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- Global Justice 4.0 - The impacts of digitalisation on the Global South
- PhDs: the tortuous truth
- Future Libraries: Romance of LIS with Futurology
- Space-grade CPUs: How do you send more computing power into space?
- The Human Factor 2019 Report - Modern Cyber Attacks
- The lines of code that changed everything
- How to write a great developer résumé and showcase your software engineering skills
- The Shady Cryptocurrency Boom on the Post-Soviet Frontier
- What really happens to your body when you’re sleeping?
- What I wish I’d known when I started my career: 11 innovators tell us
- A Waze for wildfires: How tech is enabling earlier wildfire detection
- Space hotels could launch as early as 2021: photos
- Help People Create Passwords That They Can Actually Remember
- Microsoft is ending support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008: Here's what you need to know
- 7th HLF 2019 - Heidelberg Laureate Forum Lectures & Interviews
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- Webinar: Networking with Wire on 10th Dec 2019
- 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, September 20-25, 2020 at Heidelberg, Germany
- 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
- UDS 2020: 1st International Conference on Urban Data Science. 20-21 Jan 2020 at IIT Madras
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Global
Justice 4.0 - The impacts of digitalisation on the Global South
The publication Global Justice 4.0 –
The impacts of digitalisation on the Global South discusses the extent to which
digital technology can help tackle poverty and social inequality. Does it
increase or restrict the opportunities for social and economic participation
open to disadvantaged people? This publication explores the potentials and
limits of digital solutions. It analyses the lessons to be learned from
supposedly model projects such as the mobile payment system M-Pesa and the
spread of cashless payment in India. The authors also examine whether the
digitalisation of transnational supply chains not only boosts transparency but
also increases value creation for workers on the coffee and tea plantations or
in factories.
PhDs: the tortuous truth
Nature’s
survey of more than 6,000 graduate students reveals the turbulent nature of
doctoral research.
The
results of Nature’s fifth survey of PhD students bear out Kovačević’s
experience, telling a story of personal reward and resilience against a
backdrop of stress, uncertainty and struggles with depression and anxiety. The
survey drew self-selecting responses from more than 6,300 early-career
researchers — the most in the survey’s ten-year history. The respondents hail
from every part of the globe and represent the full spectrum of scientific
fields.
In
survey answers and free-text comments, students expressed widespread and
deep-seated frustrations with training, work–life balance, incidents of
bullying and harassment, and cloudy job prospects (see ‘Free thinking’). This
year’s survey also included new questions suggested by early-career
researchers, including ones on student debt, bullying and harassment, and carer
responsibilities. A question about mental health — asked of all respondents for
the first time — shed light on some of the more troubling effects of higher
education.
Future
Libraries: Romance of LIS with Futurology
The paper examines the past 'romance' of LIS with futurology, traces the flaws of disintermediation threat and the resultant repositioning options of LIS, stresses the need for imagination coupled with reason to turn experience into foresight, identifies the importance of physical space, content, and ambience of libraries to move from 'Transactional library' to 'Relational library' and from a 'Center of information' to a 'Center of culture', enumerates a number of non-ICT innovations that have already taken place in libraries, mentions technologies that can be considered for their appropriateness and adoption to enhance value of services. In conclusion, highlights how libraries are marginalized in digital era by putting 'access' before 'selection' (avoiding filtering at the input stage) and giving away control over organization of information to users, how 'access to excess' and speed override the validity and the quality of content leading distracted and dissatisfied users, and finally cautions about equating 'provision for access' to utility and need for greater understanding of user-behaviour in digital domain.
Space-grade
CPUs: How do you send more computing power into space?
Figuring
out radiation was a huge "turning point in the history of space
electronics."
Chip
designers in the US tend to go for more powerful, but more energy-hungry,
space-grade processors because NASA aims to run more large-scale robotic and
crewed missions compared to its European counterparts.
