Interesting Reads – 2018-08-16
Contents
Articles
- Google's DeepMind AI can accurately detect 50 types of eye disease just by looking at scans
- Decoded: How Amazon ensures speedy delivery of your orders
- AI-Driven Leadership
- The Value Proposition of IIoT, Industry 4.0
- 10 Amazing Leadership Lessons From Design Thinking
- Open Source Artificial Intelligence: 50 Top Projects
- The Top 20 Reasons Start-ups Fail
- The Strangest Things That Were 3D-Printed in 2017
- 24 Underwater Drones – The Boom in Robotics Beneath the Waves
- Generation Z enters the workforce
Events / Announcements
- SPIN Chennai Workshop on “GDPR 360”
- TCS National Qualifier Test on 2nd & 3rd Sep 2018
- INSA - JSPS Fellowship
- IEEE CIS Summer School 2018 on Computational Intelligence: Theory, Implementation and Applications at Hyderabad during 22-27 Nov 2018
- TAMC 2019: 15th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation. 13-16 April 2019 at Japan
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Articles
Google's DeepMind AI can accurately detect 50 types of eye disease
just by looking at scans
- Google's artificial intelligence company DeepMind has published "really significant" research showing its algorithm can identify around 50 eye diseases by looking at retinal eye scans.
- DeepMind said its AI was as good as expert clinicians, and that it could help prevent people from losing their sight.
- DeepMind has been criticised for its practices around medical data, but cofounder Mustafa Suleyman said all the information in this research project was anonymised.
- The company plans to hand the technology over for free to NHS hospitals for five years, provided it passes the next phase of research.
Decoded: How Amazon ensures speedy delivery of your orders
Amazon has around 50 fulfilment centres in India and
considering that it delivers products across all 20,500 pins in the country,
the rules that employees follow in these warehouses are pretty strict.
AI-Driven Leadership
Many companies are experimenting with AI on a small
scale, and a few have made a commitment that their organizations will be “AI
first” or “AI-driven.” But what does this mean? What is AI doing or leading,
and, in particular, what is the role of leadership in making organizations
AI-driven?
We see a lot of confusion around opportunity and
action. In the 2018 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends survey and report of
business and HR leaders, 72% indicated that AI, robots, and automation are
important — but only 31% felt their organizations were prepared to address
strategy to implement these technologies.
There aren’t that many AI-driven companies yet, and
while we have seen a few examples outside of tech, most of the ones that do
exist are technology companies. That makes it a little speculative to define
the traits leaders need to help move their organizations to an AI-first future.
Still, it’s useful to begin to develop a framework for what we already know
about what it takes to be an AI-driven leader.
Related
report: 2018 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends survey and report
Related
report: 2018 Digital Business report on “Coming of Age Digitally: Learning,
Leadership, and Legacy,” by Deloitte by Deloitte (Registration is required to
download)
The Value Proposition of IIoT,
Industry 4.0
Industrial
Internet of Things, collaborative robots, digital twins and more aren’t just
new ways of trying to get you to loosen your purse strings. They bring with
them the promise of improved business outcomes.
For more about optimizing the value of automation, read Automation World’s four-part series on the topic:
- How to Determine Automation Value and Focus
- Break the Replacement Cycle
- How to Get Executive Buy-In for Automation
- Best Practices for Implementing Automation
10 Amazing Leadership Lessons
From Design Thinking
Leadership is a challenging proposition in a world of disruptions and changes due to the rate of change being overwhelming. How do leaders cope with constant changes, enormous expectations and an unpredictable future? Well, a lot of the top organisations including Pepsi, Nike, Apple and Google use Design Thinking for leadership matters.
Design
thinking is coming up with visual patterns that lead to the desired solutions.
In other words, it is about connecting the dots to come up with solutions to
practical problems that you want to solve. The Design thinking approach is
widely appreciated and adopted by leaders around the globe.
Below,
we look at 10 intriguing leadership lessons from design thinking:
Open Source Artificial
Intelligence: 50 Top Projects
Since
the earliest days of computers, creating machines that could "think"
like humans has been a key goal for researchers. In the past few years,
computer scientists have made huge leaps forward in artificial intelligence
(AI), to the point where the technology is becoming commonplace.
In
fact, Gartner predicts, "By 2020, AI technologies will be virtually
pervasive in almost every new software product and service." And IDC
forecasts that companies will spend $12.5 billion on AI technology in 2017,
59.3 percent more than in 2016. That tremendous growth is likely to continue
through 2020, when revenues could top $46 billion.
Open
source software development has played a huge role in the rise of artificial
intelligence, and many of the top machine learning, deep learning, neural
network and other AI software is available under open source licenses.
For
this list, we selected 50 of the most well-known of these open source
artificial intelligence projects. They are organized into categories and then
alphabetized within those categories. The lines between some of the categories
can be fuzzy, so we used the project owners' descriptions of their applications
to determine where to place the various tools.
The Top 20 Reasons Start-ups
Fail
From
lack of product-market fit to disharmony on the team, we break down the top 20
reasons for start-up failure by analyzing 101 start-up failure post-mortems. After
we compiled our list of start-up failure post-mortems, one of the most frequent
requests we got was to use these posts to figure out the main reasons start-ups
failed. Start-ups, corporations, investors, economic development folks,
academics, and journalists all wanted some insight into the question:
“What
are the reasons start-ups fail?”
So
we gave those post-mortems the CB Insights’ data treatment to see if we could
answer this question. After reading through every single of the 101 post-mortems,
we’ve learned there is rarely one reason for a single start-up’s failure.
