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- What big ideas will shape U.S. science over the next decade? Here are some contenders
- Amazon wins '.amazon' domain name, aggravating South American region and undermining digital commons
- It could take 118 years for female computer scientists to match publishing rates of male colleagues
- The Next Way to Stop Climate Change: Storing Data in Space
- Manufacturing memory means scribing silicon in a sea of sensors
- 19 soft skills every leader needs to be successful
- Context-Aware Computing
- The Best Free Software of 2019
- Blockchain In Agriculture: 10 Possible Use Cases
- Digital identification: A key to inclusive growth
- Top 24 AI Books of all Time and Reflections
- Machine learning dates back to at least 300 BC
- “Brilliant Vision” From A Century Ago Foretells Today’s Internet
- 10 Advertising Phrases That Are Actually Meaningless
- Bonus: 5 TED Talks on the future of robots
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- CSI: Presentation on Management in Ancient India on Saturday 29th Jun 2019
- DigitalOcean CloudHack
- TIC 2019: Tamil Internet Conference. 20-22 Sep 2019 at Chennai
- CSI’s 53rd Annual Convention – 27-29 Sep 2019 at Udaipur
- IEEE INDICON-2019 at Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat during 13-15 Dec 2019
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Articles
What
big ideas will shape U.S. science over the next decade? Here are some
contenders
Konrad
Gomez-Haibach is only 15. But he’s vying, alongside more than two dozen college
professors and science professionals, for a chance to help define the National
Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) research agenda for the next decade through its
2026 Big Idea Machine competition. His idea, an “open world” video game
designed to build problem-solving skills and connect players with researchers
using artificial intelligence (AI), is up against 32 other diverse projects
that the Alexandria, Virginia–based group might fund.
Related: 2026 Big Idea Machine
competition entries.
Related: NSF’s 10
Big Ideas report unveiled in 2017
Amazon
wins '.amazon' domain name, aggravating South American region and undermining
digital commons
Amazon
has a new means of dominating the market – one that threatens the economic
interests of the people who call the original Amazon home. In May 2019, the
online megastore secured the general top-level domain name “.amazon.” Anyone
with the internet will recognise these domain types even if they don’t know the
term. They’re the endings to website addresses, like “.com,” “.org,” and
“.ac.uk.”
It
could take 118 years for female computer scientists to match publishing rates
of male colleagues
It
could be well into the 21st century before female computer scientists annually
publish as many research articles as their male counterparts, an analysis
published today concludes. If current trends in publishing continue, women in
biomedical research are likely to reach parity sooner, possibly by 2050.
Related: Gender trends in computer
science authorship
Related:
Who’s the Michael Jordan of computer science? New tool ranks researchers'
influence
Related:
The gender gap in science: How long until women are equally represented?
The Next Way to Stop Climate Change: Storing Data in Space
When scientist and entrepreneur Ohad Harlev was
looking for new ways to store data in 2015, he thought his best idea was out of
reach. Instead of keeping hard drives in a large data center, he wanted to
store data by moving it back and forth between servers at the speed of light.
Four years later, he has turned that dream into reality — and gone a step
further.
Harlev’s company, LyteLoop, has developed technology
to store data in motion, but not just between servers on Earth. It is planning
to use photonics — the science of generating and harnessing light that
undergirds technologies critical for everything from smartphones to lasers — to
store data in space, by sending it back and forth between satellites. The
impact could extend to the health of the planet, and LyteLoop isn’t alone.
Manufacturing
memory means scribing silicon in a sea of sensors
At
Micron's memory chip fabrication facility in the Washington, DC, suburb of
Manassas, Virginia, the entire manufacturing area is blanketed in electronic
detectors in all their various forms. But the primary purpose isn't to keep
intruders out or anything so prosaic. "A lot of them are microphones,” a
spokesman for Micron said. “They listen to the robots."
Related:
The fourth Industrial revolution emerges from AI and the Internet of Things
Related:
For the industrial Internet of Things, defense in depth is a requirement
19
soft skills every leader needs to be successful
The
most successful leaders have not only mastered technical skills, they've also
mastered soft skills. Commonly known as
people or interpersonal skills, soft skills like negotiating, building morale,
and maintaining relationships are key to a leader's success.
According
to ResourcefulManager, a website dedicated to helping managers become more
effective at their jobs, "Technical aptitude and business savvy aren't
worth much if leaders don't have the people skills to execute them." Here
are 19 soft skills leaders need to be successful - as well as tips to hone them
- from ResourcefulManager:
Context-Aware
Computing
A
tablet computer switching the orientation of the screen, maps orienting
themselves with the user’s current orientation and adapting the zoom level to
the current speed, and switching on the backlight of the phone when used in the
dark are examples of computers that are aware of their environment and their
context of use. Less than 10 years ago, such functions were not common and
existed only on prototype devices in research labs working on context-aware
computing.
The
Best Free Software of 2019
Your
phone is full of apps, but don't neglect the desktop. These free programs can
make your life better on the PC, browser, and beyond.
Blockchain
In Agriculture: 10 Possible Use Cases
The
blockchain represents one of the technologies with the most promise to provide
more consistency in wide areas of the agricultural industry. Whether it is
applied to managing warehouses, silos, and supply chains more intelligently, or
utilized in the field as a tool to transmit real-time data about crops and
livestock, there are few aspects of an agricultural operation that wouldn’t
benefit in one form or another from blockchain technology.
