Interesting
Reads – 2019-04-01
Contents
Articles
- The importance of Mathematics in the development of Science and Technology
- The history of machine learning
- Learn New Skills in 15 Hours: The Essential Guide
- Getting started with Git and GitHub: the complete beginner’s guide
- 12 Industries Experts Say Millennials Are Killing — And Why They’re Wrong
- IEEE India Info: Jan-Mar 2019 issue articles
- The Matrix 20 years on: how a sci-fi film tackled big philosophical questions
- How To Develop An Artificial Intelligence Strategy: 9 Things Every Business Must Include
- Fathers of the Deep Learning Revolution Receive ACM A.M. Turing Award
- Why Food Could Be the Best Medicine of All
- What is computational storage?
- The Internet Knows You Better Than Your Spouse Does
- 49 great resources for performance testing teams
- Ten big global challenges technology could solve
- Bonus: Who's watching us? (10 TED Talks videos)
Events /
Announcements
- ICPE 2019: 10th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering. 7-11 April at IIT Bombay
- SPINCON-2019: Conf. on “Agility, Automation & Cloudification” on 20th Apr 2019 at Chennai
- EURAXESS India Flashnote: Funding & Fellowship Opportunities in Europe
- Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Awards
- Call For Papers: IEEE TENCON 2019 at Kochi during 17-19 Oct 2019
- IEEE INDICON-2019 at Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat during 13-15 Dec 2019
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Articles
The
importance of Mathematics in the development of Science and Technology
Mathematicians
often say the essence of Mathematics lies in the beauty of numbers, figures and
relations, and there is truth in that.
But the driving force of mathematical innovation in the last centuries
has been the desire to understand how Nature works. This aspect often goes
unmentioned.
Together
with experimental method, Mathematics forms the conceptual scheme on which
modern science is based and which supports technology, with close interactions
among them. Upon these bases the industrial society was born almost four
centuries ago, and the new information society is built in the present along
the same lines.
In
this article, we give a brief outline of this scientific connection and how it
came to work, with a view to the future and short comment on Mathematics in
Spain.
The history of machine learning
Today, machine learning powers tools such as self-driving
cars, voice-activated assistants and social media feeds. However the ideas
behind machine learning have a long history, and rely on maths from hundreds of
years ago and the enormous developments in computing in the last 70 years.
Related
Story: AI: 15 key moments in the story of artificial intelligence
Related: Intelligent
Machines – list of articles & videos
Learn
New Skills in 15 Hours: The Essential Guide
The
most concise yet complete guide on skill development.
Ultimately,
what a skill really is is a series of connections in your brain. As you
practice a set of actions, your brain creates these connections for you.
While
that may seem like great news, that’s not always the case. The brain doesn’t
discern what is good and what is bad for you. That’s how bad habits get
created. It just records your actions and stores it in your memory.
It’s
also the reason why we think that new skills are hard to learn: we don’t make
the right connections in our brains. We don’t do the right actions that make
the learning of a new skill easier.
As
such, I really want to put emphasis on a word I used in my first sentence
above: “deliberate”.
When
you deliberately focus your efforts on doing the right actions to learn
something new, you direct your brain to create the connections you want it to
make.
And
that’s powerful.
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This Year
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Story: The Top 10 Skills People Want to Learn in 2019 and How to Learn Them
Getting started with
Git and GitHub: the complete beginner’s guide
Git and GitHub basics for the curious
and completely confused (plus the easiest way to contribute to your first open
source project ever!)
12
Industries Experts Say Millennials Are Killing — And Why They’re Wrong
The
perception of the millennial generation as exceptionally narcissistic,
immature, and disengaged from society has fueled a thousand hot takes on the
industries they're “killing." Here's what's really going on.
Every
few weeks, another story about the dreaded generation surfaces: millennials are
killing casual dining; millennials are killing breakfast cereal; millennials
are killing home ownership.
Pundits
aren’t shy about diagnosing what’s causing these deaths, either.
