So Marcia, I have his presentation.
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Want me to send it to you?
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He just didn't see CU on it.
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orientation.
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So I do have it so I will forward that to you ASAP.
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All right.
Welcome to master class for November 2nd.
Woohoo.
I will go ahead and get started with Michael Montanari.
I will turn it over to you.
OK, let me see if I can share my screen.
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We had not think that would work the first time I tried it.
Alright, so my master class is on AI and quantum compete
computing.
Bear with me.
So artificial intelligence is the theory, and the development
of computer systems with the goal of allowing them to perform
tasks that normally require human level intelligence.
These tasks to include things like speech recognition, visual
perception, language translation, even decision
making.
But the idea is that a computer program that can instantly
access a library of information from around the whole world can
use that knowledge to help humans solve complex problems
and greatly advance mankind's ability to utilize technology
that already exists.
And even create new technology that might be cleaner, more
powerful, or more efficient than what we currently have.
So AI working hand in hand with humans can greatly speed up
problem solving at least once.
We figure it all the problems with them.
So AI can assist humans by accelerating research and
development by helping to quickly identify patterns and
insights, and from large datasets.
And it can help by automating repetitive tasks and that'll
free up more time for the human element to focus on more
creative or innovative tasks.
AI can also be helpful to improve the decision making and
provide insights from large datasets that will be more
accurate and relevant to any issues at hand.
Hey I can even help increase creativity by generating new
ideas and designs or by finding solutions to complex problems
and the amount of data that I could draw on once it can
function at a higher level would allow the possible development
of personalized medicine and fleets of self driving cars.
So everyone knows that Tesla is already producing models of cars
and trucks that can guide themselves fairly well.
But they're still kind of lacking in complexity and
problem solving ability.
Once we have better perfected AI, they can be they can provide
us with driven vehicles.
In the future, they'll be able to react to accidents and real
time avoiding crashes that a driver who was even mildly
distracted by like their kids in the back seat, spilled some
coffee, got a message even if they didn't check it on their
phones, that could easily distract the driver and cause
them to miss vital information that would have them be part of
the accident.
So a I might even be able to predict traffic patterns and
accidents by monitoring the traffic around and actions have
drivers in the cars as they're in traffic.
Let me know if I'm going too fast.
I get excited.
Can everyone hear me?
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So we can.
Yes, yes, we can hear you.
No.
Not all that was for nothing for a minute there.
OK so.
Quantum Computing is an entirely different way of processing
data.
It uses the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that
would be far too complex for the computers that most of us are
familiar with.
Quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, that are more
advanced version of the bits used in most computers.
Today, they can encode far more data than standard bits, and it
gives them the ability to perform far more complex company
calculations than any supercomputer.
Even supercomputers in modern times can fail to perform
complex calculations because the high number of variables can be
overwhelming to them.
Quantum physics are how the world operates, though, so
computer that uses the laws of quantum mechanics can offer
humanity the best tools to study and understand our planet.
And they can handle the large numbers of variables much better
and can perform the calculations exponentially faster than any
computer in existence currently.
OK, I has already has become very popular as one of the most
useful inventions in the past decade, and even in the fairly
rudimentary form that it currently exists in, it's at
least available to the public.
With quantum computing, it'll be possible to develop machine
learning algorithms to advance our AI capabilities drastically
compared to what they are now.
And it'll also boost predictive analytics and and business
intelligence.
Classical computers are limited in how far we can push them in
terms of performance, but quantum computers will be so far
above that level that it'll likely take us years to find
their limits, let alone reach them.
Companies like Microsoft, Google and IBM and other tech giants
are all racing to develop these technologies.
And nations such as China, the Netherlands in the UK are all
devoting themselves to developing quantum computers.
The nation or company that gets them first will have a massive
advantage over their neighbors.
So we have two technologies being developed almost on a
parallel course and that are slowly drawing closer each other
the closer they get, the faster this process will occur until we
have a combination of the two, each will be able to help
further develop the other until we reach a point where we have
intelligent artificial assistance similar to Jarvis in
the Iron Man movies.
And these artificial assistance will be capable of giving of
being given vague direction of what the user wants.
And then being capable of computing how this would happen,
any flaws in the plan and possible ways to solve those
problems, and then presenting the plan to the user, the future
looks like we will see technology start to explode in
advancements and I'm really excited about it.
Thank you.
I hope you enjoyed this lecture.
Thank you, Michael.
You're very welcome.
Anybody have any questions for Michael?
Yes, if you have questions, please hesitate to ask.
I am introverted and nervous so.
I like that.
That's funny.
Alright, Craig, you're up.
OK.
OK, give me one second.
I'll start my share my screen.
Alright here by see my screen.
Yes, we can.
All right.
So today I'm gonna be going over the understanding of phishing
and exporting humans for cyber crime.
So first, let's talk about the different types of phishing, as
there are many different types of phishing attacks.
But today, I'm going to focus on probably like the main four
types of fishing.
So we have phishing, phishing, whaling and spear fishing.
Fishing is the practice of sending fraudulent communication
that appears to come from a legitimate and reputable source,
usually through email and text, whereas vishing involves more
fraudulent voice messages or calls, welling is a common form
of spearfishing that targets the top level business executives
and the head of government agencies.
Whereas spearfishing is more of a targeted, personalized attack
aimed at has specific individual OK, I think I my slides on auto
so it's moving in fast that I would like to makes you like
that.
Anyway, fishing fishing is one of the most common social
engineering techniques and involves sending a deceptive
email messages or website that appears to be from a trusted
source, such as a bank, social media platform or a well known
company.
The goal of fishing is usually to trick the recipient of the
email into providing sensitive information such as login
credentials, credit card numbers, or personal
information.
In this picture here we actually have a real phishing attempt
that came from a school.
The staff member received this email and was unsure if it was
email or not.
Luckily, there was able to get in contact with their local IT
staff and prove that the email was a fake.
But as you can see it is a generic email where it just
trying to get the user to send over a large sum of money.
So personal information out there do not get released and
you could tell that this is official temp due to just nobody
was addressed.
Any email, no signature was left and how it is a huge bloated
message saying ASAP.
This is not be annoying if I can't fix that.
Is that so?
Yeah.
During this whole uh pension, the tip of those just trying to
scare the user into thinking that this is the email they need
to send money.
Otherwise, their personal contact will be released to the
public.
Uh.
Next, fish at the damages that fish can cause the business.
Successful phishing attacks can affect the business in numerous
ways, including loss of money loss, intellectual property,
damage to the reputation and disruption of operational
activities.
These effects work together to cause a loss of company value,
sometimes irreparable repercussions.
Facial attempts can be spotted by either checking for spelling
errors, checking if the email address is valid.
