I am an open source evangelist, into the talk I am going to introduce PyP, a programmable network proxy for cloud, edge and IoT. Here is the agenda for today's talk. I will be briefly explaining what is PyP and its key characteristics, then we will take a high level view of PyP architecture and design and in the end I will be sharing the links which can be used to learn more. So what is PyP? PyP is an open source, lightweight, high-performance, modular, programmable, cloud-related network stream processor and it has been used and can be used in different use cases like, you know, proxy solutions, load balancers, edge routers, API gateways, sidecars and so on and so forth. I have added the keywords which have specific meaning and I will be explaining them in the next slide. Compiled PyP executable has zero external dependency and is around 10 megabyte in size and requires a very small memory for print to run. PyP is written in C++, it leverages asynchronous networking, allocative resources are pooled and reused. PyP is versatile and has been used or can be used in multiple use cases which I will explain in the previous slide. PyP comes with its own built-in custom JavaScript engine called PyP.js and has its own garbage collection overhead and it implements a subset of ECMO standard. PyP requires a range of pluggable building blocks, also known as the filters, which can be changed together in any fashion to build a pipeline. I will be talking about pipelines and filters in the next slides. PyP is fully open source and all the source code is available on the GitHub repository. Just take a look at the architecture and design. PyP is a stream oriented where it takes streams in, process them and output the streams. PyP is event-driven in the sense that PyP streams are made of events instead of bytes. There are four types of events in PyP, the data event and three non-data are already known as the marker events over there. A stream coming along from the network is a series of data events each holding a chunk of bytes received from the receive communication there. Events are processed by a chain of filters where you can think of filters like a tiny UNIX process that varies from its input to its output, with the output of one filter connected to the input of the next. Chain of filters in PyP is known as the pipeline and there's a key concept in PyP and PyP provides four different categories of the pipeline. The port pipeline is the one which is used when you are writing a network service, which is listening at a particular port. And if you need a current job like functionality, I mean the periodic timer is there, then you will go with the timer pipeline. And if you need to process the signals which are sent to the UNIX process, then you work with the signal pipeline. And the sub-pipeline is a unique one that can only be called by the joint filter. Port, timer, and single pipelines are known as the root pipelines and they cannot be invoked by any joint filter. A PyP module is a PyPGS source file containing the PyP script that configures a set of pipeline layouts actually. As you see, the pipeline layout is actually how you compose or chain the filters together. And each module has its own context or the context is actually where you define the variables which can be used in generally and only visible internally through this module. But you can use the export and import functionality to export the variables so the other modules can see that one. Here's a look at a simple hello world example there. So what we are going to do is actually we are writing a simple PyP script that is going to listen at port 6080 and it's just going to return high there to every HTTP request no matter what PIP you use. Here we are actually using three different filters there. Decode HTTP, replace message, and encode HTTP response. On the left-hand side actually it shows the visual depiction of the messages or the events which happen inside the PyP. Don't worry actually if you need just to need to write a simple hello world like script there. So you can do that with only three lines of that one. The one in the right side actually you can see here the line four to eight on the top one side can be replaced with line four to six and the server HTTP is actually the same as doing the decoding, replacing message and encoding the HTTP response. PyP comes with AdWin Web UI that actually provides you the intelligence and syntax highlighting of the PyP scripts which you can use to develop the PyP scripts of there. On the right-hand side actually you can see the visual depiction of how the pipeline looked like. Please visit PyP website for more details or you can subscribe to the Twitter handle PyProxy or you can join our Slack channel. Thank you so much.


Hello, and welcome to the Amherst Weekly Report of February 19, 2021 from Amherst Media. I'm Faith Gregory, filling in for Claire Healey. The Resident Assistant Pure Mentor Union of UMass Amherst has issued a set of demands regarding the current COVID-19 outbreak on UMass campus. The demands include committing to full employment and safety of the UMass Amherst community, adequate safety resources, and fair consequences for students in violation of COVID-19 protocols. The Daily Hampshire Gazette reports that in addition to these demands, the union issued a no-confidence vote in Chancellor Sipaswamy because of the outbreak. The RAPM Union's full set of demands is available on their link tree at linktr.ee forward slash rapm union. The town of Amherst reports that the Massachusetts School Building Authority's Board of Directors has invited them to work together on feasibility studies around MSBA school construction projects. The Amherst Elementary School Building Committee has been monitoring the application process and will work with consultants to develop plans for the project. Amherst College will host Litfest 2021, an annual festival celebrating fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and spoken word performance from February 26th through the 28th. The event will be virtual and features writers such as Charles Yu, Megha Majumdar, and Natalie Diaz. The virtual Litfest is open to the Amherst community and the general public. Governor Baker has issued a press release announcing vaccine appointment booking for individuals ages 65 and older and for people with two or more of certain medical conditions starting on February 18th. The release also states that it could take more than a month for all eligible individuals to secure an appointment unless the federal supply significantly increases. To find out if you're eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine or to book a vaccine, go to www.mass.gov forward slash COVID vaccine. The Boston Globe reports that the site VaxFinder.mass.gov experienced significant crashes on the first day of the rollout for the next phase of vaccination efforts. This is an ongoing story. The Regional Tibetan Association of Massachusetts organized a 90 minute virtual gratitude celebration to mark the successful passing of the historic Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 and to honor Congressman Jim McGovern and Senator Marco Rubio yesterday for their bipartisan support. Congressman Jim McGovern called the passing of the bill, quote, a tremendous achievement. In thanking his Holiness the Dalai Lama for being an inspiration to the United States, Congressman McGovern expressed his commitment to, quote, redouble his efforts, unquote, and ensure that the Biden administration effectively implements both the PSA 2020 and the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act of 2018. Congressman McGovern expressed his expectations of a stronger coordination between the U.S. administration and the Congress on issues of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's reincarnation, human rights of Tibetan people, and security of Tibet's environment and water resources. Congressman McGovern called for an appointment of a high-level special coordinator for Tibetan issues and expressed his hopes for a meeting between President Biden and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The ceremony recognized the signing of the TPSA into law, marking a fresh chapter in the U.S. Tibet history, a chapter of hope, courage, and strength. A citation presented to Congressman McGovern and Senator Rubio thanked them for, quote, adding a bright chapter in the history to U.S.-Tibet relations and for renewing the hopes and aspirations of Tibetans inside and outside Tibet for freedom. This significant event was streamed live on Tibet TV, the official channel of the Central Tibetan Administration on February 16th. The recording is available on YouTube. Amherst Media was honored to have the members of the Regional Tibetan Association of Massachusetts in the studio and to play a role in hosting their event. Congratulations go out to all involved. As of February 18th, 2021, at 9.12 a.m. Eastern Time, UMass Amherst is reporting 41 positive COVID-19 cases on campus with 434 active cases and a 1.61% seven-day cumulative positivity rate. An update from Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Campus Life Brandy Hefner LeBlanc on February 17th stated that the Public Health Promotion Center is encouraged by the recent moderation in positive cases. As of recording, a decision has yet to be made about whether or not students will be able to resume face-to-face instruction. That's all for this week's episode of the Amherst Weekly Report from Amherst Media. I'm Faith Gregory, filling in for Claire Healey. We'll see you again at the same time next week.


