Interesting
Reads – 2018-11-01
Contents
Articles
- Effective Presentation Tips – Smart Sheets & Expert Guides
- Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019
- NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework
- 20 top lawyers were beaten by legal AI. Here are their surprising responses
- Alan Mathison Turing, 1912-1954: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
- Death is not the end: Fascinating funeral traditions from around the globe
- Making Electronic Voting Machines Tamper-proof: Some Administrative and Technical Suggestions
- How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction
- India’s Emerging 100: A report on startups shaping India’s digital economy by YourStory with Akamai
- What a massive database of retracted papers reveals about science publishing’s ‘death penalty’
Events /
Announcements
- SETS: Training Programme on Linux Security and Network Programming in 'C' Language
- Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA)
- COMET 2K19: 2nd International Conference on Emerging Current Trends in Computing and Expert Technology
- IEEE MiniPoco at NIT Calicut on 10th Nov 2018
- 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
Effective
Presentation Tips – Smart Sheets & Expert Guides
Active
Presence Limited offers effective presentation tips for business communicators.
The library contains a collection of unique material and provides presentation
tips in the areas of public speaking, presenting and PowerPoint Presentations.
Smart
Sheets : Smart Sheets are double-sided PDF documents, packed with effective
presentation tips. Although their focus is narrow, each sheet provides a clear,
concise foundation to its topic. You are welcome to open and save whichever
Smart Sheets appeal to you, no sign-up is necessary. So far, we have produced
presentation tips across nine Smart Sheets: Planning a Presentation, What is
Your Presentation Sales Message?, Presentation Preparation Tips, How to Write a
Presentation, Engaging Your Audience, Presentation Eye Contact, Microphone
Presentations, Presentation Handouts and How to Give a Good Presentation.
Expert
Guides: Expert Guides provide effective presentation tips across a multi-page
PDF design. Each guide addresses its particular subject in greater detail, with
more space than the Smart Sheets can afford. Inside you’ll find presentation
tips that will inspire you to confidently make changes in the way you plan,
prepare and perform key business presentations, public speaking engagements or
meeting facilitation roles. Our most popular guide is PowerPoint Presentation
Ideas. Business presentations are notoriously dull: bullet-points, unimaginative
corporate graphics and too much information, most of which is irrelevant… But
they don’t have to be this way. Other
guides include: PowerPont ‘Smart Art’; How to Speak Well in Public; Breathing
Exercises: Presenting; Powerful Questions to Facilitators; and International
English Style Guide.
These
effective presentation tips will help
you: Unlock the potential for presentation design within PowerPoint; Focus on
the critical issues that need communicating; and Win more business with
effective PowerPoint presentations
Gartner
Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019
Although
science fiction may depict AI robots as the bad guys, some tech giants now
employ them for security. Companies like Microsoft and Uber use Knightscope K5
robots to patrol parking lots and large outdoor areas to predict and prevent
crime. The robots can read license plates, report suspicious activity and
collect data to report to their owners.
These
AI-driven robots are just one example of “autonomous things,” one of the
Gartner Top 10 strategic technologies for 2019 with the potential to drive
significant disruption and deliver opportunity over the next five years.
“The
future will be characterized by smart devices delivering increasingly
insightful digital services everywhere,” said David Cearley, Gartner vice
president and Fellow, at Gartner 2018 Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida. “We
call this the intelligent digital mesh.”
- Intelligent: How AI is in virtually every existing technology, and creating entirely new categories.
- Digital: Blending the digital and physical worlds to create an immersive world.
- Mesh: Exploiting connections between expanding sets of people, businesses, devices, content and services.
“Trends
under each of these three themes are a key ingredient in driving a continuous
innovation process as part of the continuous next strategy,” Cearley said.
The
Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology trends highlight changing or not yet widely
recognized trends that will impact and transform industries through 2023.
Access
the related Research Document at https://www.gartner.com/doc/3891569/top--strategic-technology-trends
Registration is required.
NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework
Welcome to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity
Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NICE Framework) page. The NICE Framework provides a blueprint to
categorize, organize, and describe cybersecurity work into Categories,
Specialty Areas, Work Roles, tasks, and knowledge, skills, and abilities
(KSAs). The NICE Framework provides a
common language to speak about cybersecurity roles and jobs.
Within the NICE Framework, there are seven
Categories, each comprising of several Specialty Areas. Additionally, within
each Specialty Area, there are Work Roles. Each Work Role includes the tasks
required to perform the role, as well as the KSAs required to perform those
tasks. Additionally, Capability Indicators have now been added to the NICE
Cybersecurity Workforce Framework on the NICCS website. The Capability Indicators are a combination
of education, certification, training, experiential learning, and continuous
learning attributes that could indicate a greater likelihood in an individual’s
ability to perform a given Work Role.
This organizing structure is based on extensive job analysis that group
together work and activities that share common functions, regardless of job
titles or other occupational terms.
20 top lawyers were beaten by legal AI. Here are their surprising
responses
In a landmark study, 20 top US corporate lawyers
with decades of experience in corporate law and contract review were pitted
against an AI. Their task was to spot issues in five Non-Disclosure Agreements
(NDAs), which are a contractual basis for most business deals.
The study, carried out with leading legal academics
and experts, saw the LawGeex AI achieve an average 94% accuracy rate, higher
than the lawyers who achieved an average rate of 85%. It took the lawyers an
average of 92 minutes to complete the NDA issue spotting, compared to 26
seconds for the LawGeex AI. The longest time taken by a lawyer to complete the
test was 156 minutes, and the shortest time was 51 minutes. The study made
waves around the world and was covered across global media.
Alan Mathison Turing, 1912-1954:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
The sudden death of Alan Turing on 7 June 1954
deprived mathematics and science of a great original mind at the height of its
power. After some years of scientific indecision, since the end of the war,
Turing had found, in his chemical theory of growth and form, a theme that gave
the fullest scope for his rare combination of abilities, as a mathematical
analyst with a flair for machine computing, and a natural philosopher full of
bold original ideas. The preliminary report of 1952, and the account that will
appear posthumously, describe only his first rough sketch of this theory, and
the unfulfilled design must remain a painful reminder of the loss that his
early death has caused to science. Alan Mathison Turing was born in London on
23 June 1912, the son of Julius Mathison Turing, of the Indian Civil Service,
and of Ethel Sara Turing (néeStoney). The name ‘Turing’ is of Scottish, perhaps
ultimately of Norman origin, the final g being an addition made by Sir William
Turing, of Aberdeenshire, in the reign of James VI and I. The Stoneys, an
English-Irish family of Yorkshire origin, produced some distinguished
physicists and engineers in the nineteenth century, three of whom became
Fellows of the Society; and Edith A. Stoney was one of the early women
equal-to-wranglers at Cambridge (bracketed with 17th Wrangler, 1893). Alan
Turing’s interest in science began early and never wavered. Both at his
preparatory schools and later at Sherborne, which he entered in 1926, the
contrast between his absorbed interest in science and mathematics, and his
indifference to Latin and ‘English subjects’ perplexed and distressed his
teachers, bent on giving him a well-balanced education.
Death
is not the end: Fascinating funeral traditions from around the globe
The
funerals I’ve attended have all been very much the same. Relatives and friends
arrive in all black and take seats in the church or synagogue pews for a somber
ceremony where prayers are said, memories are shared and tears are shed. The
attendees walk slowly out to their cars and form a single file line a behind
the hearse, arriving at the graveyard where they place roses on the casket just
before it’s lowered into the ground. Then, they proceed to the immediate
family’s home, where the doorbell rings with a steady stream of loved ones —
casserole dishes in hand — since, in the days ahead, people often forget to
eat.