Also
known as Gen Y, millennials are often painted as screen addicts who can’t eat a
meal without sharing it on Instagram — which is why they won’t sit down for a
meal at Applebee’s. They’re commitment-phobes who balk at the idea of being
tied down, and that’s why home ownership rates are down.
IEEE
India Info: Jan-Mar 2019 issue articles
The
Jan-Mar 2019 issue of IEEE India Info, the quarterly newsletter of the IEEE
India Council has the following 25 interesting articles, two book excerpts and
few regular columns apart from the report on various activities held in the
IEEE Sections in India.
- The Cybersecurity Renaissance: Security Threats, Risks, and Safeguards by Dr. San Murugesan
- Solar Energy Harvesting Through Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis by Dr. Somnath C Roy
- A step towards integrated environment of technology based learning and quality assessment framework by Dr. N. Sarat Chandra Babu and Mr. N. Satyanarayana
- Dew Computing: A New Era of Computing Implying Minimization Over Internetwork Backhaul by Mr. Partha Pratim Ray
- The Convergence of IoT, AI and Blockchain Technologies by Mr. T.A. Balasubramanian
- Electronic Nose- An epitome of perfect sensor systems by Dr. Saakshi Dhanekar
- Design of Renewable Energy Powered Car by Dr. S. Elangovan
- Prayagraj Smart City by Mr. R. Srinivasan
- IoT Edge Systems with IEEE 21451 Standards A Perspective of Experiential Learning by Mr. P. V. S. Maruthi Rao
- Artificial Intelligence’s Journey from a “Value Optimizer” to a “Value Creator” by Mr. Sojan George and Mr. Rajeev Mullakkara Azhuvath
- Sensor Hub Environment for Autonomous Cars by Mr. V. P. Sampath
- Elliptic Curve Cryptography based Certification Authority by Mr. Kunal Abhishek
- The Smart Grid Computing: A Comprehensive View to Power Grid Systems by Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban1, Robin Singh Bhadoria, Frede Blaabjerg
- Driving disruption through innovation: The new business reality by Mr. Dinanath Kholkar
- Investigate the relationship between Lean and Industry 4.0 Technologies by Sanjiv Narula, Dr. Vishal Talwar, Dr. Maheshwar Dwivedy, Dr. Suya Prakash, Mr. Saravjit Singh
- Making Innovation work for your company by Prof. Arcot Desai Narasimhalu
- How To Win Customers And Influence Sales In Co-operative Banks Using Digital transformation by Mr. Sridhar Pandurangiah and Mr. Ganesh Chandrasekaran
- Machine Learning, the Next Milestone in Human Evolution by Dr. Subburaj Ramasamy
- Seasons of Code by Mr. Shakthi Kanna
- Techniques for efficient ETL Jobs using Apache Spark by Mr. M.G. Thiruvalluvan
- DeepVoice & DeepFakes: Exploiting AI-Generated Audio & Video ─ Boon & Bane by Ms. K. Visalini
- Social Listening through Sentiment Analysis by Ms. Mini Ulanat
- The Neoskilling Imperative for Fostering Innovation by Prof. L. Prasad (Retd.) and Mr. S. Ramachandran
- Jobs and Careers in the New Era by Mr. Gopalaswamy Ramesh
- Inclusion begins at Home by Dr Saundarya Rajesh
- Book Excerpts: “Project Guidelines” Chapter 4 of the book, “i want 2 do project. tell me wat 2 do” by Shakthi Kannan
- Book Excerpts: “Self Learner” Excerpts from the Chapter 1 of the book “ShapeIT: A Perfect Gift for Budding Engineers to Become Industry Ready” by R. Subramani & S. Vaijayanthi
Read them at http://sites.ieee.org/indiacouncil/newsletter/
The
Matrix 20 years on: how a sci-fi film tackled big philosophical questions
Incredible
as it may seem, the end of March marks 20 years since the release of the first
film in the Matrix franchise directed by The Wachowski siblings. This
“cyberpunk” sci-fi movie was a box office hit with its dystopian futuristic
vision, distinctive fashion sense, and slick, innovative action sequences. But
it was also a catalyst for popular discussion around some very big
philosophical themes.
