Friday 23 August 2019

Interesting Reads – 2019-08-22


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  • How Google Plans To Use AI To Reinvent The $3 Trillion US Healthcare Industry
  • 'The Matrix' hit theaters 20 years ago. Many scientists and philosophers still think we're living in a simulation
  • 30 Most Powerful Fat Burning Fruits
  • Suicide attempts are hard to anticipate. A study that tracks teens’ cellphone use aims to change that
  • What Technology Is Most Likely to Become Obsolete During Your Lifetime?
  • How The Kerala Government And KSUM Are Opening Up International Doors For Indian Startups
  • The Amazon is burning at a rate not seen since we started keeping track. The smoke is reaching cities 2,000 miles away.
  • China’s herd of unicorns
  • What is 'blobology' and how is it transforming biology?
  • What Would Happen If the Whole Internet Just Shut Down All of a Sudden?
  • Fake Cop Allegedly Tricked Phone Companies Into Giving Him People’s Location Data
  • Here’s how the world could end—and what we can do about it
  • IEEE India Info: Apr-Jun 2019 issue articles
  • Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young
  • Build Whats Next: Watch on Demand the sessions of  India's Largest Virtual Event on Turning Data Into Insights

Events / Announcements

  • Mini Tutorial on “Demystifying Embedded Systems, System on a Chip (SoC) & Raspberry Pi" on 31st Aug 2019
  • Start-ups and Investors Summit on 30th Aug 2019
  • "Startup Yaan" - National Space Startup Community meetup on 31st Aug 2019
  • Mini Tutorial on “Demystifying Data Analytics" on 7th Sep 2019
  • 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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How Google Plans To Use AI To Reinvent The $3 Trillion US Healthcare Industry

Google is betting that the future of healthcare is going to be structured data and AI. The company is applying AI to disease detection, new data infrastructure, and potentially insurance. In this report we explore Google's many healthcare initiatives and areas of potential future expansion.


'The Matrix' hit theaters 20 years ago. Many scientists and philosophers still think we're living in a simulation.

When the film "The Matrix" came out 20 years ago (yes, it premiered in March 1999), many moviegoers pegged its premise as entertaining but fully implausible. The movie's protagonist, Neo, discovers that his reality isn't actually real. Instead, Neo's world is a vast simulation orchestrated by hyper-evolved AI that harvest humans for their energy.

While this vision of robot overlords probably strikes most people as a stretch, the idea that we're living in a simulation is totally plausible, according to some philosophers, and maybe even likely. Though Neo's bullet-dodging, gravity-defying antics may now seem dated to movie-goers, the concepts put forward in "The Matrix" remain perennial. Here's why some scientists think we're living in a simulation.


30 Most Powerful Fat Burning Fruits

When it comes to reducing body weight, what you eat is just as important as what you don’t eat. Lucky for us, eating fruits is a great way to start burning fat and keep our cravings for sweets in check. In fact, academic research here and here found that fruit intake is positively correlated with weight loss. Fruits contain very few calories while also being jam-packed with vital nutrients to keep out stomachs full for longer. The best thing is that you can virtually enjoy fruits anywhere and anytime – during breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and even as a snack for in-between meal munchies.

Studies have also shown that eating specific fruits help burn fat efficiently. So make sure to read the full list of the top 30 most effective fat-burning fruits:


Suicide attempts are hard to anticipate. A study that tracks teens’ cellphone use aims to change that

Every Wednesday afternoon, an alert flashes on the cellphones of about 50 teenagers in New York and Pennsylvania. Its questions are blunt: "In the past week, how often have you thought of killing yourself?" "Did you make a plan to kill yourself?" "Did you make an attempt to kill yourself?"

The 13- to 18-year-olds tap their responses, which are fed to a secure server. They have agreed, with their parents' support, to something that would make many adolescents cringe: an around-the-clock recording of their digital lives. For 6 months, an app will gobble up nearly every data point their phones can offer, capturing detail and nuance that a doctor's questionnaire cannot: their text messages and social media posts, their tone of voice in phone calls and facial expression in selfies, the music they stream, how much they move around, how much time they spend at home.

