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- 21 weird tech job titles of the future
- Melinda Gates says US is 'a long way from equality' for women
- Why Baby Boomers and Millennials target different tech jobs, and the 10 they're most after
- Introducing Data Science to School Kids
- Nutrition Is Moving Beyond ‘One Size Fits All.’ Here’s How Tech Is Personalizing Your Diet
- Understanding the Airport Ecosystem
- The Essential Eight technologies
- Blockchain is here. What’s your next move?
- The robots are coming for one of Hinduism’s holiest ceremonies
- What Is Geoengineering?
- Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure
- Everything as a service” is coming—but we’re not there quite yet
- From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance
- iHuman perspective: Neural interfaces
- The most translated TED Talks
Events /
Announcements
- 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
- TENCON-2019: 17-20 Oct 2019 at Kochi
- SETS Certificate course on Advanced Cyber Security (SCACS) 11th Nov -6th Dec at Chennai
- INDICON-2019. 13-15 Dec 2019 at at Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat
- India Science Fest at IISER, Pune on Jan 12-13, 2020
- CSI-2020: 53rd Annual Convention. 16-18 Jan 2020 at Bhubaneshwar
- UDS 2020: 1st International Conference on Urban Data Science. 20-21 Jan 2020 at IIT Madras
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21
weird tech job titles of the future
While
many human workers fear that they will ultimately be replaced by artificial
intelligence (AI), it's more likely that our current workforce will shift into
new types of roles for people, according to a new report from professional
services company Cognizant.
Melinda Gates says US is 'a long way from equality' for
women
The
co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation spells out why holding
women back holds back humanity. "We're
a long way from equality in this country," Gates said in a May 7 interview
in San Francisco as part of a tour to promote her New York Times bestselling
book, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World. Here's an
edited transcript of our conversation:
Why
Baby Boomers and Millennials target different tech jobs, and the 10 they're
most after
Millennials and Baby Boomers seek different types of positions in the tech industry, according to research from Indeed. Here's why.
Introducing
Data Science to School Kids
Data-driven
decision making is fast becoming a necessary skill in jobs across the board.
The industry today uses analytics and machine learning to get useful insights
from a wealth of digital information in order to make decisions. With data
science becoming an important skill needed in varying degrees of complexity by
the workforce of the near future, we felt the need to expose school-goers to
its power through a hands-on exercise. We organized a half-day long data
science tutorial for kids in grades 5 through 9 (10-15 years old). Our aim was
to expose them to the full cycle of a typical supervised learning approach -
data collection, data entry, data visualization, feature engineering, model
building, model testing and data permissions. We discuss herein the design
choices made while developing the dataset, the method and the pedagogy for the
tutorial. These choices aimed to maximize student engagement while ensuring
minimal pre-requisite knowledge. This was a challenging task given that we
limited the pre-requisites for the kids to the knowledge of counting, addition,
percentages, comparisons and a basic exposure to operating computers. By
designing an exercise with the stated principles, we were able to provide to
kids an exciting, hands-on introduction to data science, as confirmed by their
experiences. Check them out on www.datasciencekids.org. This tutorial is the
first of its kind. We hope that educators across the world are encouraged to
introduce data science in their respective curricula for high-schoolers and are
able to use the principles laid out in this work to build full-fledged courses.
Nutrition Is Moving Beyond ‘One Size Fits All.’ Here’s How Tech Is
Personalizing Your Diet
Now the rise of the $4.3T wellness industry — which
has seen consumers embrace everything from CDB-laced seltzer to
wellness-optimized real estate — is prompting an increasing number of nutrition
companies to tap into the trend with customizable offerings. Just as with
streaming services and footwear, the bet is that potential customers will
prefer products that could better reflect their specific needs and preferences.
Personalized nutrition typically involves creating
customized products or services based on factors such as one’s genetic makeup,
lifestyle, or environment. Companies touting this approach are leveraging
emerging tech like at-home DNA testing and 3D-printers to promise benefits
including healthier diets and more effective supplements.
In this report, we look at the trends driving the
emerging space forward and consider some of the challenges the sector will face
as it grows.
Understanding
the Airport Ecosystem
In
2017 airports worldwide welcomed 8.3 billion arriving and departing passengers
and handled 118 million metric tonnes of cargo and 95,8 million aircraft
movements.
Airports
are live and complex ecosystems with new stakeholders added or removed on a
regular basis.
