This draft standard covers contractual interactions and agreements between individuals and the service providers they engage on a network, including websites. It describes how individuals, acting as first parties, can proffer their privacy requirements as contractual terms and arrive at agreements recorded and kept by both sides. These terms shall be chosen from a collection…

​ Ken Sinclair Natural Language (NL) processing, powered by AI, fundamentally augments the building’s ecosystem in three major ways: Access, Abstraction, and Action. 1. NL Provides Universal Access (The “Interface”) NL tears down the technical barrier between the operator/occupant and the complex technical data.

Well-optimized maintenance is a crucial part of stretching a machine’s life expectancy, thus also avoiding high costs and investments. Keeping an overview of all the details involved in organized maintenance is always very overwhelming. It also puts a significant administrative burden on your organization and teams. We’ll provide the right insights to schedule predictive, preventive,…

Ryan Haecker@RyanHaecker “When, in his posthumously published Der Spiegel interview “Only a God can Save Us”, Heidegger was asked what was destined to replace philosophy, he replied: “cybernetics”. He had, in an earlier lecture, “The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking”, wrote: “no prophecy is necessary to recognize that the sciences now establishing…

AHR Expo 2026 Free Industry Seminars – AutomatedBuildings.com Education SessionsAHREXPO Monday, Feb. 2 – Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026 | Las Vegas Convention Center | Las Vegas, NV Navigating Complexity. Escalating Opportunity. AutomatedBuildings.com returns to the AHR Expo on February 2–4, 2026, to host three days of free Industry Education Sessions exploring the theme “Navigating Complexity.…

Maritime operations depend on increasingly complex systems, yet many remain fragmented, unmonitored and vulnerable. MDM introduces a zero-trust (‘never trust, always verify’) approach that allows vessels, ports, offshore systems and authorities to operate with secure, real-time data management.  Our platform combines award-winning technologies, including zero-trust nodes, secure data-sharing and real-time digital twinning, to deliver a…

Each year, 5,000+ developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, managers, and executives from 70+ countries gather for DeveloperWeek (Feb 18-20, 2026 | San Jose, CA) to discover the latest in developer technologies, languages, platforms, and tools. DeveloperWeek 2026 is the largest developer conference & event series including the DeveloperWeek 2026 Conference & Expo, 1,000+ attendee hackathon, 1000+ attendee…

By Nicole Dewandre Mary Midgley sees philosophy as plumbing, something that nobody notices until it goes wrong: ‘Then suddenly we become aware of some bad smells, and we have to take up the floorboards and look at the concepts of even the most ordinary piece of thinking. The great philosophers … noticed how badly things were…

By Adolfo Peñafiel This document discusses the Japanese context of Society 5.0. Based on a society-centered approach, Society 5.0 seeks to take advantage of technological advances to finally solve the problems that currently threaten Japan, such as aging, birth rates and lack of competitiveness, among others. Additionally, another objective is to contribute to the progress of…

By YİĞİT SÜMBÜL Published in 1976 as the author’s fourth novel, Marge Piercy’s Women on the Edge of Time is a utopian novel elaborating on the controversial issues within the feminist circles of the seventies such as women’s rights and social status in society, gender-related violence, sexism and patriarchal ideology. In the novel, Piercy comments on…