So now we welcome in the all-time leading goal scorer in Stevenson La Crosse history He is JT Thielen and he joins us now here in the all-access post game show So you raced after the ball as soon as you scored the goal. Where is what's gonna? What's the plan for the ball? Where is it now? Where does it go? Ultimately like what's the story there? Probably gonna sign it and put it on eBay I'll probably frame it and just have it in my room Just for it's actually not quite as fun as I thought it was gonna be The moment, you know, it's not just that you scored the goal. You got to do it in spectacular fashion. Obviously, right?  What did that moment mean to you? I mean, I get it. You're still in the middle of a game You still have a lot of work to do but you know, you know how amazing the history is here at Stevenson University And for you to realize right then that you now stand alone as the greatest goal scorer in the history of the school What did that mean? I mean, it means a lot There's a lot of great players that came through here and I've played with a lot of those great guys And quite honestly, I learned from them and they did a good job teaching me when I was younger To set me up for this moment. So I got to give credit to my past teammates and past players here You got so many long distance shoutouts tonight. Yeah, we wish we could share all the two who are the Strube's That's my family in Georgia. Okay, we heard from the feelings and the Strube's Your family, I mean just alums and it was really fun. Oh, it was really fun. You got so many shoutouts Let me add about that. You get a sense from, you know You mentioned some of the guys that came before you but you know particularly how heck how good of a player Richie was here at Stevenson. Do you like have a sense for that particularly for passing him and knowing everything he accomplished? What does that mean to you? I mean, it's hard to put in words I honestly didn't know this moment was coming until someone wrote about it and I saw it on twitter I didn't know how many goals I had scored in my career here, but like again, I really have to give credit to all of my teammates because I'm not much of a dodging player and score I'm a finisher. I'm an off-ball guy and it's always my teammates that set me up for that So I couldn't have done it without the guys I've played with in the last four years. So it wasn't just me It was everybody. One of them in particular this year the way that Ethan has come along in that role Can you describe what he has meant to this team and we talked about sort of like a steadying force for what you guys are Doing offensively. Yeah, it's crazy. I don't really see many players that have like 32 assists and 32 goals And they're even pretty much every game, but yeah, he's just a quarterback out there And he's talking everybody and getting everybody in position and he's really he's really athletic And we can always count on him to make the right decision. So he's a big factor in how we've been playing this here in our success Obviously, what do you want to see from this team is you get the championship Saturday and obviously on like now We're not the worry. We're not talking about the record anymore, right? We got past it now You can just celebrate but you got more work to do clearly as a team. Oh, yeah, we got to Turn the turnovers down We got to play better transition defense for sure And we just got to finish our our shots. We we're bailing the goalies out way too much I think if we can put away a few more shots and we'll be good to go to the championship All right, now let's do this You mentioned some of the guys came before you but who do you always shout out to in your life? Standing here on this night where you broke this incredible record Who do you always shout out to that you want to make sure we get some love from you? to Well three people my parents obviously They're the reason I got to go to this school and they put me through all the programs that I went through like IMG academy and They just set me up for success and my brother Todd My brother Todd was the one who put a stick in my hand and taught me the fundamentals And to this day is in my ear every every after every game about what I need to do better And what I should have done all that stuff.  He broke the record tonight. He's still here. Yeah, he's gonna see some things Is this an older brother? Is he older? You had two sports center worthy goals tonight. He's still gonna end up saying something You know what you need guys like that Major congratulations an awesome moment and a great wing congratulations. We'll see you on saturday. Thank you so much All right, there is JT Thielen now the all-time leading goal scorer in Stevenson university history


One of the key applications of Cospaces EDU is creating 360-degree tours. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create your own virtual tour with 360-degree photos. The first thing you'll need to create your tour is of course photos. You can search for 360-degree images online or make your own photos. If you choose to get pictures online, make sure that they're labeled free of use. Images should be in a rectangular format with a 2-to-1 ratio in order to be displayed correctly. To take your own 360-degree photos, you can use a 360-degree camera or a smartphone with this feature. Once your pictures are ready, you can start creating your virtual tour. Create a new AR VR Cospace and choose 360-degree image as the type of scene. To set a new 360-degree image as your scene's environment, click on Environment and Edit. Choose the image you want your tour to start with. Has the background of your scene changed to your image? Look around as you always do in Cospaces to view your 360-degree image. Let's add all of the 360-degree images you want in your tour before going further. For each image, you'll need to create a new scene. In the left menu, click the Scene icon. This is where you'll see the overview of the scenes in your Cospace. Click New Scene and upload the next 360-degree image. Click on any existing scene to edit it. Drag and drop objects from the library into your scene and place them however you like. Use this icon to move your objects closer or further away. A nice feature for 360-degree images is the Masking tool. Every object in the library can be used as a mask. Open the Object Inspector and select Mask. A mask will cover the 3D object behind it, making it look like they are behind elements of the 360-degree photo. Let's now add code to let the viewer go through the virtual tour by switching scenes. In each scene, you'll need objects that can be clicked to go to a different scene. For example, let's place this door in front of the entrance to go to the next scene. Enable Use in co-blocks and create a new co-block script. Add a When Item is Click co-block.  In the drop-down menu, choose the scene you want to switch to. Hit Play to test navigating your virtual tour. Let's now add some information about the places in your tour using Info Panels. Add any object and make it clickable with a When Click co-block that will open an Info Panel. Type the information you want to display on your Info Panel. You can place more objects and create various interactions if you want to. Let your imagination flow to create the best virtual tour and dive into it in VR.


