Interesting
Reads – 2019-01-16
Contents
Articles
- How Robots Will Transform the C-Suite
- 14 Ways to Squeeze More Joy Out of Every Day
- Kumbh Mela: How to plan a festival for 100m people
- Top Risks for 2019
- How to craft a one-sentence description of your organization's purpose
- 3-D printing 100 times faster with light
- In 1968, computers got personal: How the ‘mother of all demos’ changed the world
- Increasing numbers of children have internet addiction – how worried should parents really be?
- Every Apple Product Ever Made Thus Far, In One Visual Graphic
- The Lumen Prize: 2018 Winners
- Bonus: These 20 Start-ups From the Land of Chandigarh Are Writing History
Events /
Announcements
- SETS: National Workshop on Public Key Infrastructure: Creating Trusted Environment. At Chennai during 22-23 Jan 2019
- SPIN Event: Agile is Sense and Respond to market at Speed and Scale. 19th Jan 2019
- Innovations in Software Engineering Conference -- ISEC 2019, 14-16 Feb, Pune
- One Day Training on Visual Essentials on 15th Feb 2019 at Surat
- Microsoft AI Residency Program 2019-20
- SETS, IEEE CS, CSI, ISACA: "National Workshop on Hardware Security" at Chennai 26th Feb 2019
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Articles
How
Robots Will Transform the C-Suite
Robots
will play a critical role throughout the modern workforce. A recent PwC study
(pdf) of 29 countries estimated that on average, the proportion of jobs at high
risk of automation will be roughly 20 percent by the late 2020s, and 30 percent
by the mid-2030s. For employees around the globe, such shifts could mean
preparing to share space with robots as colleagues or learning new skills as
robots take over the most repetitive or dangerous tasks.
The
introduction of robots into the workforce will also reverberate in the C-suite.
Not only will top executives lead the charge for automation in their business
operations, but they must also be prepared for their own jobs to change.
Heading up a hybrid workforce of people and robots will require a different
type of leadership, one that blends quintessential human skills such as empathy
with a tech-savvy and data-driven mind-set. Moreover, new roles may emerge,
such as the chief robotics officer, or leaders in charge of technology ethics.
14 Ways to Squeeze
More Joy Out of Every Day
With all the books on mood-boosting
technology that does everything for us but laugh, we expect happiness to show
up at our doorstep like a pizza. But it doesn’t work that way. For most of us,
we have to make it happen.
In this
post, top positive psychologists offer easy ways to infuse your days with
pleasure. Consider this a pick-and-choose list; even doing just a few will
help.
Kumbh
Mela: How to plan a festival for 100m people
India's
Kumbh Mela festival is billed as the world's biggest gathering of people.
Between
now and March organisers expect about 120 million pilgrims to bathe at the
Sangam - the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati
rivers. Hindus believe that doing so will cleanse them of their sins and help
them attain "moksha", setting them free from the cycle of birth and
death.
So
how does one prepare for a gathering of humanity so mammoth it can be seen from
outer space?
The
mela (Hindi for fair) is held in the northern city of Allahabad (recently
renamed Prayagraj) every 12 years. On Tuesday (15th Jan 2019), when
the festival formally begins, officials are preparing for 15 to 20 million
visitors. But the biggest test they face will be on 4 February when 30 million
are expected to attend for the most auspicious bathing day. The festival ends
on 4 March.
Top
Risks for 2019
This
is Eurasia Group's annual forecast of the political risks that are most likely
to play out over the course of the year.
THE
GEOPOLITICAL ENVIRONMENT IS THE MOST DANGEROUS IT'S BEEN IN DECADES... Markets
are increasingly volatile but resilient, taking hits and bouncing back. What's
wrong with this picture?
Nothing
... yet. Geopolitical cycles are slow-moving. It takes a long time to build a
geopolitical order; governments change course through the workings of complex
institutions, coalition politics, election cycles, and checks and balances.
Multilateral institutions take decades to build, and they gain momentum slowly.
Norms and values need to develop, to become accepted, and to shape institutions
and societies over time. Once in place, they're sticky. And so, barring bad
luck (read: a sudden unforeseen crisis), it takes years, even decades to knock
down a geopolitical order. That process of erosion is underway around the world
today.
Sure,
2019 could turn out to be the year the world falls apart. Tail risks created by
bad actors inflicting damage that then create an escalatory cycle are higher
than they've been at any point since we launched Eurasia Group in 1998. A
Russian cyberattack gets out of control. Iran and Saudi Arabia (or Israel)
trigger a Middle East war. The Chinese and Americans get into a trade war that
causes a deep recession, they blame one another, and retaliation spills into
the kinetic space. There are other risks of similar scale. But for now, all of
these remain low-likelihood events.
More
likely, and despite increasingly worrisome headlines, 2019 is poised to be a
reasonably good year. Even, dare we say it, not a particularly politically
risky year. But we're setting ourselves up for trouble down the road. Big
trouble. And that's our top risk.
How to craft a one-sentence description of your organization's
purpose
Your
organization's purpose drives it. But can people explain what you do and why
you do it in a single sentence?
Because
purpose plays such an important role in open organizations, I want to share
what I've learned about how organizations can clarify a purpose, who they
serve, how they serve their core customer and what they celebrate externally.
3-D printing 100 times faster with light
Rather than building up
plastic filaments layer by layer, a new approach to 3-D printing lifts complex
shapes from a vat of liquid at up to 100 times faster than conventional 3-D
printing processes, University of Michigan researchers have shown.