However, we did begin to see a pattern to these stories. And so after sifting
through the post-mortems, we identified the top 20 reasons start-ups failed. Since
many start-ups offered multiple reasons for their failure, you’ll see the chart
highlighting the top 20 reasons doesn’t add up to 100% (it far exceeds it). Following
the chart is an explanation of each reason and relevant examples from the post-mortems.
The Strangest Things That Were
3D-Printed in 2017
3D printing isn't new to 2017, but this year, researchers pushed the boundaries of the seemingly sci-fi technique, printing objects that required intricate details — such as a lifelike model of a newborn and a microscopic camera — as well as objects made with materials that may sound surprising, including cheese and glass.
Read
on for a roundup of the coolest and kookiest things that were 3D-printed in
2017.
24 Underwater Drones – The
Boom in Robotics Beneath the Waves
Robotics
Beneath the Waves
Aerial
drones have buzzed their way into almost every aspect of the modern world, from
photography and television news coverage, to environmental monitoring and
archaeology.
And
many of the concepts developed for aerial drones are being adopted and adapted
to work in a very different environment — underwater.
Look
at the many ways that drones are being used beneath the waves, by oceanographic
scientists, archaeologists, militaries, commercial divers, photographers and
undersea explorers.
Generation
Z enters the workforce
With
Generation Z entering the workforce and the nature of entry-level jobs
changing, how can organizations redesign these jobs in a way that can both
attract and engage Gen Z and ensure that these jobs continue to generate a
pipeline of future talent?
Events / Announcements
SPIN Chennai Workshop on “GDPR
360”
SPIN
Chennai is organising a workshop on “Data Protection and Regulation on GDPR 360”
on 1st Sep 2018 with Ramkumar Ramachandran - CIO, Tevel Cyber Corps as the
resource person at Andhra Chamber
of Commerce, T. Nagar, Chennai.
Concessional
registration fee applicable to members of SPIN Chennai & Partner
organizations (IEEE, CSI, FICCI, CIO Klub, CySI, ISACA, PMI, ACC, TCC, CXO
Club, IOD).
Last
date for early bird registration at a lower fee is 19th Aug 2018
Workshop
website at http://spinchennai.org/events/event/gdpr-360-workshop/
Registration
at https://in.explara.com/e/gdpr-workshop
For
queries, please reach out to Ragav @ 9944.111.920 / admin@spinchennai.org
TCS National Qualifier Test on
2nd & 3rd Sep 2018
TCS
is hiring 2019 batch engineering students of BE/BTech/ME/MTech/MSc/MCA through a
national qualifier test scheduled on 2nd & 3rd Sep
2018.
TCS
national aualifier test aims to select the best talent in the country to fuel
the growth plans of TCS with its Business 4.0 Strategy, gaining mindshare
across the industry. Being a leader in the digital transformation space, we are
happy to invite bright minds from across the country to explore the world of
digital opportunities with TCS.
TCS
offers aspiring students a wide range of technologies and areas to choose and
kickstart their careers. Apart from hiring for the general IT service line, TCS
also offers career streams in the following niche Business Units:
Engineering
& Industrial Services and Internet of Things (IoT)
IT
Infrastructure Services
Cyber
Security Practice
Enterprise
Content Management
Quality
Engineering
Registration
for the above test is open till 20th Aug 2018.
For
registration pl. visit https://careers.tcs.com
INSA - JSPS Fellowship
Call
for Indo-Japanese Joint Project on "Establishment of Young Researcher Fellowship
Programme 2018-19".
The
main objective of this young researcher exchange program is to contribute to
the advancement of Science & Technology and to the benefit of society at
large. This fellowship programme is designed to support Indian
scientists/researchers to travel to Japan and work with leading researchers at
major Japanese science and technology institutions/universities/organizations for
a period of 2 to 6 months. They are intended to facilitate long-term science,
technology and innovation collaboration between India and Japan by
- developing researchers’ expertise in international collaboration and fostering long-term relationships between Indian and Japanese researchers;
- developing the researchers’ leadership skills as future ‘science ambassadors’ for India; and
- providing a catalyst for future India-Japan research collaboration.
Last
date: 15th Sep 2018
IEEE CIS Summer School 2018 on
Computational Intelligence: Theory, Implementation and Applications at Hyderabad
during 22-27 Nov 2018
IEEE
CIS Summer School at Hyderabad invites participation from researchers, faculty,
students and professionals. It shall provide a unique opportunity to meet and
listen to leading international experts working on cutting edge technologies of
computational intelligence. The program is designed to give an exposure to
theory with hands-on interactions. It also gives an industry exposure with AI start-ups
at T-Hub, the famous Hyderabad Start-ups Center.
In
addition to the conventional talks and tutorials it shall provide young
researchers in AI with a unique platform to share their current research
thoughts through poster sessions. The Top three selected posters would receive
awards. Participants would receive a signed copy of the participation
certificate from IEEE CIS.
Summer
school website at https://cishyd-ss.ieeehyd.org/
TAMC 2019: 15th Annual
Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation. 13-16 April
2019 at Japan
TAMC
2019 aims at bringing together a wide range of researchers with interest in
computational theory and its applications. The main themes of the
conference are computability, computer
science logic, complexity, algorithms, models of computation and systems theory. There are
special sessions on "Soft Computing and AI Models".
Paper
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2018
Further
details at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tYAEUR1pRw9PBLcvVnm7bRgZ0hk1G5EV
Professor
T V Gopal, Anna University, India is the conf. co-chair. You can contact him
for assistance and clarifications at gopal@annauniv.edu / +91 9840121302
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