Interesting
Reads – 2019-02-06
Contents
Articles
- Energy and the Information Infrastructure Part 3: The Digital 'Engines of Innovation' & Jevons' Delicious Paradox
- Kojo Yakei – Industrial Sightseeing after Dark
- Poor Sleep Makes People Poor: The Costs of India Standard Time
- Technology that changed us: The 1970s, from Pong to Apollo
- Visualizing How Much Countries Spend on R&D
- Looking for WhatsApp alternatives? Signal is your best bet
- What is Our Favorite Technology Quotations?
- 3D metal printing cheat sheet: Printers, print methods, materials, use cases
- Special report: How 5G will transform business
- Top 10 SearchCIO videos: IT industry leaders share DX advice
- Bonus: Choose your champion for this year’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest!
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
- Essentials of AV Technology for Sales Staff - Delhi , 1st March 2019
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Articles
Energy
and the Information Infrastructure Part 3: The Digital 'Engines of Innovation'
& Jevons' Delicious Paradox
The
invention of the transistor-based logic engine, the integrated circuit, turned
60 this year. Today, humanity fabricates 1,000 times more transistors annually
than the entire world grows grains of wheat and rice combined. Collectively,
all those transistors consume more electricity than the state of California.
The rise of transistors as “engines of innovation” emerged from Moore’s Law.
And we’re still in its early days: paraphrasing Mark Twain, recent reports of
the death of that Law are greatly exaggerated.
Related: Part2: Energy and the Information
Infrastructure: Part 2 – The Invisible & Voracious 'Information
Superhighway'
Related:
Part1: Energy and the Information Infrastructure Part
1: Bitcoins & Behemoth Datacenters
Kojo Yakei –
Industrial Sightseeing after Dark
Do you think that ‘industrial’ isn’t
the most appropriate word for promoting a tourist destination? Are ammonia
plants and oil refineries places you’d rather avoid on your holidays? Japan’s
urbanites used to go out of their way to avoid the country’s sprawling
petrochemical zones, but now they’ve been reinvented as tourist attractions due
to their unique, otherworldly beauty. The ‘kojo yakei’ (meaning ‘factory night
view’) phenomenon kicked off a few years ago, and now tourists are signing up
en masse for bus trips and boat cruises of Japan’s industrial complexes, so
they can admire the aesthetics of these chemical bakeries.
Poor
Sleep Makes People Poor: The Costs of India Standard Time
After
Independence, India adopted a single time zone for the entire country. India
spans as much 1,822 miles in the East-West direction or 29 degrees longitude.
If India followed the convention of a new time zone every 15 degrees it would
have at least two time zones. With just one zone the sun can rise two hours
earlier in the East than in the far West.
In
an original
and surprising paper, Maulik Jagnani, argues that India’s single time zone
reduces the quality of sleep, especially of poor children and this reduces the
quality of their education. Why does a nominal change impact real variables?
The school day starts at more or less the same clock-hour everywhere in India
but children go to bed later in places where the sun sets later. Thus, children
in the west get less sleep than children in the east and this shows up in their
education levels and later even in their wages!
Original
Paper : PoorSleep: Sunset Time and
Human Capital Production
Related
Story: Teens get more sleep with later school start time, researchers find
Technology
that changed us: The 1970s, from Pong to Apollo
In
many ways, 1968 was a year of transformation. From the Vietnamese Tet Offensive
to North Korea capturing the surveillance ship USS Pueblo, international
affairs were unsettled. We lost two greats to assassination: Martin Luther
King, Jr and Robert F. Kennedy. William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols shared
television's first interracial kiss. And Apollo 8 became the first manned
spacecraft to orbit the moon.
That's
where we're going to start our list. In this 50-year retrospective, we're not
just looking at technology year by year, we're looking at technologies that had
an impact on us, paved the way for the future, and changed us, in ways good and
bad.
Looking
back is an interesting exercise, because we're able to see an overall pattern
of innovation, and look at technologies, products, and events that influenced
who we have become, and in doing so, have changed the world
And
with that, let's travel back in time to 1968.