How To
Develop An Artificial Intelligence Strategy: 9 Things Every Business Must
Include
Artificial
intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform every business – in the same
way (and possibly more) as the internet has utterly transformed the way we do
business. From smarter products and services to better business decisions and
optimised (or even automated) business processes, AI has the power to change
almost everything. Those businesses that don’t capitalise on the transformative
power of AI risk being left behind.
That’s
why you need an AI strategy for your business.
One
question people often ask me is, ‘Do I still need a separate AI strategy if
I’ve already got a data strategy’? In my view, yes, you should have both. In
theory, if your data strategy was extremely comprehensive and fully considered
the use of AI, then that might be enough. But in practice, a data strategy
alone is rarely enough. I therefore recommend every company has a separate AI
strategy.
So
what should you include in your AI strategy? When I work with a company to
develop their AI strategy, we look at the following nine areas:
Related
Story: National AI strategies in the world's most powerful countries
Fathers
of the Deep Learning Revolution Receive ACM A.M. Turing Award
ACM
named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 ACM
A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made
deep neural networks a critical component of computing. Bengio is Professor at
the University of Montreal and Scientific Director at Mila, Quebec’s Artificial
Intelligence Institute; Hinton is VP and Engineering Fellow of Google, Chief
Scientific Adviser of The Vector Institute, and University Professor Emeritus
at the University of Toronto; and LeCun is Professor at New York University and
VP and Chief AI Scientist at Facebook.
Why Food Could Be the Best Medicine of All
When Tom Shicowich’s toe started feeling numb in
2010, he brushed it off as a temporary ache. At the time, he didn’t have health
insurance, so he put off going to the doctor. The toe became infected, and he
got so sick that he stayed in bed for two days with what he assumed was the
flu. When he finally saw a doctor, the physician immediately sent Shicowich to
the emergency room. Several days later, surgeons amputated his toe, and he
ended up spending a month in the hospital to recover.
Shicowich lost his toe because of complications of
Type 2 diabetes as he struggled to keep his blood sugar under control. He was
overweight and on diabetes medications, but his diet of fast food and
convenient, frozen processed meals had pushed his disease to life-threatening
levels.
After a few more years of trying unsuccessfully to
treat Shicowich’s diabetes, his doctor recommended that he try a new program
designed to help patients like him. Launched in 2017 by the Geisinger Health
System at one of its community hospitals, the Fresh Food Farmacy provides
healthy foods—heavy on fruits, vegetables, lean meats and low-sodium options—to
patients in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and teaches them how to
incorporate those foods into their daily diet.
What is computational storage?
Computational storage is an information technology
(IT) architecture in which data is processed at the storage device level to
reduce the amount of data that has to move between the storage plane and the
compute plane. The lack of movement facilitates real-time data analysis and
improves performance by reducing input/output bottlenecks.
Related
Story: 2019 IT focus: Storage architecture for big data analytics
Related
Story: The rise of computational storage
Related
Story: Computational storage takes spotlight in new NGD Systems SSD
The Internet Knows You Better Than Your Spouse Does
The traces we leave on the Web and on our digital
devices can give advertisers and others surprising, and sometimes disturbing,
insights into our psychology
49 great resources for performance testing teams
One major roadblock that prevents teams from
successfully executing performance testing is a lack of training. Sometimes,
just knowing where to start can be a challenge.
Not many software engineering organizations are
familiar with the needs of performance testing. Even worse, hardly anyone is
attempting to add this activity early in the software development lifecycle
(SDLC), as advised in the shift-left movement.
Here's my list of mostly open-source resources you
can use or share with your team to start incorporating performance testing into
your team’s SDLC.
Ten big global challenges technology could solve
According to The MIT Review, the following are ten
big global challenges technology could solve while none is easy, but all are
incredibly important.
Carbon sequestration, Grid-scale energy storage, Universal
flu vaccine, Dementia treatment, Ocean clean-up, Energy-efficient desalination,
Safe driverless car, Embodied AI, Earthquake prediction, Brain decoding.
