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Let artificial intelligence handle one of the two certainties in this world
December 25, 2019

Let artificial intelligence handle one of the two certainties in this world

Taxes are one of consumers' most complex financial transactions, thanks to a tax code that is 80,000 pages long. Gang Wang explains how Intuit built the industrys only Tax Knowledge Engine, a constraint-based engine that encodes changing financial regulations and provides the foundation for a host of artificial intelligence technologies that save customers time and money.

Leveraging Open Source Projects for Open Source Management

Leveraging Open Source Projects for Open Source Management

December 25, 2019

Correct handling of Open Source in a commercial context is a challenge. Every company needs to build up and maintain their own IP process to face this challenge. A sophisticated tooling seems to be in …
Making Trusted Boot Practical on Linux

Making Trusted Boot Practical on Linux

December 25, 2019

TPMs can be used to record the state of the boot process, and that information can in turn be used to restrict access to secrets (such as disk encryption keys) in order to protect them against a compr …
Next-generation intelligent applications require cognitive design.

Next-generation intelligent applications require cognitive design.

December 25, 2019

John Whalen explores the concept of cognitive design, describing how humans structure their commands to AI systems (syntax, word usage, prosody) and how to measure human reactions to AI responses using biometrics (facial emotion recognition, heart rate, GSR). Along the way, John shares insights into how to optimally architect the customer experience.
Our Skynet moment

Our Skynet moment

December 25, 2019

Tim OReilly draws on lessons from networked platforms to show how our economy and financial markets have also become increasingly managed by algorithms, making the case that income inequality, declining upward mobility, and job losses due to technology are not inevitable; they are the result of design choices we have made in the algorithms that manage our markets.
Rebuilding Trust Through Blockchains and Open Source

Rebuilding Trust Through Blockchains and Open Source

December 25, 2019

Global confidence in institutions is in steep decline worldwide, from politics to business to schools and non-profits. Technology lets us down too, from AWS outages to surveillance teddy bears. Trust …
The AI revolutions impact on the financial services industry

The AI revolutions impact on the financial services industry

December 25, 2019

Andy Steinbach shares case studies and applications in artificial intelligence that are having an impact on financial markets.
The Linux Cryptographic API for Fun and Profit - Gilad Ben-Yossef, Arm Holdings

The Linux Cryptographic API for Fun and Profit - Gilad Ben-Yossef, Arm Holdings

December 25, 2019

The Linux kernel has a rich cryptographic API which provides access to a modular implementation of symmetric and asymmetric block ciphers, hashes and digests which are either software implemented, use …
Training Machines to be Open Source Contributors

Training Machines to be Open Source Contributors

December 25, 2019

In the Cockpit project weve done something amazing: Weve built robot contributors to an Open Source project. Cockpituous, our projects #5 contributor, is actually our automated team members. B …
Using BPF in Kubernetes

Using BPF in Kubernetes

December 25, 2019

In this talk, I will present different use cases for using BPF in a Kubernetes cluster. BPF is a Linux in-kernel virtual machine and there are different kinds of BPF programs for different subsystems …
Accelerating data-driven culture at the largest media group in Latin America with Jupyter

Accelerating data-driven culture at the largest media group in Latin America with Jupyter

December 24, 2019

JupyterHub is an important tool for research and data-driven decisions at Globo.com. Diogo Munaro Vieira and Felipe Ferreira explain how data scientists at Globo.comthe largest media group in Latin America and second largest television group in the worlduse Jupyter notebooks for data analysis and machine learning, making decisions that impact 50 million users per month.
Beautiful networks and network analytics made simpler with Jupyter

Beautiful networks and network analytics made simpler with Jupyter

December 24, 2019

Performing network analytics with NetworkX and Jupyter often results in difficult-to-examine hairballs rather than useful visualizations. Meanwhile, more flexible tools like SigmaJS have high learning curves for people new to JavaScript. Daina Bouquin and John DeBlase share a simple, flexible architecture that can help create beautiful JavaScript networks without ditching the Jupyter Notebook.
Building a notebook platform for 100,000 users

Building a notebook platform for 100,000 users

December 24, 2019

Scott Sanderson describes the architecture of the Quantopian Research Platform, a Jupyter Notebook deployment serving a community of over 100,000 users, explaining how, using standard extension mechanisms, it provides robust storage and retrieval of hundreds of gigabytes of notebooks, integrates notebooks into an existing web application, and enables sharing notebooks between users.
Building a powerful data science IDE for R, Python, and SQL using JupyterLab

