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Resources -- Oct-Dec 2018
Compiled
by
Mr. H.R. Mohan
Editor, IEEE India Info – The Newsletter of IEEE India Council
ICT Consultant & Former AVP (Systems), The Hindu, Chennai
Mr. H.R. Mohan
Editor, IEEE India Info – The Newsletter of IEEE India Council
ICT Consultant & Former AVP (Systems), The Hindu, Chennai
Essential Software Developer
Skills, Technologies & Languages for 2019: This
article covers the biggies for technical languages, front-end and back-end
(plus full-stack), app dev, machine learning, methodologies, and more. It’s
packed with all the best technologies to brush up on to get ahead in 2019. https://goo.gl/XcaEXm
The Public Relations (PR)
Guide for Engineers: PR (public relations) can be an effective way to drive
a lot of awareness around what you’re building, and help your team increase
signups, lift sales numbers, or generate interest from investors. And unlike
ads you might pay for, PR is earned media, which is free, and can feel more
authentic because it comes from an unbiased source. This is a tactical beginner’s
guide to PR for developers, meant to help you get started with your press
outreach and PR strategy. https://goo.gl/pXCrXZ
Product Management for
Engineers: Product managers or PMs are responsible for the overall
product experience. They decide what to build, and — just as importantly — what
not to. PMs and Heads of Product answer the question, “What problems are worth
solving?” Whereas project managers answer, “Are we on track to deliver on time
and on budget?” Translating the voice of the customer into prioritized product
requirements requires PMs to wear many hats, and a core responsibility is that
they ensure what’s being built is what people actually need. This article deals with five key
traits for what makes a good PM. https://goo.gl/JP6XY8
Marketing for Engineers: Marketing
is “the exchange of goods and services aimed at satisfying the needs and wants
of buyers and sellers.” That’s a business school way of saying it’s marketing’s
responsibility to understand your customers’ needs and wants, and to make sure
they’re heard by your team. We’ll outline the marketing planning process and
the basic language of marketing to help you better understand marketing’s role in
the product development process. https://goo.gl/75M5ac
Sales for Engineers: It
doesn’t matter if you’re a junior developer or the Head of Sales — everyone on
your team should know your sales pitch and be able to describe what you’re
building. For example: “PullRequest is code review as a service using a
combination of automation tools and professional, on-demand reviewers to help
development teams catch bugs and improve code quality.“ In one sentence, we
describe our product (code review as a service), who it’s for (development
teams), and how they’ll benefit (write vetted, high-quality code).
Understanding how to craft your sales pitch will help you better describe your
own projects, and make it easier to get buy-in. https://goo.gl/KKBFrb
How to Create a Programming
Style Guide: A programming style guide is an opinionated guide of
programming conventions, style, and best practices for a team or project. Some
teams call it their coding guidelines, coding standards, or coding conventions.
While these each have their own meaning in programming, they generally refer to
the same thing. For this post, I’m referring to any set of guiding programming
standards used by a team in hopes of making their code more consistent as a
style guide. A team following a style guide helps everyone write code in a
consistent way, and consistent code is easier to read and faster to update.
Consistent code is easier to read and understand making it faster to add new
features. https://goo.gl/g6kX6N
IoT’s upcoming trends and business opportunities: Earlier what was
called machine to machine was merely an idea and now IoT which is a giant
network of connected things is no longer a nascent dream. McKinsey predicts the
IoT market will be worth $581B for ICT-based spend alone by 2020, growing at a
Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) between 7 and 15%. According to Statista,
for 2020, the installed base of Internet of Things devices is forecast to grow
to almost 31 billion worldwide. “The IoT will continue to deliver new
opportunities for digital business innovation for the next decade, many of
which will be enabled by new or improved technologies,” said Nick Jones,
research vice president at Gartner. Whether you are thinking of creating your
own IoT startup or considering adding IoT applications to your business or just
inquisitive, it is essential to know some of the key trends that will shape IoT
in 2019. https://goo.gl/yqQGvo
10 Key Aspects To Consider When Managing Tech Projects: Nowadays there
is a natural progression for senior software developers (either in startups or
more corporate style companies) to make the jump from their current technical
role to a more leadership/management oriented role. This progression is usually
motivated by several needs which arise from the evolution of the
company/team/product and require the senior dev to dedicate his time to
training/onboarding, planning/road mapping and leading the team, contributing
to more macro level decisions and coaching while becoming less and less
involved in day-to-day engineering activities. The title of the job is not
always “Manager”. It’s usually something along the lines of VP of Engineering
