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    Living by Algorithm: Smart Surveillance and the Society of Control

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    Foucault’s disciplinary society and his notion of panopticism are often invoked in discussions regarding electronic surveillance. Against this use of Foucault, I argue that contemporary trends in surveillance technology abstract human bodies from their territorial settings, separating them into a series of discrete flows through what Deleuze will term, the surveillant assemblage. The surveillant assemblage and its product, the socially sorted body, aim less at molding, punishing and controlling the body and more at triggering events of in- and ex-clusion from life opportunities. The meaning of the body as monitored by latest generation vision technologies formed from machine only surveillance has been transformed. Such a body is no longer disciplinary in the Foucauldian sense. It is a virtual/flesh interface broken into discrete data flows whose comparison and breakage generate bodies as both legible and eligible (or illegible)

    HIL: designing an exokernel for the data center

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    We propose a new Exokernel-like layer to allow mutually untrusting physically deployed services to efficiently share the resources of a data center. We believe that such a layer offers not only efficiency gains, but may also enable new economic models, new applications, and new security-sensitive uses. A prototype (currently in active use) demonstrates that the proposed layer is viable, and can support a variety of existing provisioning tools and use cases.Partial support for this work was provided by the MassTech Collaborative Research Matching Grant Program, National Science Foundation awards 1347525 and 1149232 as well as the several commercial partners of the Massachusetts Open Cloud who may be found at http://www.massopencloud.or

    Information Services Major Objectives, 2014-2015

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    Milner Library Master Plan

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    A compilation of all research and design efforts of the Planning Team: Bailey Edward and consultants Pfeiffer Partners, The Sextant Group, IMEG Corp., and Hitchcock Design Group, the Illinois State University Milner Library Master Plan aligns Milner Library to Illinois State University’s vision to Educate, Connect, and Elevate. To achieve this goal, it was essential to establish a Milner Library Master Plan vision which would drive the design concept development and prioritize all strategic planning for execution.https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/mlp/1001/thumbnail.jp

    A Framework for Supporting Organizational Transition Processes Towards Sustainable Energy Systems

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    abstract: Economic development over the last century has driven a tripling of the world's population, a twenty-fold increase in fossil fuel consumption, and a tripling of traditional biomass consumption. The associated broad income and wealth inequities are retaining over 2 billion people in poverty. Adding to this, fossil fuel combustion is impacting the environment across spatial and temporal scales and the cost of energy is outpacing all other variable costs for most industries. With 60% of world energy delivered in 2008 consumed by the commercial and industrial sector, the fragmented and disparate energy-related decision making within organizations are largely responsible for the inefficient and impacting use of energy resources. The global transition towards sustainable development will require the collective efforts of national, regional, and local governments, institutions, the private sector, and a well-informed public. The leadership role in this transition could be provided by private and public sector organizations, by way of sustainability-oriented organizations, cultures, and infrastructure. The diversity in literature exemplifies the developing nature of sustainability science, with most sustainability assessment approaches and frameworks lacking transformational characteristics, tending to focus on analytical methods. In general, some shortfalls in sustainability assessment processes include lack of: * thorough stakeholder participation in systems and stakeholder mapping, * participatory envisioning of future sustainable states, * normative aggregation of results to provide an overall measure of sustainability, and * influence within strategic decision-making processes. Specific to energy sustainability assessments, while some authors aggregate results to provide overall sustainability scores, assessments have focused solely on energy supply scenarios, while including the deficits discussed above. This paper presents a framework for supporting organizational transition processes towards sustainable energy systems, using systems and stakeholder mapping, participatory envisioning, and sustainability assessment to prepare the development of transition strategies towards realizing long-term energy sustainability. The energy system at Arizona State University's Tempe campus (ASU) in 2008 was used as a baseline to evaluate the sustainability of the current system. From interviews and participatory workshops, energy system stakeholders provided information to map the current system and measure its performance. Utilizing operationalized principles of energy sustainability, stakeholders envisioned a future sustainable state of the energy system, and then developed strategies to begin transition of the current system to its potential future sustainable state. Key findings include stakeholders recognizing that the current energy system is unsustainable as measured against principles of energy sustainability and an envisioned future sustainable state of the energy system. Also, insufficient governmental stakeholder engagement upstream within the current system could lead to added risk as regulations affect energy supply. Energy demand behavior and consumption patterns are insufficiently understood by current stakeholders, limiting participation and accountability from consumers. In conclusion, although this research study focused on the Tempe campus, ASU could apply this process to other campuses thereby improving overall ASU energy system sustainability. Expanding stakeholder engagement upstream within the energy system and better understanding energy consumption behavior can also improve long-term energy sustainability. Finally, benchmarking ASU's performance against its peer universities could expand the current climate commitment of participants to broader sustainability goals.Dissertation/ThesisPh.D. Sustainability 201

    Gerenciamento de FrequĂȘncia Escolar Usando VisĂŁo Computacional e Redes Neurais Convolucionais

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    ABSTRACTMonitoring students in the classroom plays a key role in the academicfollow-up. In addition to attendance control, it also allowsstudying the impact of absences on learning. In this context, thispaper presents the development of a school attendance managementsystem using computer vision techniques and convolutionalneural networks. A camera captures images from the classroom.The system then detects the faces of the people in the image, andrecognizes students using pre-trained convolutional neural networkmodels. The frequency data generated is stored in the systemdatabase and accessed through a web page. In addition, a mobileapp has been developed to notify student attendance. The initialresults show that the system identifies the registered students andnotifies the mobile device of responsible

    Points of Exchange:Spatial Strategies for the Transition Towards Sustainable Urban Mobilities

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    Understanding Collaboration A Journey through the Public Process of Architecture

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    Architecture is a discipline that has the ability to affect change within the built environment. The built environment is a setting that affects and influ¬ences everyday life. The process of creating architecture is about having discourse to discover possibilities. If the built environment is part of people’s everyday life and the process of creating architecture is about discourse, can the people affected by the built environment be part of the discourse in creating architecture? Existing methods in the discipline of planning look at the role of public par¬ticipation to involve affected individuals and communities in a conversa¬tion. Architecture of similar field, explores the built environment at a smaller scale. This project will look at the process of creating architecture through the methods of public participation

    Vision to Action: Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation Annual Report 2012

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    This annual report includes a message from the President, examples of grantmaking activities, the Foundation's mission and principles, grant application information, and financial statements

    Enabling Large-Scale Testing of IaaS Cloud Platforms on the Grid'5000 Testbed

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    International audienceAlmost ten years after its premises, the Grid'5000 platform has become one of the most complete testbeds for designing or evaluating large-scale distributed systems. Initially dedicated to the study of High Performance Computing, the infrastructure has evolved to address wider concerns related to Desktop Computing, the Internet of Services and more recently the Cloud Computing paradigm. In this paper, we present the latest mechanisms we designed to enable the automated deployment of the major open-source IaaS cloudkits (i.e., Nimbus, OpenNebula, CloudStack, and OpenStack) on Grid'5000. Providing automatic, isolated and reproducible deployments of cloud environments lets end-users study and compare each solution or simply leverage one of them to perform higher-level cloud experiments (such as investigating Map/Reduce frameworks or applications)
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