In this picture we have a just a generic, efficient and tempt
email where somebody was trying to personate, uh, a company's
boss just to get them to send over a urgent request of money.
That well, in this case, Amazon Gift card, and you can tell this
is efficient attempt just by incorrect incorrect email
address.
The amount of urgency sent in the email?
No greeting multiple spelling and grammar errors and no
signature.
The next type of fashion we talk this discussing is Vishing
vision is the type of cyber crime that involves defrauded
people over the phone.
It is short for voice phishing and efficient technical
attackers use social engineering tactics to convince the victim
to provide personal information.
Detective goals are typically to access financial accounts.
Attackers often use a pretext to misrepresent their authority or
position in order to trick the victim into compliance.
And uh least that's are all from uh.
Keep netlab so going these real quick because I found these
really really interesting.
So over 50 and 9.4 million people in the US fell victim to
fishing and 2021.
This is alarming.
Number underscores the increasing threat of voice
phishing in the country.
Americans lost 29.8 billion USD to the fishing in 2021, A 49.7
increase from the 19.7 billion USD and 2020 diverse laws per
individual was 502 USD.
Yeah, 2021 up 43% from 2020.
The pandemic has affected our health and paved way for
scammers.
Approximately 59% of Americans receive scam calls related to
COVID-19 and 2021.
They rise from 44% in 2020 youngsters, particularly those
aged 18 through 44, are more susceptible to phishing attacks.
Interestingly enough, man seems to be more vulnerable with 59.4%
of vision victims and 2021 being male missing attempts can be
tricky to spot as the person people behind the mission to
help usually try to scare the person on the phone by using a
sense of urgency.
A good tip to spot a vision attempt is to verify the callers
identity.
Next, we'll discuss Wheeling.
Wheeling is a type of spearfishing Attack Attack
directed at a high level executive where attackers
masquerade as legitimate, known, trusted entities and encourage
the victim to share a highly sensitive information or to send
a wire transfer of to a fraudulent account.
The goal, aware of inflation, is to convince victims to transfer
at large sum of money to the attacker.
Still confidential company data gain access to networks that can
yield much larger ill gotten gains.
Next we'll go over spearfishing.
Spearfishing is a type of fishing campaign that targets a
specific person or group and often will include information
known to be an interest to the target, such as current events
or financial documents.
The goal of spearfishing is to acquire sensitive information
such as username, passwords and other personal information, and
how to be efficient works is through.
Active usually identifies the target user.
This can't happen over social media platforms such as
Instagram or more popular LinkedIn.
And after they identified they target, they will send a
legitimate look at email to the target.
The target will only open the email containing the virus, and
then the hacker will be able to gain access and still the
company's data.
Uh.
Next we'll go over real world example of vision.
So this attack recently actually just happened.
This is the attack on The MGM resort in Las Vegas, though The
MGM resort is a hotel slash casino that is located in Las
Vegas.
That was a victim of vision and ransomware attack that happened
September this year, so the attacker happened by to a social
engineering attempt that allow the threat actor to Burrow into
The MGM environment and establish a foothold due to
common mistakes of passive reuse.
Additional information was collected from a high value user
LinkedIn profile and where their goal was to Duke the help desk
to resetting the users multi factor identity authentication
in order to gain access into the accounts.
So the hackers was able to get access into the company's Okita
account, which is Okita is more like a uh.
Another version of a single sign on, so you label just one
password into your zero environment and it get access to
all your cloud applications that you might use for the company
and by the time the MGM's incident response team
discovered the threat, actors, the damage was already done and
there was forced to terminate Okina platform.
However, the attack wasn't done there as another group of
hackers was called in and installed Ranch Boyer onto The
MGM servers and for the full extent of what uh systems
compromised was, data was leaked and that is still unknown how
much data got leaked and the game industry.
David Kozak's says that MGM resource is losing much as $8.4
million in revenue every day until the until the servers are
back up and running and fixed.
Also, another cause of the problem that the servers were
encrypted by the 3rd active is that would hosted thousands of
their VMS where it was hurting hundreds of system wide.
Why we used in the industry this caused chaos for not only the
employees but also the guest staying at the hotel as
application runners on the Freedom crashed hotel room, keys
no longer work.
Then a reservation systems were down.
The point of sales systems were unable to take payment and
guests was unable to check in or out of the hotel.
So little analysis of what happened, the attack on The MGM
resort was a result of ransomware attack.
The attack was made possible by a vision attempt on the help
desk and privilege escalation.
The tag, called system outages, operational disruption, data
breach and the tech calls to MGM Resort over $100 million,
including 10 million in a one time consultant cleanup fee.
Our next we'll look at an example of whaling.
For those who like to use Snapchat, this also happened.
Uh, not as recently as The MGM resort, but this happened back
in 2016, where a Snapchat had a threat actor pretending to be a
high level executive.
And this high level executive requested HRS members to send
out the payroll of current and former employees weekly.
Snapchat.
Incident Response Team was on the case and there was able to
stop the uh.
Minimize the result.
They didn't stop it, but they did minimize it and they handed
this case over to the FBI and afterwards they had to provide
all current and former members of their work of office.
Two years of protection.
The next one is to take quick on how to defend against phishing
attacks.
Uh, just be cautious when isolated.
Request or for sensitive information, verify the identity
of anybody requesting the sensitive information.
Be where you understand it or suspicious communications.
Educate yourself and your organization about vision,
tactics and red flags.
You strong and unique passwords as well as multi factor
authentication.
Keep your software and system up to date to prevent exploitation
of technical vulnerabilities.
Ultimately, awareness, skepticism, and vigilance are
key to defending against social engineering tech attacks.
I took a Claude.
All players should receive training on how to spot
different types of efficient attempts.
Anyone can be a victim of efficient attack.
This should tasks can take advantage of the low, brightest
link.
Uh weakest link, his cyber security which is humans.
Efficient attacks can result in loss of memory, loss of money,
credibility and service outages.
If successful, any questions?
No questions.
Good job.
Thank you.
My company last last year in September I was was victim of
ransomware and they sent a link out and multiple different
employees clicked on it and and I work in a a huge call center
all over the world and stopped us for about 6 weeks.
Hmm.
It was.
It was back.
It was.
It was a big attack.
So scary. Scary.
Yeah.
We we do fishing tests and emails from both the client and
Give.
from our company constantly trying to make sure that people
know what the difference is, right testing so.
Yeah, yeah.
Could fish items seems so simple but they could cause a lot of
damage to the company.
Absolutely.
Thank you for that, Craig.
OK, so it looks like I have two.
The one that you sent me, Landon.
And then I have one more.
Let's see which one.
I'm gonna go ahead and share Landry's.