Building a powerful data science IDE for R, Python, and SQL using JupyterLab

December 24, 2019

JupyterLab provides a robust foundation for building flexible computational environments. Ali Marami explains how R-Brain leveraged the JupyterLab extension architecture to build a powerful IDE for data scientists, one of the few tools in the market that evenly supports R and Python in data science and includes features such as IntelliSense, debugging, and environment and data view.
Building interactive applications and dashboards in the Jupyter Notebook (sponsored by Bloomberg)

Building interactive applications and dashboards in the Jupyter Notebook (sponsored by Bloomberg)

December 24, 2019

Romain Menegaux and Chakri Cherukuri demonstrate how to develop advanced applications and dashboards using open source projects, illustrated with examples in machine learning, finance, and neuroscience.
Managing Casual Contributors

Managing Casual Contributors

December 24, 2019

Increasingly, people want to contribute to projects casually. A number of factors have driven this change, among them distributed revision control, social coding platforms, and the general trend towar …
Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Management by Infrakit

Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Management by Infrakit

December 24, 2019

Due to the generalization of the cloud, some people today try to use multi-region and multi-cloud environment more and more. These systems have three merits: 1. to improve availability 2. to avoid clo …
Open Source Cloud Ecosystem for Next-Gen Disaggregated Datacenters

Open Source Cloud Ecosystem for Next-Gen Disaggregated Datacenters

December 24, 2019

Modern computer systems have been for long designed as monolithic blocks built around the boundaries of the motherboard. This talk looks at novel architectures for low-power and high-utilization disag …
Security Features for UBIFS

Security Features for UBIFS

December 24, 2019

In the last year UBIFS gained cryptography support by implementing the fscrypt interface. The goal of this talk is to explain what kind of protection fscrypt brings to the MTD stack and how to use it. …
Technical Writing for an International Audience

Technical Writing for an International Audience

December 24, 2019

Writing in English for an international audience does not necessarily put native English speakers in a better position–on the contrary, sometimes they tend to forget that their audience might not spe …
Ten Layers of Container Security

Ten Layers of Container Security

December 24, 2019

In this session, we'll identify the 10 most common layers in a typical container deployment, and the best ways to build security into each layer. These layers include: 1) container host: Multi-tenancy …
The inevitable merger of IQ and EQ in technology

The inevitable merger of IQ and EQ in technology

December 24, 2019

Rana el Kaliouby lays out a vision for an emotion-enabled world of technology, sharing the inner workings of a multimodal emotion sensing platform that identifies emotions through facial expressions and tone of voice. Along the way, Rana explores the broad applications and ethical implications of this technology.
The state of AI adoption

The state of AI adoption

December 24, 2019

Program chairs Ben Lorica and Roger Chen kick off the O'Reilly AI Conference in San Francisco with an overview of the current trends they have observed in the industry.
Tutorial: Hands-on with Containerized Deployment of OpenStack

Tutorial: Hands-on with Containerized Deployment of OpenStack

December 24, 2019

This lab is part lecture and part hands-on, with exercises being used to drive home concepts covered in the lecture.Hearing a lot about OpenStack and want to check it out for yourself? See how quick a …
Using Containers and Continuous Packaging to Build Native Fossology Packages

Using Containers and Continuous Packaging to Build Native Fossology Packages

December 24, 2019

During last LinuxCon, Bruno presented the continuous packaging approach used with a tool like project-builder.org to package upstream projects for hundreds of Linux distributions tuples in an automati …
Using Docker Containers to Serve Deep Learing Predictions at Booking.com

Using Docker Containers to Serve Deep Learing Predictions at Booking.com

December 24, 2019

Each day, over 1.2 million room nights are reserved on Booking.com. That gives us access to huge amount of data which we can utilise in order to provide a better experience to our customers. We under …
Using Persistent Memory to Build a High-Performance, Fully User Space File System - Krzysztof Czurylo, Intel

Using Persistent Memory to Build a High-Performance, Fully User Space File System - Krzysztof Czurylo, Intel

December 24, 2019

The pmemfile project is an attempt to provide low-overhead, high-performance implementation of a POSIX-like file APIs on top of persistent memory. The pmemfile builds on libpmemobj, a transactional ob …
Why democratizing AI matters: Computing, data, algorithms, and talent

Why democratizing AI matters: Computing, data, algorithms, and talent

December 24, 2019

Jia Li has contributed to some of the most influential datasets in the world and helped transform computer vision from an academic niche into a dominant technology. Jia explains why a democratized approach to AI ensures that the compute, data, algorithms, and talent behind these technologies reach the widest possible audience.