Bonus: Who's watching us? (10 TED Talks videos)
In the age of smart tech, privacy is a definite
concern. Here's the download on who has your information and what they're doing
with it.
Events /
Announcements
ICPE 2019: 10th
ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering. 7-11 April at IIT
Bombay
The 10th ACM/SPEC
International Conference on Performance Engineering is being organized for the
first time in India at IIT Bombay during 7-11 Apr 2019
Industry leaders with vast practical
experience and academics from top Universities in the world will share their
insights with us in the Conference Keynotes:
1. Prof. Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA: "Software
Aging and Software Rejuvenation"
2. Prof. Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA,
USA: "Practical Reliability Analysis of GPGPUs in the Wild: from Systems
to Applications"
3. Dr. N Muralidaran, Managing Director & CEO, NSEIT Limited, Mumbai,
India: "Scaling for High Performance"
The keynotes will be complemented by presentations of papers selected through a rigorous review process by an accomplished Program Committee. Papers are on innovative research as well as practical industry experiences in performance, scalability and energy efficiency of cutting-edge technologies such as:
·
AI-based Performance Monitoring,
Diagnosis and Benchmarking
·
AI Frameworks
·
Cloud & Big Data
·
Intrusion Detection Systems
·
SQL/NoSQL Databases
·
Mobile Cloud Computing
·
Smartphones & IOT
·
Data Center Networking
·
GPU, Multicore CPU, CPU-FPGA
More details at conf. website at https://icpe2019.spec.org
SPINCON-2019:
Conf. on “Agility, Automation & Cloudification” on 20th Apr 2019
at Chennai
Bosses
love it when you bring them solutions. And that’s exactly what you get at SPIN
Chennai's Agility, Automation & Cloudification conference; essential
insight, hindsight and out-of-sight on the rapidly changing cloud landscape,
valuable insights from industry experts on Automation and smart ideas from your peers. So ask your
fearless leader to send you this year.
Reduced
registration fee applicable to members of supporting organisations.
EURAXESS India
Flashnote: Funding & Fellowship Opportunities in Europe
For
the details of various funding opportunities pl. read https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r4vGw8LsJ_-rh2D3MbnFf70ePk0IBAi_/view
Innovation in
Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Awards
The Department of Science &
Technology (DST) is implementing a national program Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) for attracting talented young students
to study Science and pursue career in Research. This Program is being
implemented since 2009-10.
INSPIRE aims to identify, sustain and strengthen human capacity for Research and Development base of the country. Inspired research achieved by means of an innovative scientific pursuit is the objective of this flagship scheme of the DST. INSPIRE Program covers students in the age group 10-32 years. It has five components spread over in three major schemes. These are:
i. Scheme for Early Attraction of Talents for Science (SEATS) – INSPIRE Award and INSPIRE Internship,
ii. Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) – INSPIRE Scholarship, and
iii. Assured Opportunity for Research Careers (AORC) – INSPIRE Fellowship and INSPIRE Faculty Awards.
For
details visit http://www.inspireawards-dst.gov.in/UserP/award.aspx
Call For Papers: IEEE TENCON 2019 at Kochi during 17-19 Oct 2019
TENCON is the flagship premier
international technical conference of IEEE Region 10. The Theme for TENCON 2019
is "Technology, Knowledge, and Society", and it will be held during
17th to 20th October, 2019 at Hotel Grand Hyatt, Bolgatty, Kochi, Kerala.
Paper submission deadline: 29th
Apr 2019
More at http://www.tencon2019.org
IEEE INDICON-2019 at Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat during 13-15
Dec 2019
IEEE INDICON 2019 – the flagship
conference of the IEEE India Council – will be held at Marwadi University,
Rajkot, Gujarat from December 13 to 15, 2019 with the theme “Applying
Artificial Intelligence in Engineering for prosperity and betterment of humanity”.
The Call for Papers is now available
on the IEEE INDICON 2019 website; http://indicon2019.in/.
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