or Tech/Team/Project Lead, which carries a different meaning from having
Manager in your job title, even though it requires a lot of management
activities. In this article, I’m going to introduce how and why the jump from a
more technical oriented role to a more management oriented one happens and the
issues it may carry along with it. I’ve drawn some inspiration from this lovely
article from Charity Majors, you should definitely check it out. I’ll also go
in depth on the challenges facing you when you make the jump. https://goo.gl/tZ7S19
Plagiarism
Detection:
Explore the latest articles, projects, and questions and answers in Plagiarism
Detection, and find Plagiarism Detection experts. https://goo.gl/fwDM4K
Whitepaper on using electromechanical design to streamline the
design process: Today’s
products have become ultra-sophisticated cyber-physical systems. They have
software, interconnected circuits and attached sensors, actuators and
communications interfaces. Download this whitepaper to learn how working on an
integrated platform with cross-domain technologies, common data backbones and
shared libraries helps engineers make faster, more informed decisions; ultimately
delivering better designs. https://goo.gl/kk7rZN
Amazon and Google can change how we use energy: Big tech — in
this case, Amazon and Google — is starting to make its way into the energy
industry on the backs of voice technology and in-home devices. Over the next
few years, we’ll see the two companies help carve out a new landscape for
residential energy management. For those familiar with Silicon Valley’s
strategies, this might come as expected: enter an old industry, solve some of
its inefficiencies, and dominate it. However, the energy industry is unique.
Big tech’s story in energy — at the moment we’re in — won’t be about
domination. Instead, it will help support the electric grid, teach us how to
use electricity more efficiently, and even promote the use of renewable energy.
https://goo.gl/zPd6Xg
Unbundling The Autonomous Vehicle: Autonomous vehicles rely on
several advanced technologies to self-navigate. We unbundle the AV to see how
these technologies work together and which companies are driving them forward.
Autonomous vehicles rely on a set of complementary technologies to understand
and respond to their surroundings. https://goo.gl/M7foKo
An Introduction to Dew Computing: Definition, Concept and
Implications:
Since the end of the 1990s, the world has witnessed a tremendous growth in the
area of information and communication technology (ICT), starting with grid
computing, cloud computing (CC), and fog computing to recently introduced edge
computing. Although, these technologies are still in very good shape, they do heavily
rely on connectivity, i.e., Internet. To address this challenge, this paper
proposes a novel dew-cloud architecture that brings the power of CC together
with the dew computing (DC). Originally, the dew-cloud architecture is an
extension of the existing client-server architecture, where two servers are
placed at both ends of the communication link. With the help of a dew server, a
user has more control and flexibility to access his/her personal data in the
absence of an Internet connection. Primarily, the data are stored at the dew
server as a local copy upon which instantiation of the Internet is synchronized
with the master copy at the cloud side. Users can browse, read, write, or
append data on the local dew site, which is a local Web form of an actual
website. With the incorporation of the dew domain naming system and dew domain
name redirection, mapping between different local dew sites has become
possible. Novel services, such as infrastructure-as-a-dew, software-as-a-dew
service, and software-as-a-dew product, are, hereby, introduced along with the
DC. This paper presents the following as key contributions: 1) a precise and
concrete definition of DC; 2) detailed and comprehensive discussions of its
concept and working principle; 3) application potentials; and 4) technical
challenges. The motto of this paper is to conceptualize the fact of empowerment
of the ICT-user base with almost an Internet-free surfing experience in coming
days. https://goo.gl/rPQx9A
Cheat Sheets for AI, Neural Networks,
Machine Learning, Deep Learning & Big Data: The Most Complete List of Best
AI Cheat Sheets. Over the past few months, I have been collecting AI cheat
sheets. From time to time I share them with friends and colleagues and recently
I have been getting asked a lot, so I decided to organize and share the entire
collection. To make things more interesting and give context, I added
descriptions and/or excerpts for each major topic. This is the most complete
list and the Big-O is at the very end, enjoy… https://goo.gl/HVS6HN
The Moral Machine experiment: With the rapid development of
artificial intelligence have come concerns about how machines will make moral
decisions, and the major challenge of quantifying societal expectations about
the ethical principles that should guide machine behaviour. To address this
challenge, we deployed the Moral Machine, an online experimental platform
designed to explore the moral dilemmas faced by autonomous vehicles. This
platform gathered 40 million decisions in ten languages from millions of people
in 233 countries and territories. Here we describe the results of this
experiment. First, we summarize global moral preferences. Second, we document
individual variations in preferences, based on respondents’ demographics.