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OK, let me know if you can hear this going to focus on
understanding autonomous vehicle, how would the process
Yes.
really soft though, right?
That's how he talks.
Perception and OK, let me start it over localization and mapping
in autonomous vehicle prediction and assessment of risk and road
security measures and Emergency Management, real time adaptation
and learning.
And I think and regulation consideration.
And they standing atomosphere comes safe driving vehicle
vehicle capable of navigating and occurring.
We found the main intervention this vehicle use a combination
of sensor such as camera rather GPS advanced control system
often integrate with artificial intelligence algorithms to
perceive the surrounding and make decision based on them.
Self driving vehicle are becoming more popular.
Disney understanding this role of fairly it's very important
since sufficient is a critical process in autonomous vehicle
that involve integrating data from multiple sensors.
You have to create a comprehensive and accurate
representation of this vehicle surrounding.
AIB sensor technique help the vehicle generally real time
understanding is environment.
Data processing is important in AI, which include data cleaning
which involve assuring the integrity of leader.
Set good quality, thereby identify missing data.
I have yet to generate reliable and accurate sensor reading.
There are also must be normalized to of all repetition
of data.
Scaling have also to avoid bias in data that could impact the
accuracy of the fusion process.
There are also must be good quality help to verify the
accuracy and reliability of sensor data, including error
detection, error correction and validation check to assure that
only high quality dealer is used for fusion process.
Error analysis is helped to implement or correction
technique to minimize accuracy and a shoulder to diminish later
accuracy represent the real world and vironment.
Exception in the standing of the vehicle environment.
Yeah, I am going unable automated vehicle so recognize
and enterprise value settlement of the environment including
other vehicle, pedestrian or traffic sign, advanced
computing, computer vision and deep learning technique are
used.
So the deck, classify and track object, allowing the vehicle to
make informed decision based on in perception of the
environment, object detection and classification.
If he could can recognize object on the road AI based computer
vision accurate is used to detect and classify values
object near the vehicle with me, others they called pedestrian
and this 10 different type of object structure.
But Destrehan agorism and based on deep learning make is
possible to detect pedestrian or cyclist to guarantee the safety
of Rd user, predict the movement and adjust vehicle driving
behaviour accordingly.
Localization and mapping in autonomous vehicles localization
and mapping are essential component of autonomous vehicle
system and I'm playing vehicle and to navigate and operate
accurately in complex and dynamic environment.
They allow autonomous vehicle to determine the position, create
detail map on the environment, the integration of data from
various sensors such as GPS.
I have to accumulate determine the position and orientation of
the vehicle in relation.
Please surrounding.
Yeah, based 3D reconstruction.
This technique use that data from diff camera to create
detail and accurately their representation, allowing the
vehicle to navigate interact with an environment location of
difficult environments such as the tunnel or arial probed by
GPS.
I have my ping capability in various environmental condition.
Mission assessment of risk on the road.
Predicting and assessing potential risks that may be
present on the road is essential for automotive vehicle on
systems, enable vehicle to anticipate and react to the
potential risk and danger predict a behaviour of the other
vehicle or pedestrian.
This position includes trajectory prediction to use of
AI, make it possible to anticipate the future tragic
Tory and behaviour of the other vehicle.
Pedestrian.
Yeah, that's the most vehicle.
Anomaly detection anomaly detection are great.
Helped identify and classify.
Of a normal behavior in the driving environment, adaptive
risk strategies, integration of adaptive risk mitigation
strategy allow the vehicle to dynamically adjusts his driving
behavior.
Security measures and Emergency Management.
AI plays in a bottom role in implementing safety critical
system to deal with.
When they speak, they breakdown or emergency and prioritize
passenger safety.
This measure evolve emergency and their interventions.
Vehicle can react quickly to unforeseen events, such as
sudden obstacles, sensor failure or adverse weather condition.
Break down and control the system to guarantee the safety
of the passenger and the rules.
User system hacking.
Implementing airs based cyber security measure to protect
vehicle control system from internal trade and their
potential hacking was showing the integrity and security of
vehicle operation.
Real time adaptation and learning the continuous
improvement of autonomous vehicles system allowing vehicle
to dynamically adjust the driving capability based on real
time data and user feedback.
Machine learning technique on about atmospheric call to adapt
changing driving condition, changing a lot densification of
Rd, condition, travel time, traffic congestion, the use of
feedback and preference.
Many autonomous car like Tesla use user feedback and preference
to personalize the driving experience and adapt to the user
specific requirements and driving styles, creating
personalized driving profile to improve performance.
But Sanjay, confer in the satisfaction adaptive control
system, self driving cars.
Have adaptive control system that adjust vehicle control
parameterize, such as storing acceleration and breaking.
Ethical and regulatory concern of AI driving atmosphere acles
safe driving car race complex question related decision making
in critical situations.
Attribution of responsibilities.
There are privacy and cybersecurity among the concern
we have.
I've got a mic bias.
It is important to assure the fair treatment of all Rd user.
What Tomas vehicle data security, it is important that
these cars have comprehensive and effective cyber security
protocol.
To identify potential illegal abilities and mitigate risk.
Thank you.
OK, go ahead.
Stop sharing.
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Turn my volume down.
It's a better.
Alright, give me one second.
Mathew ready?
Uh, yes, I can go.
OK, you are up.
Yep.
Uh, just one little thing I will ask at the end.
I have two additional videos I'd like to show, but if we don't
have time, uh, just let me know, OK?
Umm, yeah, OK, go ahead.
See here.
Oh gosh, I know how to share my screen.
I think out there to, OK.
If there's sound Mathew, make sure you click the share with
computer sound.
Hmm. Ohh.
You might want to stop sharing and in the in the same window
that you shared on.
There's a little toggle switch.
OK, share.
Ah, perfect.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
OK, let's get started here.
No.
Alright.
Can everyone see my screen?
Yes, we can.
Alright, I will try my best.
Hello and welcome to everyone.
Tonight I'll be telling you all about haptic technologies.
This presentation was inspired by my manager, Jon Monserrate in
my HCI professor.
IT Whitt so without further ado, let's get physical.
So before we start, let's examine an overview of this
presentation.
We are going to be looking at haptics and why technology
getting in your personal space might not be a bad thing.
We are going to look at what exactly this technology is.
We'll cover a brief history of it and we'll touch.
Pun intended on different types we can encounter.
I'll show enhancements they bring to different industries
and everyday life.
And finally, we'll look at these technologies in action.
It is my hope that this presentation will not only give
you a better understanding of haptics, but encourage their
implementation in future projects or for you to seek them
out in your settings and applications to include them
into you or a loved ones everyday life.
