Interesting
Reads – 2019-04-08
Contents
Articles
- Governments are rushing to regulate the internet. Users could end up paying the price
- How to Be a Better Web Searcher: Secrets from Google Scientists
- The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized
- Top 11 RPA tools
- The State of Work Life Balance in 2019
- AI Knowledge Map: How To Classify AI Technologies
- 11 Steps to Transition into Data Science (for Reporting / MIS / BI Professionals)
- The growing digital economy of the Indian election machine
- Photos: 23 milestones in the history of the web
- What Is Blockchain Technology?
- The Automation Playbook
- The UN just unveiled a design for a new floating city that can withstand Category 5 hurricanes
- Top Companies 2019: Where India wants to work now
- Bonus: Challenge Tomorrow (videos)
Events /
Announcements
- SPINCON-2019: Conf. on “Agility, Automation & Cloudification” on 20th Apr 2019 at Chennai
- EURAXESS India Flashnote: Funding & Fellowship Opportunities in Europe
- 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
Governments
are rushing to regulate the internet. Users could end up paying the price
For
years, this libertarian thinking was the guiding philosophy of Silicon Valley
as tech firms aggressively pushed back at any attempt to regulate them or
control how people behaved online. Conveniently, this lack of regulation
allowed them to build massive monopolies and make huge profits.
Today,
Silicon Valley is facing the backlash. Amid widespread concerns over fake news,
influence campaigns, cybersecurity and the sharing of violent and extremist
content, more and more countries are pushing to rein in big tech.
How to Be a Better Web Searcher: Secrets from Google Scientists
A 2016 report by Stanford University education
researchers showed that most students are woefully unprepared to assess content
they find on the web. For instance, the scientists found that 80 percent of
students at U.S. universities are not able to determine if a given web site
contains credible information. And it is
not just students; many adults share these difficulties.
The
Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized
In
recent years, a number of studies and books--including those by risk analyst
Nassim Taleb, investment strategist Michael Mauboussin, and economist Robert
Frank-- have suggested that luck and opportunity may play a far greater role
than we ever realized, across a number of fields, including financial trading,
business, sports, art, music, literature, and science. Their argument is not
that luck is everything; of course talent matters. Instead, the data suggests
that we miss out on a really importance piece of the success picture if we only
focus on personal characteristics in attempting to understand the determinants
of success.
Top 11 RPA tools
If you’re ready to start welcoming
robots into your workflow, here are 11 of the top RPA tools for streamlining
your workflows and saving your users from the tedium of old software, as well
as some open source projects to check out.
The
State of Work Life Balance in 2019
When
we lose work life balance, everyone suffers the consequences. Here's what
@RescueTime learned about the future of work after studying 185 million hours
of working time.
AI
Knowledge Map: How To Classify AI Technologies
This
landscape is useful for people new to the space to grasp at-a-glance the
complexity and depth of this topic, as well as for those more experienced to
have a reference point and to create new conversations around specific technologies.
11
Steps to Transition into Data Science (for Reporting / MIS / BI Professionals)
If
you are one such transitioner looking to jump from a BI / MIS / reporting role
to data science, this article is for you. You can consider these 11 steps as a
learning path you can follow. In fact, I would strongly encourage you to
implement these steps in your current BI role. Start where you are and practice
till you break into data science!
Bolo,
Google’s new app for India, uses speech recognition to tutor kids
Recently,
Google rolled out Bolo, a new app in India. ‘Bolo’ (which means ‘speak’ in
Hindi) is a speech-based reading tutor app that helps kids learn to read
textbooks. Google says this India-first offering is to help improve children’s
literacy levels in the country, especially in the rural North where Hindi is
the predominant language. The internet giant is urging parents to download the
app to help their children improve their reading skills.