Digital identification: A key to inclusive growth
This report focuses on the economic potential of
good digital ID. As an enabler of economic,social, and political activity in a digital age,
good digital ID is a new frontier in value creationfor individuals and institutions. We acknowledge
that our research is not the last word ondigital ID. For example, the design, governance, and
use of digital ID is a rapidly evolving areadeserving additional research. However, we hope our
initial research effort contributes to agreater understanding of how digital ID, designed
with the right principles, implemented with strong controls, and enforced with well-considered
policies, can create significant economicbenefits for individuals and institutions and can
protect individuals from the risk of abuse.
Top 24 AI Books of all Time and Reflections
AI is rapidly changing everything. It is
transforming society, the very way we live and act as social creatures, how we
behave, how we do business, and even the very fabric of our own human identity.
Cities are managed by machine driven big data gathered by sensors, constructing
together what we known as the Internet of Things. An escalating digital
transformation is transforming our vast amounts of paper ledgers into digital
records, from traffic to finance to medical records. These, which convey most
of the data gathered about us, are now
processed in the cloud and augmented with machine learning artificial
intelligence’s multiple tools, which are stored in blockchain distributed
ledgers. There are only two ways to move in this new world of AI: we either drive it or are driven by it. I
want to make sure I am driving it. The bellow top 24 books that the author has been
reading and researching are listed in chronological order:
Machine learning dates back to at least 300 BC
Many people think that artificial intelligence and
machine learning are recent phenomena. However, these techniques and ideas
actually go back deep into human history. Machine learning has always been an
important tool for data mining for humanity, it was given different names in
different eras. The key to machine learning is not machines but mathematics.
There is nothing special about silicon and electricity. In fact, the first
computers were mechanical, not electrical. The goal of machine learning is to
take a dataset and use that dataset to make predictions about unknown values
within it. The aspect of mathematics that deals with predicting unknown values
in a dataset is known as curve fitting. Curve fitting has been known to
humanity since at least the ancient Babylonians. Babylonian astronomers used
curve fitting techniques to discover missing data points in astronomic tables.
Unfortunately, the specific techniques they used have been lost to history.
Today, computer-based machine learning gives us more methods to choose from and
we can work with much higher numbers.
“Brilliant Vision” From
A Century Ago Foretells Today’s Internet
Recently, author and columnist Mark Steyn drew
attention to a prescient dystopia about the internet age, a long short story
written in 1909 British novelist E. M. Forster (1879–1970). In Forster’s
dystopia, those common values have been shredded by the Machine. Everyone lives
alone in underground rooms where machines attend to all their wants and they
interact with each other only through the Machine:
The
long short story: The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster (First published in
the Oxford and Cambridge Review, November 1909)
10 Advertising Phrases That Are Actually Meaningless
There is an art to writing copy and creating advertisements. There is also a science. The two, when combined, can create selling messages that are very effective. But when you really drill down into some of the carefully crafted language, you’ll discover that advertisers are saying a whole lot but delivering little-to-no substance. This is the job of less reputable copywriters and their advertising agencies. They are tasked with turning everything the client provides into the most convincing argument that will make a sale. Now, to be fair, the better the info from the client, the less the agency will need to "spin" it. But at the end of the day, a good ad agency won't resort to this kind of nonsense. These phrases are misleading, and here are 10 of the biggest offenders.
Bonus: 5 TED Talks on the future of robots
Do you feel bad when your Roomba gets stuck? Do you
worry about what robots are coming next? Watch these TED Talks for insights on
trust, bias, and what's ahead for robotics
Events /
Announcements
Presentation on
Management in Ancient India on Saturday 29th Jun 2019
CSI Chennai Chapter is
organising a presentation on “Management in Ancient India” on Saturday 29th
Jun 2019 from 6.00 p.m at Hotel Palmgrove,
Nungambakkam, Chennai 600034
While the event is free for all, to facilitate logistics, please pre-register at https://forms.gle/AdhUxvaUexSA9PPd6
While the event is free for all, to facilitate logistics, please pre-register at https://forms.gle/AdhUxvaUexSA9PPd6
DigitalOcean
CloudHack
About the Hackathon:
Define the problem that you intend to solve, the community for whom it would be
useful and your solution. You're free to build any solution - be it for your
neighbourhood, city, college, workplace or any other pressing problem you've
encountered. Based on the idea, build an application that would be useful to
the community around you, and which helps solve a specific problem. Open till
20th Jul 2019.
For details pl. visit https://www.techgig.com/hackathon/digitalocean-cloudhack
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
CSI’s 53rd
Annual Convention – 27-29 Sep 2019 at Udaipur
CSI’s
53rd Annual Convention is scheduled on 27-29, September 2019 at Hotel Inder
Residency, Udaipur. There are four relevant tracks that will definitely help us
to top up our knowledge and set new standards are big Data Analytics and Data
Mining, Cyber Security and Smart
Computing, IOT and Engineering and E-governance and Digital Initiatives. Authors
may send their original papers for the review before 31st July 2019 to enjoy
early bird offer via Easy chair link given in www.csi-2018.org. The accepted
reviewed papers will be published by CRC press (Taylor and Francis Group). Also, the same will be sent to SCOPUS, Web of
Science and Google Scholar for further indexing.
For
more details pl. visit http://www.csi-2018.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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