Interesting
Reads – 2018-11-21
Contents
Articles
- Consumer Applications of Quantum Computing: A Promising Approach for Secure Computation, Trusted Data Storage, and Efficient Applications
- What is the future of office spaces?
- 50 most read stories on YourStory in 2016
- How to Engineer Biology
- Gmail encryption: Everything you need to know
- 8 ways interviewers turn off IT job seekers
- 109 Random Acts of Kindness You Can Start Doing Today
- Drones in Humanitarian Action
- How the smartphone affected an entire generation of kids
- Ten simple rules for collaboratively writing a multi-authored paper
Events /
Announcements
- Artificial Intelligence Developer Conference at Chennai on 26th Nov 2018
- Workshop on Internet of Things at PIT Chennai on 29 & 30 Nov 2018
- Digital Disruption and Transformation Summit 2018 on 1st Dec 2018
- IC2T: International Conference for Convergence in Technology at Pune
- Women In Technology Summit at NITK Surathkal
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Articles
Consumer Applications of Quantum Computing: A Promising Approach for
Secure Computation, Trusted Data Storage, and Efficient Applications
Demands from the commerce, finance, security, and
logistics sectors drive the persistent growth of computing. As current research
focuses on providing new computing capabilities using disruptive approaches,
quantum computing represents a promising strategy that offers new capabilities
in secure computation, trusted data storage, and efficient applications. This
article discusses the growing awareness that quantum computing can impact a
broad variety of consumer concerns and applications.
What is the future of office spaces?
A lot of us spend long stretches in the
office, but outdated design could be damaging our wellbeing and mental health.
What’s more, it’s killing our productivity. One study found that office workers
spend more time sitting than pensioners, which increases the risk of
cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes and even cancer.
That’s why forward-looking designers
are finding ways to build spaces that heal rather than hurt us. Going beyond
the already ubiquitous standing desks and social “breakout sofas,” the office
of the future is healthy, harmonious and happy. Here’s how it’s beginning to
take shape.
Related:
The traditional office is dead. Here's why
Related: Google's Zurich office has a jungle-themed meeting room
Related:
An Inside Look at the Plans for Google's Massive New London Headquarters
50
most read stories on YourStory in 2016
Though
bit dated, it is an interesting post.
The
year 2016 started with a bang with the ‘Startup India, Stand up India’
initiative rolled out by the government. It was the year when cockroaches
dominated the discussions over unicorns, when we spoke about checks and
regulations rather than competitiveness, when startups’ hiring and firing made
news more often than ever, when an announcement impacted the whole startup
ecosystem like none other before, and when the ecosystem detected the weather
change.
We
told more than 10,000 stories of passion, success, failure, determination,
perseverance, honour, grit, pain, and learning in 2016.
How to
Engineer Biology
Because
biology is the result of evolution and not human development, bringing
engineering principles to it is guaranteed to fail. Or so goes the argument
behind the “Grove fallacy,” first invoked by drug industry observer Derek Lowe
in a critique of Intel CEO Andy Grove in 2007. After being diagnosed with prostate
cancer, Grove found himself frustrated by what he described as the “lack of
real output” in pharma especially as compared to the drive of Moore’s Law in
his own industry.
This
was a naive and invalid criticism from Silicon Valley outsiders, Lowe argued,
because “medical research is different [and harder] than semiconductor
research”—and “that’s partly because we didn’t build them. Making the things
[like semiconductors] from the ground up is a real advantage when it comes to
understanding them, but we started studying life after it had a few billion
years head start.” So the very idea of engineering biology by nature is doomed
to fail, he further wrote, given that “billions of years of evolutionary
tinkering have led to something so complex and so strange that it can make the
highest human-designed technology look like something built with sticks.”
But
we’ve seen incredible advances in the world of biology and tech the last few
years, from AI diagnosing cancer more accurately than humans do, to editing
genes with CRISPR. So is it still true that the idea of bringing an engineering
mindset to bio is another case of starry-eyed technologist solutionism?
It
is absolutely true that we’re very much in the process of discovering biology,
still untangling the “technical debt” of evolution. Just when one thinks one
understands the biology, another layer of the onion appears. It’s also
dangerously easy to break biology, with far greater consequences than broken
code—even single-point mutations can lead to disease, and extremely small
quantities of certain chemicals can have disastrous side effects. Many of the
failures of medicine and especially drug design stem from the complexity and
unpredictability of biology.
But
the fact that we are still discovering biology doesn’t mean that we can’t
design. We can engineer the tools we use to manage biology.
Gmail
encryption: Everything you need to know
This
easy-to-follow guide will help you understand what's going on with Gmail
encryption and what you can do to maximize your messaging privacy.
8 ways interviewers turn off IT job seekers
Having trouble filling open positions in IT? You're
certainly not alone - but the culprit may be a flawed or dated approach to
interviews
109 Random Acts of Kindness You Can Start Doing Today
We can get so caught up in the hustle and bustle of
everyday life that we often forget to think of others. But a small gesture of
kindness can not only make someone else's entire day, but it can also make you
feel good. So why not spread the love and try a random act of kindness today?
Here are 109 ideas to get you started.