Third, we report cross-cultural ethical variation, and uncover three major
clusters of countries. Fourth, we show that these differences correlate with
modern institutions and deep cultural traits. We discuss how these preferences
can contribute to developing global, socially acceptable principles for machine
ethics. All data used in this article are publicly available. https://goo.gl/4qedSi
Top Tech Trends In 2019: Technology is now central to every
industry — from building construction to healthcare administration to food
production. CB Insights looks at the top tech trends poised to reshape
industries in 2019 in its 57 pages report. https://goo.gl/b6cvX9
Ministry Of Home Affairs Issues Handbook For Students/Adolescents On
Cyber Safety:
Recently, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India, in
consultation with Cyber Security experts prepared a 38 pages Handbook for
Students/Adolescents on Cyber Safety.The Handbook aims at creating awareness
among citizens, especially students, about various cyber threats that can
impact them and ways to safeguard themselves against cybercrimes. https://goo.gl/Er9iiR
17 ways you should invest your time in your 20s for long-term
success:
Don't waste time, because that's "the stuff life is made of." It was
good advice when Benjamin Franklin said it, and it's good advice now, no matter
your age. But your 20s are a particularly crucial time in life. Many call these
the "formative" years, and the habits you form now can carry you
through the rest of your life. So what's the best way to spend this time? https://goo.gl/Vig5W2
10 Trends That Will Shape the Digital Workplace in 2019: The
digitalization of the workplace is challenging businesses globally to adapt
quickly to meet the needs of their talent and customers. While a simple
solution is to update current business technology to the latest and greatest,
business leaders quickly find that this is not a sustainable practice in the
long run. The solution for most enterprises is to introduce a digital
transformation strategy, which, in turn, is posing a direct threat to
traditional business models and companies. Technologies such as social media,
mobile applications, analytics, the cloud and the internet of things (IoT),
have been successful in attracting and keeping talent and customers. But, it
goes beyond changing technology — company culture needs to change. When we
asked a number of C-Suite executives what they thought would be trending in the
digital workplace over the coming year, 10 trends emerged, many of which had
already been identified at the beginning of 2018 as disruptors. https://goo.gl/T1VjH6
The Top 10 Books of 2018 for Entrepreneurs: From the stacks
of books received for review and picked up from overseas visits, here are some
of the best titles of the year for startup founders, social entrepreneurs,
innovators and changemakers! 2018 has been another outstanding year for books
about entrepreneurship and innovation, with more of a focus on scaling
approaches -- reflecting increased maturity of the startup ecosystem. See our
earlier lists of ‘Top 10 Books for Entrepreneurs’ from the past six years as
well: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012. https://goo.gl/rs8j3e
Favourite science news stories of 2018: Every year, Science
publishes hundreds of news stories, both online and in our weekly magazine. And
whereas many of these highlight huge advances in research (some of which get a
nod in our breakthroughs of the year), a lot are simply cool stories that
resonated with us, our readers, or both. And that’s what this list focuses
on—some of our coolest and most popular online news stories of the year. It’s
an eclectic mix, and you’re sure to find at least a few you’ll want to read—or
read all over again. https://goo.gl/cWKN1K Video: 2018’s
Breakthrough of the Year and runners-up. https://goo.gl/MTa5P5
eBook: A "Quotable" Life: Mr. G. Sankar,
a writer, speaker, and trainer on individual and organizational growth, who has
been a resource person at the workshop on “Change Management” jointly organised
by CSI & IEEE CS, IEEE PCS has come out with a book on
quotations on the growth dimensions of health, wealth, education, relations,
and spirituality. The book -- A "Quotable" Life is a book of 320
inspiring quotes and is available for free download. The author hopes it will
serve as a daily dose of guidance, and blessing for all to enjoy life fully. Download
it from https://www.slideshare.net/sankarspeak/a-quotable-life
190 universities just launched 600 free online courses: If you haven’t
heard, universities around the world are offering their courses online for free
(or at least partially free). These courses are collectively called MOOCs or
Massive Open Online Courses. In the past six years or so, over 800 universities
have created more than 10,000 of these MOOCs. In the past four months alone,
190 universities have announced 600 such free online courses. I’ve compiled a
list of them and categorized them according to the following subjects: Computer
Science, Mathematics, Programming, Data Science, Humanities, Social Sciences,
Education & Teaching, Health & Medicine, Business, Personal
Development, Engineering, Art & Design, and finally Science. Many of these
are completely self-paced, so you can start taking them at your convenience. https://goo.gl/CPwrGo
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