Interesting Reads – 2018-08-01
Contents
Articles
- Microsoft bangs the 'devices as a service' drum ahead of Windows 7's end-of-support deadline
- From AT&T To Xerox: 73 Corporate Innovation Labs
- Hit or myth? Understanding the true costs and impact of cybersecurity programs
- Life before Google: What was it like?
- A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Andy Grove about Business and Strategy
- Quantum computing 101
- Informatics for information professionals
- An Introduction to LIDAR: The Key Self-Driving Car Sensor
- After Leaking TRAI Chairman's Personal Details, Hackers Deposited Re 1 in His Account
- I Helped Popularize The Term “Fake News” And Now I Cringe Every Time I Hear It
Events / Announcements
- eWIT: Panel Discussion on “Top Skills Needed for Digital Transformation”
- SPIN Chennai: Workshop on CMMI V2.0 Demystified
- IEEE-SA 2018 World Standards Day Video Contest
- Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog & MyGov launches “Innovate India Platform”
- Call for Papers: CONFLUENCE-2019, 9th
International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science &
Engineering
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Articles
Microsoft bangs the 'devices
as a service' drum ahead of Windows 7's end-of-support deadline
It
just might be a perfect storm. January 14, 2020 is the last day Microsoft will
provide security updates for Windows 7. According to Microsoft's estimates,
there are 184 million commercial devices out there (as of April 2018 and
excluding China) still on Windows 7. And 64 percent of those devices are more
than five years old. Microsoft is advising partners to go after migration
opportunities using the DaaS approach.
Related
story: With DaaS Windows coming, say
goodbye to your PC as you know it: How much are you going to like having
Microsoft in charge of your desktop?
From AT&T To Xerox: 73 Corporate
Innovation Labs
Innovation
is critical for established companies to stay relevant in the face of
disruption. Here's our list of corporate innovation labs.
Corporate
innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in
the face of disruption from up-and-coming start-ups. With industries being
unbundled left and right (supermarkets, banking, cars — just to name a few)
more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day.
Sometimes
corporate innovation goes wrong, and we’ve written about corporate innovation
theater before. Now here’s our list of innovation labs, both newly formed and
well established, working to turn new ideas into new opportunities at
long-lived companies.
Hit or myth? Understanding the
true costs and impact of cybersecurity programs
Cybersecurity
is a critical but often misunderstood aspect of companies’ technology
infrastructures. Here’s how business and technology leaders can ensure that
important corporate assets remain safe.
Companies
are using all kinds of sophisticated technologies and techniques to protect
critical business assets. But the most important factor in any cybersecurity
program is trust. It undergirds all the decisions executives make about tools,
talent, and processes. Based on our observations, however, trust is generally
lacking in many organizations’ cybersecurity initiatives—in part, because of
competing agendas. Senior business leaders and the board may see cybersecurity
as a priority only when an intrusion occurs, for instance, while the chief
security officer and his team view security as an everyday priority, as even
the most routine website transactions present potential holes to be exploited.
This
lack of trust gives rise to common myths about cybersecurity—for instance,
about the types of threats that are most relevant, the amount of spending
required to protect critical data, and even about which data sets are most at
risk. Perceptions become facts, trust erodes further, and cybersecurity
programs end up being less successful than they could be. If incidence of
breaches has been light, for instance, business leaders may tighten the reins
on the cybersecurity budget until the CIO or other cybersecurity leaders prove
the need for further investment in controls—perhaps opening themselves up to
attack. Conversely, if threats have been documented frequently, business
leaders may reflexively decide to overspend on new technologies without
understanding that there are other, nontechnical remedies to keep data and
other corporate assets safe.
In
our experience, when there is greater transparency about companies’
cybersecurity programs, and trust among the various stakeholders, companies
reap significant benefits. Businesses can make better decisions about their
security priorities and response plans, as well as the training and investments
required to hold attackers at bay. In this article, we explore four common
myths executives tend to believe about cybersecurity, and we suggest joint
actions business and IT executives can take to create more transparency and
understanding company-wide about the technologies and processes that are most
effective for protecting critical business information.
Life before Google: What was
it like?