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This could be you right now eating healthy having some fun in the kitchen It's a no-brainer. Thank you. Hello fresh for sponsoring the video. Let's get back to it That's good stuff fantastic. Let's continue 85% of the movie trailers that come out today are all the same That's a percentage.  If you watch a trailer online They often have a teaser of the trailer you're watching a spoiler filled teaser about the two-minute thing You're going to witness on top of that You might also have a commercial depending on if you're paying for a premium subscription to YouTube or whatnot So you got commercial which could be of the trailer.  It's a nightmare It's a nightmare and then of course you have trailer reactors people that act in good faith people that act in bad faith People that I want to punch in the face because they're so phony about everything But then they also get a pass at the same time because they're hamming it up intentionally for the audience and the audience knows They're hamming it up.  Hey, we got a new trailer coming up. Let's check it out The logo comes up and they basically already came With movie trailers in the last few years one of the things we've seen a lot of in movies is Remaking films or soft rebooting films or making a sequel 45 years after the original So we have to bring back the original score But we don't just play the original score like Ghostbusters or Jurassic Park or Star Wars. No, we do a modified slower Orchestrative version is orchestrative a word. I made it one if it's not orchestral. It's orchestral an orchestral version And they hold that note And then Owen's there with his hand. It's always the hand. Whoa Hey, whoa, talk to the hand Raptors I don't have enough wantons in here Melissa McCarthy Ghost Busterette And then in comes 8,000 year old Harrison Ford with the cane If it's a Sony property everything is just black covered in black ooze comes down Then there's chrome lettering all over the place for the titles.  They're constantly fading to black slowly with a bass drop If the movie is prominently featuring black people or even I guess if there's black people in it at all rap music every Time rap music. I can just see the executives. All right What do we got here black panther? What do we got here spider-man into the spider-verse? What do we got here another movie with a person that's not white rap music creed three trailer I am the greatest. Uh, you cannot tame me and the newest obnoxious trend I've seen recently which was in Fast and the Furious It's been in the shazam trailers. It's all over the place They take a semi popular song and they beat the refrain into the ground You will hear the refrain 60 times in the span of two and a half minutes Are you ready for it? Are you ready for it? Well, this looks like good job for me Shazam starts punching people. Well, this looks like good job for me. He's picking up a bus Well, this looks like good job for me. He's taking a shit Well, this looks like good job for me Oftentimes if you want a good idea of the beginning middle and end of a film the whole structure the whole play out Just watch the second or third movie trailer that's released They almost always go in chronological order through the flick showing sequences from each portion You can bet your bottom dollar that the ending of the trailer is going to be a shot very late in the film That's almost always the case and this isn't so much a problem with movie trailers as it is with the movie industry as a whole When I go to the theater There's very little perks for me anymore Oftentimes i'm sitting in a room that's either too cold or too hot I'll be in the room with chairs that are half functioning where I might drop backwards There's shit all over the ground. The people are annoying. The bathroom stalls are broken I can't even use a urinal.  The food is stale. It's overpriced I gotta be at home With air conditioning with with a nice 70 degree temp inside or whatever. I feel as comfortable in the moment Blackout shades nice and dark huge tv food at my disposal. That's fresh So what perks am I getting anymore at the theater? Oh movie trailers. That used to be fun in the 90s When I didn't have access to the internet and could see them all 35 times before the trailer even hits the theaters This is a major problem I've been to a few movies in the last week and I've seen the same five or six movie trailers every single time There should be exclusive trailer releases for theaters Give people a reason to go out there. Honestly I'm not cheating you Going to movies back in the day if I missed the previews. I had a major chip on my shoulder. I was like pissed Movie trailers was half of the fun for me And marvel figured this out. They picked up on this. That's why they put movie trailers at the end of all their films They're like, yeah, we know ant man three sucked But look look what's on the look what's bubbling on the surface It's a new movie coming out and here's another one at the way end credits They got it figured out. They put trailers in their own movies So we don't even get the perks of going to the theater to watch these previews Even to go off of that Sometimes the movie trailer is the older one the internet's already put out trailer two or three And the movie preview at the theaters. There's still way back on the teaser Oh, cool. I see indy dusting off his hat and a close-up of the whip Bitch, I just watched him on a fake horse with a fake head running around on railroad tracks I want to see that Bottom line movie trailers are a disaster up and down Whether it's a clout chasing influencer who spoils a movie seven months before it hits the big screen Because he dissected the trailer or he had someone on the inside give him information And then he threw it out there so that he'd get all these subscribers his way Or whether it's a movie that releases too much in the trailer or the preview is way too long and exhausting I don't have any desire to see it. That's nefarious 35 has like a four minute trailer Are you kidding me? The movie shouldn't even be four minutes long at this point Or you're just burnt out seeing the same old ones when you go to the movies There's a lot of things that need to be cleaned up. Let's have a little bit more creativity again with these previews Let's not just reuse the same generic songs and slow motion shots and fades to black over and over We can have more fun with it and get more creative. This is you showing audiences. We're thinking outside the bun We're doing things different than our competition This isn't another generic venom This isn't another mcu movie. We're having fun with this thing. Well, whatever if it ain't broke why fix it, right? Well, maybe you should risk it Maybe you should risk it. Well, those are my thoughts on movie trailers now in 2023 I'd love to hear from you. Did I miss anything that really bothers you about previews? Let me know in the comments. Thank you again to our sponsor. Sheila. Do we have another cutaway segment we have to do? No, okay. Well Show yourself out then. 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Coming to you from our GIS Studios, I am Anisia Antoine and this is your Mayday News Brief. Efforts by the government of St. Lucia to reposition the town of Soufraire continue to unfold with the official opening of the old Trafford complex complete with a farmer's market and bus terminal. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Development, Housing, Urban Renewal, Transport and Civil Aviation, Claudia Simmanuel expressed gratitude to the government of the people of the Republic of China, Taiwan for their continued commitment to the socio-economic development of St. Lucia. He explained that the objective of the project is to create a facility that will allow improved vending of produce and a central bus terminal for bus drivers applying the Soufraire route. Parliamentary representative for Soufraire Honourable Herod Stanislas explained that this was only the beginning as there are more phases to come on stream. The opening ceremony was held on Thursday, August 15th, 2019. National delegations from 21 Caribbean countries including St. Lucia have converged in Trinidad and Tobago for Carifesta 14 to showcase and market their cultural and creative talents. The festival has evolved and transformed over its 46-year history and is expected to generate greater value for key stakeholders like artists, cultural entrepreneurs, host and sending governments and the Caricom Secretariat. A major highlight of the festival is the Carifesta 14 Grand Market at the Grand Stan Queens Park, Savannah where festival goers can shop dine and lime. The St. Lucia contingent has also been had at rehearsals for the production entitled A Little Folk Tale which is written by Monico Geist and Jesse Meyers. A Little Folk Tale will be staged at Queens Hall in Port of Spain on Friday, August 23rd. The Oath of Given Togo has partnered with the St Lucia Blind Welfare Association and Body Holiday Resorts to raise funds to purchase a vital piece of equipment capable of diagnosing cataracts at an early stage to prevent vision loss. The group paid a courtesy call to the SLBWA office on Friday, August 9th to get a better appreciation of the work being done by the SLBWA on behalf of the blind and visually impaired persons in St. Lucia. This has been your media news brief. Thank you for watching.


