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Artificial Intelligence RMF : Generative AI Reference Profile

July 2024 This document is a cross-sectoral profile of and companion resource for the AI RMF 1.0 for Generative AI. A profile is an implementation of the AI RMF functions, categories, and subcategories for a specific setting, application, or technology – in this case, Generative AI (GAI) – based on the requirements, risk tolerance, and resources of the Framework user.

Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0)

January 2023 Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have significant potential to transform society and people’s lives… AI technologies, however, also pose risks that can negatively impact individuals, groups, organizations, communities, society, the environment, and the planet… Without proper controls, AI systems can amplify, perpetuate, or exacerbate inequitable or undesirable outcomes for individuals and communities. With proper controls, AI systems can mitigate and manage inequitable outcomes.

Alexa, Should We Trust You?

10 Octobre 2018 The voice revolution has only just begun. Today, Alexa is a humble servant. Very soon, she could be much more — a teacher, a therapist, a confidant, an informant.

Best known publications
by Najah Naffah

Design of office information systems

By Clarence Arthur Ellis

Najah Naffah

Local computer networks

Local computer networks : proceedings of the IFIP TC 6 International In-Depth Symposium on Local Computer Networks, Florence, Italy, 19-21 April, 1982

Authors – Piercarlo Ravasio, Greg Hopkins, Najah Naffah

Integrated office systems

Proceedings of the IFIP TC-6 International Workshop on Integrated Office Systems–Burotics, organized by IRIA, Versailles, France, November 6-9, 1979 
 

Office information systems

Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Office Information Systems, Couvent royal de Saint-Maximin, France, 13-15 October 1981 –

 Author  Najah Naffah  

Integrated office systems over LANs - a performance study

In this paper, an integrated office system environment is modelled and studied. Composed of multi-media workstations, printer servers, database servers, electronic mail servers etc., the office information system (OIS) is interconnected by a LAN. The performance of three selected networks namely Appletalk, Starlan and Ethernet.

Authors Nicolas Georganas, Najah Naffah

Multimedia applications

Multimedia applications and groupware (or computer-supported cooperative work — CSCW) represent the two new trends within office information systems…

Author Najah NAFFAH

Agora-An Experiment in Multimedia Message Systems

Agora, a message system was designed as part of the Kayak project… A distributed message system that allows exchange of compound documents among workstations…

Authors Najah NAFFAH, Ahmed KARMOUCH

Blockchain and AI: integration for more trusted digital world

Conference « Does The Brain Stand a Chance ? », organised by AFCEA Czech Chapter , September 28, 2021 – Prague.
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Blockchain

11 critical moments in Ethereum’s history that made it the No.2 blockchain

August 19, 2024

Nine years after Ethereum launched, Cointelegraph looks back on the critical turning points that has seen ETH become the second most popular cryptocurrency

 

Understanding Different Types of Layer 2s - by Vitalik Buterin

Octobre 2023 The Ethereum layer 2 ecosystem has been expanding rapidly over the last year. The EVM rollup ecosystem, traditionally featuring Arbitrum, Optimism and Scroll, and more recently Kakarot and Taiko, has been progressing quickly, making great strides on improving their security; the L2beat page does a good job of summarizing the state of each project

Some L2 Data Trends Post-Dencun

August 7, 2024 While Ethereum is well on its way to the “Pectra” upgrade, it just had a major upgrade this past March. Called “Dencun,” this successful upgrade included EIP-4844 and other Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs). Dencun introduced blobs — a temporary data store on consensus that made it much cheaper for second layers (L2s) to secure their ledger alongside the Ethereum main chain (L1). This lowered fees for everyone.

 

Big Data

Do you want to know what's in Big Data ?

March 5, 2024  This paper, from Allen Institute for AI (et Al), entitled WHATS IN MY BIG DATA? (WIMBD), describes a platform and a set of sixteen analyses that allow experts to reveal and compare the contents of large text corpora. WIMBD builds on two basic capabilities—count and search—at scale, which allows us to analyze more than 35 terabytes on a standard compute node.

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework

26 juin 2018 NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework – To advance progress in Big Data, the NIST Big Data Public Working Group (NBD-PWG) is working to develop consensus on important, fundamental concepts related to Big Data. The results are reported in the NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework (NBDIF) series of volumes.

Cybersecurity

NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards

August 13, 2024 NIST has released a final set of encryption tools designed to withstand the attack of a quantum computer.  These post-quantum encryption standards secure a wide range of electronic information, from confidential email messages to e-commerce transactions that propel the modern economy.

EU cybersecurity risk evaluation and scenarios for the telecommunications and electricity sectors

July 24 , 2024 EU Member States, with the support of the European Commission and ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, published the first report on the cybersecurity and resilience of Europe’s telecommunications and electricity sectors

Quantum Computing

IBM’s Big Bet on the Quantum-Centric Supercomputer

August 21, 2024

…we must continue improving both our quantum and classical infrastructure so that, combined, it’s capable of speeding up solutions for problems relevant to humanity.

CMA CGM Group and Pasqal join forces to leverage quantum technologies for maritime transport and logistics

July 9 , 2024 This strategic partnership will lead to the creation of a Quantum Center of Excellence at TANGRAM, which will be equipped with access to Pasqal’s quantum processor