Interesting
Reads – 2018-12-21
Contents
Articles
- Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: The Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years
- Banking Is Only The Beginning: 50 Big Industries Blockchain Could Transform
- The cornerstones of large-scale technology transformation
- Elon Musk Unveils the Boring Company’s Car-Flinging Tunnel
- Supporting Reference Material for TeenTech Awards
- When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 142 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time
- Top 10 TED Talks of 2018
- The Yoda of Silicon Valley
- Nature is a rich source of medicine – if we can protect it
- Posting About Your Kids Online Could Damage Their Futures
Events /
Announcements
- WiSPNET 2019 at Chennai during 21-23 Mar 2019
- CVRCE Innovation Challenge – I -- open to all ITI / Polytechnic / +2 Science students
- CVRCE Innovation Challenge – II -- open to all University and College students & CVRCE alumni teams
- SETS, IEEE CS, CSI, ISACA: "National Workshop on Hardware Security" at Chennai 26th Feb 2019
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Articles
Consumer
Electronics Hall of Fame: The Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years
Over
the past half century, countless consumer devices have charmed, muscled, or
seduced their way into our lives. Among these gadgets, a select few can be
called great. IEEE Spectrum’s editors have chosen to enshrine 25 of them into
the inaugural class of inductees to Spectrum’s own Consumer Electronics Hall of
Fame. Some of these products launched a whole new category; others dazzled with
their engineering; still others fundamentally changed the way we worked or
played. Or they simply made it hard for us to remember what life was like
without them. A couple of them—the smartphone, the personal computer—did all of
the above.
What
they have in common is that they emerged from a moment of communal genius among
industrial designers, product visionaries, and electrical and electronics
engineers—including some IEEE members.
Banking Is Only The
Beginning: 50 Big Industries Blockchain Could Transform
Banking isn't the only industry that
could be affected by blockchain tech. Law enforcement, ride hailing, and many
other sectors could also have blockchain in their future.
The
cornerstones of large-scale technology transformation
A
clear playbook is emerging for how to integrate and capitalize on advanced
technologies—across an entire company, and in any industry.
Elon
Musk Unveils the Boring Company’s Car-Flinging Tunnel
FROM
A PARKING lot in a sleepy, manufacturing-dominated suburb of Los Angeles, Elon
Musk and his Boring Company on Tuesday night showed off what he believes is the
best way to eliminate the scourge of traffic congestion: electric, autonomous
vehicles bearing an extra set of wheels, shooting through thin tunnels at
speeds up to 150 mph.
Related Post : I took a ride through Elon Musk’s new tunnel in California
Supporting
Reference Material for TeenTech Awards
In
UK, TeenTech Awards (as part of Information Literacy) were established in
2012/3 and schools have found them a powerful tool, helping students to see how
they might apply science and technology to real world problems. They encourage
students to develop their own ideas for making life better, simpler, safer or
more fun. Participating schools are provided with a suggested structure and
industry contacts.
The
supporting material provided to students deal with: What’s the best way to do effective research
for your TeenTech Award projects? Time invested wisely pays dividends and we
are grateful to the Information Literacy Group at CILIP for working with us to
produce a set of really helpful tips and guidelines; From how to get the best
results from Google to how to protect your IP, you’ll find the ideas very
useful for all projects you may be doing at school or college.
When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 142
Biggest Product Failures Of All Time
From the DeLorean and New Coke to the Newton and
Google Glass, here's a list of the biggest product flops from corporate giants.
Product innovation is one way that large
corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t
always work out when big brands attempt innovation.
Below are what we consider to be 132 of the biggest
product flops of all time. We combed through thousands of media articles to
select these product flops across major industries including tech software and
hardware, consumer packaged goods, fast food, and electronics.
Top 10 TED Talks of 2018
The most notable talks of 2018, chosen by TED
Curator Chris Anderson include:
- How we need to remake the Internet
- A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
- Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers
- What are the most important moral problems of our time?
- What if we ended the injustice of bail?
- Why I have coffee with people who send me the hate mail
- Why it’s worth listening to people you disagree with
- Where are all the aliens?
- The story of “Oumuamua“, the first visitor form another star system
- How AI can save our humanity
The
Yoda of Silicon Valley
Donald
Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The
Art of Computer Programming.”
For
half a century, the Stanford computer scientist Donald Knuth, who bears a
slight resemblance to Yoda — albeit standing 6-foot-4 and wearing glasses — has
reigned as the spirit-guide of the algorithmic realm.
He
is the author of “The Art of Computer Programming,” a continuing four-volume
opus that is his life’s work. The first volume debuted in 1968, and the
collected volumes (sold as a boxed set for about $250) were included by
American Scientist in 2013 on its list of books that shaped the last century of
science — alongside a special edition of “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin,”
Tom Wolfe’s “The Right Stuff,” Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” and monographs
by Albert Einstein, John von Neumann and Richard Feynman.
