Interesting
Reads – 2018-10-06
Contents
Articles
- IT jobs: 10 must-reads for job hunters
- Halfway to boiling: the city at 50C
- BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980-1989
- Honoring the 2018 Nobel Laureates with free access to their research
- Plagiarism Detection
- Here Are 18 Industries Cannabis Is Disrupting
- The power of a hug can help you cope with conflict
- The 50 Most Genius Companies of 2018
- The Incredible Scientists Who Are Solving the Brain
- Whitepaper on using electromechanical design to streamline the design process
Events /
Announcements
- UK-India Social Innovation Challenge
- GIAN Course on “Digital Business: The Innovation Challenge of the Next Decade” at IIT Madras
- CSI-2018: 53rd Annual Convention of Computer Society of India 2018 at Udaipur during 14-16 Dec 2018
- INDICON 2018: Theme “Harnessing Technology For Humanity” at Coimbatore during 16-18 Dec 2018
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Articles
IT
jobs: 10 must-reads for job hunters
IT
people have many passions, ranging from mobile technology to security. But one
thing you’re always passionate about is your career success. It’s an
interesting moment in the IT profession, marked by great change both in
individual roles and team organization. More CIOs are leading digital strategy.
More workplaces are blurring the boundaries between teams, thanks to DevOps and
agile ways of working. New technologies like AI and automation are taking over
some manual tasks, ideally freeing IT people to do more valuable work.
Based
on our recent readership numbers on career-minded stories, this is a time of
year when many of you start to think about whether you’re still in the right
place. So we’ve rounded up some must-reads if you’re hunting for your next IT
role – or preparing to hunt – because preparation is key.
These
ten articles will give you everything from a look at what roles are hot to
salary negotiation tips. So dig in. And let us know what aspects of IT job
hunting you’d like us to bear down on in the future. Good luck with the job
hunt.
Halfway
to boiling: the city at 50C
It
is the temperature at which human cells start to cook, animals suffer and air
conditioners overload power grids. Once an urban anomaly, 50C is fast becoming
reality
Not
long ago, 50C was considered an anomaly, but it is increasingly widespread.
Earlier this year, the 1.1 million residents of Nawabshah, Pakistan, endured
the hottest April ever recorded on Earth, as temperatures hit 50.2C. In
neighbouring India two years earlier, the town of Phalodi sweltered in 51C –
the country’s hottest ever day.
Dev
Niyogi, professor at Purdue University, Indiana, and chair of the Urban
Environment department at the American Meteorological Society, witnessed how
cities were affected by extreme heat on a research trip to New Delhi and Pune
during that 2015 heatwave in India, which killed more than 2,000 people.
“You
could see the physical change. Road surfaces started to melt, neighbourhoods
went quiet because people didn’t go out and water vapour rose off the ground
like a desert mirage,” he recalls.
“We
must hope that we don’t see 50C. That would be uncharted territory.
Infrastructure would be crippled and ecosystem services would start to break
down, with long-term consequences.”
BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980-1989
In the 1980s, the BBC explored the world of
computing in The Computer Literacy Project. They commissioned a home computer
(the BBC Micro) and taught viewers how to program.
The Computer Literacy Project chronicled a decade of
information technology and was a milestone in the history of computing in
Britain, helping to inspire a generation of coders.
This site contains all 146 of the original Computer
Literacy Project programmes plus 121 related programmes, broken down into 2,509
categorised, searchable clips.
- Watch any of the 267 programmes
- Explore 2,509 programme clips by topic or text search
- Find out how the BBC Computer Literacy Project came about
- Run 166 BBC Micro programs that were used on-screen
Related
story: The BBC brings the history of computing to life
Honoring the 2018 Nobel Laureates with free access to their research
Most scientific progress stems from a team effort.
The Nobel Prize recognizes scientific achievements that have brought real and
lasting change to health, the physical sciences, technology and economics and
to our understanding of these fields. Each prize is awarded to up to three
individuals, but the reality is that each breakthrough is the culmination of
millions of hours of work conducted in labs around the world. Each award is
only possible because of the community of researchers, reviewers and co-authors
that enabled it.
The formidable achievements recognized by the Nobel Foundation
will, in turn, empower today’s scientists to make further discoveries. Thanks
to their predecessors, who dedicated their time in pursuit of these truths, the
winners listed below are finding new answers, reshaping human knowledge and
tackling global crises.
Most of the Nobel Laureates in science have
published their work in Elsevier's journals and books — 181 out of 182 since
the year 2000, according to a Scopus analysis — and many have served as
editors, editorial board members or reviewers.
At Elsevier, we are proud to support such scientific
achievement. Many of our people began their careers in research, medicine or
science, and they are passionate about working closely with people in the
research community to support the great work they do and make it possible for
researchers around the world to find it and build on it.
To honor this year’s Nobel Laureates, their
achievements, and the community that made these amazing breakthroughs possible,
we have made a selection of their most cited papers published with Elsevier
freely available.
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Plagiarism Detection
Explore the latest articles, projects, and questions
and answers in Plagiarism Detection, and find Plagiarism Detection experts.
Here
Are 18 Industries Cannabis Is Disrupting
As
legal cannabis goes mainstream, it's creeping into everything from CBD-oil
infused beauty products, to houses made of hemp, to banking for marijuana
retailers.
Once
an illegal and somewhat niche product, legal cannabis is now a fast-growing
global industry. And it’s proving to be disruptive, impacting everything from
beverage production to home construction.
Recent
analyst reports estimate that the global legal marijuana industry will reach
more than $20B by 2025.
