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- This $200 AI toothbrush was the most fun I've ever had brushing my teeth
- The Complete Guide to Diversity in Technology
- The art of the one-on-one meeting
- Caffeine: The Silent Killer of Success
- The 6 kinds of people in Computer Science and Engineering
- Photos from space reveal what climate change looks like, from melting Arctic ice to rampant California fires
- The scariest hacks and vulnerabilities of 2019
- Here's What People Thought of Amazon When It First Launched in the Mid-1990s
- What Are the Biggest Challenges Technology Must Overcome in the Next 10 Years?
- Untold History of AI
- The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
- Human error, lax reporting and MCAS all contributed to fatal Boeing crash
- Forensic Engineers: Sleuthing Their Way to the Truth
- I Hire Software Developers. Your Resume Is The Reason You’re Not Getting Interviews
- TED Talks: How to live with robots
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- ACM, IEEE CS, TEMS & YP: Presentation on “How to BE a leader in times of uncertainty?” on 14th Nov 2019
- Workshop on Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) for Small & Medium Enterprises on 15th Nov 2019 at MMA, Chennai
- Workshop on Gamification on 24th Nov 2019 at IITM Research Park,Chennai
- INDICON-2019. 13-15 Dec 2019 at at Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat
- CSI-2020: 53rd Annual Convention. 16-18 Jan 2020 at Bhubaneshwar
- WiSSAP: Winter School in Speech and Audio Processing during 8-10 Jan 2020 at IIT Mandi
- UDS 2020: 1st International Conference on Urban Data Science. 20-21 Jan 2020 at IIT Madras
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This
$200 AI toothbrush was the most fun I've ever had brushing my teeth
Oral hygiene company Oral-B released
a new electric toothbrush that uses AI to improve brushing. The toothbrush
tracks brushing patterns to give specific feedback when users brush too hard,
or miss certain areas. An accompanying app lets you set goals and track habits
over time.
The Complete Guide to Diversity in Technology
From
hiring to promotion, we suggest the policies you need to ensure you're retaining
the best people. This 35 pages guide addresses :
- What women really want from their employer
- Diversity in tech: The steps companies can take
- How to ensure a diverse, inclusive tech team
- Tips to make your tech event more diverse
- Mind the gap
- Fighting bias and boosting representation
The art of the one-on-one meeting
The definitive guide to the most misunderstood and yet powerful tool for managers. This ebook chapters include:
- Chapter 1 The purpose of one-on-ones and why great managers have them.
- Chapter 2 Best practices on how to set up your one-on-ones for success.
- Chapter 3 Specially crafted templates and questions that will boost productivity.
- Chapter 4 The secret skills that will make your one-on-ones 10x more effective.
- Chapter 5 Bringing out the best in your team: Career conversations & feedback.
- Chapter 6 The 7+ deadly sins to avoid in one-on-one meetings.
- Chapter 7 Completing your manager’s toolkit.
Caffeine:
The Silent Killer of Success
Today's
tip for increasing your emotional intelligence is the most simple and
straightforward you're ever going to get. For many people, this tip has the
potential to have a bigger impact upon their emotional intelligence (EQ) than
any other.
The
catch? You have to cut down on caffeine, and as any caffeine drinker can
attest, this is easier said than done.
The 6 kinds of people in
Computer Science and Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering can mean different
things for different people. For some, it is the subject to explore the beauty
of algorithms while for another group, it may be all about automating the
boring stuff. No matter how you perceive it, your time in University is to
refine and discover your potential in the field. Buzzwords such as Machine
Learning and Blockchain are quite often heard and you will find out that many
of the engineers specialized in such cutting edge technologies were once upon a
time college students like you, exploring options and tinkering about.
So how is it that they made it there? And what can
we learn from them?
I have come to realize that there mainly exists six
kinds of people in Computer Science and Engineering at Universities. We at
FOSSMEC believe there lies potential for each kind of person in the world of
open source. So sit tight as we take you through the path of realization, and
compare to see where you lie.
Photos
from space reveal what climate change looks like, from melting Arctic ice to
rampant California fires
Earth
has warmed, on average, 1 degree Celsius in the last century due to
greenhouse-gas emissions that trap heat. The consequences are becoming
increasingly visible on the ground and even from space. July 2019 was the
hottest month ever recorded. This summer, vast areas of the Arctic were
engulfed in flames. A recent United Nations report projected that sea levels
could be 3 feet higher by 2100 due to warming oceans and melting glaciers.