Is
it OK to turn my cat vegan? What's that fresh smell that babies have? What is
love?*
In
the 20 years since it was founded, Google has provided answers to the most
random queries, become a verb and, on recently having received a record $5bn
fine after giving itself a bit too much of an edge over its rivals.
Some
jobs with an emphasis on research have been altered in major ways by its
invention, to the extent that it's hard to imagine how those jobs were once
done.
A Dozen Things I’ve Learned
from Andy Grove about Business and Strategy
“Andrew
S. Grove was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. He graduated from the City
College of New York in 1960 with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree and
received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. Upon
graduation, he joined the Research and Development Laboratory of Fairchild
Semiconductor and became Assistant Director of Research and Development in
1967. In July 1968, Grove participated in the founding of Intel Corporation. In
1979 he was named President, and in 1987 Chief Executive Officer.”
1.
“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid
survive.” “I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the
seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want
a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is
nothing left.”
2.
“Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change
something fundamental in your business world.”
Quantum computing 101
Although quantum information has been around for a
long time, we're starting to see more about it in the media. We hope to give
you a quick start guide on:
- What is quantum computing?
- Superposition and entanglement
- Why do quantum effects matter?
- What can a quantum computer do that a classical computer can't?
- But I don't want to factor very large numbers
- A quantum computer can hack into my private data?
- How can quantum mechanics create ultra-secret keys?
- What else can we do with quantum mechanics?
- Where can I get a quantum computer?
- What is required to build a quantum computer?
- When will there be a real quantum computer?
- Is quantum technology still years away?
Informatics for information
professionals
Are
you a librarian or other information professional (or soon-to-be) who’s
comfortable with numbers? If so, you might want to take a serious look at the
growing career path of informatics.
Although
it’s already become a key driver in the medical and healthcare industries, the
use of informatics is now also providing decision support in law firms,
libraries, corporations, government agencies, and pretty much any organization
able to gather and make use of data.
In
fact, notes Brad Rogers, LibGig Director of Recruiting, “An increasing number
of employers are looking for informatics and other data-analytics skills across
all industry verticals as companies rely more on data for decision support.”
An Introduction to LIDAR: The
Key Self-Driving Car Sensor
At
Voyage we recently shared the news of Homer, our first self-driving taxi. Homer
is outfitted with a whole range of sensors to aid in understanding and
navigating the world, key to which is LIDAR (short for light detection and
ranging). In this post you’ll learn more about LIDAR, its origins in the
self-driving car space, and how it stacks against other sensors. Enjoy!
LIDAR
enables a self-driving car (or any robot) to observe the world with a few
special super powers:
- Continuous 360 degrees of visibility – Imagine if your human eyes allowed you to see in all directions all of the time
- Insanely accurate depth information – Imagine if, instead of guessing, you could always know the precise distance (to an accuracy of ±2cm) of objects in relation to you
After Leaking TRAI Chairman's
Personal Details, Hackers Deposited Re 1 in His Account
On
recently, RS Sharma decided to post his Aadhaar number on Twitter, challenging
critics to show “one concrete example where you can do any harm to me
(Sharma)”, prompting ethical hackers to leak his personal details on Twitter.
I Helped Popularize The Term
“Fake News” And Now I Cringe Every Time I Hear It
After a yearlong battle for its meaning and ownership, “fake news” is now both an empty slogan and a deeply troubling warning sign.
In
October 2014 I (Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed News Media Editor & the author of
this post) came across a false story that was quickly racking up likes, shares,
and comments on Facebook. The article, published on nationalreport.net, claimed
an entire town in Texas was quarantined after a family contracted Ebola, and it
used a fake quote attributed to someone at a Texas hospital to pass itself off
as a real news story. I warned people about what I was seeing:
Events / Announcements
eWIT: Panel Discussion on “Top
Skills Needed for Digital Transformation”
eWIT
invites you to a Panel Discussion on “Top Skills Needed for Digital
Transformation”
on
Thursday, 2nd August 2018 from 4 pm to 6.15 pm at GAVs Technologies, No: 11,
Old Mahabalipuram Road, Sholinganallur, Chennai – 600119.
The
Panellists include:
Mr.
