Adding Salt to Pepper: A Structured Security Assessment over a Humanoid Robot

The rise of connectivity, digitalization, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing our society and shaping its future development. During this technological and societal revolution, security has been persistently neglected, yet a hacked robot can act as an insider threat in organizations, industries, public spaces, and private homes. In this paper, we perform a structured security assessment of Pepper, a commercial humanoid robot. Our analysis, composed by an automated and a manual part, points out a relevant number of security flaws that can be used to take over and command the robot. Furthermore, we suggest how these issues could be fixed, thus, avoided in the future. The very final aim of this work is to push the rise of the security level of IoT products before they are sold on the public market.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, 4 table

Multifunctional crop trait ontology for breeders' data: field book, annotation, data discovery and semantic enrichment of the literature

The ‘Crop Ontology’ database we describe provides a controlled vocabulary for several economically important crops. It facilitates data integration and discovery from global databases and digital literature. This allows researchers to exploit comparative phenotypic and genotypic information of crops to elucidate functional aspects of traits

SatNOGS Website Project

The SatNOGS Website project aims to create a web interface for the SatNOGS, or Satellite Network Open Ground Stations, project. The intent of the ongoing project is to make the main SatNOGS project more accessible by creating a web-based software system that contains many of the necessary features needed to run a ground station, and do it in a way that is visually appealing and human-friendly, and to also provide an extension to the main client for control and information presentation needs. A large feature that the application will offer is displaying much of the information that the transmitter is receiving, such as where in the sky the satellite that is being observed is at, whether the ground station is currently on the network, whether it is able to receive information, and even more data on the satellite it is looking at, including possibly a picture and the raw data the satellite is transmitting. This work is being done in collaboration with the ECE Department at Valparaiso University, which is working on aspects of the physical and electronic components. This project, in addition to contributing to this international effort, also provides a laboratory for experiencing and learning the technology and processes for large-scale software system construction

Optimal Asset Allocation with Factor Models for Large Portfolios

An electronic version of the paper may be downloaded • from the SSRN website: www.SSRN.com • from the RePEc website: www.RePEc.org • from the CESifo website: Twww.CESifo-group.org/wp

LEARNING ENGLISH THROUGH AMERICAN FOLKLORE USING INTERACTIVE WEBSITE FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

The development of information technology has affected a lot of aspects in the world. One of the aspects that is influenced by the development is education aspect especially for its learning process. Learning process has transferred from offline to online using internet and computer technology. It is means that student can study and learn through website everywhere and anywhere without having to meet with their teachers. Website becomes popular learning media used by teacher to teach their students. This interactive website is a learning English website for Junior High School students. This website is available in two languages or bilingual in English and Indonesian Language. The reason why this website uses bilingual is because the target learners are in basic level. This website uses material of American Folklore for six language skills that are reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar and translation. Blogspot.com is a provider hosting and domain for this website by the domain title “English is Fun with American Folklore”. It can be accessed in the address www.englishisfunwithamericanfolklore.blogspot.com. The aim of this interactive website is as learning media for Junior High School students to improve their skills in reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar and translation. Website consists of three parts that are instruction, material and question. Instruction is the command for students about each section. The material consists of story from American Folklore in the form of text or audio or video. It is designed according to each section and lesson. Question part consists of questions for students after they study material. Questions are made in interactive type. It means that students can answer and get their grade or score directly on the website after all of questions are answered. Beside three parts above, this website is also provided with additional tools in order to help student to understand and learn material on each sections and answer questions. The tools include online dictionary, links to certain subject, links to vocabulary and meaning of the words etc

THE IMPACT OF WEBSITE DESIGN QUALITY, SERVICE QUALITY, AND ENJOYMENT ON REPURCHASE INTENTION THROUGH SATISFACTION AND TRUST (A Case of zalora.co.id)

The advance of technology creates the new business trend by using internet. Zalora.co.id is one of the e-commerce uses website and application to deliver fashion products to the customers. The quality of website and application is the key to build the trust and satisfaction to the customers. Zalora.co.id needs a strategy to maintain the service quality and enjoyment through its website and application in order to keep and increase the customer repurchase intention on zalora.co.id. This study aims to analyze the influence of factors of repurchase intention on zalora.co.id. Website design quality, service quality and enjoyment as independent variables and repurchase intention as dependent variable. This research uses satisfaction and trust as intervening variables. Sample of this research is the application users and visitors' zalora website in 2016 who had made a minimum of two purchases. The sampling method in this research is judgment sampling. The analysis technique used is Structural Equation Modeling – PLS. The results of this study show website design quality, service quality and enjoyment have positive effect on repurchase intention. The indirect influence of website design quality through satisfaction and trust has a negative effect

Time-to-build obsolescence and the technological paradox

The paper focusses on the technological paradox. To analyze the possible temporary negative eect of an innovation, we make use of a ow representation of production. Our aim is to show that such phenomenon can be justied by a simple property of the production process: in real time costs strictly come before proceeds.Moving in the same direction of Amendola (1974), we analyze the obsolescence effect induced by a rise in the interest rate. Furthermore, we analyze the role of capital market stickiness on the timing of the technological paradox and on the distribution of the obsolescence eect among the different stages of a vertical integrated production system.Technological paradox, technology adoption, time-to-build, obsolescence.