To start, haptics is a pillar of human computer interaction or
HCI, which is a form of cognitive engineering.
Cognitive engineering is ensuring effective and
supportive stimulation of human body senses, visuals, sounds,
smells, taste and touch all play a vital role in helping us to
understand the world around us.
However, we are focusing on haptics or the sense of touch,
or rather technology touching us back.
Haptics is taking the sense of touch and running with it.
This seemingly otherworldly tech provides greater immersion of
virtual experiences, or augments technology in the real world.
VR our own delicate articulations when haptics help
to bridge the gap of execution and understanding greater
learning potentials are possible.
So now let's take a look at haptics and where they got
started.
Umm, one of the earliest examples of haptic feedback was
seen in video games in the 1970s.
Arcades were witness to two significant haptic milestones.
These were Moto Cross and Fonz.
In these games, a controller would be handlebars of a
motorbike and all collisions and bumps would be simulated to the
player through vibrations.
Come 1996, Motorola S STARTAC was the very first phone to
implement haptics via a silent vibrate mode to let you know you
have a phone call without having to have the ringer on.
And then in 2006, there was a hugely with haptics when the FDA
approved the first knee and hip surgical assistant robot, which
we will touch on later.
And then finally in 2021, we see major entities such as the
United States Air Force starting to use virtual reality enhanced
with haptics for training recruits to mimic sensations of
proposed scenarios.
They might not be able to easily recreate any safe fashion, so as
you can see, haptics have come quite a long ways.
So now let's examine the types of haptics we can encounter in
interface with.
There are five types of haptic interactions, force
vibrotactile, electrotactile, ultrasonic and thermal force
applies counteracting forces to simulate the weight or force of
an object when interacting in a virtual or analog fashion, such
as a controller vibrotactile.
These are the vibrations we feel on our devices, such as a phone
giving a slight response when you tap on it, or like we
covered earlier, vibrating while on silent mode.
The Electrotactile is a type of feedback that stimulates the
nerves on our skin via electrodes and then we have
ultrasonic, which is haptic feedback that uses hundreds of
ultrasonic sound speakers to resonate at a frequency that can
simulate a sense of touch from thin air, essentially making you
think there's an object there when there's really not, it just
sound waves, and then finally we have thermal, which is a
simulating hot or cold environments.
This is primarily done with haptic devices having sort of
water cell and then rapidly heating or cooling those cells.
So I'm sure the first thing that comes to many people's minds
when we think of haptic technology and what I've shown
you so far is virtual reality.
So let's talk about that.
Here's Bob.
Bob is about to enter the digital world, but how many ways
can he do this and how can haptics enhance its experience?
Well, it turns out there's quite a few nearly every part of our
body can be immersed in a virtual environment.
Create a more authentic experience for our face, a
virtual reality or VR headset allows users to look in
different directions.
Using sensors embedded inside physically tracking our movement
and then haptic gloves once integrated with the virtual
reality can allow for real time tracking of your hands in a
virtual world.
However, through haptics objects that we can see can actually be
manipulated and more importantly felt in the case of the HAP X
technology brand gloves.
If you pick up an object in VR, hundreds of actuators inside the
gloves will work to mimic the feel, texture, and density of an
object.
Similarly, in the legs we can simulate the type of terrain we
are visiting or sensations of that virtual world.
For example, the agile VR leg tracking and haptic feedback
system allows for locomotion and the experience of different
sensations.
These sensations can include moving through water, thick mud
or less wanted experiences like a simulated bullet to the leg.
I really hope that last part is toned down.
Similarly, we have impact vests on our chest that allow for a
sensation of impacts and other interactions within a virtual
world.
Some vests even include speakers or more immersive music, or
electrotactile haptics to simulate pain.
Now I really don't know why people wanna feel pain while
they're playing a game.
But who am I to judge outside of specific experiences?
I would rather avoid the capabilities of haptic
entertainment feedback look enticing.
However, I should note that not many applications embody every
single device listed here, and I think it goes without saying
that would cost a pretty penny.
Let's move on.
So outside of video games and simulations, haptics have the
power to make life easier for everyone.
Smart devices like our phones can utilize our sense of touch
in various ways, and not just to let us know about incoming
messages.
The company Tencent has utilized its gaming haptic vibration
technology to assist the visually impaired, allowing for
more independence.
These individuals, the technology pairs of the GPS
mobile app and gives particular responses to indicate a turn to
stop and much more, totaling over 200 unique pulse message
responses.
Additionally, the same technology has been used to
allow those of the visual impairments to text on their
phones without having to read the screen.
Now, as much as I'd like to go in depth on this more, I believe
$0.10 themselves to a much better job covering the subject.
Some 2.2 billion people globally have a vision impairment.
Most cases are mild, but 10s of millions of people are blind or
live with severe vision impairment.
Instead of sight, they depend on touch and sound to navigate life
and stay connected.
It's a challenge we've been hard at work addressing to help
people with vision impairment live independently in an
increasingly digital world.
One exciting solution is haptics, which can empower the
vision impaired to see it comes from our game technologies in
Peacekeeper Elite.
Think of your controller's vibration and uses different
pulses to convey information.
But we have taken it beyond games.
Imagine feeling your way around a city with vibrations guiding
you and translating directions into a tactile language.
That's what tensin maps does using haptics now.
Picture typing not by sight, but by touch.
Unique vibrations assigned to each character on your digital
keyboard allow accurate input while protecting your privacy.
That's $0.10 ogu input method at work, introducing our industries
first standardized game vibration tactile feedback
system.
We are opening up our haptics patents to other developers and
manufacturers to broaden and accelerate multisensory
accessibility solutions.
Not only for the site and paired, but communities such as
the hearing impaired and elderly haptics bringing us closer to an
inclusive digital age for everyone.
Pretty neat, right?
So not done yet.
That was awesome.
Now let's look at some fantastic feats at this technology plays,
especially with haptics.
Inning the vital roles we can see throughout our lives, so
enter the surgeon system and bomb disposal robots.
Haptics allow for greater and more precise control of
mechanical instruments.
Extreme care is needed when dealing with delicate situations
or human life is at stake in the images to the right.
The top is a robotic surgeon assistant and the other is a
bomb disposal robot.
Both require delicate and precise controls and aim to
lower the risk to human life.
The controls for these machines mimic touch sensations to their
operators for performing delicate operations and to help
eliminate errors on ourselves, such as our handshaking.
For example, the Mako surgical arm system, which I mentioned
previously has over 700 units in hospitals around the world,
allowing surgeons to perform delicate knee and hip surgeries
through the feedback, telling surgeons where they are drilling
and the steady surgical arm results have improved the
outcomes of hip and knee surgeries compared to
traditional practices.
