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- Top 20 Computer Engineering Projects
- Advice for those CSE students who learned nothing in college, but now wish to work at Google
- 10 ways to have better conversations
- AI In Automotives: The Future is Now!
- 50 Women-Led Startups That Are Crushing Tech
- Govt seeks feedback on draft e-comm guidelines for consumer protection
- What Makes a Great Logo
- Return to the moon? 3D printing with moondust could be the key to future lunar living
- Cardiac Surveillance: The Pentagon can now track your unique heartbeat - Inevitable/Human
- China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns
- A solar-powered system can turn salt water into fresh drinking water for 25,000 people per day. It could help address the world's looming water crisis.
- How digital innovation is transforming Indian agriculture
- What Psychiatrists Think About Artificial Intelligence
- The billion-dollar race to invent a wearable air conditioner
- 9 TED Talks: Spoken-word fireworks
Events /
Announcements
- Mini Tutorial on “Demystifying Embedded Systems, System on a Chip (SoC) & Raspberry Pi" on 31st Aug 2019
- RSC-19: Research Scholars’ Colloquium at SSNCE on 21st Aug 2019
- UX meetup session and presentation on “Best Practices in User Experience Design” on 24th Aug 2019
- IACC-2019: IEEE 9th International Advance Computing Conference. 13-14 Dec 2019 at Tiruchirapalli
- Transforming Healthcare With IT: THCIT-2019 at Hyderabad in Sep 2019
- TIC 2019: Tamil Internet Conference. 20-22 Sep 2019 at Chennai
- National Workshop on “Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructure” at SETS Chennai during 27-28 Sep 2019
- UDS 2020: 1st International Conference on Urban Data Science. 20-21 Jan 2020 at IIT Madras
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Top 20
Computer Engineering Projects
Computer
engineering is a discipline that integrates several fields of electrical
engineering and computer science required to develop computer hardware and
software. It’s all the rage with the industry today. For students and
hobbyists, we picked out some computer engineering projects from all over the
internet. These are simple and interesting while providing a solution that
could come in handy in real life scenarios.
Advice for those CSE students who learned nothing in
college, but now wish to work at Google
The
4 years of college are the best time to explore and learn new things, the
reason being that you do not have any responsibilities and so, you can put your
heart and soul into learning. However, given that you have already wasted the
college years, you should effectively “re-live” them.
10
ways to have better conversations
Many leaders take a vested interest in improving their communication skills. They labor over email drafts to ensure the most important updates are explained. They fine-tune and practice their presentations repeatedly before they take the stage at business events. They might even coach their teams on communication best practices and etiquette.
But
what about the side conversations that happen in the hallways at work or on the
road with customers? Do you treat them with the same level of preparation and
care? Often not. In those situations, most of us simply wing it.
Getting
better at day-to-day, informal conversations can improve your overall communication
skills, and leaders can practice every single day. Keep these 10 rules in mind
for more professional and productive conversations.
AI In
Automotives: The Future is Now!
Flying
cars are no longer a fantasy or science fiction! With AI, autonomous, or
self-driving, cars and autonomous flying cars are no more a futuristic dream.
Companies like Boeing and Terrafugia have already developed fully-autonomous
flying cars. With the emergence of AI, we can see many transformations in
automotive and aviation industries. Although autonomous flying cars are not yet
available in the market, self-driving cars are ready for commercial sale. Now,
imagine our world with self-driving vehicles including cars, taxis, trucks,
buses and bikes rolling out on highways, on the streets and on rural roads.
This could become a reality with AI a few years from now.
Riding
a self-driving car with much anticipation would be an exciting and thrilling
experience for most of us. Everything in a driverless or self-driving car would
seem magical when the steering wheel turns by itself, or the car automatically
stops at a traffic light. This article will delve into AI trends driving the
automotive industry, including self-driving cars and driver-assistance
technologies.
50 Women-Led Startups That Are Crushing Tech
Every year we talk about how this will be the Year
of the Woman because of the incredible advances women are making. There's no
doubt that 2019 will go down in history as the first time we saw a record
number of diverse women serving in the US Congress and announcing their
candidacy for President of the United States. But you know what isn't budging
for the 12.3 million women US entrepreneurs who founded companies? Access to
capital.
For a second year in a row, only 2.2% of investor
funding went to women-led startups. #NotAcceptable. Despite all of the media
coverage and all of the commitments by investors to diversify their portfolios,
many continue to miss or ignore opportunities to invest in the next billion
dollar startups that happen to be led by women. In our tech-driven economy,
we’re still tackling incredible obstacles that could be resolved by backing the
right creative and innovative minds. This continues to be the driving force
behind our Women Startup Challenges: to disrupt a culture and economy that's
made it exceedingly difficult for women founders to access capital.
