Interesting
Reads – 2019-02-11
Contents
Articles
- Guidebook, “Data Protection by the Numbers for Dummies”
- 27 Amazing Data Science Books Every Data Scientist Should Read
- Tata Communications’ Countrywide Internet of Things Will Manage the Chaos in India’s Booming Cities
- How much of your body is your own?
- 110 Best Science Fiction Movies of All Time
- The Biological Roots of Intelligence
- Building an AI World: Report on National and Regional AI Strategies
- HQ 2.0: The Next-Generation Corporate Center
- Top 10 data centre stories of 2018
- Embedding ethics in computer science curriculum
- Bonus: Emoji are becoming more inclusive, but not necessarily more representative
Events /
Announcements
- IITM Incubation Cell & TIE: "Chennai Demo Day" Invitation - 16th Feb, 2019 @ IITMRP, Chennai
- CSI, IEEE CS, TEMS, WIE & HCC: Release of the book “The 99 Day Diversity Challenge” and Presentation on “Inclusion begins at home” on 22nd Feb 2019 at Chennai
- Avtar & British Deputy High Commission Chennai - Inspiring Second Career Woman Award 2019
- Dept. of LIS, Madras Univ: ‘Repair, Restore, Rebuild & Rejuvenate Library Resources’ - A Workshop on Conservation Techniques on 22 & 23 February 2019
- R&D Showcase 2019 on Feb 23-24, 2019 at IIIT Hyderabad
- 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
Guidebook,
“Data Protection by the Numbers for Dummies”
This
new guidebook, “Data Protection by the Numbers for Dummies” coaches you through
the three languages of data protection, to remove bias of experience or
preconceptions, so collectively you can deliver the best-in-class data
management and protection strategy for your organization.
Download
the e-book and learn how to: Understand technical metrics such as recovery
point objective (RPO), recovery time objective (RTO) and service level
agreement (SLA); Use operational metrics and translate technologies/issues into
dollars; Leverage the most used financial metrics total cost of
ownership/return on investment (TCO/ROI) to make it happen; And more!
27 Amazing Data
Science Books Every Data Scientist Should Read
Learning Data Science on your own can
be a very daunting task! There are numerous ways to learn today – MOOCs,
workshops, degrees, diplomas, articles, and so on. But putting them in a
structure and focusing on a structured path to become a data scientist is of
paramount importance. But there are hundreds of books out there about data
science. How do you choose where to start? Which books are ideal for learning a
certain technique or domain? While there’s no one-shoe-fits-all answer to this,
the author of this post has done his best to cut down the list to these 27
books.
Tata
Communications’ Countrywide Internet of Things Will Manage the Chaos in India’s
Booming Cities
The
new network aims to improve traffic, manufacturing, health care, and more
How
much of your body is your own?
Our
bodies are extraordinary. They contain elements that have a commercial value,
megabytes of data, and trillions of cells, most of which aren't our own.
110 Best Science Fiction Movies of All Time
Cue
the theremin, summon some extraterrestrials, and insert that social commentary:
It’s Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the 110 best sci-fi movies of all time, ranked by
adjusted Tomatometer from at least 40 reviews!
The Biological Roots of Intelligence
Imaging, behavioral, and genetic data yield clues to
what’s behind effective thinking.
Building an AI World: Report on National and Regional AI Strategies
In March 2017, the Government of Canada announced
the launch of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy. The first fully-funded strategy of
its kind, Canada’s AI strategy was followed by announcements of a variety of
forms of AI strategies by 18 countries, including France, Mexico, the UAE, and
China.
HQ
2.0: The Next-Generation Corporate Center
The
corporate center in many companies is not what it used to be. It will change
even more over the next five years. This change is not just a matter of the
look and feel of the building. It concerns the size of headquarters (HQ), its
location, its mix of talent, and its ways of working: everything to do with the
role of leadership in your enterprise. As an executive or an aspiring
functional leader, you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity — and frankly, an
obligation — to rethink your function in order to better fit the needs of your
business moving forward.
Top 10
data centre stories of 2018
There
is nothing like a datacentre outage to highlight just how reliant the digital
economy is on these facilities, with the 2018 news cycle dominated by tales of
server rooms going awry and causing mass disruption to end users across the
globe. Here's a look back over Computer Weekly's top 10 datacentre stories of
2018.
Embedding ethics in computer science curriculum
Barbara Grosz has a fantasy that every time a
computer scientist logs on to write an algorithm or build a system, a message
will flash across the screen that asks, “Have you thought about the ethical
implications of what you’re doing?”
Until that day arrives, Grosz, the Higgins Professor
of Natural Sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences (SEAS), is working to instill in the next generation of
computer scientists a mindset that considers the societal impact of their work,
and the ethical reasoning and communications skills to do so.
“Ethics permeates the design of almost every
computer system or algorithm that’s going out in the world,” Grosz said. “We
want to educate our students to think not only about what systems they could
build, but whether they should build those systems and how they should design
those systems.”
