Interesting
Reads – 2019-02-01
Contents
Articles
- Why You Need an IT Certification
- Utilizing The Productivity Improvement Plan: 7 Rules To Never Forget
- 10 of The Most Widely Believed Myths in Psychology
- Modern technology is akin to the metaphysics of Vedanta
- What is digital health? Everything you need to know about the future of healthcare
- A Visual Summary: 32 Learning Theories Every Teacher Should Know
- Here's how global tech giants are tackling 'fake news' ahead of elections in the world's largest democracy
- Dissecting Front-end Job Titles
- Looking Back at Google’s Research Efforts in 2018
- Gender Equality in the Digital Economy
- Bonus: Aerial Shots of the World's Greatest Destinations, Like You've Never Seen Them Before
Events /
Announcements
- SETS, IEEE CS, CSI, ISACA: "National Workshop on Hardware Security" at Chennai 26th Feb 2019
- SPIN: Workshop on CMMI V2.0 on 2nd Mar 2019 at Chennai
- NPTEL started translating the English language transcripts of video contents to 11 Indian languages
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Articles
Why
You Need an IT Certification
Information
Technology IT Certifications serve to provide credibility for those seeking a
career in an IT field. By being accredited by a reputable organization, those
that have attained one or more IT Certifications tend to stand out from the
crowd and be considered more likely to be successful in their positions.
Combined
with specific work experience, IT certifications communicate to hiring
managers, firms, and enterprises that a candidate possesses the skills and
competence to handle the expectations and demands of specific information
technology jobs.
Utilizing The
Productivity Improvement Plan: 7 Rules To Never Forget
How effectively we use our time can
make a significant difference to our personal and professional productivity.
Working smarter, not harder, is the key to effective productivity, and in turn,
to better results and an improved life.
The key to improving your productivity
is to understand why you want to do it and have clarity on the difference it
will make in your personal and business life. We all want to work a bit less,
do more of the work we love and make more money, but how can we do it? The following 7 Productivity Rules will help people achieve
their most productive working day, no matter what the day involves.
10 of
The Most Widely Believed Myths in Psychology
In
a sense we’re all amateur psychologists – we’ve got our own first-hand
experience at being human, and we’ve spent years observing how we and others
behave in different situations. This intuition fuels a “folk psychology” that
sometimes overlaps with findings from scientific psychology, but often does
not. Some erroneous psychological intuitions are particularly widely believed
among the public and are stubbornly persistent. This post is about 10 of these
myths or misconceptions. It’s important to challenge these myths, not just to
set the record straight, but also because their existence can contribute to
stigma and stereotypes and to misinformed public policies in areas like
education and policing.
Modern
technology is akin to the metaphysics of Vedanta
You
might think that digital technologies, often considered a product of ‘the
West’, would hasten the divergence of Eastern and Western philosophies. But
within the study of Vedanta, an ancient Indian school of thought, I see the
opposite effect at work. Thanks to our growing familiarity with computing,
virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI), ‘modern’ societies are
now better placed than ever to grasp the insights of this tradition.
What is digital health? Everything you need to know about the future
of healthcare
While
digital health is a simple concept — using technology to help improve
individuals' health and wellness — it's a broad and growing sector. It can
cover everything from wearable gadgets to ingestible sensors, from mobile
health apps to artificial intelligence, from robotic carers to electronic
records. Really it's about applying digital transformation, through disruptive
technologies and cultural change, to the healthcare sector.
How
and why tech's big players are poised to give the industry its biggest shakeup
in decades.
A Visual Summary: 32 Learning Theories Every
Teacher Should Know
Learning theory–and the research that goes into
it–is a topic seen frequently in universities and teaching programs, then less
frequently after once teachers begin practicing in the classroom.
Why this is true is complicated. (If you’re
teaching, you may have more pressing concerns than being able to define obscure
learning theories which don’t seem to have a place or role in what you’re
teaching tomorrow.) I thought it might be useful to have a brief overview of
many of the most important learning theories teachers should know in a single
graphic, which is why I was excited to find Richard Millwood‘s excellent
graphic.
Related
Post: A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models &
Technology
Here's how global tech giants are tackling 'fake news' ahead of
elections in the world's largest democracy
As the world’s largest democracy — India — prepares
of its general elections, Google and Facebook are trying to ensure that
everything is on the up-and-up. Especially since it wasn’t too long ago that
the Indian government was considering blocking social media apps altogether to
hedge against unrest for the duration of the elections.
- Google announced its plans to launch a ‘Advertising Transparency Report’ and a ‘Political Ads Library’ ahead of the general elections in India on Tuesday.