What an amazing group of people to be joining. It's like a swingers party for data sexuals.  I've got some visuals. Hopefully they were kind of That a sea that was behind me, but ultimately I my story is more about What I learned and what it was mean what it meant to be connected to so many different things As you can tell I've spent a lot of time in the news recently I'm not someone who's used to being in the news or on television or in magazines My family liked it but for me it was terrifying because this privacy We all worried about suddenly was very real for me and I learned it wasn't about privacy. It was about security I've been called a lot of things The BBC Guardian other organizations have called me the world's most connected human which is better than a year ago when I was the world's most surveilled person Just recently in Times Square someone was listening to me speak and he texted his daughter and his daughter said Oh my god, you know Chris Dancy. He's like a robot from the future And I thought wow if a if a college person thinks you're like a robot from the future You might be doing something right at least they'll treat you well when you're old But for me it was really about deciding in 2008. What it would be like to never go offline What would it be like to constantly be in the internet and to be the internet? Being the internet is a lot of work Because you got to understand a bunch of things about your life Some of them are related to your health some of them are related to Your identity because so much of what we do is online with our social networks some of it's related to Just the nuances you don't even consider every time you swipe a credit card. You're talking to the internet For me sorry if can we go back a couple slides because we're not syncing here guys Thanks Perfect one more This is what you get for hanging out upstairs with the AV guys they get to mess with you for me It was about working with my physician my doctor his name Doctor, I'll just say dr. Will he knew a lot about me, but he wasn't ever spending any time with me and I thought this was kind of telling Dr. Alfred would come in spend a few seconds with me and then leave So I started making notes every time I saw him and when I'd go back in I'd look up and say Hey, you know a few months ago. I was chatting with you and you said this or two years ago You said this he goes, how do you know that? I'm like you've got charts. I'm just looking at my phone in the notes I took by 2010 I was going on to WebMD and searching for all the diseases. I was developing in real time I'm one of those people that look up the side effects of the medication as I'm taking it so I can develop them in real time I Have palpitations just speaking to the pharmacist And then in 2011 I took all of my medical records and I had them scanned and something the mechanical Turk and had them typed out Had all my lab results for 20 years put in spreadsheets bring a pivot chart to your doctor and he'll fire you It's real It's unfortunate, but it's real and then you know Google has these great think-of flu trends. I also got into things like off The worried well so the worried well is this community that literally spends all their time online talking about the things They might end up with It's better than Real Housewives of Atlanta And they share the symptoms they're developing and what their friends think and then you find other crowd-sourced sites And then you've got all these people now wearing wearable technology Which is even more and picing because wearable technology allows you to put all these things on your body and for them forget about your body So just like your phone lets you put everyone you've ever known in your phone and then forget they existed and your address and how to drive Wearables that you put everything on your body and forget about your body You know and that's really profound the way that we've outsourced our ability to be aware of our bodies to these wearable devices And if you notice that the newer Walgreens look a lot like a genius bar There's more hardware and software and then in lab tests and doctors and Technology in a Walgreens and there aren't an Apple store. So healthcare is completely online and probably most Importantly the one thing I wanted to understand was fundamentally at a genetic level was there's something I could change about my own life By understanding my own information. So and that next had to go and study my identity How many of you remember I dream of Jeannie? I'm 47 and I look damn good But I dream of Jeannie she hated going to her bottle But once she got in there she was completely comfortable and if you think about our mobile devices are a lot like Jeannie's bottle We know we shouldn't look but just get in there and then we're like, oh, I'm in my bottle. It's you know major Nelson It's okay. I'll be out in an hour But what is it about our devices and our identity that is so linked together? So I went through and I looked at all the different systems hundreds and hundreds of systems and map them from my devices To the information that gave me about myself and learned this is impossible to find who I am I Then started taking photos and seeing how much information I could compress in a single photo without doing a lot of work So in 2011 I took my first Instagram photo that had a bunch of information laid in it the weather the songs I was interested to but you can see last month in Vienna. I was from pressing a lot of information It's like the atomic weight of that one photo is really heavy, but people loved it It's because they could get everything in one small size bite. It's basically a photo tweet But one of the most profound things I took away from putting myself completely online was perspective you know Nintendo said at best everything not saved will be lost and When you went to pull out that cartridge this is a Japanese tsunami stone. They built it over 600 years ago But they built on top of it because there hadn't been tsunamis in 600 years So we don't need the information anymore and well they got a tsunami and found the stone and said we should have saved this You see some things when it comes to being digital require long-term thinking the oldest Cave writings are 30,000 years old stone tablets 2,000 years old books papyrus 2,500 years old we only have 1% of that but that's a remarkable amount of information Because if you think about the technology we're using today Floppy's if you can find a floppy drive only last about 15 years and the average web page has changed every 100 days 100 days that information has changed so the information we're creating digitally isn't lasting And if you think about the services we're using as they get acquired we talked about some of the acquisitions earlier They get more and more expensive, but the interesting thing is the information gets more and more temporary If you can create a service whose information actually dissolves in front of you you will make billions of dollars Right because we only care about what we can't keep a lot of my friends are posting photos online And then they're posting their activity Literally they are having to prove they exist Because there's no record of it past that moment In some ways, we're dissolving right in front of our own eyes. We're the first Time in human history. We're creating information that won't last Even if you want it to I'm not the world's most connected person. I'm the world's most documented So what does that mean for us? Well, it means understanding that if you're kind of find anything important about your life You might want to start thinking about how you live it digitally because you don't want to end up like the Ark of the Covenant Ultimately, it's privilege. I Spent ten thousand dollars last year on devices to adorn myself with I Spent twenty thousand dollars putting things all over my home so I could keep track of everything in it But the amazing thing about this thirty thousand dollars It wasn't for the devices it was for the premium services to buy me back You can own a Fitbit that's in a hundred bucks, but the data service for the premium is a hundred dollars more So every time you buy a little trinket from Apple Remember there's tens of thousands of dollars worth of information. They'll sell back to you in the future So how did I do this? Why does it mind my life to fall into three categories soft data anything? I can construct about myself. Yeah, I'm doing great. Look at this picture of me in some fancy location Hard data my heart's beating really fast. I didn't sleep well. I'm thirsty. I'm hungry Can't lie about some of those things sensors will know this room is cold in certain areas. It's really bright right here It's really not probably over there and then core data genetics I Then took that information and created a low friction data collection routine to take ten areas of my life everything from health Entertainment anything I listen to all the music they've been playing and it's getting recorded on my phone And pump all that information into a system seamlessly in the background I then used a Google calendar to show me my life in real time so I can Google my life at any point flat files Spreadsheets and deep learning engine from Stanford to understand where the information was going and what it could possibly mean And I learned some really important things about my life The first thing is something that Douglas Rushkoff said he said when the only value left in life is a time everything becomes a clock Well, your life is really full of information And you're actually really blessed, but you just can't see it You can't see all the things you're involved with you can document the hell out of them But you'll never see them So if you could see it, what could you learn? But it's not just in Documentation because if you notice we're losing time on A lot of social media to have throwback Friday or flashback Thursday, you know all these memes If we're forgetting the day of the week and the year we have a bigger problem than dissolving information The new iPhone takes a photo, but it's got three different ways to Change the time on the photo you can speed it up slow it down or make a video or a panorama What is it with time? Why are we so obsessed with this? E-cigarettes are amazing if you're a smoker, but they don't end if you want e-cigarettes to be hit make them last seven minutes People don't smoke for nicotine. They smoke for time We're living in the relentless now.  