/OBJ/view

Currently the main problem of this technology is related with the usage of it. AR can help us in many different segments of our life, it can improve our productivity, ensure safety, minimize mistakes that we are doing during our work but all of this need a lot of special hardware and that is making everything much more complicated.

1. How do you see outdoor usage of AR ?
2. What it need to be usable for everyone ?
3. Do you see any places for improvements thanks to AR in your life ?

Week 3 - 24.04--30.04.2017 Augmented reality in sport

I want to present a TED talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgMOJC5R4F8

Former NFL players presents his vision how sport can evolve with help of augmented reality. It presents conflict between basic concept of sport and technology in sport. Should we take this route ? There is a big group of people that do not want to put any technological upgrades to the discipline, for example in soccer we still have no option for referee to check the replay. This conflict is true and it is related with big amount of money in background. Let us discuss about this.

1. what do you think about making players "better" using technology ?
2. do you think that this is a good idea ?
3. where is the limit of technology in sport like football

Week 3 - 24.04--30.04.2017 Hyperloop Alpha

Article: http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-20130812.pdf
I encourage you to read the whole, the article is divisible by the creator in two parts, the first written in easy language, the second part more scientific. This article presents the concept of a hyperloop.

1. Do you think the solution could be an alternative to air travel?
2. Do you see threats to this solution? Eg tectonic motions or other?
3. Have you seen similar projects? Please describe them briefly.

To be honest, I have many doubts. But let's talk about it.

Week 3 - 24.04--30.04.2017 IoT…

Hello everyone,

This week we have a lot of topics. I found an interesting speech on ted.com. The speech is "The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn". Then I noticed that this topic was discussed before :-(

So I found a short article about the Internet of Things (LINK)

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as an integral part of Internet, also defined as a global network infrastructure and dynamic composed of a large number of objects, able to communicate and interact with each other and with users.

There are many problems in the security of the Internet. There are things which need to be solved such as network transmission security, privacy protection, information processing security. New protocols will be needed to ensure communications with devices for IoT. in  the following areas such as health e.g. remote patient monitoring or controlling of the elderly and smart cities  distributed pollution monitoring, intelligent lighting systems and many others...

IoT Challenges:  World Scientific News 41 2016 article “Study: Protocols and Challenging Issues in IoT” (p. 98 -106) (If someone wants something longer for spring evenings J)

Security:  Increased digitization and automation creates new security threat.

Enterprise: Security issues could pose safety risks.

Consumer Privacy:  Potential of privacy contravention.

Data: Lots of data will be generated, both for big data and personal data.

Storage Management: The cost-effective data should be identified by the industries.

Server Technologies:  The investments should be increased.

1. IoT – a chance or threat? What is your opinion?

2. IoT - is it another revolution? What will be later?

3. Could you give us the most interesting example of IoT devices? Or can anyone give some artificial example in this field?

Regards

Wiesław Maleszewski

Week 3 - 24.04--30.04.2017 Do schools kill creativity?

Hello everyone,


I would like to present you a TED talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity

Creativity expert Ken Robinson challenges the way we are educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. Why don't we get the best out of people? Ken Robinson argues that it's because we have been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies - far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity - are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences.

Questions are:
1. What do you think about his arguments? Do you agree?
2. How does this relate to your own experience at school or university?
3. Are there any other changes to education you would make if you could?

Week 2 - 03.04 - 09.04.2017 Network Security and Types of Attacks in Network

Network Security and Types of Attacks in Network

The computer network technology is developing rapidly, and the development of internet technology is more quickly, people more aware of the importance of the network security. Network security is main issue of computing because many types of attacks are increasing day by day. In mobile ad-hoc network the nodes are independent. Protecting computer and network security are critical issues. The malicious nodes create a problem in the network. This malicious nodes acts as selfishness, It can use the resources of other nodes and preserve the resources of its own. After analyzing and quantifying the network information security elements confidentiality, integrity and availability, this paper describes the network security confidentiality vector, network security integrity vector and network security availability vector; also we present some major type of attacks in MANET.

Questions:

1. What do you think about network security? It is important or not?

2. What type of attacks mensioned in article do you meet in your real life?

3. What do you do to protect your home network? 

Link:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050915006353

Week 2 - 03.04 - 09.04.2017 ROBOT SURGEONS ARE THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE

ROBOT SURGEONS ARE THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE

As we know robots replace humans in many industries. Factories do not need to hire people to perform many tasks. Thus, companies are saving a lot of money and committing errors is less likely. It is not difficult to guess that robots will replace humans in successive areas. Recently there was many articles about self driving cars because of which hundreds of thousands of people will lose their’s jobs.

I want to introduce to you subject, which for me is a little frightening vision of the near future. Below I present a few articles and a video on robots performing surgeries instead of human surgeons. 

It seems to be obvious that this will become the norm. Robots can use a variety of knowledge resources saved on drive, which surgeons must train for years, and each new person must learn from scratch. Real person is struggling with stress, the weaknesses of the human body and fatigue. Usage of robots seems to be very reasonable - they do not get tired, do not have emotions, perform a sequence of operations with great precision. 

On the other hand, what will they do when there will be unexpected complications? What happens when the robot is jammed or is broken during the surgery? What happens when the precision of a robot fails? Vision of being at the mercy of the robot for me carries a plurality questions that needs a clarification.

Questions:

1. What do you think about replacing human surgeons by robots?
2. Would you agree to carry out your surgery by a robot?
3. Do you think that robots will be able to completely replace humans in medicine?
4. Is such solution ethical?

Links:

http://www.livescience.com/58274-robot-assists-tricky-cochlear-implant-surgery.html

http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/robotics/medical-robots/autonomous-robot-surgeon-bests-human-surgeons-in-world-first

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/309998.php

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/12/health/robot-surgeon-bowel-operation/

Week 2 - 03.04 - 09.04.2017 Homo Technologicus: Threat or Opportunity?

Few days ago I have read an article about Elon Musk's new Neuralink project, which is going to create technology that allows people to communicate with computers without any external interface [1]. It reminded me of one controversial scientist, Kevin Warwick [2], who is so passionate about integration of human and technology, that he tried few experiments on himself. I would like to present his article 'Homo Technologicus: Threat or Opportunity?' [3] about current and potential use of technology inside human body and some thoughts about it.

What do you think about integrating technology into human body?
What are the pros and cons of direct human-machine interaction?
Do you think, that there is a limit, behind which it might be dangerous to humanity?

Links
[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/article/elon-musk-neuralink
[2] http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2010/09/19/Professor-s-self-experiments-in-cybernetics-have-provoked-debate-in-the-field/stories/201009190195?pgpageversion=pgevoke
[3] http://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/1/3/199/htm