Interesting
Reads – 2018-11-26
Contents
Articles
- Researcher claims CRISPR-edited twins are born. How will science respond?
- A Strategist’s Guide to Blockchain
- eBook: The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change
- eBook: Understanding Cyber Conflict: 14 Analogies
- Google’s Family Link app just launched in India, and it's a glimpse of what parenting looks like in the modern age
- The World's Most Innovative Companies
- Current Artificial Intelligence Trends: Hardware and Software Accelerators (2018)
- 14 science-backed ways to sleep better
- Home automation, lighting, appliances & more - Smart Home
- 6 personality traits driving your organization
Events /
Announcements
- SPIN Chennai: Session on Analytics for Competitive Advantage
- Heidelberg Laureate Forum: Calling outstanding young researchers in mathematics and computer science
- Digital Disruption and Transformation Summit 2018 on 1st Dec 2018
- NPTEL: 2019 Jan to April semester - 290 courses are open now for enrolment
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Articles
Researcher
claims CRISPR-edited twins are born. How will science respond?
Gene
editing technology is revolutionising biology – and now twin human baby girls
may be a living part of this story.
Today
several media outlets report that a team of scientists in China has used CRISPR
to modify the DNA of healthy human embryos to genetically “vaccinate” against
HIV infection.
This
is the first reported case of humans born with CRISPR-modifed DNA.
Related:
World’s first gene-edited babies? Premature, dangerous and irresponsible
Related:
What is CRISPR gene editing, and how does it work?
A Strategist’s Guide
to Blockchain
The distributed ledger technology that
started with bitcoin is rapidly becoming a crowdsourced system for all types of
verification. Could it replace notary publics, manual vote recounts, and the
way banks manage transactions?
Related Paper: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer
Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto
eBook:
The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change
Pioneering
IT teams are more transparent, more collaborative, and more agile—that is, more
open. They've found creative strategies for leveraging open principles and
practices to achieve innovative digital transformations.
Now
they want to share them.
In
The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change (201 pages eBook), more than
25 contributors from open communities, companies, and projects offer hard-won
lessons and practical advice for creating an open IT department—one that can
deliver better, faster results and unparalleled business value.
eBook:
Understanding Cyber Conflict: 14 Analogies
Understanding
Cyber Conflict draws lessons from past technological disruptions to inform and
shape responses to today’s cyber challenges.
Google’s
Family Link app just launched in India, and it's a glimpse of what parenting
looks like in the modern age
Google
just launched the Family Link app in India, allowing parents to have a certain
degree of control over how children use their mobile phones without violating
their kid’s privacy. It also gives children the option to opt out of
supervision, if necessary, and provide full disclosure over what parents will
be able to see in terms of their mobile phone usage
Related
Post: Bill Gates is surprisingly strict about his kids' tech use - and it
should be a red flag for the rest of us
The World's Most Innovative Companies
In this Forbes year 2018 list of 100 companies,
Hindustan Unilever, the Indian company is ranked 8th ahead of
Facebook.
Current Artificial Intelligence Trends: Hardware and Software
Accelerators (2018)
AI is evolving at a pace quicker than ever in
history: private and national founds are being invested to embed it in services
while the research community keeps pushing state of the art boundaries. Hardware
and software accelerators are playing a key role in such a dynamic environment
where computational advantages can be directly translated into business
opportunities by speeding up model deployment and unlocking the potential of
big data.
An A.I. accelerator is any hardware or software
product made to speed up the computation of A.I. tasks. In this survey, the
status quo of current A.I. trends is described with particular focus on the
hardware and software accelerators side. The document starts by defining what
A.I. is, a
survey of A.I. based products and services is then
introduced to the reader followed by a survey of hardware and software
accelerators. We will see how pains of A.I. based products are well
complemented by accelerators, how software and chips are reshaping industries
and that cloud computing is playing an important role in today’s A.I. market
scenario.
The survey closes with a section where future work
is discussed, emphasis is put on what has not been answered in the paper and on
recapping the previous chapters.
14
science-backed ways to sleep better
If
you have a few days off over the summer, there's one thing you can do to take
care of yourself that will significantly change your life for the better - try
to fix your sleeping schedule.
More
than a third of Americans don't get the seven to nine hours of sleep a night
that the CDC recommends. Some people think they can function on less, but
usually that's because the sleep-deprived brain loses the ability to tell when
it isn't functioning right after just a few nights of short sleep.
Getting
better sleep can change your life in powerful ways. Simple, everyday
adjustments may be all that some people require for better sleep, but there are
also things that true insomniacs can do to soothe sleep troubles.
Business
Insider has reviewed a number of studies and interviewed sleep experts to
figure out how to best transform your sleep habits. Here are 14 science-backed
tips.
Related:
Sleep deprivation can kill you - here's what sleeping less than 7 hours per
night does to your body and brain
Related: Sleep
deprivation: Impact on cognitive performance
Related: Extent and
Health Consequences of Chronic Sleep Loss and Sleep Disorders
Home
automation, lighting, appliances & more - Smart Home
Smart home technology promises to make your living space more comfortable, more convenient, and more secure. We're here to put those claims to the test to help you find the right gadgets for your home.
6 personality traits driving your organization
What motivates the people in your community to
contribute—and who could potentially have a destructive impact?
This post presents a six-trait model for
understanding personality, called HEXACO:
Honesty-Humility
Emotionality
eXtraversion
Agreeableness (versus Anger)
Conscientiousness
Openness to Experience.
The post mentions that these summaries are reference
points for wider personality traits.
Related Post:
How selfless is your open organization?
More on Honesty-Humility Factor
Events
/ Announcements
SPIN Chennai: Session on Analytics for Competitive Advantage
SPIN Chennai invites you to join the
session on Analytics for Competitive Advantage with Mohan Shetye, CEO -
Integral Information Systems, USA on 30th November 2018, Friday 5.30 - 8.30 p.m.
at Alumni Centre Conf. Hall, Anna University, College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai
This event is FREE for the members of
SPIN Chennai, IEEE, CSI, PMI, ISACA, CIOKlub. Registration at https://goo.gl/z3eKjt
is mandatory
Pl. note that those who do not turn
up after registering will have to pay Rs.100, later (as per the organisers).
Heidelberg Laureate Forum: Calling outstanding
young researchers in mathematics and computer science
Young researchers in computer science
and mathematics from all over the world can apply for one of the 200 coveted
spots to participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), an annual
networking event. The HLF offers all accepted young researchers the great
opportunity to personally interact with the laureates of the most prestigious prizes
in the fields of mathematics and computer science. For one week, the recipients
of the Abel Prize, the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the ACM Prize in Computing, the
Fields Medal, and the Nevanlinna Prize engage in a cross-generational
scientific dialogue with young researchers in Heidelberg, Germany.
The application period for the 7th
HLF runs from November 15, 2018, until February 15, 2019. Young researchers at
all phases of their careers (undergraduate/pre-master, graduate PhD or postdoc)
are encouraged to complete and submit their applications by February 15
(midnight at the dateline) via the following link: http://application.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org
More details at https://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/blog/calling-outstanding-young-researchers-in-mathematics-and-computer-science/
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
NPTEL: 2019 Jan
to April semester - 290 courses are open now for enrolment
NPTEL
is happy to announce that enrolment for the Jan to April 2019 semester is open
now! Please go to this link to join any of the 290 courses that you are
interested in.
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