Drones
in Humanitarian Action
Fostering
the appropriate use of airborne systems in humanitarian crises
The
aim of this analysis was to consolidate existing knowledge on the use of drones
in humanitarian contexts and to further test, promote and disseminate their
appropriate use and best practices among humanitarian organisations and the
Global Clusters. The analysis include 14 case studies.
Related:
60 pages report -- “Drones in
Humanitarian Action” is an in-depth analysis of the role that drones (also
known as UAVs or RPASs) can play in humanitarian crises. It is based on two
years of research as well as multiple stakeholder consultations.
How
the smartphone affected an entire generation of kids
As someone who researches generational differences, I find one of the most frequent questions I’m asked is “What generation am I in?”
If you were born before 1980, that’s a relatively
easy question to answer: the Silent Generation was born between 1925 and 1945;
baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964; Gen X followed (born between 1965
and 1979).
Next come millennials, born after 1980. But where do
millennials end, and when does the next generation begin? Until recently, I
(and many others) thought the last millennial birth year would be 1999 –
today’s 18-year-olds.
However, that changed a few years ago, when I
started to notice big shifts in teens’ behavior and attitudes in the yearly
surveys of 11 million young people that I analyze for my research. Around 2010,
teens started to spend their time much differently from the generations that
preceded them. Then, around 2012, sudden shifts in their psychological
well-being began to appear. Together, these changes pointed to a generational
cutoff around 1995, which meant that the kids of this new, post-millennial
generation were already in college.
These teens and young adults all have one thing in
common: Their childhood or adolescence coincided with the rise of the
smartphone.
Ten
simple rules for collaboratively writing a multi-authored paper
Science
is increasingly done in large teams [1], making it more likely that papers will
be written by several authors from different institutes, disciplines, and
cultural backgrounds. A small number of “Ten simple rules” papers have been
written on collaboration [2, 3] and on writing [4, 5] but not on combining the
two. Collaborative writing with multiple authors has additional challenges,
including varied levels of engagement of coauthors, provision of fair credit
through authorship or acknowledgements, acceptance of a diversity of work
styles, and the need for clear communication. Miscommunication, a lack of
leadership, and inappropriate tools or writing approaches can lead to
frustration, delay of publication, or even the termination of a project.
To
provide insight into collaborative writing, we use our experience from the
Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) [6] to frame 10 simple rules
for collaboratively writing a multi-authored paper. We consider a collaborative
multi-authored paper to have three or more people from at least two different
institutions. A multi-authored paper can be a result of a single discrete
research project or the outcome of a larger research program that includes
other papers based on common data or methods. The writing of a multi-authored
paper is embedded within a broader context of planning and collaboration among
team members. Our recommended rules include elements of both the planning and
writing of a paper, and they can be iterative, although we have listed them in
numerical order. It will help to revisit the rules frequently throughout the
writing process. With the 10 rules outlined below, we aim to provide a
foundation for writing multi-authored papers and conducting exciting and
influential science.
Events
/ Announcements
Artificial Intelligence Developer Conference at Chennai on 26th
Nov 2018
A FREE one day Artificial Intelligence
Developer Conference by Object Automation Software Solutions Pvt Ltd with the
support of IBM is being held at Chennai on Monday, 26th Nov 2018 at IIT
Madras Research Park, 32, Kanagam Road, Taramani, Chennai.
More details at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artificial-intelligence-developer-conference-tickets-52517569464
For assistance pl. contact: Sandhya +91
7397784815 or Ms Lakshmi +91 7397784811
Workshop on Internet of Things at PIT Chennai on 29
& 30 Nov 2018
A two days workshop on Internet of
Things is being held at Panimalar Institute of Technology, Chennai during 29-30
Nov 2018
The regn fee is Rs. 400/- for IEEE
Members and Rs. 600/- for others.
The workshop brochure is at https://goo.gl/P9SvSp
Digital
Disruption and Transformation Summit 2018 on 13th Dec 2018
FICCI TNSC with support from Government
of Tamil Nadu is organizing its 3rd Edition of Digital Disruption and
Transformation Conference (also known at DT3),
the 3rd annual flagship event of FICCI under the theme of “Digital
Rumpus – Perish or Prosper” on 13th December 2018 at Hotel ITC Grand Chola,
Chennai.
CSI & IEEE members are eligible for
10% discount in the registration fee. The discount code to be applied at the
time of registration is CSIDT3, IEEEDT3 respectively.
Early Bird Deep Discounts are available
for registrations done till 30th November 2018.
For details pl. visit http://ficci-tnsc.com/it-ddts-2018/ or contact: Mr R Sudharsan at sudharsan.ramu@ficci.com, 044-42849614-15
IC2T: International
Conference for Convergence in Technology at Pune
The
5th International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT 2019-Technical
Sponsored by IEEE Bombay Section) will be held in Pune, India from March 29th
to 31th 2019. Last date for paper
submission: 30th Nov 2018.
Conf.
Website at http://www.i2ct.in/
Women In
Technology Summit at NITK Surathkal
IEEE
Computer Society - India SAC in association with IEEE NITK Student branch and
IEEE Mangalore Subsection is conducting Women in Technology Summit at NITK
Surathkal during 21-23 Dec 2018
For
Phase 1 Registrations visit: http://bit.ly/WiTS2018
Visit
the website for more details: http://wits.ieee-mangalore.org
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