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- These 10 platforms are helping small and medium businesses get easy finance with minimum documentation
- DevOps for Beginners: Resources to Start Your DevOps Journey
- The Relic Reading List: 15 Essential Books to Upgrade Your Career—and Your Life!
- Secrets you should have learned before your first programming job
- The eight essentials of innovation
- 10 Online Tools for Better Attention & Focus
- Hands-On with Google's Quantum Computer
- Inside blockchain and its various applications
- I toured New York City's largest wastewater-treatment plant, which collects poop from 1 million people. It was stunning.
- 5G For Business
- Why you should worry if you have a Chinese smartphone
- 7 Bio-Inspired Robots that Mimic Nature
- 8 technologies that an organization can adopt to help address its cybersecurity challenges
- Can We Make E-Waste Go Away?
- Talks that prove you already live in the future
Events /
Announcements
- SPIN Chennai: Session on Corporate Governance + Digital = unleashing Value on 9th Nov 2019
- QCI, NCQP & Consultants Consortium of Chennai: Event on 'Risk Management in Businesses' on 16th Nov 2019 at Chennai
- SETS Certificate course on Advanced Cyber Security (SCACS) from 11th Nov 2019 to 6th Dec 2019 at Chennai
- XXXV IATLIS National Conference on Restructuring of Library and Information Science Education in the Internet Era. 19-20 Dec 2019 at Pondicherry
- Short-term Data Justice Fellowships at Cardiff University, UK.
- INDICON-2019. 13-15 Dec 2019 at at Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat
- 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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10 platforms are helping small and medium businesses get easy finance with
minimum documentation
The MSME sector is growing at a
faster rate, with its consequent
contribution to India’s GDP. According to the Confederation of Indian Industry
(CII), MSMEs contribute 6.11 percent to the manufacturing GDP, 24.63 percent to
the GDP from service activities, and 33.4 percent to India's manufacturing
output. Despite its huge contribution, the sector is considered laid back.
The MSMEs in India often face a cash
flow disturbance due to various factors like non-availability of funds,
post-dated cheques, late payments, and many more. The sector has immense
potential for growth, however, funding is the pre-requisite for any MSME to
grow smoothly and the number of restrictions imposed by the banks is making it
difficult for the sector to finance their business.
In this technologically-advanced era,
fintech players are disrupting this space with their advanced technology and by
providing flexible benefits plan to the emerging entrepreneurs. Here are 10
platforms enabling easy access to finance for the MSMEs.
DevOps for Beginners: Resources to Start Your DevOps
Journey
Every
IT professional has heard of DevOps by now. And most have heard enough to
understand that DevOps, at its core, gives teams the tools, workplace culture,
and organizational methods to accelerate the software development lifecycle.Dev
+ Ops illustration
All
of this is true, of course, but it also barely scratches the surface of a very
deep, and very important, topic. DevOps is transforming how we build
software—and in the process, it is transforming how development and operations
teams work, think, and collaborate. And if you’re looking for a high-growth, high-value
IT career path, DevOps can deliver that, as well.
For
many IT pros, however, the first step on a DevOps journey involves a basic
grasp of its purpose and principles. That’s why we created this “crash course”
in key DevOps-related topics, using resources gathered from New Relic and
around the web. This is how the draft NEP is expected to transform the
education system in our country.
The
Relic Reading List: 15 Essential Books to Upgrade Your Career—and Your Life!
Inspiring books are a great way to take your career to the next level. With so many titles to choose from, it can be hard to know where to start. Check out the “Relic Reading List.” You’re sure to find something to inspire you!
Secrets
you should have learned before your first programming job
It’s
an all too common story in many professions: You go to school for years and
walk out with a freshly printed diploma. You snag your first job—and
immediately, you’re buried under a pile of unwritten rules and day-to-day
complexities that no one bothered to warn you about.
Programming
jobs are no exception, even with the rise of coding boot camps: those
accelerated schools that promise to teach you everything you need to know about
coding in a matter of months.