Medical
marijuana is already legal in more than half the United States, and eight
states (plus Washington DC) have legalized marijuana for recreational use. It’s
soon to be fully legal in all of Canada.
There’s
also been a large uptick in public and private investment in new, safer forms
of ingestible marijuana, while cannabis startups — focused on everything from
therapeutics applications to cultivation techniques — are also cropping up.
Financing to cannabis companies more than doubled in 2017.
The
power of a hug can help you cope with conflict
Friends, children, romantic partners, family members – many of us exchange hugs with others on a regular basis. New research from the United States, published today in PLOS, now shows hugs can help us to cope with conflict in our daily life.
Hugs are considered a form of affectionate touch.
Hugs occur between social partners of all types, and sometimes even strangers.
They often arise in positive contexts – while greeting,
celebrating an achievement, or simply enjoying the presence of a loved one –
but they can also occur in negative contexts when support is needed.
Affectionate touch buffers anxiety associated with
potential negative events. For instance, in one study, brain activity among
participants who held their romantic partner’s hand during a stressful
situation reflected less intense threat responses compared to that of
participants who held a stranger’s hand, or no hand at all.
The new research, led by Carnegie Mellon’s Michael
Murphy, reveals the important role that hugs can play in buffering against the
negative impact of interpersonal conflict such as disagreements and arguments.
The 50
Most Genius Companies of 2018
At
the heart of every great business is a creative solution to a problem—and those
solutions sometimes change the world.
To
assemble TIME’s first annual list of Genius Companies, we asked our global
network of editors and correspondents to nominate businesses that are inventing
the future. Then we evaluated candidates on key factors, including originality,
influence, success and ambition.
The
result: 50 companies that are driving progress now, and bear watching for what
they do next.
The
Incredible Scientists Who Are Solving the Brain
True
stories of indefatigable researchers, heroic engineers, and champions of,
neuroscience who are finally turning the corner in the effort to understand,
heal, and improve the human brain.
Whitepaper
on using electromechanical design to streamline the design process
Today’s products have become ultra-sophisticated cyber-physical systems. They have software, interconnected circuits and attached sensors, actuators and communications interfaces.
Download
this whitepaper to learn how working on an integrated platform with
cross-domain technologies, common data backbones and shared libraries helps
engineers make faster, more informed decisions; ultimately delivering better
designs.
Events
/ Announcements
UK-India Social
Innovation Challenge
CSIE
IIT Madras along with the Social Impact Lab, University of Southampton, UK has
launched the 2nd edition of UK India Social Innovation Challenge -2018 on the
theme Waste Management.
The
Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) at Defra estimates that around 600
million tonnes of products and materials enter the UK economy each year and we
generate approximately 290 million tonnes of waste. Only 115 million tonnes of
this combined material gets recycled. Although there has been a gradual decline
in waste over the past few years, there is still a long way to go in
identifying ways to prevent waste in manufacturing and production processes,
through supply chains and particularly at a community level.
There
has been significant success in reducing waste in recent years, but it remains
an enormous challenge and an area which needs new solutions. We throw away more
than seven million tonnes of food and drink every year from our homes – most of
which could have been safely consumed. The UK hospitality sector alone (hotels,
pubs, restaurants and quick service restaurants) could save £724 million a year
by tackling food waste.
The
UKISEEN SIC is challenging participants to create hard impact through one of
the following areas:
- The sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources. Halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.
- Achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment.
- Substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.
Prize
Money: 2900 UKP. Deadline: 4th November 2018
For
more details pl. visit http://ukiseen.org/uk-india-social-innovation-challenge-new
GIAN Course on
“Digital Business: The Innovation Challenge of the Next Decade” at IIT Madras
The GIAN Course on “Digital Business:
The Innovation Challenge of the Next Decade” hosted by Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras from 26th to
30th November, 2018. The sessions will
be handled by Prof. Richard Watson, University of Georgia in coordination with
Prof. Saji K. Mathew, DoMS, IIT Madras.
Course Brochure at https://goo.gl/5KfKxP
Please follow the following steps for
the registration:
1. Go to GIAN website (http://www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in/GREGN/index).
First time
users need to register and pay a
one-time fee of INR 500.
2. Enroll for the course: Digital
Business: The Innovation Challenge of the Next
Decade. Once you enroll for the course,
an Enrollment/Application number will be
generated, and the course coordinators
will be notified.
For clarifications pl. contact: Dr.
Saji K. Mathew, Professor, DoMS, IIT Madras.
Tel: +91 44 2257 4573; Cell: +91
8056078251; Email: saji@iitm.ac.in
CSI-2018: 53rd Annual
Convention of Computer Society of India 2018 at Udaipur during 14-16 Dec 2018
The
53rd Annual Convention of CSI will be held at Hotel Inder Residency. Udaipur,
Rajasthan, India during 14-16 Dec 2018.
For
details visit the convention website at http://www.csi-2018.org
INDICON 2018:
Theme “Harnessing Technology For Humanity” at Coimbatore during 16-18 Dec 2018
With
the theme of “Harnessing Technology for Humanity”, the 15th IEEE India Council
International Conference (INDICON 2018), being organized by the IEEE Madras
Section during December 15-18, 2018, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore,
with technical support from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, promises
to be bigger and better than before. With plenary sessions, keynote addresses
by reputed academicians, tutorials, workshops, Student Paper contests, industry
exhibits and stalls and most importantly, high quality presentations from the
best of the researchers in India, no effort is being spared to make INDICON
2018, the best so far.
For
details visit the website at http://indicon2018.in/
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