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- Autonomous Vehicle Technology Futures 2019
- We Analyzed 14 Of The Biggest Direct-to-Consumer Success Stories To Figure Out The Secrets To Their Growth — Here’s What We Learned
- 10 Principles for Winning the Game of Digital Disruption
- Why your COBOL code isn't going anywhere
- Global Crisis Survey 2019
- Making Indian businesses sustainable
- How Big Data is Leading to Big Change
- Twenty things I wish I’d known when I started my PhD
- Three Dimensions of Design for Sustainable Behaviour
- Toward a New Field of Global Engineering
- The Little Robot that Lived at the Library - Towards Data Science
- Women in tech: 20 stories of women doing big things with their tech skills
- How your company can win the war for tech talent by hiring nontraditional employees
- PwC’s Global Artificial Intelligence Study: Sizing the prize
- TED Talks: How can we fix the learning crisis?
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- Machine Learning: Helping India Shape its Future at IIT Madras on 25th Sep 2019 at CLT, IIT Madras
- 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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Articles
Autonomous
Vehicle Technology Futures 2019
The
editors of Autonomous Vehicle Technology asked top executives of vehicle
technology and thought leaders on the built environment to contribute the
latest thinking on the future, benefits, and challenges for vehicle autonomy,
connectivity, electrification, and mobility services—as well as the broader
transportation ecosystem. What follows for the next 27 pages are what’s in
store for vehicle autonomy, including artificial intelligence and
cybersecurity, the importance of simulation in the development and deployment
process, enabling robust testing and validation, and fleet orchestration to
deliver a successful autonomous mobility service. On the vehicle sensor side,
we look at rethinking and demystifying LiDAR as well as Smart Cities and V2X
thermal imaging. On a higher level of abstraction are connected data
initiatives, 5G connectivity, and the vital role of tech development
ecosystems. For electric vehicles, in-wheel motors with active suspension show
promise for autonomous fleets. On the built environment side, we look at
reclaiming urban spaces for people and an innovative public private partnership
for forward-thinking intelligent transit.
We Analyzed 14 Of The Biggest Direct-to-Consumer Success
Stories To Figure Out The Secrets To Their Growth — Here’s What We Learned
Today,
a new generation of disruptThe 14 companies we’ll look at were born on
platforms that have dominated the post-dot-com internet — Amazon, Facebook,
Google, Instagram, and Kickstarter.ive brands are shaking up retail —
direct-to-consumer e-commerce companies that build, market, sell, and ship
their products themselves, without middlemen.
10
Principles for Winning the Game of Digital Disruption
If you haven’t noticed, a high-stakes global game of digital disruption is currently under way. It is fueled by the latest wave of technology: advances in artificial intelligence, data analytics, robotics, the Internet of Things, and new software-enabled industrial platforms that incorporate all these technologies and more. Every enterprise leader recognizes that, as a result, the prevailing business models in his or her industry could drastically and fundamentally change. A wide range of industries, such as entertainment and media, military contracting, and grocery retail have already been profoundly affected. No enterprise, including yours, can afford to ignore the threat. Yet most companies are still not moving fast enough to meet this change. Some leaders are still in denial about it, some are reluctant to upend the status quo in their companies, and some are unaware of the necessary steps to take. But these excuses are not good enough.
Your
shareholders (particularly activist shareholders), customers, and employees
expect you to respond quickly. But panic and full-bore opportunism, in which
you pursue every seeming source of revenue, will not work either. The answer is
to develop a coherent strategy, seeking out the options that fit best with what
you already do well. Here are 10 principles for accomplishing this, drawn from
the experience of companies that have done so.
Why
your COBOL code isn't going anywhere
Over
time, applications become stale and clunky, and perhaps just stop working
altogether. So it's amazing that, 60 years after the COBOL programming language
first came on the scene, many COBOL applications are still with us. That's an
incredible testament to the resilience of the language.