As
it turns out, whether you’ve earned a Computer Science degree or a boot camp
certificate, odds are you’re still not 100% ready for your first real job
writing software. The basic skills listed here—which you may or may not have
learned in school—can help you get started doing real work with less
hand-holding and fewer mistakes. We’ve divided the list into three categories:
technical skills, habits and mindset, and soft skills.
The eight essentials of innovation
It’s no secret: innovation is difficult for
well-established companies. By and large, they are better executors than
innovators, and most succeed less through game-changing creativity than by
optimizing their existing businesses.
Yet hard as it is for such organizations to
innovate, large ones as diverse as Alcoa, the Discovery Group, and NASA’s Ames
Research Center are actually doing so. What can other companies learn from
their approaches and attributes? That question formed the core of a multiyear
study comprising in-depth interviews, workshops, and surveys of more than 2,500
executives in over 300 companies, including both performance leaders and
laggards, in a broad set of industries and countries (Exhibit 1). What we found
were a set of eight essential attributes that are present, either in part or in
full, at every big company that’s a high performer in product, process, or
business-model innovation.
Since innovation is a complex, company-wide
endeavor, it requires a set of crosscutting practices and processes to
structure, organize, and encourage it. Taken together, the essentials described
in this article constitute just such an operating system, as seen in Exhibit 2.
These often overlapping, iterative, and nonsequential practices resist
systematic categorization but can nonetheless be thought of in two groups. The
first four, which are strategic and creative in nature, help set and prioritize
the terms and conditions under which innovation is more likely to thrive. The
next four essentials deal with how to deliver and organize for innovation
repeatedly over time and with enough value to contribute meaningfully to overall
performance.
10
Online Tools for Better Attention & Focus
Finding
focus is rapidly becoming the biggest workplace challenge. We highlight a
handful of apps to help cure internet addictions and better manage your time.
Though bit dated, may still relevant.
Hands-On
with Google's Quantum Computer
Staking
its claim for “quantum supremacy,” the company pulls back the curtain on its
landmark Sycamore chip
Related
Story: IBM casts doubt on Google’s claims of quantum supremacy
Inside
blockchain and its various applications
In
this post, the author explores the technology around blockchain shaping how
businesses use data.
Related
Post: A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to blockchain
I
toured New York City's largest wastewater-treatment plant, which collects poop
from 1 million people. It was stunning.
The
plant originally built in 1967, recently underwent a $5 billion renovation and
expansion. It accepts 250 million gallons of wastewater each day from oilets,
sinks, and storm drains. An engineering marvel cleaning people's poop — with
stunning design elements.
5G For Business
When the Wright brothers invented the airplane, it
fundamentally altered how we experience travelling. It wasn’t just about speed.
Yet, it was great getting from one city to another in less time. But flight
also gave us thrill of defying gravity and soaring to new heights.
Flight became a new user experience for every
traveller – the space-age feel of the airport, the visceral rumble in the chest
as the turbine engines fire up, the press of G-force as the plane accelerates
down the runway, the flutter in the stomach as the plane leaves the ground, the
exhilaration of bursting through the clouds cruising at 30,000 feet.
Just as the airplane fundamentally changed the
travelling experience and set off a chain reaction of innovation, so too does
5G promise to alter the nature of our digital experience.
Some hear 5G and just think it means faster
connection speeds. However, it goes beyond that. As it matures, 5G is expected
to alter the very DNA of our user experience in dramatic, exciting ways – from
leisure to healthcare to retail to manufacturing to finance and beyond. We will
look at 5G as a new experience – and as a possible enabler of radically new
ways to do business.
User experience = Speed + Latency + Reliability
5G is more than just speed. It is a conglomeration
of technologies that will elevate and enrich the user experience from end to
end
Here below is an overview of what 5G as a technology
will ultimately be able to deliver:
Why you should worry if you
have a Chinese smartphone
China’s use of technology for social control of its
citizens is extensive – but it could affect users elsewhere too, says security
analyst Samantha Hoffman
7 Bio-Inspired Robots that Mimic Nature
The rise of robots in automation has led to many
humanoid helpers. This can be best seen in collaborative robots (cobots) like
Baxter from Rethink Robotics or the UR cobots from Universal Robots. The
robotic arm is the new standard in automation assistance because we do not have
to change the human environment for these robots to operate effectively. These
human-like functioning robots can pick up, locate and place, and operate
handheld machinery.