With
more than one million copies in print, “The Art of Computer Programming” is the
Bible of its field. “Like an actual bible, it is long and comprehensive; no
other book is as comprehensive,” said Peter Norvig, a director of research at
Google. After 652 pages, volume one closes with a blurb on the back cover from
Bill Gates: “You should definitely send me a résumé if you can read the whole
thing.”
Nature
is a rich source of medicine – if we can protect it
The Pacific yew tree is a fairly small and slow growing conifer native to the Pacific Northwest. The Gila monster is a lizard with striking orange and black markings from the drylands of the Southwestern US and Mexico. Two very different organisms, but with a fascinating connection. They’ve both given us drugs that have saved and improved the lives of millions of people.
Posting About Your Kids Online Could Damage Their Futures
Now that 6.8 million more people have just had their
(private!) Facebook photos exposed, it seems like a good time to talk about
online privacy, especially when it comes to what people post about their
children.
Parents are already some of the biggest violators of
their kids’ privacy, leaving potentially harmful digital footprints well before
the age of consent.
Events /
Announcements
WiSPNET 2019 at
Chennai during 21-23 Mar 2019
The 2019 edition of the International
Conference on Wireless Communications, Signal Processing and Networking
(WiSPNET) will be held at Electronics & Communication Engineering
Department, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai-603110,
India, from March 21 to 23, 2019, under the theme Advancing Wireless and Mobile
Communications Technologies for 2020 Information Society.
Paper submission deadline: 31st
Dec 2018
Conference
website: http://www.wispnet2019.org/
CVRCE Innovation Challenge – I -- open to all ITI / Polytechnic / +2
Science students
The
CVRCE Innovation Challenge is an initiative of C. V. Raman College of
Engineering, Bhubaneswar in collaboration with Atal Incubation Centre – CVRAMAN
College of Engineering Foundation (AIC-CVRCE) and CVRCE Technology Incubator
Foundation (CVRCE TBI) aims to inspire students to use their creativity to
develop innovative, cost-effective and practical solutions to create
sustainable impact through technology. The innovations can be from any
discipline of engineering, science and allied domains.
The
innovations could be in any of the below categories
- Incremental innovation ( improving existing product/process/system)
- Solving real life issues ( of industry/SME/Society/others)
- Disruptive idea/innovation ( new product/process/system)
CVRCE
Innovation Challenge will be held at C. V. Raman College of Engineering,
Bhubaneswar during last week of January 2019.
The
top 3 ideas shall be given attractive prizes and support.
The
Competition shall be held in two levels:
Level-1:
Submission of the Idea (by 19th January 2019)
Level-2:
Presentation of 15 best innovations to Experts (last week of January 2019).
More
details at https://goo.gl/8CQvg7
CVRCE Innovation Challenge – II -- open to all University and College
students & CVRCE alumni teams
The
CVRCE Innovation Challenge is an initiative of C. V. Raman College of
Engineering, Bhubaneswar in collaboration with Atal Incubation Centre – CVRAMAN
College of Engineering Foundation (AIC-CVRCE) and CVRCE Technology Incubator
Foundation (CVRCE TBI) aims to inspire students to use their creativity to
develop innovative, cost-effective and practical solutions on the theme of the
challenge.
The
idea behind this is to encourage students to present their ideas/innovations
and provide them an opportunity to convert their IDEA to a PRODUCT/Start-up.
CVRCE
Innovation Challenge will be held at C. V. Raman College of Engineering,
Bhubaneswar in the last week of January 2019.
The
top 3 ideas/innovation shall be given attractive prizes and get support system
for their innovation/start-up.
Theme
of the Challenge. The idea or innovation can be from any of the following
areas:
- Food processing business ideas
- Waste Management Ideas
- water conservation ideas
- Smart Bridge Test Idea
- Big idea in ICT
- Food Technology
- Social Innovation
The
Competition shall be held in two levels:
Level-1:
Submission of the Idea/innovation (by
19th January 2019)
Level-2:
Presentation of 15 best ideas/innovations to Experts (last week of January
2019).
More
details at https://goo.gl/mvY7fx
SETS, IEEE CS, CSI, ISACA: "National Workshop
on Hardware Security" at Chennai 26th Feb 2019
SETS (Society for Electronic
Transactions and Security) is organizing
"National Workshop on Hardware Security" in association with IEEE
Computer Society, Madras Chapter, Computer Society of India, Chennai Chapter
& ISACA, Chennai Chapter on 26th February 2019.
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