Always busy hurts so much. You just want to stop People say do you ever take a digital detoxification if you have enough money to go to an island without internet? You've got too much money not too much information So this information is interesting because it can be seen in two different ways people turn it into something ugly and people turn It into something kind For me, I often thought oh, I'm not sleeping well There must be something wrong with me, but as soon as I had enough information. I understood. It's not me I'm waking up when there's noise in the room. I'm waking up when there's light in the room I wasn't broken. The world was and I needed to see that needed to understand that Even my driving habits and this feedback doesn't have to be judgmental or negative for me It was very very profound and positive. I lost 120 pounds So what I did was I took three years worth of information and I said days that are over 3500 calories have these people place things music Behavior and days that are under 3300 calories have these people places things behavior So I'm going to come 200 calories different now make my house act like those days That are 200 calories difference make the lights the temperature send me messages hide email from people literally remove everything and Guide me toward a world that adapts to make me a better me That's what why your information is worth so much money Because it's yours. It can get you better But this this this is a very very dangerous knowledge because people They're not machines, but in every situation we're given a choice.  So you've got mail You know, that was a great relationship about two people who met online over email And then we've got you know, maybe a decade or so later Joaquin Phoenix and her and that was a relationship that met in his ear and then talked to him He fell in love with her and she was having a polyamorous relationship with everyone out Sorry to ruin it for you, but if you think about relationships on our devices and online today Well, this iPhone will tell you everything if you text someone there's seven different ways to send them information about you or avoid them That's not communicating. That's hiding Why do we need seven ways to talk to someone in a text message if we weren't worried about not talking to someone? And I love some of these any moment that I don't have a notification on Twitter or Facebook is a failure Someone tweeted that I thought I've got to say that there's little dots It was a thing in the New York Times about people having this apnea.  I don't know why we call automation We should just call it what it is human avoidance systems And why do we want to avoid humans It's real simple grocery scores scanners atm's gas pumps. They're consistently average humans inconsistently delightful Consistently average beats inconsistently delightful every time because it acts like the internet This guy on Tinder for a profile photo just has his bank balance I mean if you're gonna be a formation own it right when so we said this is a data sexual conference This guy a seven-year-old pause in the middle of a sentence thinking what to say hold on dad He's buffering Take away here is you you become what you bend into If you bend into it you become it. It's really simple paradigm in life. Then finally the on aided mind is overrated How many of you've been in a car where three people have a GPS running simultaneously so they can weaponize the directions That's not driver. I mean you want to if you want to get rid of distracted driving get rid of cars I mean there's nothing you can do anymore So perspective is really the power that we're gonna get from all this information a lot of these apps will start to give you some level perspective some of my favorites are time hop You know activity trackers people love these activity trackers and wristbands, but in essence They're just showing people who they are it's the first app that showed them themselves I love tiny Buddha. It sends me text messages throughout the day that says that say nice things It's like I'd rather tiny have tiny Buddha contact me didn't have any friends, but because it says slow down but The takeaway here is that resilience is really the act of perpetual perfection So what could you do with your information that have it fed back to you constantly or be available so you felt kind and calm? Implications of this are pretty groundbreaking Right now most people are focusing on social mobile analytical analytical and cloud to me I'm focusing on sensors environment algorithms and mesh if it can't operate outside the internet like my body stays online Even if my phones go offline. All right, so I'm an inner net All right advertisers can't get to me people can't get to me.  You would do it if you could Algorithms help you understand information get them to you more effectively and of course sensors answer all the questions that you think It's about things that are wrong with you that there's nothing wrong with you And it's not a phone that takes pictures. It's a camera that makes calls And what's about to happen with Apple and Google's gonna change a lot of things they both announced platforms for our home and our bodies Everyone who updated to the new iOS has health kit on their phone tracking all of their behavior Google has Google fit. So what does it mean now that we've moved computers onto our bodies into our homes? You know, it's the website for this event has this line on it says everyone will have a personal algorithm in the future All right, and I thought oh gosh someone's really thinking because in reality what we're talking about is not big brother, but big mother Because with the right information it's not surveillance It's kind and it's yours and it's always available. You should be your own Wikipedia But you're not Then last week jawbone push this update When you're sleeping now, it'll automatically adjust the temperature So you sleep better it'll talk to your thermostat you just became the interface for the house But it's gonna get creepier. I think I'm not real sure how people are gonna deal with this, but when they announced the iPhone They said there's three things we're announcing today touch screen iPod or revolutionary new phone and an amazing new way to browse the internet And we know they weren't three products It was one and when they announced the watch she said it's a fitness tracker It's an intimate new way to communicate you can actually send your heartbeat to someone you love Hey, do you feel me can you imagine someone you haven't sent me your heartbeat in an hour? Sorry. We've been cuddling. I couldn't I thought you could feel it Send it to me now Yes, it's really funny Within five years no one's gonna be buying apps that could be buying habits and environments It's real simple everything. I'm talking about is literally in the past and everything that's going to happen is already Somebody's already working on a billion dollar company to do it See it's not about the internet of things. It's about the personification of things We want to see the internet in everything and we want to be the internet everywhere we go We don't want to connect to it. We want to bring it here. Oh, and which is this panel thought it's really important to me But we need to stop solving our human problems with technology and we need to start solving our technology problems with our humanity Thank you


26 students from around the world got the opportunity to ask an astronaut on the International Space Station, or ISS, a question of their choosing. Eight of those students were from the Caribbean, while two were from our very own island. The event is part of the Hurricane Hunters pilot program. Its purpose is to encourage Caribbean schools students to learn more about hurricanes in an innovative way. The pilot program is designed by the disaster fighters, a regional communications platform meant to improve disaster preparedness and build resilience. All the children involved got the opportunity to learn about hurricane research and monitoring. An added benefit was getting that education from an astronaut's perspective. St. Joseph's convent, Dana Fontenall, awaits her turn to ask a question to NASA astronaut Josh Casada. Then the moment of truth. Dana from St. Lucia, do you study and measure climate change from space over? We take photography from the Coppola, like we were talking about, and we can see the effects of climate change from time to time, depending on where we're looking and what we're looking for. But primarily we have instruments that are mounted on the outside of the space station that are used to collect data on the planet itself, whether that be surface temperature or atmospheric content. And that helps us give information back to the researchers and the scientists to help us understand where we are, where we're headed, and what we can do about it. Over. For the transmission to space, Dana revealed where the idea for the question came from. I came up with that question because we had a previous talk with Hurricane Hunters and they spoke about climate change in relation to the Earth. And I was just wondering if there's any way to track climate change over the years through a extraterrestrial perspective. So that would be without being actually on the Earth, but being above the Earth, would you be able to observe, track or measure any detail that would indicate that climate change is happening here on Earth? Now, it was St. Mary's turn. Men and I are from St. Lucia. What are the impacts of space, hurricanes and desert effectors here on Earth? Over. These hurricanes are a little different than the hurricanes we're familiar with on Earth. You know, the hurricanes on Earth are based on water and rain and pressure differences and even the rotation of the Earth. The space hurricanes tend to come from energetic electrons that are coming from the sun and then they collide with oxygen and nitrogen in our atmosphere. And that's what makes those beautiful colors, the greens and the blues of the aurora. And that's actually some really, really neat quantum mechanics that makes that happen. And sometimes, very rarely, but sometimes the magnetic field of the Earth is such that it actually makes a swirl of that aurora and makes it look like a hurricane. But the good news is that there's no threat there. It does sometimes maybe affect our satellites a little bit, but I haven't seen space hurricane yet, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for sure. Over. In St. Lucia, the event was facilitated by the World Bank and the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project, or DVRP. I think I was nervous during because my leg was shaking and my fingers trying to calm myself down. But while asking the actual question, I didn't feel really nervous. I just felt comfortable and it was an amazing opportunity to actually get the astronaut there because I know it was a very short period of time, nine minutes where he was able to get transmission to answer our questions. And I'm lucky that I was an earlier person on the list that he was actually able to answer my question. So I just feel like it's an amazing opportunity. And now I can say I spoke to an astronaut who was actually in space. I also learned several other things based on the different questions persons asked from the way the space station measures, whether to the different forms of instruments they use to actually discover and communicate with different things and check out other planets as well. The ISS is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating agencies from around the world. Part of the ISS' mission is to examine the possibilities of living in space for months at a time while still orbiting relatively close to the Earth. All who received such a prestigious opportunity should be proud. This is Jack Hingson Compton from the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project.