“The tech world needs the perspective of more women
founders if we’re going to tackle some of the biggest challenges impacting us,”
said Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
“This means that a lot more than 2.2% of investor money needs to go to
women-led startups, and we have an opportunity and an obligation to start
setting the record straight, considering how studies show that tech companies
led by women have a 35% ROI.”
Newmark is right, we do need to set the record
straight. From ‘Food Systems’ to the ‘Future of Family,’ here are 50 women-led
startups who are pushing the frontiers of innovation.
Govt
seeks feedback on draft e-comm guidelines for consumer protection
The
proposed rules are aimed at curbing the sale of counterfeit goods, streamlining
returns and refunds, and delineating the liabilities of sellers and online
marketplaces.
The
government is seeking feedback on draft
guidelines that seek to protect consumers who shop online. The Ministry of
Consumer Affairs introduced the draft e-commerce guidelines for consumer
protection in a notification on Friday.
What
Makes a Great Logo
With
the unveiling of the new Slack logo which has caught a lot of buzz, I decided
to expound on some of the qualities of a great logo that nobody talks about.
Let me preface this by saying this isn’t another article about logo design.
While any of these ‘rules’ can potentially be broken, they do offer insight
into what is a very important part of a business—the commissioning and
selection of the visual stimuli that represent it. One of the reasons it is so
important is because a logo or brand ‘pivot’ can cost a considerable amount of
time and money, especially with companies who deal physical products. For these
reasons, it’s best to try and get it right the first time. Once you commit to a
logo and brand, you’ve committed to the business.
First,
let’s go over the basic logo truths. The general consensus among designers is
that logos should be unique, scalable, simple, and work well in monochrome.
This is all sound practice, and this article does not argue against any of
these mantras. That being said, there is more to gauge quality than these
common prerequisites.
With
the growing use of tools like 99designs and sites like Upwork—finding awesome
logo work is actually quite difficult in the age of the internet. Huge
corporations and even medium-sized businesses are difficult to penetrate for an
agency, and startups often want to stay lean and outsource their work. Also,
due to the digitization of design, we often see less creative forms because
graphics rendering programs afford linear forms such as squares, triangles, and
simple ovals. In other words, illustrative uniqueness isn’t as popular now
because paper and pen (hand, not mouse) skills are actually declining per
capita.
Return
to the moon? 3D printing with moondust could be the key to future lunar living
The
entire Apollo 11 mission to the moon took just eight days. If we ever want to
build permanent bases on the moon, or perhaps even Mars or beyond, then future
astronauts will have to spend many more days, months and maybe even years in
space without a constant lifeline to Earth. The question is how would they get
hold of everything they needed. Using rockets to send all the equipment and
supplies for building and maintaining long-term settlements on the moon would
be hugely expensive.
This
is where 3D printing could come in, allowing astronauts to construct whatever
their lunar colony needed from raw materials. Much of the excitement around 3D
printing in space has focused on using it to construct buildings from lunar
rock. But my research suggests it may actually be more practical to use this
moondust to supply lunar manufacturing labs turning out replacement components
for all sorts of equipment.
Cardiac
Surveillance: The Pentagon can now track your unique heartbeat -
Inevitable/Human
Did
you know that your heart is one-of-a-kind? Not metaphorically, speaking.
Literally, your heartbeat (cardiac signature) is as unique to you as your
fingerprint. While cardiac signatures are most commonly used to detect fatal
heart conditions (the Apple Watch’s EKG monitor is already saving people’s
lives), your heartbeat will soon be used to identify who you are.
And
just like the research in all other areas of biometrics (fingerprints, irises,
palm prints, faces, gait, DNA, typing rhythm, and voice), cardiac signatures
will fall into the identification purgatory of security and surveillance:
China
has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world
learns
In
recent years, the country has rushed to pursue “intelligent education.” Now its
billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas.
A solar-powered system can turn salt water into fresh drinking water
for 25,000 people per day. It could help address the world's looming water
crisis.
People have been trying to turn seawater into
drinking water for thousands of years,
but the process is not usually energy-efficient or affordable.
At a newly constructed facility in Kenya, however, a
nonprofit called GivePower is tackling that challenge using solar power.
The desalination system, which started operating in
the coastal area of Kiunga in July 2018, can create 19,800 gallons (75,000
liters) of fresh drinking water water each day - enough for 25,000 people.
How digital innovation is transforming Indian agriculture
In agriculture, India is a land of contradictions.
