Speaker: Richard E. Fairley, PhD, Principal Associate of Software and Systems Engineering Associates (S2EA) View bio (PDF, 228 KB) This full-day presentation will cover practical applications of systems engineering processes and methods as documented in SEBoK and 15288. SEBOK is the guide to the systems engineering body of knowledge; 15288 is the ISO/IEC/IEEE standard 15288:2015 for system engineering processes. Examples and case studies will be used to illustrate processes, methods, and techniques for developing purposefully engineered systems. In addition, the problems that arise when systems engineers and software engineers work together will be covered, as will approaches that can be used to mitigate those problems. This presentation is intended for those who are, or will be, involved in development or modification of a multidisciplinary engineered system and others who wish to learn more about systems engineering when software is a system element.

United Parcel Service Inc. UPS -0.42 % said Friday it successfully used a drone to deliver medicine to an island near Boston, jumping into a race with competitors such as Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 0.13 % to test drone delivery inside the U.S. The delivery of an inhaler on Thursday was conducted in partnership with CyPhy Works, a drone maker in which UPS holds a stake. The delivery kicks off a wider test by UPS of using drones for commercial deliveries to remote or difficult-to-access areas. "UPS has a history of trying to take a look at new technologies as they evolve," said Chuck Holland, a vice president of industrial engineering. "We're looking at this in steps," he added, declining to say whether the company may someday use drones more broadly.

United Parcel Service (UPS) is newest competitor in the race to unleash the first fleet of delivery drones. The firm began testing the use of drones this week with a focus of bringing packages to remote or difficult-to-access locations. A mock delivery of urgent medical supplies was delivered from Beverly, Massachusetts to Children's Island as a test, which is the first drone delivery to be made by a major delivery firm in the US. United Parcel Service (UPS) is newest competitor in the race to unleash the first fleet of delivery drones. UPS announced today that it has begun testing the use of drones to make commercial deliveries of packages to remote or difficult-to-access locations, working together with drone-maker CyPhy Works.

If we actually end up discovering aliens then they'll probably just wipe us all out, Stephen Hawking has said. When we made contact with any aliens it would probably be like when the Native Americans first met Christopher Columbus. And, in that case, things "didn't turn out so well" for the people being visited, Professor Hawking has said. Stephen Hawking made the warning in a film posted online, Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places. It showed him taking a spacecraft across the cosmos, visiting different locations across the universe.

Internet experts and highly engaged netizens participated in answering an eight-question survey fielded by Elon University and the Pew Internet Project from late November 2013 through early January 2014. Self-driving cars, intelligent digital agents that can act for you, and robots are advancing rapidly. Will networked, automated, artificial intelligence (AI) applications and robotic devices have displaced more jobs than they have created by 2025? Describe your expectation about the degree to which robots, digital agents, and AI tools will have disrupted white collar and blue collar jobs by 2025 and the social consequences emerging from that. Among the key themes emerging from 1,896 respondents' answers were: - Advances in technology may displace certain types of work, but historically they have been a net creator of jobs. This page holds the content of the survey report, which is an organized look at respondents elaborations derived from 250 single-spaced pages of responses from ...

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

A UPS drone as it takes a three-mile test flight over open ocean outside of Boston. The test was one of a series of tests to show unmanned aerial vehicles can safely be used for deliveries in the United States. The drone was built by CyPhy, a Danvers, Mass.-based drone and technology company. A UPS drone took a three mile trip over open ocean outside of Salem, Mass. The test was meant to simulate delivery of urgently needed medicine from Beverly, Mass. to Children's Island, which is home to a YMCA day camp.

Many experts believe that artificial intelligence (AI) might lead to the end of the world--just not in the way that Hollywood films would have us believe. Movie plots, for example, feature robots increasing in intelligence until they take over the human race. The reality is far less dramatic, but may cause some incredible cultural shifts nonetheless. Last year, industry leaders like Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates wrote a letter to the International Joint Conference in Argentina stating that the successful adoption of AI might be one of humankind's biggest achievements--and maybe its last. They noted that AI poses unique ethical dilemmas, which--if not considered carefully--could prove more dangerous than nuclear capabilities.

Let's be honest, stupid humans are too smart sometimes for their own good and Skynet is going to happen, at least that's what Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk think, but what do they know? In 2014, Stephen Hawking wrote: "Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history, – Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. In the near term, world militaries are considering autonomous-weapon systems that can choose and eliminate targets." In a separate interview in the same year, he warned: "humans, limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded by A.I." In a Reddit Q&A Session in January 2015 Gates said: "I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don't understand why some people are not concerned."

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display