Most of these young people have recently attempted suicide or are having suicidal thoughts. All have been diagnosed with a mental illness such as depression. The study they're part of, Mobile Assessment for the Prediction of Suicide (MAPS), is one of several fledgling efforts to test whether streams of information from mobile devices can help answer a question that has long confounded scientists and clinicians: How do you predict when someone is at imminent risk of attempting suicide?

                                            
What Technology Is Most Likely to Become Obsolete During Your Lifetime?

Certain Boomer basements are little shrines to obsolescence, untidy stockrooms of the one-time cutting-edge: VCRs, corded telephones, immense beige PC monitors, etc. Way fewer Millennials will have basements to store trash in (‘home ownership’ itself quickly verging on obsolete), but presumably, once climate change really hits and they’re all renting cots in corporatized storm shelters, they’ll have little lockers to put stuff in. And it’s worth wondering: what worthless old technology will they be inexplicably hoarding? For this week’s Giz Asks, we reached out to a number of historians of technology for their takes on what tech will become obsolete in the next fifty years.


How The Kerala Government And KSUM Are Opening Up International Doors For Indian Startups

The Kerala government is promoting entrepreneurship at different levels — from schools to startups with the Kerala Startup Mission. KSUM has tied up with international institutes, accelerators and tech conferences to take Indian startups global. As many as 130 startups from Kerala have gone global under the Kerala government’s various schemes.


The Amazon is burning at a rate not seen since we started keeping track. The smoke is reaching cities 2,000 miles away.

The Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate: The Brazilian Amazon has experienced more than 74,000 fires this year, whereas last year's total was around 40,000. Some of these fires were started by farmers and loggers who seek to use Amazonian for industrial or agricultural purposes. But once blazes start, hot temperatures and dry conditions due to climate change enable the flames to spread farther and faster.

Related Post: Wildfires are blazing through the Amazon rainforest in record numbers, burning through a tropical forest vital to countering climate change

China’s herd of unicorns

About 200 Chinese startups have valuations of $1 billion or more, and many are preparing to go global.

The standard definition of a unicorn is a privately held startup valued at more than $1 billion. Currently, when people think of Chinese unicorns, they think of the handful of companies that have risen to global status in two decades or less: companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, JD.com, and Tencent. Since these few are already valued at $10 billion or more, they are now known as “superunicorns.” Many more Chinese unicorns are coming up behind them, still relatively unknown because they currently operate only within China, which is large enough to sustain them for some time. But sooner or later, many of this second wave of Chinese unicorns will grow into global industry giants.


What is 'blobology' and how is it transforming biology?

Spectacularly detailed videos from an advanced microscope are sparking a biology "revolution", scientists say. The technique was once termed "blobology" because its images were so indistinct. But now, it is being used to create videos of the body's inner-workings at a hitherto unseen level of detail. This new view inside the body is likely to accelerate the development of more effective drugs for dementia and infection.


What Would Happen If the Whole Internet Just Shut Down All of a Sudden?

A world in which the internet suddenly stops: surely the TV show’s already in development. Sprawling cast, gorgeous visuals, tediously on-the-nose themes. Some handsome B-lister tearing around the country in pursuit of his wayward kids, or the shadowy sect that pulled the plug in the first place. A patch of prairie in Kansas with a weak but functional signal, people lining for miles to check texts, riots breaking out. Thankfully, we don’t have to wait for this show to be shot and streamed to get a decent idea of what the internet apocalypse might look like: for this week’s Giz Asks, we asked a number of experts to do the imagining for us.


Fake Cop Allegedly Tricked Phone Companies Into Giving Him People’s Location Data
 
The Colorado Public Safety Task Force contacted T-Mobile with an urgent situation: A man was suicidal and they needed real-time updates of his mobile phone location to save his life. T-Mobile handed over GPS data for the phone, and the task force  reported it found the man in a field outside of an apartment complex. Verizon and Sprint received similar requests about different customers from the Task Force, which appeared to have spent months trying to prevent suicides all over the state.

There were a couple of problems with this scenario, though.


Here’s how the world could end—and what we can do about it

In a dingy apartment building, insulated by layers of hanging rugs, the last family on Earth huddles around a fire, melting a pot of oxygen. Ripped from the sun’s warmth by a rogue dark star, the planet has been exiled to the cold outer reaches of the solar system. The lone clan of survivors must venture out into the endless night to harvest frozen atmospheric gases that have piled up like snow.