Designed
for students aged six to 12, Bolo is powered by Google’s speech recognition and
text-to-speech technology. It has a built-in “fun and helpful” reading buddy,
‘Diya’, a digital assistant in the form of a human toon. Diya nudges, aids,
explains, and assists children as they read aloud. She can even explain the
meaning of words. Kids can read all by themselves without parental intervention
as Diya serves as a personalised reading tutor anytime, anywhere, offering
corrective feedback at every stage.
Related
Story: English Vinglish: How a handful of startups are empowering Bharat to
aspire for more
The
growing digital economy of the Indian election machine
Political
parties’ digital campaigns are getting increasingly sophisticated in technology
and strategy, and a wave of companies new and old are cashing in
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story
Photos: 23 milestones in the history of the web
Saying March 2019 is the 30th anniversary of the
internet can sound arbitrary. After all, ARPANET was the first computer
network, and it went online in 1969. Also, TCP/IP was invented in 1983.
So why is the world celebrating the 30th anniversary
of the internet in March 2019? Because of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, whose March 1989
proposal to CERN first laid out the concepts that would become the HTML
programming language, web URLs, and HTTP.
HTML, URLs, and HTTP are still the foundation of the
internet, which is why we can credit Tim Berners-Lee with the creation of the
modern internet 30 years ago, in March 1989.
Since Berners-Lee laid the first bricks in what
would become the world wide web, it has changed dramatically. There are a lot
of firsts to celebrate in the 30 years that the internet has been around, and
these 23 items are just some of the most important milestones.
Related
Story: As the Web Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary, What Should Its Future
Be?
What is Blockchain Technology?
Blockchain technology offers a way for untrusted
parties to reach consensus on a common digital history. A common digital
history is important because digital assets and transactions are in theory
easily faked and/or duplicated. Blockchain technology solves this problem
without using a trusted intermediary.
This explainer will offer simple definitions and
analogies for blockchain technology. It will also define Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash,
Ethereum, Litecoin, blockchain, and initial coin offerings. Along the way,
we’ll highlight promising use cases for blockchain technology.
The Automation Playbook
The Automation Playbook is a useful source of
information for all industries as you look for guidance in how to approach the
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), new communication protocols, control
implementation, safety, asset management, predictive maintenance, a mobile workforce,
and so much more. It covers them in three chapters – Factory & Machine Automation,
Batch Processing and Continuous Processing.
Full Post Simple registration is required to download
this playbook
The UN just unveiled a design for a new floating city that can
withstand Category 5 hurricanes
The United Nations just unveiled a concept for a
floating city that can hold around 10,000 residents. The city is built to
withstand natural disasters like floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes. The design
comes from architect Bjarke Ingels and floating city builder Oceanix. Recently,
the UN said floating cities could help protect people from sea-level rise while
addressing the lack of affordable housing in major cities.
Top Companies 2019: Where India wants to work now
Every year, the
LinkedIn editors and data scientists parse billions of actions taken by
LinkedIn members around the world to uncover the companies that are attracting
the most attention from jobseekers and then hanging on to that talent. The
data-driven approach looks at what members are doing — not just saying — in
their search for fulfilling careers. The result of that data is Top Companies,
our 4th annual ranking of the most sought-after companies today.
As always, we analyse India members’ anonymised
actions across four main pillars: interest in the company, engagement with the
company’s employees, job demand and employee retention. (We exclude LinkedIn
and LinkedIn’s parent company, Microsoft, from all LinkedIn Lists. You can dig
into the details of our methodology at the bottom of the article.)
Bonus: Challenge Tomorrow
(videos)
Explore Singapore's future challenges in the media,
finance, healthcare, education and warfare through the heartfelt personal
journeys of 5 dynamic citizens - a rookie radio DJ, a millionaire financial
entrepreneur, a leading architect, a health-tech startup director and a
socially conscious TV presenter.
Events /
Announcements
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 such as CSI,
IEEE, ACM, ISACA etc.,
EURAXESS India
Flashnote: Funding & Fellowship Opportunities in Europe
For
the details of various funding opportunities pl. read
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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