- Facebook and Twitter have asserted that will be putting an online library of election advertisements in place for public access.
Dissecting
Front-end Job Titles
It
used to be straight forward. There was frontend, there was backend, and there
was often a graphic designer. In the world of web development titles, things
were pretty straight forward. If you stated you did frontend, it was assumed
that you knew HTML, CSS, some JS, jQuery, and you knew your way around Adobe
and Macromedia products. The multitude of tech boot camps would have you think
that we’ve moved to UX/UI, Frontend, Full Stack, and Backend (in which you have
a selected stack of programming languages). In reality, the tech world has
become so diverse that what would otherwise be front-end roles have such obscure
titles that you aren’t sure what you’re applying to.
Looking
Back at Google’s Research Efforts in 2018
2018 was an exciting year for Google's research teams, with our work advancing technology in many ways, including fundamental computer science research results and publications, the application of our research to emerging areas new to Google (such as healthcare and robotics), open source software contributions and strong collaborations with Google product teams, all aimed at providing useful tools and services. Below, we highlight just some of our efforts from 2018, and we look forward to what will come in the new year.
Related Story:
Google’s Publication database
Gender Equality in the Digital Economy
The global economy is witness to the rise of
platform companies that have emerged as a dominant force controlling marketplace
and social interactions. The phenomenon of platformization transforms
production, distribution and social reproduction in ways that reinforce the
concentration of economic and social power in the hands of digital corporations
and countries of the Global North.
In this Uberizing economic terrain, digital platform
companies have emerged as neo-feudal overlords profiting from a brutally
extractive data regime. Using intelligence harvested from vast and varied data
sets as the key driver for locally responsive innovations and targeted
marketing, these corporations are able to monopolize markets. In sectors like
agriculture, they can create dependencies, locking local livelihood practices
of women in the Global South into corporatized supply chains and taking away
women’s control over land.
Hard-won gender equality gains in pay and job status
are at risk of being reversed by automation-led job displacement in various
sectors, even as the welfare state is shrinking. In trade negotiations, the
Global North is pushing for e-commerce, arguing that it will open up
opportunities for women entrepreneurs from the developing world. This is but a
‘pink herring’ that distracts from the real issues of the gender divide in
techno-social capabilities and the wider socio-economic challenges faced by
women’s enterprises. The ‘no-governance-is-good-governance’ rhetoric that has
gained ascendancy in the discursive arena of the digital also exacerbates the
challenges.
Reclaiming digital technologies and framing a
feminist development agenda in relation to the post-human context is an urgent
task. Given this imperative, the paper outlines a strategic road map focusing
on new legal-institutional frameworks and data governance models to both
counter data extractivism and women’s exploitation and envision alternative
data-based development approaches that work for women from the South. The hope
is that actions along these two lines can help us carve out a new global social
contract for the digital economy, founded upon feminist ethics.
Bonus: Aerial Shots of the World's Greatest Destinations, Like
You've Never Seen Them Before
It can be hard to understand the sheer scope of a
destination when bound to the ground. That's why some of the most striking
travel photos are snapped from above, often with the help of ascendent drones.
From the vantage point of the sky, fog settling in
over the Golden Gate Bridge appears like an eerie gathering storm. The staggering
skyscrapers of Manhattan, Shanghai and Hong Kong look smaller, yet somehow even
more impressive. And the vibrantly colored architecture of Kathmandu and Vienna
seem like they're from a painting.
We scouted out some of the most breathtaking aerial
shots of destinations, to help the earthbound see the world anew.
Events /
Announcements
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
SPIN: Workshop
on CMMI V2.0 on 2nd Mar 2019
Join
the workshop on 2nd March 2019, Saturday, 9.30 AM - 5.30 PM with Mr.
Rajamanickam M, CMMI Lead Appraiser, Infocareer Pvt Ltd. The Agenda include the following:
•
Why V2.0?
•
Key Architectural Changes
•
Key Model Changes
•
Transition Guide
•
CMMI Certifications for individuals
•
Key Changes in the Appraisal Method
NPTEL started
translating the English language transcripts of video contents to 11 Indian
languages
NPTEL has identified
top 100 NPTEL-NOC courses whose transcripts will be translated to the regional
languages. The languages to which the translation is being carried out are:
Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Assamese,
Oriya, Urdu. The translation is done by people who are not subject experts. So
we would like to get your assistance and help for reviewing the translated
versions to make it error free.
Recognition Include:
An honorarium of Rs 1000/- for verification of one hour of the translated
transcript; Your name will be mentioned in the course where these are displayed;
and A certificate of appreciation after you complete a course.
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