As end-of-humanity scenarios go, that bleak vision from Fritz Leiber’s 1951 short story “A Pail of Air” is a fairly remote possibility. Scholars who ponder such things think a self-induced catastrophe such as nuclear war or a bioengineered pandemic is most likely to do us in. However, a number of other extreme natural hazards—including threats from space and geologic upheavals here on Earth—could still derail life as we know it, unraveling advanced civilization, wiping out billions of people, or potentially even exterminating our species.

Yet there’s been surprisingly little research on the subject, says Anders Sandberg, a catastrophe researcher at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute in the United Kingdom. Last he checked, “there are more papers about dung beetle reproduction than human extinction,” he says. “We might have our priorities slightly wrong.”

Frequent, moderately severe disasters such as earthquakes attract far more funding than low-probability apocalyptic ones. Prejudice may also be at work; for instance, scientists who pioneered studies of asteroid and comet impacts complained about confronting a pervasive “giggle factor.” Consciously or unconsciously, Sandberg says, many researchers consider catastrophic risks the province of fiction or fantasy—not serious science.

A handful of researchers, however, persist in thinking the unthinkable. With enough knowledge and proper planning, they say, it’s possible to prepare for—or in some cases prevent—rare but devastating natural disasters. Giggle all you want, but the survival of human civilization could be at stake.


IEEE India Info: Apr-Jun 2019 issue articles

The Jan-Mar 2019 issue of IEEE India Info, the quarterly newsletter of the IEEE India Council has the following 31 interesting articles, a specil section on St JC Bose with 7 articles and few regular columns apart from the report on various activities held in the IEEE Sections in India.

  • India’s Trillion Dollar Opportunity in SaaS by Mr. Suresh Sambandam
  • Digital Plantation story of RGE by Mr. Abhishek Singh & Mr. Leong Hoe Wah
  • Move over, Pessimists - Emerging Top 50 Technologies Offer a Gold Mine of Opportunities by Mr. S. Anand
  • Supply Chain Management Practice in India by Mr. V. Ramachandran  & Mr. M. Sundaram
  • An Overview of ICT Tools for Supply Chain Management by Prof. Prashant R. Nair
  • AI for All by Mr. S. Arjun
  • Machine Learning via Genetic Algorithm Demystified for Today’s Era by Dr Vivek Venkobarao
  • Journey from Monolith Application to Microservices by Ms. Nithya Rajagopalan & Mr. Kumaraswamy Gowda
  • Establishing Community Radio Station in India by Mr. G. K. Jakir Hussain
  • Glassless 3D Technology  -- A 3D Solution without glasses - the future of 3D Technology by Mr. M. Venkatesan
  • Space FPGA Mitigation Effects, Challenges and Trends by Mr. V. P. Sampath
  • Electric Vehicles for India: Overview and Challenges by Mr. A. Rakesh Kumar &  Dr. Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban
  • Internet of Things (IoT) and E-Healthcare System – A Short Review on Challenges by Dr. T.Poongodi,  Dr. Balamurugan Balusamy, Dr. P. Sanjeevikumar, Dr. Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen
  • Marine Autonomous Systems – Technology, Opportunities and Use Cases by Mr. Madhan Dhanushkodi & Mr. Darshan Rajagopal
  • Architecting for Strategic Outcomes by Mr. Pradeep Henry
  • Why Design Thinking Helps Identify Great Artificial Intelligence Use Cases by Mr. Sojan George & Mr. Rajeev Mullakkara Azhuvath
  • Operating System Security – A Short Note by Mr. Kunal Abhishek & Dr. E. George Dharma Prakash Raj
  • Data Privacy – Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow – An Overview by Mr. Ramkumar Ramachandran
  • Universal Acceptance: The concept that all domain names should be treated equally
  • IEEE Xplore® Digital Library Continues to be Your Career Partner by Dr. Dhanukumar Pattanashetti
  • Why Standards Matter? IEEE Standards Development Initiative in India by Mr. Srikanth Chandrasekaran
  • e-commerce -- Past, Present and the Future by Mr. K. Vaitheeswaran
  • Starvation Deaths, Migrant Labour, Gypsies and Blockchain by Mr. Santosh K Misra IAS
  • Detecting fake news and information by Dr.  Paromita Pain
  • Neuromarketing: An Overview by Prof. K. Ganapathy
  • Management Lessons from a Rural Indian Water Project by Mr. Sathish Vaidyanathan
  • Building Tech startup culture through colleges for generating National and International Opportunities by Mr. B. Parameshwar Babu
  • Startups as an investment asset class by Mr. Sanjay Mehta
  • The Progress and Value of Patents in India by  Dr. Kalyan Kankanala
  • Making an Impactful Presentation by Dr. Ch. Aswani Kumar
  • 5 Key Types of Workplace Harassment and Ways to Stop it.by Ms. Viji Hari