All
the elements that integrate this jigsaw play a key role in delivering a safe,
secure and even personalized experience to both passengers and airport
employees while at the same time enabling operational efficiency and revenue
generation for the airport management, the airlines that deliver services to
customers and the concessionaires that operate passenger services in terminal
buildings.
Let’s
take a look under the hood to understand how an airport is structured and what
the key assets are that need to be secured, as well as the challenges we face.
Related
Post: The Airport of Things (AoT)
Related
Post: Aviation Cybersecurity: High
Level Analysis, Major Challenges and Where the Industry is Heading
The
Essential Eight technologies
Technology
is evolving at breakneck speed and is already defining what’s next — for your
company, competitors, and industry. Business leaders understand this: 76% of
CEOs in our annual survey are worried about the speed of tech change. And 64%
acknowledge that changes in the technology used to run their businesses will be
disruptive over the next five years. Emerging technology should be a key part
of every company’s corporate strategy. So why are so many hesitant to take
action?
To
help companies focus their emerging tech efforts, we analyzed the business
impact and commercial viability of more than 250 emerging technologies to zero
in on the “Essential Eight.” These are the core technologies that matter most
for business, across every industry, over the next three to five years. The
Essential Eight are the technology building blocks that we believe every
organization must consider. While each company’s strategy for how to best
exploit — and combine — them will vary, these technologies will have a profound
global impact on business, employees, and customers.
Blockchain
is here. What’s your next move?
What
is the state of blockchain today? In PwC’s 2018 survey of 600 executives from
15 territories, 84% say their organisations have at least some involvement with
blockchain technology. Companies have dabbled in the lab; perhaps they’ve built
proofs of concept. Everyone is talking about blockchain, and no one wants to be
left behind.
It’s
easy to see why. As a distributed, tamperproof ledger, a well-designed
blockchain doesn’t just cut out intermediaries, reduce costs, and increase
speed and reach. It also offers greater transparency and traceability for many
business processes. Gartner forecasts that blockchain will generate an annual
business value of more than US $3 trillion by 2030. It’s possible to imagine
that 10% to 20% of global economic infrastructure will be running on
blockchain-based systems by that same year.
Related
Post: How blockchain can improve the aviation industry
The
robots are coming for one of Hinduism’s holiest ceremonies
Aarti
is the quintessential Hindu religious ritual. Automation, for some time now,
has given many Indians sleepless nights. So a coming together of these two says
a lot about the world we live in. During the ongoing Ganpati festival in India,
Ahmedabad-based Patil Automation hit the idea of letting a robot perform the
aarti for the elephant-headed god at its Pune facility. Primarily symbolising
the removal of darkness, this ritual traditionally involves a priest or a
devotee moving a lamp or blazing camphor in a circular pattern before a deity,
accompanied by chants or hymns.
Related
Post: Robot priests can bless you,
advise you, and even perform your funeral
What
Is Geoengineering?
Scientists
and researchers are exploring geoengineering, a strategy that could help avert
global warming through the intentional, large scale modification of the
climate. We examine the business opportunities, major risks, and potential in
these technologies. In response, governments, corporates, and startups are
looking to geoengineering, a tech-driven solution to fighting change climate
that removes greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure
Maybe its pervasiveness has long obscured its
origins. But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another
powers nearly all smartphones sold worldwide, was born 50 years ago from the
failure of an ambitious project that involved titans like Bell Labs, GE, and
MIT.
Everything as a service” is coming—but we’re not there quite yet
For the past decade, information technology and
cloud computing vendors have increasingly pushed the virtualization and
abstraction of every possible part of IT infrastructure further and further,
turning what used to be things you bought and paid for into services that you
subscribe to. First there was software as a service, and then compute and
infrastructure as a service, then platforms as a service, and now even storage
and databases as a service. The "private cloud" brought the same
models into enterprise data centers. And the "hybrid cloud" blew the
data center walls out and mixed everything together. But managing each
decoupled element of this brave new world of randomly distributed
infrastructure has become increasingly complex. Arguably, it hasn't really
changed the business of running enterprise IT as much as it has made things
complex in new ways.
But what if there was an "as a service" to
fix that, too?
From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal
Finance
In 2013, 68% of millennials believed that the way we
access our money would be totally different in five years. So how are the money
habits of this disruption-ready generation changing the way we manage money?
iHuman perspective: Neural interfaces
Neural interfaces, brain-computer interfaces and
other devices that blur the lines between mind and machine have extraordinary
potential.