Bonus: Emoji are becoming more inclusive, but not necessarily more
representative
At least 230 new emoji, when different skin tones
and genders are included, are due to be released this year. That’s a leap on
2018 when only 157 emoji were added to the Unicode Standard – the code used to
support emoji on different platforms.
In addition to a sloth, skunk, banjo, yo-yo, and
waffles, this latest set represents another move towards more diverse,
inclusive characters. Since 2015, when new skin tones were built into the
Unicode, emoji have become more representative of their users. And now, 17 of
the new emoji will represent people who experience disabilities, as well as
items associated with disability – such as canes, wheelchairs and mechanical
arms..
Events /
Announcements
IITM Incubation
Cell & TIE: "Chennai Demo Day" Invitation - 16th Feb, 2019 @
IITMRP, Chennai
IITM
Incubation Cell and TiE Chennai are happy to invite you for Chennai Demo Day,
on February 16th , 2019 from 10 am to 5 pm at IITM Research Park.
The
idea behind Chennai Demo Day is to bring together startups, entrepreneurs,
corporates, investors, incubators, accelerators and IITM Centres of Excellence,
working in different deep tech sectors including manufacturing, cleantech, EVs,
IOT, ML/AI/AR/VR, Agritech in Tamil Nadu.
To
register: https://hub.tie.org/e/chennaidemoday
Confirmed
Delegations Include: Murugappa Group, JioGenNext, Google, Enterprise Singapore,
Spanish Consulate, ITC, HDFC Bank, RR Donnelley, Invest India and many more
large corporates.
Confirmed
Investor Delegations Include: Sequoia Capital, Keiretsu Forum, The Chennai
Angels, Times Group, Astarc Ventures, Arali Ventures, YourNest, Blume Ventures,
Parampara Capital, pi Ventures, Mentera
and many more.
For
any clarifications, please contact:
Akshay
- akshay@tiechennai.org- 9840921797
Badri
- badri@tiechennai.org- 9176886936
CSI, IEEE CS, TEMS,
WIE & HCC: Release of the book “The 99 Day Diversity Challenge” and Presentation
on “Inclusion begins at home” on 22nd Feb 2019 at Chennai
CSI,
IEEE CS, TEMS< WIE & HCC cordially
invite you for the release of the book
“The
99 Day Diversity Challenge -- Creating an Inclusive Workplace” by Mr. Umasanker Saundarya Rajesh, Social
Entrepreneur, Founder & President, AVTAR Group & Author of the book
“The 99 Day Diversity Challenge” on “Inclusion begins at home” on Friday, 22nd
Feb 2019 at 6.00 p.m. at The Seminar Hall, CSI Education Directorate, Taramani,
Chennai – 600113Kandaswamy, COO &
Joint Director, Bruhat Insights Global and the presentation by Dr. Saundarya
Rajesh, Social Entrepreneur, Founder & President, AVTAR Group & Author
of the book “The 99 Day Diversity Challenge” on “Inclusion begins at home” on
Friday, 22nd Feb 2019 at 6.00 p.m. at The Seminar Hall, CSI Education
Directorate, Taramani, Chennai – 600113
The
formal pdf invite is at
and
also at
To
facilitate logistics, please pre-register at
Avtar &
British Deputy High Commission Chennai - Inspiring Second Career Woman Award
2019
AVTAR
and British Deputy High Commission Chennai are proud to bring the Inspiring
Second Career Woman Award. Aimed at the successful women returnees in
Tamilnadu, this award will recognise and celebrate the intentionality and
perseverence of these women.
Awards
will be presented at The Queen’s Birthday Party (QBP) in Chennai hosted by the
British Deputy High Commissioner (BDHC) in Chennai at his official residence,
Cottingley on the International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2019. It is the most
high profile event in the BDHC Calendar and sees the senior-most
invitation-only guests on the Cottingley lawns that evening - Indian and UK business, culture/arts,
government, media, civil society. It is an evening of fun and business
networking showcasing the best of Britain and celebrating the spirit of Indo-UK
partnership and collaboration across sectors.
Last
date for nominations: 22nd Feb 2016
For
details visit https://www.avtariwin.com/event-conference/23
Dept. of LIS,
Madras Univ: ‘Repair, Restore, Rebuild & Rejuvenate Library Resources’ - A
Workshop on Conservation Techniques on
22 & 23 Feb 2019
The
Department of Library & Information Science, University of Madras is
organising -
‘Repair,
Restore, Rebuild & Rejuvenate Library Resources’ - A Workshop on
Conservation Techniques on 22 & 23
February 2019.
For
further details and registration, please visit
R&D Showcase
2019 on Feb 23-24, 2019 at IIIT Hyderabad
IIIT-H
will be conducting R&D Showcase 2019 at its campus, on February 23-24, 2019
(Saturday and Sunday), from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is the 18th edition of the event, since
the first edition in 2002. The two day event consists of a showcase of over 200
select demonstration of research projects and represents some of IIIT-H's most
recent developments in research and innovation in technology.
For
more details of the event or participation, visit the event website http://www.iiit.ac.in/randd/
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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