scholarly journals The development of the future leadership in Sudan: investment in human capabilities

Author(s):  
Ahmed Bannaga ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Nieuwejaar ◽  
Valerie Mazauric ◽  
Christian Betzler ◽  
Mafalda Carapuco ◽  
Andre Cattrijsse ◽  
...  

This position paper provides a review of the current European research vessel fleet, its capabilities and equipment, assessing its ability to support marine science across the globe now and into the future. It particularly looks at current and future capabilities in the context of deep sea and Polar research. It also takes a wider vision, assessing the importance of these vessels in the ocean and earth observing landscape. This review includes not only technological but also human capabilities, looking at training needs for crew and technicians to ensure they can continue to deliver on critical science needs. It also considers the ways in which the current European fleet is managed.This Position Paper sets out recommendations for how the fleet will need to develop in the future to ensure that it will continue to provide the same high level of support to science globally, as well as highlighting ways in which management could be made more efficient. It is aimed at national- and European-level policy makers and funders, as well as the marine science community and the research vessel operator community.


Author(s):  
Andreas Fügener ◽  
Jörn Grahl ◽  
Alok Gupta ◽  
Wolfgang Ketter

A consensus is beginning to emerge that the next phase of artificial intelligence (AI) induction in business organizations will require humans to work with AI in a variety of work arrangements. This article explores the issues related to human capabilities to work with AI. A key to working in many work arrangements is the ability to delegate work to entities that can do them most efficiently. Modern AI can do a remarkable job of efficient delegation to humans because it knows what it knows well and what it does not. Humans, on the other hand, are poor judges of their metaknowledge and are not good at delegating knowledge work to AI—this might prove to be a big stumbling block to create work environments where humans and AI work together. Humans have often created machines to serve them. The sentiment is perhaps exemplified by Oscar Wilde’s statement that “civilization requires slaves…. Human slavery is wrong, insecure and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.” However, the time has come when humans might switch roles with machines. Our study highlights capabilities that humans need to effectively work with AI and still be in control rather than just being directed.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Aymerich-Franch

Mediated embodiment is the technologically generated illusion of replacing a person’s body with an avatar body. Virtual reality is the most representative technology of mediated embodiment. However, other forms of embo- diment are emerging and need to be examined. The inclusion of all mediated embodiment technologies under a common paradigm would more readily facilitate their study. Here, a unified conceptual framework of mediated embodiment is presented, which integrates robot embodiment as part of the phenomenon, and allows the in- clusion under the same umbrella of embodiment technologies that might emerge in the future. The minimum conditions necessary to induce the embodiment illusion, as well as the technical principles used to create this illusion, are discussed. Furthermore, it is suggested that mediated embodiment technologies can be regarded as tools that increase human capabilities in four directions: embodiment of a new self; expansion of traveling capa- bilities; expansion of body capabilities; and the reach of immortality. The principal research conducted in the field of mediated embodiment is explained in connection to these categories. The framework is expected to contribute to creating awareness of the commonalities of mediated embodiment technologies among the different research communities that work with mediated embodiment.


2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
C.G. Drury

The world of work is changing, driven partly by such forces as globalization, changed workforce demographics, increased work intensity and pervasive computing. These changes in turn have implications for manual materials handling systems and how they will affect the workforce in the future. This paper argues that most of the changes imply more diversity of both jobs and of those performing the jobs. Increased diversity means that task demands are more likely to exceed human capabilities, so that ergonomics will be needed more in the future. Strategies for responding to the changes at the levels of the profession and the enterprise ergonomics function are presented.


Author(s):  
Ashwin D. Bhagat ◽  
Yogesh Kumar Sharma

As we become increasingly immersed in the virtual world, where humans no longer control machines but vice versa, technology is taking a toll on our human capabilities of adaptability, humor, and the need for communication. While technology is an integral part of our lives, data breaches, a lack of innovation and efficiency, and overdependence on technology have all been identified in recent years. This article investigates the negative implications of technology in terms of data storage, identity, security, the future of our hyper-connected youth, and the repercussions of data breaches, including their causes and results, as well as the overall psychological impact on individuals and society.