I did find pictures of this, but they're a little too graphic in
Halloween's over now, so moving on from a surgeon scalpel to
cutting the blue wire.
Or was it the red one?
We have bomb disposal robots.
The purpose of these machines is to remove the human element and
allow unmanned operations.
The haptic feedback in these bomb disposal robots allows
operators to safely feel their way through delicate bomb
defusal scenarios with what has been described as human, like
agility from onlookers.
Again, using technology to pass our delicate articulations to
machines, both of these marvels save lives on the daily.
Speaking of saving lives, we cannot put a price tag on human
life.
Haptics aim to assist with training across various
disciplines.
These include operations such as mechanics, dentistry, surgery
and various other medical or mechanical experiences or
procedures.
Analogs are neither cheap nor always available, and human
lives should be handled with extreme caution.
Therefore, through a clever combination of visuals and
haptic resistance feedback, a student can practice and learn
in a safe and controlled environment.
Moreover, these systems lower the risk to patients well being
and allow trainers to provide more in depth feedback based on
recordings provided by these systems.
Speaking of learning.
We can enhance our education through haptics.
It's seemingly the future.
A study was performed at the engineering and Science School
of Technological de Monterray, Mexico.
The study took two groups, a control group and experimental
group.
One group learned mechanics and physics traditionally will.
The other used an approach that implemented visual haptic
simulations.
The experimental students could see and experience the mechanics
they were learning alongside traditional class work.
This study showed that those in the experimental group had a
better understanding and retention of course materials
than the control group thanks to visual haptic technologies, the
course was a literal hands on experience for these students.
These experiment just shows how powerful haptics can be in a
learning and training scenario.
Feeling sensations in our skin is, oddly enough, a great
learning tool.
Now, as we are part of the, I believe Purdue broiler family,
let's look at some cool haptic signs that the Purdue
engineering team has been up to the power of touch is stronger
than you might think.
Some.
OK.
Move.
Some shade?
So.
Row.
Me.
Kind of crazy, right?
So oops, my apologies.
So in closing, as we wrap this up, I hope this presentation has
demonstrated how haptic technologies are beneficial not
only to entertainment, but various industries for more
immersive virtual experiences, saving lives impairing sorry
impairment assistance, and an overall more intuitive learning
experience.
Haptics has much to offer overall.
Haptics are just another tool in the human computer interaction
toolbox to enhance our experiences with technology.
I'm excited to see you with this future.
Takes us and please do not underestimate the power of
touch.
Thank you.
Here's my references references 2 images videos and if we have
time I do have two videos I could show no.
Was there a question, Landon?
Yes.
So why don't we just bypass all the physical go right to the
Yes.
sensory cortex and develop a full dive VR MMO?
Now, as much as I wanna make dihexa, I thing you might want
to talk to Elon Musk about that.
I will.
But yeah, it would be amazing if we could get to that point.
But I feel like there would be so many obstacles such as
dealing with our immune system, and I don't think everyone wants
to spend their life on immuno suppressors.
Uh.
Oh, no, no.
We can we can bypass it by.
Delta waves and different brain waves.
We can go right to the sensory cortex.
So this information could actually be directly inputted
into the sensory cortex, which is what is necessary for us to
perceive physical interactions.
Really.
So this is this is this is what you're this is where this is
heading.
You're gonna get a full dive VR MMO.
Hmm.
And then I'll never see the sunlight again.
No.
Well, yeah, that's a different issue.
Do we have time for two?
Or at least maybe one more video.
We can go ahead.
Yep, go ahead, Matthew.
OK, alright, so here's another one.
This one is showing a type of smart clothes using haptics.
We call these point force cues.
And So what that essentially means is it feels almost like a
tap as each pouch inflates across the forearm.
We developed haptic wearable textiles.
People have been looking at embedding haptics, which is this
idea of using the sensation of touch to convey information in
wearables and textiles and prior work.
But we've gone a step farther with this work by essentially
offloading a lot of the control responsibilities to within the
textile sheets themselves.
Using pressurized air instead of electronics in some of our prior
work, we've shown the benefit of creating wearable haptic devices
that can convey queues along the arm, and we do this to provide
directional guidance or just to enrich a haptic experience.
But we're always constrained to take these off the shelf
technologies and and build them into something wearable that
might be rigid or uncomfortable to the user.
So with these textile based systems, it's really just like a
piece of clothing.
It's very comfortable and the haptic cues are created.
I've organically like within the materials that are used and we
can create a wide range of different haptic experiences by
manipulating the design parameters of the device.
So we have quite a few populations that could really
benefit from these haptic textiles.
The first and foremost would be the over a billion people with a
loss of vision and another billion people with a loss of
hearing, they can benefit greatly from the third sense of
communication through the sense of touch.
Additionally, we can enhance various avenues of entertainment
such as gaming, music, movies, augmented or virtual reality.
By incorporating haptic touch, we first determined the efficacy
of the system in the lab where we got some really nice results,
almost 90% accuracy for all responders.
On average, we then took it to the streets of Houston, where we
allowed a user to navigate nearly a mile both on foot and
then also riding on a scooter where their hands were occupied
with the haptic cues that help them navigate.
We're delivered through the wearable.
This is another aspect of the of the textile approach to making
wearable devices.
That's really exciting is the speed and the rapid fabrication
and prototyping that you can do.
So you can really iterate ideas quickly and almost, you know,
brainstorm in the lab with the devices that you can fabricate.
So it's really just limited by your imagination.
All right, now I have one more which talks about.
Ultrasonics, which I really did not get an opportunity to cover.
We use a small collection of ultrasonic speakers, just
speakers that emit sound waves that are too high frequency for
you to hear, and we trigger these speakers with very
specific time differences between them so that the sound
waves from each speaker arrive at the same point at the same
time.
And because sound waves are just pressure waves moving through
the air at that point, all of the pressure differences add
together.
You get a very localised point of high pressure and there's
actually enough force generated there to just slightly displace
the surface of your skin.
We can control that.
Turn it on and off in order to create a vibration can create
any vibration that your hands given to all the feeling and we
can manipulate and scope the acoustic field rather than just
creating a point.
Create a line or a 2D shape or even three dimensional shapes
and objects.
And that's all I had.
Thank you.
That was really great.
Thank you, Matthew.
OK, I am gonna go ahead and present Michael Jiles.
Persentation you get it set up.
Let me know if you can hear the audio once I share.
Hello, my name is Michael Jiles junior.
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Hello, my name is Michael Jiles junior.
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Quick, when you when you hover over that, click that little mic
that's over on the right of it.
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Ah, OK.
This is my master class presentation on data analytics
Not much better, but.
with Python.
Thanks Marjorie.
Umm.