Welcome Give your talk short talk about how open is open power Because yeah, the world is more interesting when there is not only one computer architecture I am Tanwrak working in the multi-arch team at redhead our primary goal is to keep ideally all Or keep or achieve party with between all architectures for all products we support or provide and definitely one of the important ones is upstream project for this for the enterprise distribution Which is federal that's my primary job. I take care about IBM architectures power and and mainframe and the goal of this talk is to at least show a bit about how open a high performance architecture could be because there are some changes in the past months or years and Things are more interesting I would say compared to the previous state So here is a picture That's some of these scribes and shows the history of the power power PC architectures, so as you can see it's pretty complicated There was a branch where The server side hardware was developed. It's a power base Power line. There is also the power PC line That was more oriented towards the embedded system or consumer systems and there were lots of Barges diverges and stuff like that At the end It now ends with the power I saw a 3.0 architecture, which is Here at the end, which is the latest one As you can see a really complex story So there were some attempts to improve that first was starting the power.org organization, which 2004 it was really some some way how to interact more Organizations to join the development and start cooperating, but it was nothing Really open sense. It was still Some private organization for its members things change a lot with the introduction of the open power foundation that started in 2013 with IPN, Google and video. I'm not of style and maybe some other companies and They started This organization really to promote the power architecture across more businesses more work clothes and also I think one of the ideas was to cooperate on the Business that IBM got to build the supercomputers for the US government Big changed. Well during the years definitely more and more organization joins Also individuals can join. So really there are now I think 300 organizations and definitely about 50 individuals that joined the foundation What happened last year it was really Other major steps. It was yeah on the organizational side. It was joining The Linux Foundation to really better cooperate with the whole Linux ecosystem It was administrative part and technical part was opening architecture itself to the Community so anyone can now take The instruction set and do their own implementation without worrying about any Buttons and stuff like that so yeah, really it was I would say anticipated by some of the members through some remorse in the previous months and I Believe that it's a logical step out Such architecture can be developed more and by more open Yeah, in this sense Now we need more to some details boards on the hardware side the Designs are not open, but it's foundation Provides some reference designs Like the members of the foundation can use them improve them change them modify them for their purposes so that's Not open, but if you are a customer of Raptor computing systems company that's offers the towels and black bear systems You will get the full schematics at least for for the whole system, which is And if it was Andy in the early days so where it's ever some bucks in the documentation so it was easy way out to check whether Now it's in the documentation really correspond what's in the schematics and also it's useful when there are some damage on the board and you Can find what components should be on the place that are missing and it's possible to repair the hardware other open piece in the Raptor computing system designs is the PGA that's used for power sequencing Yes as a power supplies or how the power supply is Providing the power to the system. It's controlled by PGA. It's Small fpga, but it's the source code for the best team is available and also the ball. It's using PGA that's Programmed using the fully open chain So anyone interested in hardware design. There is one example and With that there if you buy Open power system, you will get to two computers. So one is used for the management part Usually it's using some 32-bit iron system and then you get the real power base system so both of these Computers need some firmware so for the management called BMC it's think mostly using Open BMC project, but also there are some open power based hardware designs That are using some proprietary BMC so really Can combine what they think is the best Also, there is a project called banked BMC Which is not a replacement for open BMC, but it provides sufficient functionality to bring up against the Raptor based systems with the working state and on the other side with Enterprise IBM hardware. They don't use the BMC now what I think they are planning to switch to Using something like BMC with the newer generations Yeah, so now we will come to the FinVentor for the main power computer. There is some schema some boxes items that describes the steps for the initialization of the main system, not only the CPU, but the whole system and As we will see on the next slide all of that is available on GitHub. So it really starts with with Power on action Which is initiated by the BMC, but then it jumps to to the main power CPU Which is Yeah, not only the CPU itself that you then use for running your operating systems and applications But it also contains a bunch of smaller embedded controllers and So FinVentor for all of them is all open and developed Partially, I think internally at IBM, but It's all on GitHub and it accepts Contributions from the community. So first after powering on there is a so-called self-booting engine, which is one of the small support Controllers, it runs through some steps. I think it's primary task is to initialize single core Once it's this part is done, it starts another piece of hardware Of the FinVentor, which is called hostboot. It initializes all the cores, the memory So more pieces on the systems are working now. At the end, hostboot starts or loads another piece of FinVentor, which is providing the runtime services that's also the initialization of PCI express of system and it loads Linux mini distribution that serve as the Last piece of the firmware contains the bootloader and then you can load your operating system So all of that, as I mentioned, is all on GitHub. So it's possible to inspect, build yourself and modify and so on. So there are some of the Components listed I mentioned sboot, skiboot is the runtime services layer Petitboot is the bootloader. It's Kexec based. So yeah, it's booting from Linux to some other Linux or some other system based or Sparkle. So, you know, this mini distribution called skiboot OCC is one of the small Controllers on the big chip. This one starts for thermal management Frequencies scaling and stuff like that. OpiBuild is Project that contains all of that and the way how you will build your own image of the film It would be nice if all the vendors that are building the open power-based systems would use Or would merge their own branches or into the GitHub upstream It's slowly happening for the Raptor-based systems. So other companies or some other are already doing that themselves same with some other ones It's, I would say, more difficult to get And they are changes to the upstream but in general you have all that have a level And naturally If you want an open system, it would be nice to have some open operating system or distribution So definitely, but I hope so little distros. So the SDs are there and when it should be Really usable distribution, it would be nice if it Would be very minimal delta to some mainstream or other architectures like like the X86 so for Fedora, I did some comparison and We are now missing only 600 something binary RTMs out of almost 100,000 binary RPMs, which means that we are over 99% complete compared to 266 and Definitely Some important part of the missing stuff is really architectural specific. So it makes no sense to Have it available, but it's difficult to figure out just by comparing the RPM repositories Now Microvolt it's an interesting topic that Relates closely to opening the whole architecture in August last year. It's Softcore that's written in VIGL. It implements subset of the instruction set It cannot do a floating point yet vector instructions Also, it's missing the supervisor state. So you cannot run latest kernel, but it's all in some stages of development so We can forward to some future improvements It can be Simulated using the JDL Toolchain or synthesized for PJs as a synthesization part used to be or for Depends on what PJs you would use for Xilin so it's our relies on on the propriety propriety tools But for some of the latest PJs since I think Tuesday it's possible to use Completely open to chain from the source code to the FPGA bit stream. It's the last thing On the slides that's so announces this change So yeah again available on the top gets the contributions from from various members in the community. Yeah, so time for some short demo so It's recorded. So I'm doing it now. So you check out from from it up sources and If you have the HDL chain available It will now