The country produces 11 percent of total global agriculture and, at the same
time, is host to the world’s largest number of malnourished people. Agriculture
provides livelihoods for about half of the Indian population, most of whom are
smallholder farmers, yet a majority of government agricultural subsidies are
used by medium- and large-scale farmers. Parallel to India’s tremendous
successes in the modernization of agriculture, smallholder farmers have been
marginalized. The average debt of a farming household has risen fivefold in a
decade, while increases in farm incomes have not kept up, and more than 300,000
Indian farmers have committed suicide since 1995.
Given the complexity of Indian agriculture, no
single policy change or technology shift will move the country toward its dual
goals of raising income for smallholder farmers and continuing to strengthen
the competitiveness of Indian agriculture, but the digital transformation of
agriculture occurring worldwide holds some promise for progress. This article
presents reflections on the topic from four leaders in Indian agriculture. They
offer insights illustrating fundamental changes in the structure of the sector
and raise questions about whether smallholder farmers will benefit from digital
innovation in the same way that larger farmers will.
Ashok Dalwai, who has chaired the Committee on
Doubling Farmers’ Income and is CEO of the National Rainfed Area Authority for
the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India,
describes India’s move toward an “income revolution” in the agriculture sector.
Purvi Mehta, head of agriculture for Asia at the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, explains how digital innovations are supporting moves toward higher
incomes for smallholder farmers. Rohtash Mal, chairman of EM3 AgriServices,
elaborates on challenges and questions about how these innovations will be
monetized to have an impact on smallholders. Anil Jain, managing director of
Jain Irrigation, discusses the need to pair digital innovation with physical
infrastructure.
We spoke to these leaders as participants in a panel
at the World Food Prize event in 2018, “Transforming Indian agriculture through
digital innovation.”
What Psychiatrists Think About Artificial Intelligence
About 50% of psychiatrists in a recent survey
believe that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will
significantly transform the way they work, but only 4% think that future
autonomous technology will replace them. Sermo, a global networking platform
open to licensed physicians, conducted the survey in partnership with
psychiatry and health technology researchers at Duke University School of
Medicine and Harvard Medical School.
The billion-dollar race
to invent a wearable air conditioner
Extreme heat around the world is pushing
companies—and researchers—to find new ways to cool down the human body.
9 TED Talks: Spoken-word
fireworks
Brave and beautiful expressions from some of the
world's most talented spoken-word performers, who weave stories in words and
gestures.
Events /
Announcements
Mini Tutorial on
“Demystifying Embedded Systems, System on a Chip (SoC) & Raspberry Pi"
on 31st Aug 2019
This half-a-day mini
tutorial, jointly organized by IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter ACM
Chennai Professional Chapter in association with ECE Dept. of St. Joseph’s
Institute of Technology will provide an overview of Embedded Systems, SoC, and
highlight a popular SoC – Raspberry Pi. The sessions will broadly cover the
following:
Embedded Systems -
Past, Present & Future; Embedded Systems - Power, Performance & Cost; SoC
& Embedded Systems; Single Board Computers - An overview; Use of Raspberry
Pi as Computer; and Use of Raspberry Pi as Embedded System
A participation
certificate will be presented to those who qualify in the brief test to be
administered at the end of the tutorial.
St. Joseph’s
Institute of Technology, management has graciously consented to extend
transport facilities to reach the venue through their college bus (at specified
timings) and also will provide breakfast and lunch to the external
participants. (Pl. indicate your requirement while registering)
To facilitate
personal interaction, the number of participants will be limited and the
registration will be first come first served basis. For additional details and
queries, pl. contact: Dr. C. Gnana Kousalya, Professor/HOD, Dept of ECE, St. Joseph’s
Institute of Technology. Mobile: 9840009247, E-Mail: hodecestaffaffairs@stjosephstechnology.ac.in
Time, date & venue: 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. on
Saturday, 31st Aug 2019 at the AV Hall Hall, at AV Hall, St.
Joseph’s Institute of Technology, OMR Road, Chennai – 600119.
Event details and registration at: https://in.explara.com/e/demystifying-embedded-systems
RSC-19: Research
Scholars’ Colloquium at SSNCE on 21st Aug 2019
SSN College of
Engineering (Autonomous Institute), Kalavakkam in association with ACM Chennai
Professional Chapter & IEEE CS Madras Chapter is organizing Research
Scholars’ Colloquium (RSC’19) on 21st August 2019.
RSC’19 aims at
introducing the scholars to open research problems in the areas of IoT,
Security and applications of IT in Health Care domain. The discussions will
also focus on the significance of mathematics in analyzing and evaluating the
developed models. This colloquium will act as a forum to hear on “balancing the
research life” from senior researchers. Interesting sessions on demystifying
journal publications and analyzing the vital questions to be answered under
different sections of a research paper will also be handled.