In 1968, computers got personal: How the ‘mother of all demos’
changed the world
On a crisp California afternoon in early December
1968, a square-jawed, mild-mannered Stanford researcher named Douglas Engelbart
took the stage at San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium and proceeded to blow
everyone’s mind about what computers could do. Sitting down at a keyboard, this
computer-age Clark Kent calmly showed a rapt audience of computer engineers how
the devices they built could be utterly different kinds of machines – ones that
were “alive for you all day,” as he put it, immediately responsive to your
input, and which didn’t require users to know programming languages in order to
operate.
The 90-minute presentation went down in Silicon
Valley history as the “mother of all demos,” for it previewed a world of
personal and online computing utterly different from 1968’s status quo. It
wasn’t just the technology that was revelatory; it was the notion that a
computer could be something a non-specialist individual user could control from
their own desk.
Increasing
numbers of children have internet addiction – how worried should parents really
be?
Does
hours of screen time mean depression, loneliness, weight gain and privacy
issues, or does it actually increase social activity?
Every
Apple Product Ever Made Thus Far, In One Visual Graphic
Apple fans, here’s a concise visual timeline of every product the company has ever made thus far, from its 1976 ‘Apple I’ to 2018’s ‘Watch Series 4’ and ‘iPhone XS’.
The infographic, made by cash loan company TitleMax,
gives you an overview of how much Apple has influenced the tech industry in the
span of four decades.
Click on the visual below to view its enlarged
version.
The Lumen Prize: 2018 Winners
For the very first time, a portrait created by a
machine has won a major global art prize.
The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology celebrates
the very best art created with technology through a global competition,
exhibitions and events worldwide.
In a landmark victory for an artist engaging with
technology, Mario Klingemann carried off the Lumen Prize Gold award for his
work, The Butcher’s Son. The other 8 prize winners underline the international
nature of digital art, including artists from South Korea, China, the US and
UK.
Bonus: These 20 Start-ups From the Land of Chandigarh Are Writing
History
Punjab is slowly catching up to India’s
fast-developing startup ecosystem. The state’s capital city Chandigarh, in
particular, has been a breeding ground for many successful start-ups which are
creating history with their innovative solutions. The government, which was
earlier focused on agriculture and sports, has now taken a lead in promoting
their start-ups. Here is the list of 20 startups from Chandigarh, you need to
look out for:
Events /
Announcements
SETS: National
Workshop on Public Key Infrastructure: Creating Trusted Environment. At Chennai during 22-23 Jan 2019
SETS
and C-DAC are jointly organizing "National Workshop on Public Key
Infrastructure: Creating Trusted Environment" in association with CCA,
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, IEEE Computer Society,
Madras Chapter and Computer Society of India, Chennai Chapter on 22-23 January
2019.
Event
Brochure at http://www.setsindia.in/PdfDocs/pki.pdf
Registration
Form: http://www.setsindia.in/PdfDocs/pkireg.pdf
For
assistance pl. contact: Dr. P. Nageswara Rao, Workshop Coordinator
Mobile:
9884143131 -- Landline: 044-66632506
Email:
workshop@setsindia.net
SPIN Event:
Agile is Sense and Respond to market at Speed and Scale. 19th Jan 2019
Agile
Transformation at Scale – The Infosys Way. Join the experts talk on 19th Jan 2019,
Saturday 9.30 a.m. M onwards featuring Anoop & Anand from Infosys; to know
how they are enabling Agile Transformation and Be Agile. Venue: Andhra Chamber of Commerce, Nandanam,
Chennai.
Innovations in
Software Engineering Conference -- ISEC 2019, 14-16 Feb, Pune
Innovations in
Software Engineering Conference (ISEC) is the annual conference of iSOFT, the
India chapter of ACM SIGSOFT under the umbrella of ACM India. The 12th edition
of the conference will be held at COEP Pune, India on 14-16 February. ISEC will
bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to share the
results of their work. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for
researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share
cutting-edge advancements in the field of software engineering.
The program includes
many interesting features: Main Research track; Invited Talks; PhD Symposium; StartUps
track; Workshops; Tutorials and Tech Briefings.
Website: https://isoft.acm.org/isec2019/
One
Day Training on Visual Essentials on 15th Feb 2019 at Surat
The Audio Visual
& Integrated Experience Association (AVIXA) is organizing 1 Day Training on
Visual Essentials at Surat on Feb 15, 2018.
The One Day hands on
training will help you understand the basics of AV , mainly related to Video.
For more details,
please visit: : https://www.avixa.org/events/event-details/2019/02/15/default-calendar/visual-essentials-surat
Contact: Gaurab
Majumdar, Regional Director, AVIXA,
Email: gmajumdar@avixa.org
Microsoft AI Residency Program 2019-20
Gain new AI skills
and experience while tackling real-world challenges
Through our
Microsoft AI Residency program you will have the opportunity to work alongside
prominent researchers and engineers in either Redmond, WA, or Cambridge, UK.
You will build your skills and get hands-on experience working on practical AI
and machine learning problems that help tackle some of society’s toughest
challenges.
We are searching for
a diverse range of researchers, engineers, and applied scientists with unique
perspectives, including candidates who may not have a traditional background in
AI, but who are passionate about working on AI technologies to solve real-world
challenges.
Application
Deadline: 31st Jan 2019
More details at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/microsoft-ai-residency-program/
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.
For
assistance pl. contact: Dr. P. Nageswara Rao, Workshop Coordinator
Mobile:
9884143131 -- Landline: 044-66632506
Email:
workshop@setsindia.net
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