Compile it into the simulated model At the end there is a binary that's gonna run some Let's say there were images What's available with With the sources is for example, micro biting. I'm using here and the pre-built one because first it's fresh enough and also the cross compiler to change that we have in federalize Doesn't have on the C library. So it's not possible to build build the micro bite in binary because it relies on some C library stuff. So it's in fact, it's much easier to develop on these things on power-based machine with Federa 4 and then power architecture where you are just using It's a native to chain and it works out of the box. So because it's just the user stays part and With some switches like this tabling Full point and vector instructions. You just use a regular GCC and yeah, it seems work Yeah, so we are some yeah, they were running so it can compute brains and health and Yeah, with the latest development or recent development on the Micro bite inside. I don't see you to do or as that. So when pressing control D Restarts so CPU and Because in memory that's so it's the micro bite and it's a restart the micropart Restart part I think end of the simulated them all and because Supported in PGA boards. It's a silence one. So I do use The proprietary to change but See and Yeah, it's like them on ours So it's running the soft core in the PGA it's much faster than the simulation So it and there are some other pieces that IBM under the open power foundation umbrella opened and it's the open copy interface, which is Yeah, it's the open go around Accelerator processor interface. So it's a high-speed or and buzz primarily used for attaching various accelerators GPU-based ones. So it's used in the super computers to speed up Computation, but also cannot touch various PGA solutions cards so this so lose interface and Based on the open copy interface and raise a new development and really new method how you can attach memory to You Open-memory interface. Oh, am I which will switch from the traditional parallel memory bus? serial based one and it will use with under in the lower layer the open copy interface There are some previous versions of the of the copy current interface and Yeah, it's a copy to it's using PC express for the physical and clean player again use It's used for attaching accelerators and again on the top. There is a repository with some Yeah, source code. How can bario's PGA cards be attached to services through this interface. So really There is lots of open in the open power world So What's next when we are? Taking part on various conferences IBM and open power foundation is always asking the bigger community What to do next what else would be interesting for the community to be opened? So whether it should be some real course some verification or development tools Maybe Thanks to some development on the open power on the open side There might be some open power based laptop in maybe five years. Maybe Defense whether there will be someone who will be interested in that and would see some business in that so either is anyone who would like something to be open because something from some Economical reasons would like to inspect. Yeah, how something is being done. Please talk to IBM open power foundation and let them know they are really interested in all this feedback because It makes no sense to just dump some Tons of the ideal code Implementing something if no one would be interested in doing it with visit. So yeah, really It's useful to have some reason why it should be Do something more with this really do follow some development on that part not just Here it is So From my side some brief overview and it's time for questions and for us So Oh, it's a different architecture. So Having heterogeneous environment is useful in general because it allows to discover bugs in software projects So that are not visible in some other architectures with some examples of that really Finding some real bugs in the real applications that just because of some Good luck. We're crashing on for example Intel and Yeah, it's also really high performance architecture, especially with all these Covrent Interfaces allows to share the memory Something to at least to explore Google has some yeah internal development Or internal systems, so I don't think you can satisfy them but They even made them to design so also publicly available on the top some barrel. I desire server sets, I think all on the top including Cinematics is there even the mechanical drawings Sorry Oh Yeah, it's this it's possible to contact for example Because there are some various the question is but there is Possibility to get some open power or power based virtual machine for doing some development work. Yes It's it's possible. They are open power hubs Across various Locations one is here in Brno, and you ask Yeah, the team get so it's our virtual machine or even a physical machine and regarding There is also some idea having some hardware based or more hardware focused Let where what it was vendors would put the hardware and Allowing the community to do some development testing debugging for example not only on the crazy power hardware, but like Need some drivers


Hey everybody, we're back. This is Dave Vellante. I'm with, and this is theCUBE, where we go out to the events, we extract the signal from the noise, and we bring you the best guests that we can find. I'm here with my co-host, Jeff Frick. Craig McDonough is here. He's the director of product marketing for service now. Craig, welcome to theCUBE. How much? So, great event for you guys. You have this thing called the innovation of the year of award winners. It's a big award that you guys give every year. Tell us more about innovation of the year. What's that all about? Yeah, innovation of the year is an opportunity to showcase some of the great work that our customers do on the service now platform. And every year, we invite people to send us their artwork. It's kind of like when the kids come home with the artwork and you stick it on the fridge. This is our version of the artwork on the fridge. The kids, or in this case, the customers, come in, they show us what they've presented, what they've created, and nine times out of 10, these are real business applications that have been built to solve real business problems. And solving problems that aren't solved by any other technology out there, and they've sat down and just by themselves created these unbelievable applications from scratch. So, how do you guys judge the winner? So that's an interesting process.  We had about 45 entries, and when you got 45, completely separate, completely different applications, and you're going through them, it's really hard to pick winners. And so what we ended up doing was a very scientific method. Fred and I printed out all of the screenshots that we were given, laid them all out on the floor, and literally crawled around on our hands and knees, looking at the screenshots and holding them up when we saw good ones that we thought would tell a good story. So you sort of narrowed them down? Very scientific, yeah. So kind of a top 10 or something? We narrowed them down to a top five, and then in the keynote presentation this morning, we presented those five to the audience, and we asked them to, just using a text poll, similar to American Idol, asked them to text in their favorite, and we got our winner. So tell us, who won? The winner for the Innovation of the Year Award for 2013 was Target. Okay, great. Who's that Target cruising around last night? Yeah, it's great. I mean Target is, again, it's like Walmart, a lot of these companies that people don't think of as technology companies, really under the covers, are a lot more of a technology company than anyone realizes. So what was their app? So they'd built an application to allow their service management professionals to be able to handle walk-up appointments and to be able to actually get mobile. So instead of sitting in a call center somewhere, these guys are wandering around the enterprise, helping people out as they're encountering problems, and they're doing it all with a mobile application. People can set up appointments, engineers can enter in the work that they're doing in like an iPad, using an iPad device or a laptop, and it was all presented in this beautiful user interface, which I think probably went a long way to why they did so well. Yeah, beautiful works and words like that. So what are some of the other cool apps that you saw, ones that you sort of had a hard time going out? Yeah, I mean look, there were some great ones. We had companies that had built entire CIO dashboard, dashboarding systems to give their CIOs visibility into what was happening in IT, like you would never have before. I mean, I'm sure you've spoken to a lot of people this week that have talked about IT being kind of the cobbler's children, and they're usually trying to do their job with a collection of technology. Bringing all of that together into a consolidated dashboard is what the folks at Equinex did, and they were one of, they actually weren't even a finalist this year, but they were definitely an honorable mention. The other finalists that we had this year were MetroPCS, we also had GE, Asset Management, Sephora, and Tickets.com, and every single