Process data data.
There are many different times descriptions and job titles that
deal with data Hannah.
The three major titles our data analytics, data analysis and.
Statistics is a branch of mathematics that deals with
processing data for many different reasons.
Statistics and analyzes data, interprets data, tries to
explain data and more.
Because the statistics handles data, data analytics cannot
exist without it.
Statistics is used in data analytics to help identify
trends in data, interpret data, explain, and then everything
else.
Mathematical modeling equations and calculations used in
statistics to process data of the same using data analytics.
That is why data science majors are required to take statistics
as part of their program.
Also, data analytics cannot exist without machine.
Machine learning is a form of artificial intelligence, and it
also involves statistical formulas and equations.
All of artificial intelligence requires mathematics to function
successfully.
Machine learning as a branch of artificial intelligence, uses
statistics to machine the most basic mathematics involved in
machine learning, statistics and data analytics include mean,
median, and mode derivatives, variance, standard deviation,
linear regression, and ordinary least squares.
Mean, median and mode are measurements of central
tendency.
Mean calculates the average.
Median identifies the value in the center of the data set or
from low to high, and mode identifies the value that
encourage the most in the data set.
These can be used based on what you're looking for.
For example, if you want to search your data set to identify
what shoppers bought the most in a given week, you'd use the mode
to identify the item.
Derivatives are just slopes.
The word derivative is just another name for slope
derivatives.
Identify the rate of change at any given point on a graph.
Derivatives are instantaneous, meaning that a line on a graph
or a function is rate of change might not be defined to only one
derivative.
Variance is the calculation of data set spread from the mean
across the mean, which is the average various takes the mean
from the data sets and calculates how far the data sets
are from the mean.
The lower the variance, the closer the data sets are to the
mean and the better chances the predictions of will remain true.
The higher the variance, the farther the data sets are from
the mean, and the less likely to be predictable.
Various squares as data set calculations to prevent negative
numbers.
Standard deviation is the square root of variance.
A low standard deviation means that the data is clustered
around the mean and a high standard deviation means the
data is spread out.
Standard deviation is just like variance, but more accurate.
It helps with predictive modeling for decision making,
you have to calculate the variance in order to be able to
calculate the standard deviation.
Linear regression is a regression line model that is
used to predict outcomes.
Ordinary least square is a linear regression model that
calculates the error of a data set, with the goal being to
reduce the error as low as possible to make accurate
prediction.
Python is a high level programming language.
Python has become one of the most used programming languages
throughout the world.
Benefits of using Python is that it's easy to learn.
Simplify syntax.
Python is free.
It has compatible tools for modern technology like
artificial intelligence, machine learning, microcontroller
programming and data processing.
The compatibility Python offers is amazing.
Python allows for us to import libraries to make programming
easier.
Python is compatible with many different libraries that can be
imported to do many different things.
Python uses libraries that have built-in functions and
algorithms that make programming easy.
Python has libraries for data handling that help with
calculating the statistics of the data, presenting visual
representations with graphs and other imagery of the data, and
importing, exporting databases, creating database tables,
relational databases, et cetera.
The Python Library for data analytics include Numpy, Pandas,
and Mat plot Lib, although these are not the only libraries, they
are the most used.
Numpy is a Python library that was made to focus on science and
engineering.
No empire is the de facto standard for working with
numerical data in Python.
The benefits of using non pie are many, such as
multidimensional arrays and matrix data structures.
Numpy is used for creating arrays and matrices.
Numpy is used for performing lots of mathematical functions
on arrays.
Numpy extends Python's Range beyond list, which are limited
in what they can do.
Numpy is widely used with other libraries like Pandas and Mat
plot Lib.
Unlike this in Python, Numpy requires for all data types to
be similar, whereas list could have strings, integers and
floats all in the same list.
Numpy stands for numerical Python And Numpy is a hybrid
array object.
Numpy implements linear algebra, discrete mathematics, random
number generators, and lots of other mathematical features.
Raise an umpire index starting at zero and ending at 1 minus
the number given to create the array.
The Pandas library was made to focus on real world data
handling.
Pandas is a Python library that aims toward being the tool used
for practical world world data analytics.
Some benefits from using pandas are that pandas is good for real
world data applications.
It makes cleaning data easy.
Pandas is compatible with most popular database software like
data from SQL, Microsoft Excel.
And pandas also plots data simple plotting.
So to import data from an external.
Source software like Excel, you would load the data in the
pandas and you would store it into a data frame.
If it isn't stored into a data frame, then it'll just showcase
the data, but it won't store the data in memory in the program.
That means that an entire database will be stored into a
single variable, and this is also what makes Python such a
great programming language.
And pandas such a great programming library for data
handling.
Panda creates tables out of data that includes Rd.
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Matplotlib offers us the ability to grab images.
OK, the map I've had offers us the ability to animate our
images so that we can see how the data interacted over periods
of time.
Mapply Live also offers 3D plotting.
Which one is for tracking earthquakes and other types of
weather?
Most of the grass offered by Mapply required meticulous focus
and research to familiarize yourself with.
For data analytics in a business setting, the majority of
Maplight lives flights will not be needed.
Now those scatter plots, bar charts, box plots, Instagrams,
pie charge things of those sorts will be applicable.
But learning how to program.
Animated charged with 3D grass, we're certainly look good on a
resume.
Ultimately, each library piggybacks off the oven.
They each work together to get the job done.
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I'm ready.
Is it my turn?
Yes, your turn.
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Let me share my screen.
OK.
Hello everyone and welcome to optimizing project communication
and collaboration in a virtual worker environment.
In this presentation, we will explore effective strategies and
tools to enhance project communication.
Also, it will cover the benefit and challenges of working
together in a virtual environment.
So now let's unlock the potential of collaboration and
digital age.
So I'm in any work setting, collaboration and communication
are the backbone of progress and success.
They represent two sides of the same coin.
They need each other to coexist, but when we combine these two,
we get collaborative communication, a type of
communication that makes it easy to work in team and achieve the
certain goals.
So I'm project communication can be challenging due to
information overload.
Uh misinterpretation and lack of clarity, this issues can be lead
to delays, errors and misunderstanding.
To overcome these challenges, it is essential to establish clear
communication channels.
Defined roles and responsibility and promote open, transparent
communication throughout the project life cycle can be easy
to make it.
Uh, all the communication in apps for dictionary
communication is defined as like the activity or process of
expressing ideas and filling of giving people information.
The same dictionary also defines collaboration as like the Act of
working with another person or group of people to create or
produce something.
When they put these two things together, we can get the
collaborative communication definition like the act of
sharing information and expressing ideas while working
together to achieve common goal.