Srinivasan Sundararajan, Technology Advisor, GAVS Technologies Pvt Ltd
Mr.
Sunil David, Regional Director ( IOT ), AT&T India
Mr.
Aravindan Chandrasekaran, Director, Sutherland Global
Moderator:
Ms. Bhanurekha C, Vice President, eWIT
SPIN Chennai: Workshop on CMMI
V2.0 Demystified
Join the
workshop on CMMI V2.0 Demystified with Rajamanickam - CMMI Lead Appraiser,
Infocareer Pvt Ltd on Saturday, 25th August 2018 from 9.30 am to 1.00 pm.
This is
going to be a 3.5 hours workshop where Raja explains how CMMI V2.0 is different
from its earlier version; while demystifying how CMMI V2.0 is aligned with
Agile and DevOps enterprises.
SPIN
members – Register here – https://goo.gl/YDTLhg
Non
members register here (only this session) Rs. 300/- https://in.explara.com/e/cmmi-v2-0-demystified
IEEE-SA 2018 World Standards
Day Video Contest
IEEE-SA is seeking short (15-60 seconds) videos that explore how
standards support the emerging technologies that are beginning to impact our
lives today and into the future. As part of its 2018 celebration of WSD and its
theme of “International Standards and the 4th Industrial Revolution,” IEEE-SA
is looking for creative, original, quality videos that are relevant to this
year’s WSD theme and that demonstrate how IEEE standards address the blending
of our physical, digital, and biological worlds. For example, artificial
intelligence and robots are starting to drive the decision processes of our
lives, autonomous cars are being tested on our highways, and smart systems are
linking our lives in surprising ways.
Based on the video submissions, IEEE-SA will select up to three videos
to receive a USD $500 prize. Entries are due by 14 September.
Contest criteria:
- Each entrant must complete the contest submission form
- Each submission must include self-identification, including a legitimate email address and legal name
- Videos should include references to IEEE standards related to emerging and converging technologies
- Videos must either be an uploaded MP4 file or a link to a video placed on YouTube
- IEEE membership not required to participate
- Contest end date: 14 September 2017
You can find more information and how to enter here: https://beyondstandards.ieee.org/general-news/2018-world-standards-day-ieee-video-contest/
Atal Innovation Mission, NITI
Aayog & MyGov launches “Innovate India Platform”
Shri.
R Ramanan, Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission and Shri.Arvind Gupta CEO,
MyGov today launched the “#InnovateIndia Platform”, a collaboration between the
Atal Innovation Mission and MyGov, a citizen centric platform of the Government
of India. The #InnovateIndia portal will serve as the common point for all the
innovation happening across the nation.
Launching
the platform, Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission said that the
#InnovateIndia MyGov-AIM portal creates the much-needed innovations platform
for registering both grassroots and deep-tech innovators at a national level.
Those searching for a critical innovation can leverage the portal
advantageously for the benefit of the economy as well as national social
needs.”
Some
of the features of this platform are:
- The platform is open to all Indian citizens
- The users can View, comment, share, and rate the innovations crowdsourced on the #InnovateIndia platform
- View the leaderboard which is calculated based on the votes on each innovation.
- Citizens can share their/organizations/someone else’s innovation on the platform by login to the MyGov website
- These innovations can also be shared on various social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter
“India
has been a very innovation-orientedsociety, but our challenge has been a
structured approach to innovation, capturing them and building an ecosystem to
take them global. The current government initiative to capture and support
innovation from ground up, is aimed at creating a structured ecosystem to
encourage, enhance and develop India’s innovative character”, said Shri Arvind
Gupta, CEO MyGov.
With
the launch of the platform Indians will be able to upload and rate
their/organizations innovation on the platform. The citizens can access the
platform on https://innovate.mygov.in/innovateindia/
Call for Papers: CONFLUENCE-2019,
9th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering
CONFLUENCE-2019,
9th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science &
Engineering technically Co-Sponsored by
IEEE UP SECTION will be held on 10th and
11th January 2019 at Amity School of
Engineering and Technology , Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida , India. Paper
Submission Deadline : 31st August 2018. Conference website: http://amity.edu/aset/confluence2019/index.html
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