Author(s):  
Marcus S. Bowles ◽  
Nicola I. Bowes ◽  
Paul T. Wilson

Arsitektura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Johannes Adiyanto

<p class="Abstract"><em>Industry 4.0 is a necessity in the current global era. Indonesia since 2018 has prepared itself with the "Making Indonesia 4.0" roadmap, which covers the food and beverage, textile, automotive, electronic</em><em>s</em><em> and chemical industries. This program is also supported by a link and match program between the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Research, Technology and </em><em>Higher Education</em><em>. On the other hand, the development of the use of BIM and 3D printers in building construction has begun to develop rapidly. The construction approach 4.0 will soon be entering Indonesia so</em><em>,</em><em> that the link and match with the world of education need to be a concern. </em><em>Is it the education of architecture in Indonesia already prepare for that technology? That is the main question in this paper. </em><em>This </em><em>research </em><em>approach is a normative ethical philosophy approach. The method used is a normative qualitative method and makes a comparison between the phenomena of industrial development 4.0, especially those related to construction 4.0 with the latest developments in the world of education, especially architectural education in Indonesia. This comparison is then compared with legislation related to undergraduate higher education in the department / architecture study program. These appeals become the basis for the stages of discussion that see developments into the future of the IT world related to architecture. This </em><em>research</em><em> shows that there is something fundamental in the present development, namely the aspect of cooperation. The aspect of cooperation is the key to the use of BIM, and this is also the main variable in legislation which is termed the humanities value. Thus the difficulty of using BIM software in various universities due to various technical and non-technical reasons is not an obstacle to pursuing standards that are consistent with the development of the phenomenon of the Industrial Revolution 4.0. This can be said because the development of BIM in the future is not only talking about technical matters, but also on social problems, especially human capabilities collaboratively. The ability of collaboration between designers and the ability of collaboration across sciences is an important capability in the future.</em></p>


IoT ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-523
Author(s):  
Hossein Hassani ◽  
Pedram Amiri Andi ◽  
Alireza Ghodsi ◽  
Kimia Norouzi ◽  
Nadejda Komendantova ◽  
...  

Digitization is the emerging process in the current transformation of industry. Understanding the role and socio-economic consequences of digitalization is crucial for the way technology is being deployed in each sector. One of the affected sectors is dentistry. This study highlights the current advances and challenges in integrating and merging artificial intelligence (AI), intelligence augmentation (IA), and machine learning (ML) in dentistry. We conduct a comparative analysis to give an overview of which technology is being currently deployed and what role IA and AI will play in dentistry, as AI plays an assistive role in advancing human capabilities. We find that challenges range from AI finding its way into routine medical practice to qualitative challenges of retrieving adequate data input. Other challenges lie in the yet unanswered questions of liability in how to reduce deployment costs of new technology. Given these challenges, we provide an outlook of how future technology can be deployed in daily-life dentistry and how robots and humans will interact, given the current technology developments. The aim of this paper is to discuss the future of dentistry and whether it is AI or IA conquering the modern dentistry era.


Author(s):  
Shruti Sunil Ajankar ◽  
Aditi Rajesh Nimodiya

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most important technologies in the world today. In the future, intelligent machines will replace or enhance human capabilities in many areas. Artificial Intelligence is impacting the future of virtually every industry and every human being. AI has acted as the main driver of emerging technologies like big data, robotics, and IoT, and it will continue to act as a technological innovator for the foreseeable future. AI is simply the study of how to make computer do things which at the moment people do the better. There are many ways to define AI, but one simple definition is “intelligence demonstrated by machines”. Primary goal of AI is to improve computer behaviour so that it can be called intelligent. AI is ubiquitous and is not only limited to computer science but has evolved to include other areas like health, security, education, music, art, and business application. This paper gives an overview of how the AI actually works, its scopes , the different applications of AI, its advantages and disadvantages and many more topics which will give a clear understanding inspite of the boundlessness of AI.


Author(s):  
Sakshi Jaiswal ◽  
Awdhesh Gupta ◽  
Shivam Kumar Kanojiya

In the future intelligent machines will replace or enhance human capabilities in many areas. Artificial Intelligence is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software.”John McCarthy” who coined the tem in 1955 defines it as the “science and engineering of making intelligent machines”. As we are aware of the fact that energy consumption has grown tremendously over a few decades in all over the world which is environmentally unfriendly. It is essential at this stage of development to pause and critically examine the state of affairs via the application of AI in energy conservation and environmental system engineering. In this paper we describe in a general way on how the existing applications of AI techniques provide intelligent solution to optimize the energy conservation now and in the future. Also, how Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks are used to remotely monitor and control the environment according to the decisions made by the centralized reasoner and EEMS(Energy Efficiency Management System)provides effective energy saving measures and high quality energy conservation services Energy efficiency has nowadays become one of the most challenging task for both academic and commercial organizations and this has boosted research on novel fields.


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