No
matter where humanity’s deep space dreams go next, we won’t have to wait that
long for engineers to know where the current computing power stands. The LEON
GR740 is scheduled for delivery to ESA at the end of this year, and after a few
additional tests it should be flight ready in 2020. The HPSC, in turn, is set
for a fabrication phase that should begin in 2021 and last until 2022. Testing
is expected to take a few months in 2022.
NASA
should get flight-ready HPSC chips by the end of 2022. That means, all other
complicating timeline factors aside, at least the future of space silicon
appears on track to be ready for spaceships taking humans back to the Moon in
2024.
The Human Factor 2019 Report -
Modern Cyber Attacks
Cyber criminals continue to refine techniques that
target people rather than infrastructure, with attacks that rely more on human
interaction and less on automated exploits.
Based on data collected across our global customer
base and analysis of more than 1 billion messages per day we found that
- Very Attacked People™ (VAPs) aren’t usually VIPs – The most attacked people are often easily discovered identities or “targets of opportunity.”
- Social engineering is pervasive, whether in rampant sextortion schemes, business email compromise (BEC), credential phishing, or other attacks that prey on human nature – and human error.
- Domain fraud plays a key role in lending a sense of legitimacy to attacks.
Download the report (after simple registration) to learn why more than 99% of
the attacks we observe require human interaction to succeed, resulting in
malware installation, wire fraud, unwitting data disclosures, and more.
The
lines of code that changed everything
Apollo
11, the JPEG, the first pop-up ad, and 33 other bits of software that have
transformed our world.
To
shed light on the software that has tilted the world on its axis, the editors (of
Slate) polled computer scientists, software developers, historians,
policymakers, and journalists. They were asked to pick: Which pieces of code
had a huge influence? Which ones warped our lives? About 75 responded with all
sorts of ideas, and Slate has selected 36. It’s not a comprehensive list—it
couldn’t be, given the massive welter of influential code that’s been written.
(One fave of mine that didn’t make the cut: “Quicksort”! Or maybe Ada
Lovelace’s Bernoulli algorithm.) Like all lists, it’s meant to provoke
thought—to help us ponder anew how code undergirds our lives and how decisions
made by programmers ripple into the future.
How to
write a great developer résumé and showcase your software engineering skills
For
those of you who are starting out on your job search, and have questions about
how to prepare a great résumé that can get your foot in the door, then this
article is for you.
Related
Post: How I landed offers from Microsoft, Amazon, and Twitter without an
Ivy League degree
The
Shady Cryptocurrency Boom on the Post-Soviet Frontier
Dodgy
energy deals, loose regulation, and dubious characters—with links to the
Hillary Clinton email hackers—are fueling a burgeoning crypto industry that
could provide an end run around US sanctions.
What
really happens to your body when you’re sleeping?
Did
you know that you spend 1/3rd of your life sleeping? Sleep allows your body to
repair and detoxify itself after a hard day’s work. When you’re sleeping, a
plethora of activities take place in your body, which are essential for your
physical, emotional and mental well-being. Read on to find out what happens to
your different body parts after you’ve drifted off…
What I wish I’d known when I started my career: 11 innovators tell
us
When we see CEOs, founders, influencers and other
people highlighted in our daily scrolls on our devices, the individuals almost
always look polished. They’re poised and confident, and they most surely
achieve inbox zero at the end of every day. Yet what is rarely captured is the
less photogenic stuff — the steady grind, the setbacks and sacrifices — that
come on the way to success.
Whether you’re a recent grad navigating the job
search or you’ve already earned an office (or, at least, a corner cubicle),
rest assured that everyone deals with uncertainty and difficulty. And that
includes the TED Fellows, who are innovators and emerging leaders in their
respective disciplines. Here, they open up about the fumbles and stumbles we
usually don’t see — and find out what they wish they knew when they were
starting out.
A Waze for wildfires: How tech
is enabling earlier wildfire detection
An internet-connected network of cameras and sensors
in five states taps into the power of crowdsourcing and allows wildfires to be
spotted quickly and more precisely. Graham Kent, the seismologist who helped
create the system, explains how it works.