Related
Story: COBOL at 60: The legacy and future of the original business language
Global Crisis Survey 2019
Crisis Preparedness as the next competitive advantage:
Learning from 4,500 crises
2,000 companies. 4,500 crises: Here’s all you need
to know
We are pleased to present PwC’s first-ever Global
Crisis Survey, the most comprehensive repository of corporate crisis data ever
assembled. We heard from 2,084 senior executives in organisations of all sizes,
in 25 industries, and across 43 countries — 1,430 of which had experienced at
least one crisis in the past 5 years, for a total of 4,515 crises analysed
overall. What we found out is game-changing.
By delving deep into the real-world experiences of
organisations like yours, we uncovered some surprising findings, many of which
turn the basic notion of crisis management – in fact, how we even think of
crisis – on its head.
Instead of “admiring the problem,” we’ve used this
data as a springboard to reverse-engineer a successful crisis response. We
looked at the companies that self-identified as having emerged stronger from
their worst crisis – and compared them to those who did not fare as well.
Making
Indian businesses sustainable
Companies
will accelerate their commitment to long-term social and environmental well-being
only if India builds an ecosystem of sustainability drivers.
How
Big Data is Leading to Big Change
From
personalized healthcare to digital farming, and from energy management to
digital governance solutions, Business 4.0 technologies have transformed lives
across the world by creating customized solutions to tackle challenging social
issues. And the organizations that have made a profound and sustainable impact
on communities are those that have harnessed the power of big data.
At
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), we believe that the coming together of data
and artificial intelligence will accelerate social transformation. Our digital
publication pArIvartana explores all the ways in which this change will play
out on the ground, highlighting the role of data and analytics for social
transformation.
Published
by the Analytics and Insights (A&I) unit at TCS, this book contains a
compilation of articles and interviews with a diverse set of technology
experts, industry leaders, CXOs, economists, academicians, researchers, social
entrepreneurs and philanthropists, who have all made a sustainable impact on
society. The contributors have not only shared their success stories, but also
charted out their organizations’ vision to make the world a better place for
generations to come.
Twenty
things I wish I’d known when I started my PhD
Starting
a PhD can be tough. Looking back, there are many things I wish I’d known at the
beginning. Here, I have curated a list of advice from current PhD students and
postdoctoral researchers from the Department of Zoology at my institution, the
University of Oxford, UK, to aid new graduate students.
Three
Dimensions of Design for Sustainable Behaviour
Designing
products to be more sustainable is crucial if the UK is to meet the challenge
of its ambitious new carbon reductions targets by 2050. How designers,
manufacturers and service providers conceptualise behaviour is key to
understanding how there will be widespread adoption of new products. The
research area referred to as Design for Sustainable Behaviour has emerged to
explore measures of reducing environmental impact through moderating the way
people use products, services and systems. To date, though, characterisations
of its strategies have been relatively one-dimensional, with an emphasis on
environmental psychological approaches to understanding behaviour. This paper
draws on a wider set of literature and academic disciplines to propose a
conceptual framework that incorporates three dimensions: empowerment,
information and motivation. This three-dimensional framework argues for a wider
understanding of behaviour that encompasses feedback, participation and
acknowledgement of the wider social and organisational context that behaviour
is situated in. This framework is presented, the implications for theory and
practice are explored, and a challenge is laid down to designers, academics and
policymakers to consider how this framework can be applied, tested and further
developed.
Toward
a New Field of Global Engineering
The
Engineer’s role in addressing global poverty challenges has often been confined
to village and community-scale interventions, product design and development,
or large-scale infrastructure design and construction. Yet despite fifty years
of these approaches, over half the world’s population still lives on less than
$5.50 a day, the global burden of disease in low-income countries is overwhelmingly
attributable to environmental health contaminants, and climate change is
already negatively affecting people in developing countries. The conventional
community, product or infrastructure focuses of development engineering is
insufficient to address these global drivers that perpetuate poverty. The
emerging field of Global Engineering can work to identify and address these
structural issues. Global Engineering should be concerned with the unequal and
unjust distribution of access to basic services such as water, sanitation,
energy, food, transportation and shelter, and place an emphasis on identifying
the drivers, determinants and solutions favoring equitable access. Technology
development and validation, data collection and impact evaluation can
contribute to evidence-based influence on policies and practice. Global
Engineering envisions a world in which everyone has safe water, sanitation,
energy, food, shelter and infrastructure, and can live in health, dignity, and
prosperity.