Cultural
anthropologist Kelli Swazey (TED Talk: Life that doesn’t end with death) shares
a different approach to memorializing the dead. In Tana Toraja in eastern
Indonesia, funerals are raucous affairs involving the whole village. They can
last anywhere from days to weeks. Families save up for long periods of time to
raise the resources for a lavish funeral, where sacrificial water buffalo will
carry the deceased’s soul to the afterlife. Until that moment — which can take
place years after physical death — the dead relative is referred to simply as a
“person who is sick,” or even one “who is asleep.” They are laid down special
rooms in the family home, where they are symbolically fed, cared for and taken
out — very much still a part of their relative’s lives.
Making
Electronic Voting Machines Tamper-proof: Some Administrative and Technical
Suggestions
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has been consistently claiming that its Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are unique and that tampering is not feasible under real election conditions with its security protocol and administrative safeguards in place.
Notwithstanding the ECI’s claims, at various points
in time, the entire spectrum of political parties in India [including BJP and
Congress] have expressed their reservations about the integrity of its EVMs.
There have also been demands to revert to paper ballots. Confidence in the
integrity of EVMs is important for voters to trust the outcomes of elections.
The ECI cannot allow this confidence to be eroded.
In this Policy Watch, K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty, a
former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, examines the
vulnerabilities of EVMs in the light of the ECI’s claims thereof, the adequacy
of its security protocol and administrative safeguards, and the risks due to
the perfunctory implementation of VVPAT systems as done in the recent Assembly
Elections. He provides several practical administrative and technical suggestions
to make Indian EVMs tamper-proof.
How to
Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction
Computer
science faculty have a responsibility to teach students to recognize both the
larger ethical issues and particular responsibilities that are part and parcel
of their work as technologists. This is, however, a kind of teaching for which
most of us have not been trained, and that faculty and students approach with
some trepidation. In this article, we explore the use of science fiction as a
tool to enable those teaching artificial intelligence to engage students and
practitioners about the scope and implications of current and future work in
computer science. We have spent several years developing a creative approach to
teaching computer ethics, through a course we call "Science Fiction and
Computer Ethics. The course has been taught five times at the University of
Kentucky and two times at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has been
successful with students, as evidenced by increasing and full enrollments; high
teaching-evaluation numbers; positive anonymous comments from students;
nominations and awards for good teaching; and invitations to speak about the
course on conference panels and in talks.
India’s
Emerging 100: A report on startups shaping India’s digital economy by YourStory
with Akamai
With
close to 40,000 startups in India, the country's startup game is on point and
many young entrepreneurs are on the run to showcase their disruptive ideas to
the world. The startup ecosystem is filled with euphoric highs and lows, but
thanks to affordable and accessible technology, entrepreneurs now have more
opportunities to scale their innovations and positively impact industries.
YourStory,
together with Akamai features many such new-age startups who are instruments of
positive change in sectors like healthcare, tech for impact, travel, deeptech,
consumer internet and more. Leveraging Internet and cutting-edge technology,
these next-generation innovators are showing gravity-defying momentum and
solving quintessential Indian problems. The India Emerging 100 Report will
feature startups in the country who are seizing opportunities in their journey
to growth and taking centre stage in the innovation ecosystem.
The
ecosystem has already seen euphoric highs and crushing lows and is all the more
mature for it. While there is no way to predict which of these could be the
next Flipkart or Paytm, we do believe that these companies provide much-needed
solutions and innovative products. They also have tremendous potential for
growth and could well be trailblazers in the years to come.
This
report, which lists the India Emerging 100, is unique in its ability to
identify these startups that have potential to grow and become benchmark
companies in each sector.