one of those companies has created an application that really solves a business, a business problem they were having, and they've had a real measurable impact on their business. Now what's interesting is you've got this really active community going on, right? You've got people contributing these apps. We visited the Hackathon yesterday. That was cool. You know, they're working away. It begs the question, are they sharing this amongst themselves? Is there an app store? It's got to be an app store on the horizon. I know you guys can't talk about it. It's got to be both for company-built apps, because a lot of people are building little businesses on the ecosystem that you guys are creating, but also these internal guys, who are kind of internal service now champions building neat things that I'm sure other people would like to leverage. So how's that working in this community? Well, actually in the latest release of ServiceNow, the Calibri release, which was announced on Monday, we introduced some new capability for exactly that purpose. That helps their customers when they create an application like this, to be able to package it up so that they can take it and share it with other customers. I think that the idea of an app store is probably complete with the commerce and the validation and those sort of things. That's probably a little way off, but certainly the idea of a community where people can exchange ideas and exchange applications with one another, we'd love to see that happening. Funny, we had Derek Roston from E-Protects yesterday and a few of those guys, and he was making us laugh.  And then he did it a couple of times. So there was clearly an interest amongst customers in terms of collaborating on that type of thing. Yeah, most definitely. We had, I think it was last year in the Innovation of the Year Awards, Verisign showed off an amazing data center power and space management application they built. In service now, and after that event, we had a couple of other large customers. I think it was Google and I can't remember who the other customer was, but two very large customers came to us and said, can you put us in contact with those guys because we want to talk to them about how they did it and see if there's a way that we can use that as well. Because these are real business problems that people face. And in a lot of cases, there isn't a packaged application that solves the problem. Right, right, and yeah, so the opportunity for, let's say collaboration, who knows, maybe even a marketplace at some point in time. What surprises you about how customers are using service now? You know, I've tried to stop being surprised because I think everything surprises me quite frankly.  You know, we have customers come up with works that they did at the hackathon. It surprises isn't a strong enough word. It absolutely blows me and pretty much every other service now employee that sees it, they just get blown away. Because it really, even Fred, you know, when we were going through these innovations, Fred was like leafing through the pages just completely blown away with what customers have done with service now. It's incredibly inspirational to us. All of the work that these guys did around the innovations and the hackathon is absolutely going to go viral within the developer team at service now. They're going to be looking through this thing and learning and just being inspired. It's incredible to be inspired by customers. It's awesome because there's all these things. You constantly read about how do you get innovation out of big companies? How do you teach innovation? How do you teach creativity? Is it even possible? But what it sounds like is with this tool that you guys have created, you are really kind of unlocking this pent up creativity and ingenuity and imagination in a group of people who here to four we're chasing down trouble tickets and answering calls and some of you've automated enough the processes that they can now free up their brain to think of higher value problems and have a tool they can actually go out and execute against it. Well, and not only that, it's a tool that they can then take this to the rest of the business and say, we understand HR department, you've got some issues as well. We can help you with that. Facilities department, we can help you with that. And they're actually automating processes beyond the walls of IT. Which is, yeah, I mean Carolyn was here from Linux. She said, she's not going out there but they're coming over to her place tapping her on the shoulder. Can you come do one of those for us? Yeah, we hear that story all the time. It's actually, it's surprisingly common. And it's again, incredibly inspirational. That's great. So we're talking to a lot of customers this week and I ask them, it's amazing the consistency that you hear, they're really enthusiastic. Well, first of all, why do you think they're so enthusiastic? Let's start there. I mean, it's kind of an obvious question but I want to hear your answer. I don't know if it is an obvious question. I think they're so enthusiastic because these, in most cases, these are IT professionals. And if you think in most organizations the IT professional is kind of the downtrodden person within many organizations. I mean, the CIO in many cases is the most replaced executive in an executive team. People, the IT departments generally and historically have had bad reputations. Not through any fault of their own but just because they really haven't had the tools to manage the service that they provide to the business. People don't like IT. The business people don't like IT. Well, it really is the no, right? It is, it's the department of no. Right, and I think it's not just a marketing slogan. I think we honestly are able to take people, we give them a tool that they can use within IT just to lift themselves out of that and they can then take that same tool and use it to actually promote themselves to the business and solve real business problems for the business. I think the reason why people get so excited about service now is because it's taken them from being that downtrodden, despised part of the business and turned them into heroes in their own organizations. Yeah, you guys use that term IT heroes a lot. Yeah. Now, the other thing is, so I've talked to a lot of customers this week and just asking them, why do you love it so much? And they basically say what you just said. I mean, it's really helping us solve our problem. It's making us much more respected within our organization. It's making our clients happy. And it's facing IT people, they're client driven.  They care a lot about them. This problem is that just the planes are backing up for the quest. So they want to do a good job and now you're giving them the tools to do that. But so the second question I asked them is, okay, well, what's on service now is to do list. What aren't you happy with? What could they do to make your life even better? And I get blank stares. I've asked that question dozens of times this week. And I get answers like, well, we're really happy. Or, well, we're kind of just still absorbing all the great stuff. I've not found somebody to say, okay, I need this, this, this, and this. Now, maybe before the iPad, maybe somebody says, I want Android support or something like that. Okay, fine, great. But there's got to be something. So what's on your to-do list from a product marketing standpoint? It's where do we go next? You know, I think we need to, one thing that we're going to be very definite about is that our focus is on the IT organization. So what you're not going to see us doing next is starting to go out to other units within the business. We're not going to go out to the sales organization and say, hey, you should use service now for automating your sales process. We're not going to go out to HR and say you should do stuff there. Help, I work to A, but it's not going to happen. Yeah, that's not what we'll do. But what we will do is say to our IT customers, here's a tool that you can use to maybe front end some of your typical HR request processes. I think the next big growth area for service now is going to be on the platform side. It's, you know, the platform enables the IT professionals to not only take the applications that we provide out of the box and customize them so that they're doing exactly what they need them to do, but it also gives them the ability to automate processes for which there isn't an application in the IT world. And then thirdly, they can take those applications and offer them to the rest of the business. So I think there's probably a lot that we can do around the platform piece to help strengthen that, to help, to help, quite frankly, make people more aware of the goal that they already have in their hands. Excellent. All right, Craig, well listen, thanks very much for coming by and sharing the Innovation Award winners. Congratulations on that process and on a great conference and having so much success. I really appreciate it. Great, thanks very much. All right, keep it right there, everybody. We'll be back with our next guest. We're going to start the customer segment. We've got Maritz coming on and a number of other customers, so keep it right there, but right back, this is theCUBE. We're live. Knowledge.