Here's what that all looks like from above.
The
scariest hacks and vulnerabilities of 2019
This post is a summary for the past 10 months (Jan-Oct
2019) of security disasters, organized by month.
Here's
What People Thought of Amazon When It First Launched in the Mid-1990s
Amazon
was founded on July 5, 1994, and launched its online store in 1995, letting
people buy books from the comfort of their homes. Twenty-five years after its
inception, Amazon now sells everything from taco holders shaped like dinosaurs
to tongue brushes that humans can use to lick their cats. And you’d have to be
living under a rock to not know about Amazon.
But
what did people think of Amazon in its early days—the days before the tongue
brushes? Today we’ve got a sample from the mid-90s before founder Jeff Bezos
was a billionaire.
What
Are the Biggest Challenges Technology Must Overcome in the Next 10 Years?
Technology’s
fine—I definitely like texting, and some of the shows on Netflix are
tolerable—but the field’s got some serious kinks to work out. Some of these are
hardware-related: when, for instance, will quantum computing become practical?
Others are of more immediate concern. Is there some way to stop latently
homicidal weirdos from getting radicalized online? Can social networks be
tweaked in such a way as to not nearly guarantee the outbreak of the second
Civil War? As AI advances and proliferates, how can we stop it from
perpetuating, or worsening, injustice and discrimination?
For
this week’s Giz Asks, we’ve assembled a wide-ranging panel—of futurists,
engineers, anthropologists, and experts in privacy and AI—to address these and
many other hurdles.
Untold History of AI
The history of AI is often told as the story of
machines getting smarter over time. What’s lost is the human element in the
narrative, how intelligent machines are designed, trained, and powered by human
minds and bodies.
In this six-part series, we explore that human
history of AI—how innovators, thinkers, workers, and sometimes hucksters have
created algorithms that can replicate human thought and behavior (or at least
appear to). While it can be exciting to be swept up by the idea of
superintelligent computers that have no need for human input, the true history
of smart machines shows that our AI is only as good as we are.
Part-1:
When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk
Part-2:
Invisible Women Programmed America's First Electronic Computer
Part-3:
Why Alan Turing Wanted AI Agents to Make Mistakes
Part-4:
The DARPA Dreamer Who Aimed for Cyborg Intelligence
Part-5:
Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s
Part-6:
How Amazon’s Mechanical Turkers Got Squeezed Inside the Machine
The Six Dumbest Ideas in
Computer Security
There's lots of innovation going on in security -
we're inundated with a steady stream of new stuff and it all sounds like it
works just great. Every couple of months I'm invited to a new computer security
conference, or I'm asked to write a foreword for a new computer security book.
And, thanks to the fact that it's a topic of public concern and a "safe
issue" for politicians, we can expect a flood of computer security-related
legislation from lawmakers. So: computer security is definitely still a
"hot topic." But why are we spending all this time and money and still
having problems?
Let me introduce you to the six dumbest ideas in
computer security. What are they? They're the anti-good ideas. They're the
braindamage that makes your $100,000 ASIC-based turbo-stateful packet-mulching
firewall transparent to hackers. Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come
from misguided attempts to do the impossible - which is another way of saying
"trying to ignore reality." Frequently those misguided attempts are
sincere efforts by well-meaning people or companies who just don't fully
understand the situation, but other times it's just a bunch of savvy
entrepreneurs with a well-marketed piece of junk they're selling to make a fast
buck. In either case, these dumb ideas are the fundamental reason(s) why all
that money you spend on information security is going to be wasted, unless you
somehow manage to avoid them.
For your convenience, I've listed the dumb ideas in
descending order from the most-frequently-seen. If you can avoid falling into
the the trap of the first three, you're among the few true computer security
elite.
Human error, lax reporting and MCAS all contributed to fatal Boeing
crash
A combination of human errors and technical problems
that included the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) led to
the October 29, 2018, crash of Lion Air Flight 610, a Boeing 737 Max 8.
The plane crashed into the Java Sea 13 minutes after
takeoff, killing all 189 people on board. On March 10 2019, a second Boeing 737
MAX 8 aircraft operating as Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed near the town
of Bishoftu six minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 people aboard.
n a 322-page report, the Indonesian transportation
agency Komite Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi (KNKT) said that in the Lion
Air accident, the MCAS malfunction led to a "series of aircraft and flight
crew interactions which the flight crew did not understand or know how to
resolve."