What a
massive database of retracted papers reveals about science publishing’s ‘death
penalty’
Nearly a decade ago, headlines highlighted a disturbing trend in science: The number of articles retracted by journals had increased 10-fold during the previous 10 years. Fraud accounted for some 60% of those retractions; one offender, anesthesiologist Joachim Boldt, had racked up almost 90 retractions after investigators concluded he had fabricated data and committed other ethical violations. Boldt may have even harmed patients by encouraging the adoption of an unproven surgical treatment. Science, it seemed, faced a mushrooming crisis.
The
alarming news came with some caveats. Although statistics were sketchy,
retractions appeared to be relatively rare, involving only about two of every
10,000 papers. Sometimes the reason for the withdrawal was honest error, not
deliberate fraud. And whether suspect papers were becoming more common—or
journals were just getting better at recognizing and reporting them—wasn't
clear.
Still,
the surge in retractions led many observers to call on publishers, editors, and
other gatekeepers to make greater efforts to stamp out bad science. The
attention also helped catalyze an effort by two longtime health
journalists—Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, who founded the blog Retraction
Watch, based in New York City—to get more insight into just how many scientific
papers were being withdrawn, and why. They began to assemble a list of
retractions.
That
list, formally released to the public this week as a searchable database, is
now the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. It includes more than
18,000 retracted papers and conference abstracts dating back to the 1970s (and
even one paper from 1756 involving Benjamin Franklin). It is not a perfect
window into the world of retractions. Not all publishers, for instance,
publicize or clearly label papers they have retracted, or explain why they did
so. And determining which author is responsible for a paper's fatal flaws can
be difficult.
Still,
the data trove has enabled Science, working with Retraction Watch, to gain
unusual insight into one of scientific publishing's most consequential but
shrouded practices. Our analysis of about 10,500 retracted journal articles
shows the number of retractions has continued to grow, but it also challenges
some worrying perceptions that continue today. The rise of retractions seems to
reflect not so much an epidemic of fraud as a community trying to police
itself.
Events
/ Announcements
SETS: Training
Programme on Linux Security and Network Programming in 'C' Language
SETS
is organising a Training Programme on Linux Security and Network Programming in
'C'
Language
from 19th to 21st November (Three Days)
at MGR Knowledge City, CIT Campus,
Taramani,
Chennai - 600 113.
Programme
Brochure at http://www.setsindia.in/PdfDocs/Linux.pdf
Contacts:
Dr. P. Nageswara Rao, Workshop Coordinator, SETS. Mobile: 9884143131
Landline:
044-66632506 & Email: workshop@setsindia.net
Atal Ranking of
Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA)
Atal
Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) is an initiative of
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India to systematically
rank all major higher educational institutions and universities in India on
indicators related to “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development” amongst
students and faculties.
Registration
Open: 25th Oct 2018, Closes: 15th Nov
2018
Data
Submission Open: 16th Nov 2018, Closes:
31st Dec 2018
More
details at https://mbcet.wordpress.com/2018/10/30/atal-ranking-of-institutions-on-innovation-achievements-ariia/
COMET 2K19: 2nd
International Conference on Emerging Current Trends in Computing and Expert
Technology
Panimalar Engineering College Chennai,
India, is organizing the “2nd International Conference on Emerging Current
Trends in Computing and Expert Technology" (COMET 2K19) on March 22nd and
23rd, 2019. The conference includes workshops, poster presentation project
demo, invited talks and technical paper presentations. All registered papers
will be published in Springer Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and
Communications Technologies.
Last date for paper submission: December
10,2018
For details pl. visit http://www.pecteam.in/
IEEE MiniPoco at NIT Calicut on 10th
Nov 2018
IEEE Kerala Section and IEEE India
Council invite potential conference organizers to learn about the core of
organizing a successful IEEE conference. The theme of this year's mini POCO
workshop scheduled on 10th Nov 2018 is “How to successfully organize
an IEEE Conference?”. Last Date for
Registration is 6th November 2018. Only 100 seats are available. Registration
will be purely on First come First serve basis.
For more details pl. visit https://sites.google.com/nitc.ac.in/minipoco2018/
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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