Space hotels could launch as early as 2021: photos
Space tourism is rapidly moving from the realm of
science-fiction to reality — some developers have promised to launch hotels
into Earth's orbit as early as 2021.
NASA's search for space habitats has been driving innovation in space
habitat design. Some visions for the future of space tourism involve immersive
astronaut experiences, while others feature private villas on giant space
stations. One company has already built life-sized prototypes of inflatable
space habitats. Here's what future space lodging might look like.
Help People Create Passwords That They Can Actually Remember
Create designs that capitalize on what we know about
human memory. Help people remember passwords by encouraging them to: focus when
creating, and rehearse; choose passwords that relate to important events, are
chunked, have limited characters, and can be articulated in 2 seconds.
Microsoft is ending support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008:
Here's what you need to know
All good things must come to an end, and that
includes popular and robust operating systems that outlive their life span.
Microsoft is retiring support for its desktop OS Windows 7 and its server OS
Windows 2008 as of Jan. 14, 2020. This includes all versions of these operating
systems for businesses and consumers with the exception of federally certified
voting systems that run Windows 7.
7th
HLF 2019 - Heidelberg Laureate Forum Lectures & Interviews
The 7th HLF took place from September
22–27, 2019, and had the most robust scientific program to date, including
three panels that addressed fundamental issues for science and humanity at
large. 23 laureates of mathematics and computer science spent the week
interacting with 200 of the most dynamic young researchers in the fields.
Through a blend of scientific and social elements, paired with ample time, the
participants had the opportunity to shed formalities and extensively discuss.
Make sure to watch the lectures and interviews on YouTube and check out the
photos on flickr.
Lectures such
as Grand Challenges In Ai: Unfinished Agenda by Raj Reddy and Research In Deep
Learning by John E. Hopcroft plus many more
Events /
Announcements
Webinar: Networking
with Wire on 10th Dec 2019
Networking with Wire by Michael Paul, Co-Founder, The M & E Group on
Tuesday, 10 December 2019 at 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET (IST: 9.30 pm on 9th
Dec 2019)
In a world filled with online “noise” it’s more important than ever to
know and understand how to network with others in an effective manner. Unless
you’re a naturally social person with a lot of spare time, you find networking
valuable but tough. How would you like to learn how to maximize you online
presence and improve your online reputation? In this workshop, you will learn
the “how to’s” of navigating the space and marketing to optimize your presence
online. You will also learn effective tools that will help you manage your
reputation and presence both in the personal and the professional space. Be
prepared for a session filled with tactical and tool review information to help
manage and promote the best professional you.
Registration link: http://echo7.bluehornet.com/ct/54840904:6YnH2UYNM:m:1:2955270711:14F123CAD32147559E23A2B1188A9B36:r
8th Heidelberg
Laureate Forum, September 20-25, 2020 at Heidelberg, Germany
ACM encourages young computer
scientists and mathematicians from all over the world to apply for one of the
200 coveted spots to participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), an
annual event. The HLF offers all accepted young researchers the great
opportunity to personally meet the winners of the most prestigious prizes in
their fields.
For one week, recipients of the ACM
A.M. Turing Award and the ACM Prize in Computing (Computer Science), the Abel
Prize (Mathematics), the Fields Medal (Mathematics), and the Nevanlinna Prize
(Mathematical Aspects of Information Science) will engage in a
cross-generational scientific dialogue with young researchers in Heidelberg,
Germany.
The eighth HLF will take place
September 20 to 25, 2020. This high-profile event combines scientific, social and
outreach activities in an informal atmosphere, and is fueled by comprehensive
exchange and scientific inspiration.
Applications must be
submitted online at https://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/young-researchers/selection-process.html by February 14, 2020.
Successful candidates will be selected by an international committee of experts
to ensure that only the most qualified candidates are invited. Those who are
accepted will be notified in April.
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/
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/
Event
registration I open now: Pl register at https://in.explara.com/e/uds-2020-first-international-conference-on-urban-data-science
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