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Articles
- Banking Is Only The Beginning: 55 Big Industries Blockchain Could Transform
- Online Book: Site Reliability Engineering
- Women leaders in AI
- Memes That Kill: The Future Of Information Warfare
- Schools are asking students to bring digital devices to class, but are they actually being used?
- How Venture Capital Works
- Daniel Defoe’s hard-earned lessons on business and life
- Tomorrow’s Data Heroes
- How to Flourish in Industry 4.0, the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Unboxing artificial intelligence: 10 steps to protect human rights
- Universities should ban PowerPoint. It makes students stupid and professors boring.
- 44 Google Maps Tricks You Need to Try
- 15 Popular Reasons to Become a Freelancer or Entrepreneur
- Tutorials on Internet Technologies from Internet Society
- Bonus: Essential Design Thinking Videos and Methods
Events /
Announcements
- CSI/IEEE CS/TEMS/ACM: Presentation cum demo & practice session on “Yoga for Stress Free Life” on Friday, 21st June 2019
- IDF/IITM/ACM: UX meetup session with two presentations -- UX Career & Improving UX on an Existing Product on 22nd Jun 2019 at IIT Madras
- TIC 2019: Tamil Internet Conference.
Tutorial-cum-Hackathon Workshop
7-9 Jun 2019 & 6-7 Jul 2019 - TIC 2019: Tamil Internet Conference. 20-22 Sep 2019 at Chennai
- Newgen Newtons Contest By CADD Centre
- Young Professionals Program (YPP)
- IEEE INDICON-2019 at Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat during 13-15 Dec 2019
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Articles
Banking
Is Only The Beginning: 55 Big Industries Blockchain Could Transform
Banking
isn't the only industry that could be affected by blockchain tech. Law
enforcement, ride-hailing, and many other sectors could also have blockchain in
their future.
Online
Book: Site Reliability Engineering
Members
of the SRE (Site reliability Engineering) team at Google explain how their engagement with the
entire software lifecycle has enabled Google to build, deploy, monitor, and
maintain some of the largest software systems in the world.
Read the Related book: The Site Reliability Workbook
Women
leaders in AI
Forty
Recipients from Fifteen Different Countries Honored at Inaugural AI Women
Leadership Event Hosted by IBM In New York City Global Event Recognizes AI
Achievements to Advance Their Companies Innovation and Growth Diverse
Industries Represented, Including Energy, Financial Services,
Telecommunications, Insurance and Public Sector
Memes That Kill: The Future Of Information Warfare
Memes and social networks have become weaponized,
while many governments seem ill-equipped to understand the new reality of
information warfare. How will we fight state-sponsored disinformation and
propaganda in the future?
Schools
are asking students to bring digital devices to class, but are they actually
being used?
While
devices can be used successfully and effectively, we found that more often than
not they were sitting around unused. This was for several reasons, including
inconsistent software, different expectations and teaching approaches, and
technical obstacles. Many students who were using the devices were also doing
so to disengage, rather than engage, with learning.
Related:
Why access to computers won’t automatically boost children’s grades
Related:
Ten reasons teachers can struggle to use technology in the classroom
How
Venture Capital Works
Invention
and innovation drive the U.S. economy. What’s more, they have a powerful grip
on the nation’s collective imagination. The popular press is filled with
against-all-odds success stories of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. In these
sagas, the entrepreneur is the modern-day cowboy, roaming new industrial
frontiers much the same way that earlier Americans explored the West. At his
side stands the venture capitalist, a trail-wise sidekick ready to help the
hero through all the tight spots—in exchange, of course, for a piece of the
action.
Daniel
Defoe’s hard-earned lessons on business and life
The
author of Robinson Crusoe, who dealt with ups and downs as an entrepreneur,
also penned one of history’s most useful business manuals.
Related: English business manual, The Complete English
Tradesman
Tomorrow’s
Data Heroes
Telecom
companies are struggling to find a profitable identity in today’s digital
sphere. What about helping customers control their information?
How to
Flourish in Industry 4.0, the Fourth Industrial Revolution
We
are at the cusp of the next Industrial Revolution fueled by new technologies
such as autonomous vehicles, VR/AR, AI, robotics, blockchain, 3D printing and
IoT. The purpose of this blog is to
provide some insights into how to properly prepare to derive and drive new
sources of customer, product and operational value for this next Industrial
Revolution – Industry 4.0.
Unboxing artificial intelligence: 10 steps to protect human rights
Unboxing artificial intelligence: 10 steps to
protect human rights
“Ensuring that human rights are strengthened and not
undermined by artificial intelligence is one of the key factors that will
define the world we live in”, says Council of Europe Commissioner for Human
Rights, Dunja Mijatović, in a Recommendation
published today.
Universities should ban PowerPoint. It makes students stupid and
professors boring.