Visualizing How Much Countries Spend on R&D
Innovation
can be a major competitive advantage for any developed economy.
However,
achieving a sustainable rate of innovation isn’t necessarily a straightforward
exercise. The reality is that innovation is a complex and difficult outcome to
measure, and there are many different variables that factor into it at a
national level.
Research
and development (R&D) expenditure is certainly one of these factors – and
while it doesn’t always directly correlate with innovation outcomes, it does
represent time, capital, and effort being put into researching and designing
the products of the future.
Today’s
infographic comes to us from HowMuch.net, and it compares R&D numbers for
nearly every country in the world. It uses data from the UNESCO Institute for
Statistics adjusted for purchasing-power parity (PPP).
Looking for WhatsApp alternatives? Signal is your
best bet
With the news that Facebook is planning to merge
Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram it could be time to switch messaging apps.
Here's our pick of the best
What is Our Favorite Technology Quotations?
These are some of our favorite quotations about
computers, the Internet, and technology in general. We find it very useful to
have a selection of quotations to use when we're preparing presentations and
handouts.
3D
metal printing cheat sheet: Printers, print methods, materials, use cases
Advances
in 3D metal printing technology that allow for micrometer-scale precision make
the rapidly-maturing field compelling for a wide variety of industries.
Businesses in various sectors increasingly rely on additive manufacturing
technology for rapid prototyping, as well as production-ready parts and
reducing warehousing overhead with just-in-time order fulfillment. Likewise,
materials costs can be reduced with additive manufacturing, as the amount of
waste produced is less.
This
TechRepublic's cheat sheet about 3D metal printing is an introduction to the
additive manufacturing technology.
Special
report: How 5G will transform business
The
contents of the special report include:
- 5G: A transformation in progress
- Survey: Professionals eager to deploy 5G
- 5G New Radio: The technical background
- New 5G business models
- Five industries that will be most affected by 5G
- Five ways professionals will experience 5G, and when
- How 5G will make smart cities a reality
- 5G planning: Five things CIOs should be doing now
- 5G points the way to life beyond the smartphone
- Samsung and 5G: Will this time be different?
Top 10 SearchCIO videos: IT industry leaders share DX advice
Digital transformation calls for a profound shift in
how an organization uses business processes, technology and the way that people
do their jobs. With digital transformation becoming a business reality, it
comes as no surprise that it was a frequent topic of discussion in our most
popular 2018 SearchCIO videos.
n these videos, you'll hear CIOs sound off on their
digital transformation experiences and delineate strategies that CIOs and IT
industry leaders can use to help accelerate their digital transformation
initiatives. The topics include key elements of a successful digital
transformation strategy, tips on accelerating digital initiatives and emerging
IT trends.
Here are the top 10 most popular SearchCIO videos
from 2018, featuring IT advice from IT industry leaders, consultants and
analysts.
Bonus: Choose your champion for this year’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’
contest!
Contestants in a global scientific competition are
flying toward the finish line. They are researchers who investigate everything
from viral nano-motors and human-dog behavioral imitation to the physics of
soap bubbles. But they are not being judged by their scientific publications.
This is the Dance Your Ph.D. contest.
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 at Chennai
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
Essentials of AV
Technology for Sales Staff - Delhi , 1st March 2019
The 1 day course
provides a comprehensive, introductory overview of science and technology for
audio, visual and audiovisual systems integration. Explore microphones, cameras
and displays, digital signals, networking, future trends and everything AV. You
can also use this course as a review session for the AV Technologist Test, A
certificate program to help you prove your AV knowledge. To advance in the
industry, you need a solid understanding of the fundamentals of AV. With a
variety of general knowledge courses, AVIXA has a training track to help you
meet your career goals especially for the sales staff.
Details at: https://www.avixa.org/events/event-details/2019/03/01/default-calendar/essentials-of-av-technology-new-delhi
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