The Little Robot that Lived at the Library - Towards Data Science
Our team at Futurice designed and built a social
robot to guide people to books at Helsinki’s new central library, Oodi. Opened
in 2018, Oodi is the biggest of Helsinki’s 37 public libraries. It has 10,000
visitors a day, and an estimated 2 million visitors a year (compared to
Finland’s 5.5 million population, that is a significant portion).
Oodi is big on automation and robotics. It has an
automatic returns system: customers set their books on a conveyor belt, which
brings the books to the basement, where they get sorted into boxes, which are
picked up by a mobile MiR200 robot, which brings the books to the 3rd floor. At
the 3rd floor, librarians place the books back on the shelves.
Women in tech: 20 stories of women doing big things with their tech
skills
You might have noticed it's International Women's
Day. In fact, the month of March is Women's History Month, and publications are
busy putting together posts about myriad women's issues.
There's plenty to talk about, ranging from the
amount of money women make and the positions they're hired for, to how they're
educated, and the kind of health care they receive, even the way they're taxed
for tampons. It's good to talk about serious issues affecting various segments
of the population.
If all this rubs you the wrong way — sorry not
sorry, but there's a lot about gender equality that's pretty messed up,
including the idea that we can make good as a society one day or month a year.
Is it positive to have a day about women to raise awareness about their
achievements and struggles? Yes. Would it be better to treat people with
equality the rest of the year? You bet.
Here's a roundup of some — not all — of our favorite
profile pieces on women in tech who are knocking down stereotypes year-round.
How your company can win the war for tech talent by hiring
nontraditional employees
IBM and other tech companies are seeking tech
workers from outside the field to fill open jobs. Here's how your business can
use their tactics to find untapped talent.
PwC’s Global Artificial Intelligence Study: Sizing the prize
- Artificial intelligence (AI) can transform the productivity and GDP potential of the global economy. Strategic investment in different types of AI technology is needed to make that happen.
- Labour productivity improvements will drive initial GDP gains as firms seek to "augment" the productivity of their labour force with AI technologies and to automate some tasks and roles.
- Our research also shows that 45% of total economic gains by 2030 will come from product enhancements, stimulating consumer demand. This is because AI will drive greater product variety, with increased personalisation, attractiveness and affordability over time.
- The greatest economic gains from AI will be in China (26% boost to GDP in 2030) and North America (14.5% boost), equivalent to a total of $10.7 trillion and accounting for almost 70% of the global economic impact.
TED Talks: How can we fix the learning crisis?
Better education for generations to come means a brighter future for us
all. These TED speakers have some great ideas for how we can solve our current
education crisis. 5 talks 1 hr 16 min
Related
TED talk: A bold plan to empower 1.6 million
out-of-school girls in India
Events /
Announcements
Machine
Learning: Helping India Shape its Future at IIT Madras on 25th Sep
2019 at CLT, IIT Madras
Machine
Learning and Cloud Computing Technologies are impacting various industries
right from banking to healthcare.
Join
us in shaping India's future on IIT Madras campus or online, live on the 25th
of September at 1:30 pm at CLT, IIT Madras for an exciting launch.
Speakers:
Ronnie
Screwvala, Co-founder & Chairman, upGrad
Dr.
Janakiram, Department of Computer
Science & Engineering, IIT Madras
Mayank
Kumar, Co-founder & MD, upGrad
Dr.
Seshagiri Rao V, Former Distinguished Scientist and Associate
Director, SDSC ISRO
Register
to this event at http://bit.ly/2QkFc9K
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: https://www.setsindia.in/PdfDocs/CSCI_BROC.pdf
Speakers
& Topics: https://www.setsindia.in/PdfDocs/SPEAKER_CSCI.pdf
Registration
Form: 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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