Do you really believe that watching a lecturer read
hundreds of PowerPoint slides is making you smarter? I asked this of a class of
105 computer science and software engineering students last semester. An
article in The Conversation argued universities should ban PowerPoint because
it makes students stupid and professors boring.I agree entirely. However, most
universities will ignore this good advice because rather than measuring success
by how much their students learn, universities measure success with
student-satisfaction surveys, among other things.
44 Google Maps Tricks You Need to Try
Google Maps is a Swiss Army Knife chock-full of
hidden navigation, geospatial search, and customization tools. Here's how to
unlock your map app's full potential and take advantage of an ever-growing list
of new features.
15 Popular Reasons to Become a Freelancer or Entrepreneur
People can choose from so many reasons to start
their own business that it would be impossible to list them all. Here, you’ll
get an overview of the most popular reasons which will help you reflect upon
and decide whether freelancing or entrepreneurship is for you.
Related:
11 Characteristics of Successful Freelancers and Entrepreneurs
Tutorials on Internet Technologies from Internet Society
The Internet Society developed a series of tutorials on critical Internet technologies and policies.
Bonus: Essential Design Thinking Videos and Methods
The resources listed in this post are recommended in
order to assist you to better understand Design Thinking. These resources,
videos, and tools should be explored so as to familiarise yourself with how
Design Thinking is being taught and applied currently. The resources listed
below are only a sample of a wide array of information available on the
subject.
Events /
Announcements
CSI/IEEE
CS/TEMS/ACM: Presentation cum demo & practice session on “Yoga for Stress
Free Life” on Friday, 21st June 2019
The PDF invite is at
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Smpxn5MKxpN2VfwmB3imIU8EvfMymfq/view?usp=sharing
While the event is free for all, to facilitate logistics, please pre-register at http://bit.ly/31bKHcc
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Smpxn5MKxpN2VfwmB3imIU8EvfMymfq/view?usp=sharing
While the event is free for all, to facilitate logistics, please pre-register at http://bit.ly/31bKHcc
IDF/IITM/ACM: UX
meetup session with two presentations -- UX Career & Improving UX on an
Existing Product on 22nd Jun 2019 at IIT Madras
An UX meetup session
with two presentations -- UX Career & Improving UX on an
Existing Product has been planned on 22nd Jun 2019 at IIT Madras.
The formal PDF invite is at http://bit.ly/2I9jK1r
The invite in image format is at http://bit.ly/2WCLShw
The formal PDF invite is at http://bit.ly/2I9jK1r
The invite in image format is at http://bit.ly/2WCLShw
To facilitate logistics, please pre-register at http://bit.ly/2IajejX
TIC 2019: Tamil
Internet Conference. Tutorial-cum-Hackathon Workshop: 7-9
Jun 2019 & 6-7 Jul 2019
TIC
2019 -- Tamil Internet Conference proposes to conduct a Pre-Conference Tutorial
cum Hackathon which is open to students and professionals. Here, Participants
will be trained on the usage of Tamil NLP/ChatBots during the Tutorial.
Participants can also come up with their own ideas and prototype them during
Hackathon. Top three products will be recognized with prizes. For Registration
of workshop, follow the link:
More
details at https://tamilinternetconference.org/tic2019/index.php/workshop/
TIC 2019: Tamil
Internet Conference. 20-22 Sep 2019 at
Chennai
The
18th Edition of Tamil Internet Conference (TIC 2019), is jointly organized by
International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) and Anna
University, Chennai, India from
September 20-22, 2019 . TIC 2019 invites the submission of technical
papers from researchers who are involved in different aspects of Tamil
Computing and Information Technology to send their research work for
presentation in one of the technical sessions of the main track of the
conference which will be held in Anna University Chennai, India during the
above period.
TIC
2019 welcomes double-blind anonymous submissions on significant, original, and
previously unpublished research on all the aspects of Tamil computing. Kindly
go through the attached brochure to know the scope of the conference.
More
details at https://tamilinternetconference.org/tic2019
Newgen Newtons
Contest By CADD Centre
Passionate
about science? Have an invention that has stunned everyone? Or something that
has made a positive impact on social or environmental issues. Or something so
radical that no one has ever thought of it before? Well, here's your platform
to showcase it, earn name, fame and big prizes! Become India's most talked
about young scientific inventor with CADD Centre's Newgen Newton Contest.
Entries invited for revolutionary, innovative, next gen scientific inventions.
Last
date to register: 30th Jun 2019
For
more details pl. visit https://www.caddcentre.com/newgen-newtons/
Young Professionals Program (YPP)
Are you a young professional thinking
about a career at the World Bank? Every year, around 45 to 50 applicants are
accepted into the program. Young Professionals are offered a five-year
renewable term contract, spend 24 months in a structured development program,
and enjoy a variety of benefits and opportunities.
Applications to the Young
Professionals Program are now open until June 30.
More details at: http://www.worldbank.org/en/about/careers/programs-and-internships/young-professionals-program
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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will be pleased to have your feedback on the “Interesting Reads” posts being
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want them to be included in the google group to get regular posts.
Pl.
send all your communications to hrmohan.ieee@gmail.com
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Mohan