So in the calibration, we can also say that like a virtual
collaboration referred to the process of working together on
project or task remotely using online tools and communication
product forms.
It enables individual from different location to share.
Ideas solve problems and make decision as if they were in the
same room.
Virtual collaboration breaks down geographically barriers,
allowing team to tap into global talent pool and leverage diverse
perspective.
So I'm to maximize efficiency and collaboration.
Employ effective communication strategies.
This include active listening, asking, clarifying question,
providing regular project updates and using visual aids to
convey information, encourage open and transparent
communication, established feedback loops and foster
culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing within Project
team.
For example, if we are out for the ice cream parlor party and
imagine you and your friends want to decide on the ice cream
flavors, but you don't listen to each other, one friend might
order chocolate and another order chocolate chip which lead
to confusion.
If we didn't pay the attention, right?
So also the second example we can get like if someone says I
will get con.
So without checking if you end up like is it where Falcon or
the sugar cone?
So you cannot get idea like what he wanted.
Similar example we can also consider like for the regular
update.
For example, hello friend.
Don't know what we are getting.
OK, they might be surprised when we show up our Mr flavor, so if
we use our effective communication strategies here,
then first key is the listen carefully like if someone is
saying I need chocolate, then yeah, we need to listen
carefully.
2nd is like if they are interested in ordering colon
then I should ask like webfil or sugarcon right?
So it will solve the confusion and our strategy is like update
regularly like update for anything.
So this is something like if I needed two scope of the ice
cream in my car then I need to update them.
Yeah, I needed to scope.
So this is, uh, very normal.
Like 3 strategies.
Listen carefully.
Ask question and update already there.
A good thing like umm, we also have the lots of advantages for
the virtual collaboration.
Itself for its numerous advantages.
Something like it promotes flexibility and work life
balance by eliminating the need of physical presence.
Teams can save time, reduce costs associated with travel
with real time communication and document sharing and project
management tools.
So it will make the calibration become like seamless.
Moreover, virtual collaboration encourages inclusively and
diversity foster innovation, and enhancing gravity.
So why wouldn't you?
Collaboration brings many benefit, but you also presents
the challenges.
No challenges.
Opportune collaboration.
Our first candidate trust issue, like building trust and
establishing report.
May be more difficult when team members are physically like
physically is not present.
Additionally, misinterpretation of messages and lack of
nonverbal clues can lead to misunderstandings.
Thanks, overcoming these challenges requires effective
communication and adaptability.
This challenges can lead to confusion, delays and decrease
productivity.
It is essential to address this issues and implement strategies
to streamline project communication.
So this is the challenges of virtual meetings.
The how we can make the communication smooth and how we
can establish the communication channel.
So leverage project management tools to streamline
communication and enhance the collaboration tools like task
management system, shared document repositories and real
time messaging platform.
Ohh, I'd never efficient information sharing document
version control and team coordination by centralizing
project related communication and documentation this tool
improve efficiency and reduce communication gaps.
So define communication protocol and encourage team member to use
this design channel for efficient and organized project
communication.
This is the main key.
Other than main keys, the building trust in UH virtual
teams like meeting our essential expect of project communication.
So we need to schedule the meetings to maximize efficiency,
schedule meetings, purposefully set agendas, and define the
clear objective limit meeting duration, incourage active
participation and ensure follow up action are documented by
streamlining meetings, we can avoid unnecessary time wastage
and foster productive collaboration.
Building trust is better for virtual teams, so sometimes
provide opportunity for team bonding and social interaction.
Can beneficial recognize and appreciate individual
contribution regularly celebrate achievement to boost the morale
by creating a culture of trust virtual team can overcome
distance and work together more effectively.
So cultural is also the main keyboard.
There are some challenges and the main challenges is like time
zone challenge and the second one is the language and cultural
barriers.
So overcoming time zone challenges like time zone
difference can pose challenges in virtual collaboration
schedule meetings that are commit all time zone whenever
possible.
Utilized shared calendar to determine overlapping working
hours so the shared calendar can be converted about.
Well, we can use any existing one.
Are we can use any third party calendar as well?
The other thing is bright as asynchronous communication and
document sharing.
So if we share the documents, it's the key for the
communication.
Clearly communicate deadlines and expectation when it is
expected and what we required to deliver.
So flexibility and understanding are crucial and working across
time zones, ensuring that everyone feels valued and
included.
Overcoming languages barrier.
So in global project for example, multinational right, so
language and cultural barrier can impair effective
communication.
To overcome this challenges, use language translation tool,
provide clear instruction and encourage cultural sensitivity.
Foster an inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives
and promote cross cultural understanding to ensure
effective communication and collaboration among team
members.
For example, if I'm going to describe something the actual
way, what I need to ask or the something that making me
confuse, there can be the possible that if our first
language is not English then it can be possible that we cannot
describe them clearly.
So that time we should suggest about if they can use their
second language and using second language.
Also we can, you know, solve this conflict and we can get the
exit information that we are required or we are looking for.
So this is the other barrier that we should avoid.
Promoting collaboration and engagement to promote
collaboration and engagement.
Virtual team can leverage online collaboration space and shared
virtual whiteboards.
So whiteboard is the very useful feature for everyone to describe
anything.
Encourage active participation by assigning a role and
responsibilities.
So basically the fundies that we divide the work.
What's your culture of collaboration?
By recognizing and rewarding teamwork, encourage
collaboration and knowledge sharing among team members.
Foster a culture of open communication where ideas and
expertise are freely exchange utilized collaboration, platform
discussion forum and virtual workspace to facilitate
information sharing and collaborative problem solving by
creating an inclusive and interactive virtual environment,
teams can unleash share their collective power French shelves.
Email is commonly used communication tool in project.
So email communication is the uh usually in the organization.
This is the main communication that we require to use.
Ensure the concern and clear communication by using
descriptive subject lines.
Organizing content with bullet points and highlighting
important information.
So uh practice emerging today, such as the uh responding
problem or clay avoiding the jargon and using appropriate
tone effective email communication, reduce confusion,
and facilitate efficient collaboration.
Measuring virtual collaboration success.
So if we are also here for.
Success to achieve one call, right?
So we should measure also the virtual Convention success.
So measuring the success of virtual conversation required
the use of key performance indicator which call KPI key
performance indicator.
Keep the eyes.
KPI may include productivity metrics, meeting attendance,
task completion rates, and team satisfaction.
Surveys regularly assess and evaluate the effectiveness of
collaboration processes and tools.
Get their feedback from Team member to identify areas for
improvement by measuring success, team can continuously
enhance their virtual collaboration practice, so we're
back is like a we can improve our umm timeline.
We can improve our work environment, we can improve the
way that we are working and it can be useful when, uh, we are
going to work for the next project.