The report also said that problems with the aircraft
occurred as early as October 26, three days before the fatal flight. Events
during those critical three days were marred by human errors and technical
problems.
Forensic Engineers: Sleuthing Their Way to the Truth
When a structural, component or product failure
leads to injury or death, a forensic engineer is close behind to investigate
the root cause.
Engineers who studied the August 2007 I-35W bridge
collapse in Minneapolis, Minn., that killed 13 people and injured 145 cited a
steel gusset plate flaw from the structure’s original design in the 1960s.
After Hurricane Katrina’s deadly flooding of New
Orleans in 2005, an independent levee investigation team from the University of
California-Berkeley concluded that the poor performance of the flood protection
system was due to engineering failures and questionable judgments involved in
the levees’ design, construction, operation and maintenance.
But it isn’t only headline-grabbing disasters where
forensic engineering principles apply. From construction accidents to faulty
industrial machines, forensic engineers serve as expert witnesses in judicial
proceedings related to failures, and their findings can lead to better design
and testing of future creations.
I Hire Software Developers. Your Resume Is The Reason You’re Not Getting
Interviews
Did you ever apply for that software job and not
hear anything back? Maybe you did hear back, but you stopped reading after “We
are sorry to let you know that…”.
Perhaps you are in the process right now and want to
do whatever you can to get your foot in the door and secure an interview.
What do you need to do? How can you make sure you
don’t repeat the same mistakes when nobody even tells you what mistakes you
made?
I’ve been hiring software engineers and developers
for over 15 years. I’ve read through 1,000’s of resumes and I will share with
you some key do’s and don’ts that will greatly enhance your chances of getting
an interview.
TED Talks:
How to live with robots
As machines grow ever more
intelligent, they're emerging not just as powerful tools, but close companions.
These talks -- while offering some whizzy demos -- examine how robots are
becoming an intimate part of our lives. 14
talks. Total run time 2:59:24
Events /
Announcements
ACM, IEEE CS,
TEMS & YP: Presentation on “How to
BE a leader in times of uncertainty?” on 14th Nov 2019
A joint presentation (by ACM, IEEE CS, IEEE TEMS & IEEE YP) on
“How to BE a leader in times of uncertainty?” by Dr Latha Vijaybaskar has
been organised on 14th Nov 2019 at 5.30 p.m. at Anna University, Chennai.
The formal PDF invite is at http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/pgms/2019/mm-191114-leader.pdf
To facilitate logistics, please pre-register at http://bit.ly/2NpglhH
Workshop on Enterprise Risk
Management (ERM) for Small & Medium Enterprises on 15th Nov 2019
at MMA, Chennai
Small and Medium Sized Organizations
(both For-Profit and Non-Profit) are too focused on their business and other
objectives, and often react to risks than proactively manage them.
It is seen from studies that this is
the result of a knowledge gap than anything else.As such, it is important to
cater to fill up this gap, through a series of affordable training programme
that is combined with a workshop, so that the key stakeholder[s] of such SMEs –
can benefit from the same and the ratio of reactive behavior is steadily
brought down, through planning and organization for Enterprise Risk Management,
as may be relevant to each
For more details & brochure: https://members.mmachennai.org/event/event_details.php?des=818
Workshop on Gamification on 24th Nov 2019 at IITM Research
Park,Chennai
Games have the amazing ability to
keep people engaged for a long time, build relationships and trust between
people, and develop their creative potentials. Unfortunately, many games these
days are simply focused on escapism – wasting your life away on something that
doesn’t improve your own life nor the life of others.
Gamification is the craft of deriving
all the fun and addicting elements found in games and applying them to
real-world or productive activities. It is a design process that optimizes for
the human in the system, as opposed to pure efficiency of the system.
Participate to gamify your mundane
process, boring content, critical project and the product that’s going to
revolutionise the world - using the power of behavioural science and gameful
design.
More details at https://www.madiee.com/workshops/
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/
WiSSAP: Winter
School in Speech and Audio Processing during 8-10 Jan 2020 at IIT Mandi
WiSSAP is a series of winter schools in speech and audio processing held
since 2006. The 15th edition of WiSSAP
is happening during 8-10 January 2020 at IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
(India). The theme for WiSSAP 2020 is
"Machine Listening: making sense of sound".
For more details, pl. visit https://wissap.github.io/2020/
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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