Special Section on Sir JC Bose

  • Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose: Scientist Par Excellence: A Tribute by Dr. B.S. Sonde
  • Jagadish Chandra Bose: The Physicist who was forgotten by Dr. D.P. Sen Gupta
  • Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, James Clerk Maxwell and there on….. by Dr. S. Pal
  • mmWave Applications in NextGen Wireless Broadband Evolution in 5G Era:  Impact of Sir JC Bose invention by Mr. C.S. Rao, Ms. Arpita Hura and Ms. Mouna Jain
  • Radio Astronomy: How J.C. Bose’s invention opened a new window to the Universe by Dr. Yashwant Gupta
  • Design and Construction of Working Replica of Sir J.C Bose 60 GHz Experiment by Dr. Shaik Kareem Ahmmad, Dr. Syed Ilyas Mohiuddin and Dr. Mohammed Arifuddin Sohel
  • Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose: Biologist, Biophysicist, Botanist, Physicist, Archaeologist and Polymath by Mr. Sudhir Phakatkar

Regular columns

  • What’s hot in IT – An Indian Perspective (Mar-May 2019) by Prof. S. Sadagopan
  • Information Resources by Mr. H.R. Mohan


Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young

A reader who prefers to remain anonymous — but whose career we think did a lot of good — passed us this list of advice which they were grateful to have received, or wish they’d been given when they were younger.

We thought it was very interesting, including where it doesn’t line up exactly with our usual views, and so are publishing it here with their permission.

The advice is targeted towards people sympathetic to the principles of effective altruism, especially those with an interest in public policy careers, but we think much of it is more broadly useful.


Build Whats Next: Watch on Demand the sessions of  India's Largest Virtual Event on Turning Data Into Insights

India’s largest digital conclave on Turning Data Into Insights held on 21st August 2019

To ensure you don’t miss out from the learnings of the event, video recordings of the event’s entire proceedings will be available on-demand for 90 days for you to refer and revisit the experience.

Please log in here to access the event proceedings. 

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

Start-ups and Investors Summit on 30th Aug 2019

The Start-ups and Investors Summit on the theme “Road to Sustenance and Scaling of startups” is being organised on 30th Aug 2019 (Friday) at Veltech Dr.Rangarajan Dr.Saguntala R & D Institute of Science and Technology, Avadi, Chennai



"Startup Yaan" - National Space Startup Community meetup on 31st Aug 2019

NCCRD, IIT Madras in partnership with TiE Chennai presents "Startup Yaan" - A one of a kind National Space Startup Community meetup on Aug 31, 2019 from 10:00 a.m. to 03:00 p.m. at  Raman Hall, Block E, IIT Madras Research Park, Kanagam,Tharamani, Chennai,India. It is a free event but pre- registration a must.  


Mini Tutorial on “Demystifying Data Analytics" on 7th Sep 2019

Pl. find an announcement and call for participation in the mini tutorial on "Demystifying Data Analytics" on 7th Sep 2019 at the Seminar Hall, Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Kodambakkam, Chennai- 600024.


A nominal registration fee of Rs. 150/- (for members of IEEE, ACM, CSI, SPIN, eWIT, CySI, ISACA and students & faculty of MSEC, SJIT) and Rs. 200/- (for others) will be payable at the time of registration.  The fee includes: kit, tea, and participation certificate.


As the seats are limited, early registration is suggested.

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.


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.


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


For more details pl. visit http://dos.iitm.ac.in/UDS2020/

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