So feedback is really important things.
The best practices for what you collaboration.
UM, we can say that to optimize the virtual collaboration there
are the is 7 to 8 uh best practices point.
Uh, first is the established uh clear goal and expectations.
2nd it's communication, effectively using a combination
of synchronized and unsynchronized methods.
On 3rd is foster trust and open communication, so communication
is the key.
Choose the right collaboration tools.
Yeah, we should must use the all the tools, promote engagement
and collaboration.
Manage conflict properly, promptly and constructively
measure success using reliability KPI.
By implementing this practices, virtual teams can unlock their
full potential.
So if coming to the conclusion, So what you collaboration has
regulation and the way teams work together by embracing the
power of Recology and communication organization can
overcome geographical barrier and tap into global network of
talent.
Successful virtual collaboration required effective
communication, trust, building and use of collaboration tools.
By following best practices and continue the evaluating
performance, virtual team can achieve greater productivity,
innovation and success in the virtual work environment.
So yeah, remember clear and timely communication is the
foundation I'll for well executed project.
That we are any questions and I'm sorry for the background
noise.
Uh, there's some cast at my home.
Good job, good job.
I think we need an SOP from this.
Yeah.
And their questions comments.
Yeah, I'm trying to follow all these strategies and yeah, doing
research on them all the tools, so that project communication
can be more smoother and we can achieve the goal that decided
for her third teams.
Now you probably said this, but I had to step out for a second.
So you you'd you compare this with Roberts rules.
Umm, not yet I can do.
Because that's what most IRL.
OK.
Uses Roberts rules of order for conducting meetings.
Yes.
And I think what you've presented is extremely valuable
and I would love to have an SOP that we could, you know,
distribute and people can follow it or not follow it.
But at least it would be helpful because I think that would
actually make meetings more productive.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, will do. Sure.
Do you ever there is a podcast series by Matt Abraham.
He's a Yale professor, I believe.
Uh, communication.
He does a really good podcast like communication.
I don't know if you ever looked into his, but he's he.
He, like it might be something to get more.
I got a lot of information out of him too.
I've never heard of the Roberts rules.
I'll have to look into those.
Awesome.
Thank you everyone who presented.
Does anyone think of any questions you have for any of
the presenters tonight?
That you didn't ask previously.
Nope.
Did I miss Michael and Craig?
Yes, you did.
Oh my God.
Yes, you did.
Everybody presented tonight.
You have to watch it again.
Yep.
I'm one of the things that I that I love about this is that
when Marjorie and I were going through this program, we didn't
have this right.
This this came about later.
Yeah.
I and I would have loved to have this when I was an intern, so
this is a great forum for you to get that that nervousness out.
To get that I you know saying that you wanted to talk about
that you haven't been able to anywhere.
I just think this is such a wonderful idea and great job
everyone.
Absolutely.
Great job.
Marjorie, do you have anything you want to add?
I don't.
I think everybody did a great job.
I'll go back and check my other two and see how those are going
because I hate missing any of them.
Kayla, you have a question?
Kayla.
It's.
Did you have a question, Kayla?
No, ma'am, no, ma'am.
OK.
I'm sorry.
It's OK.
Sometimes the hand just goes up right? Just.
Miss click.
Auto response.
I'm. Yes. Exactly.
Well, thank you everyone.
Have a great night and I'm stay warm because I'm here in Florida
and I hear it's getting cold in other parts of the country, not
trying to rub that in or anything.
But you know it is what it is.
I'm cold, cold, and in Tallahassee.
Yeah, but you gotta be in Florida, so.
I'm cold in Tallahassee. OK.
I'm just cold.
Yeah, it's now.
It was 40 is 40 degrees this morning.
It was beautiful 31 out when I woke up.
Ah yeah, it was nice though it was.
Yeah, coming from Minnesota, I do not miss it.
Word word 28 right now.
So I'm gonna let you guys have that cold.
No, coming from Ohio.
I don't care for the 40 is much nicer.
That's right.
No snow, no snow.
And the wind.
Ohh, the wind in Ohio.
Ohh I don't miss that.
As I know, the plains of Ohio.
Yeah, what?
Lynn was brutal and.
Because there's nothing but cornfields in they're terrible
Same in Iowa.
Yeah.
and breaks.
I know, I know, horrible.
It doesn't help.
As I was gonna say I Ohio is kind of not flat compared to
some of the Southwest.
Well.
Ohh yeah.
I mean, I'm from the northeast.
Ohio was flat compared to here.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, it's pretty flat.
Yeah, you central central Ohio was pretty flat too.
We had a lot of farmland and and corn.
Really.
I lived right outside of Columbus.
Umm, I know the no.
And corn?
Yeah. Yep.
But you at least have trees.
They had trees.
Ah, not many of them.
Not much.
Yeah, it it looks like the north, but the north, northeast
It's not an error I always on.
side, when you get much higher up North Ohio looks like
there's.
Woodsy parts out there.
Most of Illinois is flat, Craig.
That's to keep the.
Yeah, it's probably the same thing.
I went, I went to grad school at university in of Illinois in
Champaign, Urbana.
So for a little while, so I know.
Wow, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, Iowa's flat too, although somebody will tell me it's not
flat, but it's not as bad as in Nebraska.
But still yeah.
Right.
That's true, Mathew.
Exactly.
They will just run and run because it's so flat.
It's just constant.
That's funny.
I like that.
I this is actually really.
Yeah, you can see you can.
It's like Florida.
It's flat so you can see forever.
You get a good a good point, you know, especially down Central
Yeah.
Florida is just flat.
I missed my mountains.
But it's not Florida.
No mountains.
We have one highest spot of Tallahassee and I drive over it
Well.
all the time to take my son to work and it's like that the
Uh, that's not much.
highest spot and I'm like this is a high spot.
Please, I lived in North Carolina in the mountains of
North Carolina.
I know a high spot.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
What's worse is when you're you're you know, tallest tree is
a telephone pole.
Yeah, or palm tree.
Ha ha.
Ohh yeah, that too.
If you have the palm trees.
That's if they survive, yeah.
I mean, I still remember the excitement of my first coconut
tree.
We don't have those up here.
No, no.
Umm.
Yeah, coconut trees and palm trees.
You need a fairly stable climate for.
Yeah.
Well, coconut trees.
You could do a lot of things with it crafts.
Make things make a game, yeah.
Yeah, they hold up good with the coconuts and the trees.
Raise, raise, raise coconut crabs.
Yes.
No.
Ah, those are so good.
They're huge.
I don't know that they are, but.
Up here in New Hampshire, we got nothing but hills, mountains and
then Maple trees, oaks and pine trees.
Umm.