However, the human form is not the most efficient
form for a robot to mirror. Sangbae Kim, leader of bio-robotics and professor
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says that industrial robots are
“designed to perform rigid and accurate position-control tasks in a fixed
location…[however] manufacturing robots are not designed to control force in
dynamic situations.” The goal of bio-robotics is to design a machine that can
interact with its environment and dynamic situations like coming in contact
with the ground. Kim points out that “when it comes to the mobile robot, the
design paradigm must be completely different from industry robots.” Several
companies and research groups have focused on biology-inspired robots to create
more responsive machines that have an easier time manipulating their
environment.
8 technologies that an organization can adopt to help address its
cybersecurity challenges
In defining policies and procedures around the
implementation and management of security controls in an enterprise
environment, the organization is advised to adopt a cybersecurity framework.
This is a series of documented processes that can provide the baseline best
practices to help the organization plan, design and deploy security controls on
cyberthreats.
Can We Make E-Waste Go Away?
This post deals with how universities, colleges, and
companies are doing their part to help chip away at the growing mound of
e-waste that’s taking over the world’s landfills.
Talks
that prove you already live in the future
That crazy, sci-fi future we all
imagine? It's here. 9 talks · Total run time 1:50:41
Events / Announcements
SPIN Chennai: Session on Corporate Governance + Digital =
unleashing Value on 9th Nov 2019
Join the session on Corporate
Governance + Digital = unleashing Value with Mr. Jangoo Dalal, Managing
Director – GoVEVA on 9th Nov 2019 at Alumni Centre Conf. hall, Anna
University, Chennai
Get your tickets @ https://www.explara.com/e/corporate-governance-next-generation
QCI, NCQP & Consultants Consortium of Chennai: Event on 'Risk Management in Businesses' on
16th Nov 2019 at Chennai
Mitigating business risks assumes
significance in the context of VUCA world particularly when the economy is not
predictable. In this context QCI NCQP in association with Consultants
Consortium of Chennai has announced one day event on 'Risk Management in
Businesses' on Saturday, 16th Nov 2019 at Seshamma Auditorium, Vijaya Group of
Hospitals, Chennai. The later versions of International ISO standards and CMMI
lay strong emphasis on identifying handling risks across the organization. The
fees for the program is Rs. 1,500.
More details and brochure at: http://ccc-consultants.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Program-Brochure-Final-1.pdf
SETS Certificate
course on Advanced Cyber Security (SCACS) from 11th Nov 2019 to 6th Dec 2019 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
XXXV IATLIS National
Conference on Restructuring of Library and Information Science Education in the
Internet Era. 19-20 Dec 2019 at Pondicherry
The
Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS) and The Department of Library and Information
Science Pondicherry University, Puducherry are jointly organising XXXV IATLIS
National Conference on Restructuring of Library and Information Science
Education in the Internet Era during 19-20 Dec 2019 at Pondicherry University,
Puducherry.
The
organizing committee invites articles and scholarly papers on the theme of the
conference. latest by18 November 2019 by email at iatlis2019@gmail.com
More
details and conf. brochure: http://www.iatlis.org/iatlis.pdf
Short-term Data
Justice Fellowships at Cardiff University, UK.
The Data Justice Lab is offering two short-term Data Justice
Fellowships.
We are looking for two fellows to collaborate with us on exploring
current issues in data justice for a one-month research stay at
Cardiff University, UK. We welcome proposals from both academics and
practitioners who wish to investigate different dimensions of social justice in
a datafied world.
Applicants should submit a proposal that addresses the ongoing work of
the Lab and/or the research agenda of data justice.
Each fellow will spend one month full time at the Lab in Spring
2020. You will receive a £2000 stipend to cover your living expenses.
The deadline for applications is November 30th 2019.
To find the full details and apply, click here: https://datajusticelab.org/data-justice-fellowship/
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/
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.
For
more details pl. visit http://dos.iitm.ac.in/UDS2020/
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