For a PDF
announcement, please visit:
For registration: https://bit.ly/2XCobuk
UX meetup session and presentation on “Best Practices in User Experience
Design” on 24th Aug 2019
Interaction Design Foundation, Chennai Chapter; Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai; and ACM Chennai Professional Chapter, cordially invite you for an UX meetup session and presentation on “Best Practices in User Experience Design” by Ms. Kavitha Kalyan,Head - Experience Design Studio, TCS Interactive Chennai & Author on Saturday, 24th Aug 2019 from 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. at Lecture Hall CS25, Dept. of CSE, IIT Madras, Chennai – 600036 (Located in the 1st floor of the Computer Science & Engineering Dept, adjacent to the CSE Dept. Office. Location map: https://goo.gl/maps/xnVpcox3tz88BCjg9)
Programme:
9.00 a.m. : Registration :: 9.30 a.m. : Session 1 :: 11.00 a.m. : Tea Break ::
11.15 a.m. : Session 2 (Discussions)
The
formal PDF invite is at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1E4U4I32nrLIJ32xlylGMvA9sc8lLnA7s
To
facilitate logistics, please pre-register at http://bit.ly/2ZDGwER
IACC-2019: IEEE
9th International Advance Computing Conference. 13-14 Dec 2019 at Tiruchirapalli
2019
IEEE 9th International Advance Computing Conference (IACC 2019) is being
organized at M.A.M. College of Engineering and Technology, Tiruchirapalli,
Tamilnadu. It is organized with the objective of bringing together researchers,
developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in the area of
advance computing. IACC 2019 is technically sponsored by IEEE Madras Section.
Registered and Presented papers will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore
for consideration,
Topics:
1.
Advances in High-Performance Computing
2.
Advances in Data Science
3.
Advance of Artificial Intelligence in Interdisciplinary areas
4.
Advances in Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Paper
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2019
All
questions about submissions should be emailed to iacc2019@mamcet.com
For
more details visit the Conference Website: http://computingconf.com/
Transforming
Healthcare With IT: THCIT-2019 at Hyderabad in Sep 2019
Transforming
Healthcare with IT is the annual national conference and the largest healthcare
conference and trade show in India organized by Apollo Telemedicine Networking
Foundation.
The
9th edition of “Transforming Healthcare with IT” is scheduled to be held on
13-14 September’ 2019 at The HICC, Hyderabad, India
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
National
Workshop on “Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructure” at SETS Chennai during
27-28 Sep 2019
Society
for Electronic Transactions and Security & Centre For Development Of
Advanced Computing in association with CSI, IEEE CS & ACM are oraganisisng
a two days workshop on “Cyber Security
for Critical Infrastructure” at SETS Chennai during 27-28 Sep 2019.
Workshop
brochure at https://www.setsindia.in/PdfDocs/CSCI_BROC.pdf
Registration
Form at https://www.setsindia.in/PdfDocs/CSCI_REG.pdf
UDS 2020: 1st
International Conference on Urban Data Science. 20-21 Jan 2020 at IIT
Madras
Urban
areas continue to be the centers of human activities and remain the loci of
resource and service consumption, economic transactions, and innovation. In
fact, the projections in parts of the world point to rapid urban growth. Other
areas of the urbanized world are experiencing population decline, reduced
revenues, concentrated poverty, and higher demands for services. Whether
growing or shrinking, cities and metropolitan areas face challenges of
infrastructure, public health, transportation, public safety, and environmental
sustainability, to name but a few. To address some of these challenges, the
cities of today are increasingly leveraging advanced computing and
communication technologies as well as big data analytics under the umbrella of
smart cities and urban informatics. Extensive research is taking place in a
wide range of relevant research areas to address some of these emerging
challenges. Smart City initiative is of global importance especially undertaken
by cities in US, India, multiple EU countries, and UAE governments in recent
times.
We
are pleased to announce the first international conference focused on urban
data science and smart cities. The conference aims to gather researchers,
practitioners, and subject matter experts from academia, industry, and city
administration to address a number of research themes arising out of building
future smart cities.
The
conference is naturally expected to be multi-disciplinary, drawing experts in
data science, social sciences, cloud and distributed computing, urban
sustainability, public policy, and software engineering. Participants are
expected to share new findings, discuss current and future urban challenges,
exchange ideas, discuss potential collaborative opportunities, and report
latest research efforts.
Paper
Submission Deadline: 1st October, 2019
CFP
announcement at http://dos.iitm.ac.in/UDS2020/CFP_UDS.pdf
For
more details pl. visit http://dos.iitm.ac.in/UDS2020/
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