These technologies could transform medicine and
fundamentally change how we interact with technology and each other. At the
same time, neural interfaces raise critical ethical concerns over issues such
as privacy, autonomy, human rights and equality of access.
This Royal Society Perspective takes a future-facing
look into possible applications of neural and brain-computer interfaces,
exploring the potential benefits and risks of the technologies and setting out
a course towards maximising the former and minimising the latter.
106
Pages Full Report: iHuman: Blurring lines between Mind and Machine
Related
Post: iHuman perspective: Supplementary material
The most translated TED Talks
A thoughtful selection of engaging TED Talks, translated into 40+
languages thanks to our wonderful TED Translators community! 25 Talks. Total
Run Time: 4hr 24m
Events /
Announcements
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
TENCON-2019:
17-20 Oct 2019 at Kochi
TENCON
is a premier international technical conference of IEEE Region 10. The 2019
edition of TENCON on the theme “Technology, Knowledge, and Society” is being organised by IEEE Kochi Section
during 17-20 Oct 2019 at Kochi.
Early
Bird Registration ends on 8-th Sep 2019
More
details at http://www.tencon2019.org
SETS Certificate
course on Advanced Cyber Security (SCACS) from 11th Nov to 6th Dec at Chennai
Developing
quality manpower in various domains relating to cybersecurity is vital from the
national perspective. Keeping in view the growing needs of cyber security
professionals, SETS is launching a Four-week certification programme titled
“SETS Certificate on Advanced Cyber Security (SCACS)” from 11th Nov
2019 to 6th Dec 2019 at Chennai to develop skill sets among Working
Professionals, Teaching Faculty, Researchers, engineering graduates/ post
graduates in sciences and engineering.
The
course is designed to provide in-depth exposure to Cyber Security technologies
and tools and to train the candidates to secure network and systems from the
ever-widening cyber-attack surface. It provides an insight on challenges faced
in securing real world network systems and defence mechanisms. The course
prepares one to get oriented towards building a career in Cyber Security domain
and it would be highly beneficial to the unemployed graduates with
prerequisites to gain employable skills development. Also, candidates get
acquainted with the use of latest tools to prevent attacks, identify anomalies
and safeguard networks with various techniques and solutions.
Course
Brochure at https://www.setsindia.in/PdfDocs/SCACS.pdf
INDICON-2019.
13-15 Dec 2019 at at Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat
INDICON
is the flagship Annual International Conference of the IEEE India Council. The
16th IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON 2019) is being
organized by IEEE Gujarat Section from 13 – 15 December 2019, at Marwadi
University, Rajkot (GUJARAT) on the theme: Applying Artificial Intelligence in
Engineering for Humanity.
More
details at http://indicon2019.in/
India Science
Fest at IISER, Pune on Jan 12-13, 2020
Aspiring
Minds, partnering with Harvard South Asia Inst, NASSCOM and Social Alpha (Tata
Trust) is organizing India Science Fest at IISER, Pune during 12-13 Jan 2020
with the aim to create India's largest public science event and get excellent
scientists engage with students, faculty and professionals.
The
highlights of this Science Fest include:
- 30+ scientists will give talks, debate and demystify science and engineering with confirmed speakers from MIT, Yale, UCSD, IITs, NCBS, Tsinghua Univ, at the Fest.
- Exciting AI exhibits, robots, and scientific marvels
- Opportunity to present your science and engineering to the world
- Roundtables to discuss science and technology policy in which experts discuss how to make science in India world class.
- Workshop for school students to connect our young minds to global science and engineering
- Close interaction with the world's best minds facilitating specialist sessions and one-on-one meetings for deep discussions
The
Fest is organizing the following competitions and present cash prizes to the
winners.
- Talk your thesis: This is an initiative to connect the (invisible) MS/PhD students to the society at the large. They will be invited to give a 10 minute public talk on their thesis at the Festival.
- Perform your project: In this competition, people will perform their science project through any means - talk, act, demo, dance, etc. providing a platform to exhibit their great science coupled with innovative method of presentation.
For
more details and to participate in the competitions, pl. visit https://www.indiasciencefest.org/
CSI-2020: 53rd
Annual Convention. 16-18 Jan 2020 at Bhubaneshwar
CSI 2020, the 53rd annual
convention of CSI on the theme “Digital Democracy - IT For Change” is being
organised during 16-18 Jan 2020.
Last date for paper submission: 15th
Oct 2019
More details at http://csi-india.org/csi2020/
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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