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Employment & Career Planning
How to get an IT job in 2021: 7 essential tips
Ready to take a new step in your IT career? In 2021, interviews present some special challenges. Consider this expert advice
IT careers: 10 critical skills to master in 2021
Looking to make the right investments in your IT career? We asked IT leaders and career experts to share the tech and core skills most likely to be in high demand in 2021
IT careers: Top IT job interview questions for 2021
Experts share the IT job interview questions you will face in 2021 and advice on how to answer them. Hint: Recruiters and hiring managers say that remote work will be a hot topic
6 Universal Rules for Resume Writing (With Video)
For busy hiring managers, your resume provides a snapshot of your career and is often the determining factor in whether you land an interview. If a job search is a journey, a stellar resume is your passport.
The fundamental principles of resume writing have remained constant for generations, but evolving technologies mean more aspects of the application and hiring processes take place online than ever before. By staying up to date with current best practices, you’re better able to put your resume to work for you. In this article, we discuss these six universal rules to keep in mind as you create or update your resume:
Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills
In job descriptions, employers often ask for a combination of hard and soft skills. Hard skills are related to specific technical knowledge and training while soft skills are personality traits such as leadership, communication or time management. Both types of skills are necessary to successfully perform and advance in most jobs.
Below, we’ll explain the difference between hard and soft skills, examples of each, and how to highlight your skills on your resume and in interviews.
How entrepreneurial skills can equip young people facing the bleak prospect of unemployment
Data Management
Data hygiene factors
The goal of making your data available is that other people can reuse it. A number of factors can prevent anybody from ever exploiting your data. This article reviews some of these factors and suggests some low effort ways you can increase the chances of your data’s being used by others.
Do Data Lakes Live Up to Their Promise?
The data lake concept arrived 10 years ago as the answer to common complaints about information silos and the volumes and complex varieties of information. It was a way to bring all the data together from multiple business applications and data systems into one centralized place, in whatever form it arrived, without the need for processing or structuring. The data lake was supposed to be the dream of fast-tracking structured data and unstructured data, such as videos and documents, into a one-stop repository shop for business insights, realized.
User Experience
Complete Beginner’s Guide to UX Research
UX research—or as it’s sometimes called, design research—serves many purposes throughout the design process. It helps us identify and prove or disprove our assumptions, find commonalities across our target audience members, and recognize their needs, goals, and mental models. Overall, research informs our work, improves our understanding, and make our work better.
In this Complete Beginner’s Guide, we’ll look at the many elements of design research, from interviews and observations, to usability testing and A/B testing. Readers will get a head start on how to use these design research techniques in their work, and improve experiences for all users.
11 Web Design Principles Everyone Should Know
Web design trends are constantly evolving. But these fundamental principles stick around for a reason.
Chip Technology
How Does Apple's M1 Chip Compare to Current Intel and AMD Chips?
Will Apple's switch to its own Arm-based chips have serious consequences for Intel, especially in its server business?
Security
Thirteen principles to ensure enterprise system security
Designing sound enterprise system security is possible by following Gary McGraw's 13 principles, many of which have held true for decades.
Data security guide: Everything you need to know
This data security guide digs into data protection and privacy compliance, explaining how to construct a proactive security strategy strengthened by best practices.
11 Cryptographic Methods That Marked History: From the Caesar Cipher to Enigma Code and Beyond
Since antiquity mankind has used some form of cipher to encrypt and protect messages.
Robots & Robotics
15 Engineers and Their Inventions That Defined Robotics
Robotics has become an essential part of modern society. But, how did we get here?
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
We Gaurdian Newspaper) asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace
Content Manager Systems (CMS)
Headless CMS powers personalized, omnichannel e-commerce
The headless content management system is an appealing way to deliver content quickly and efficiently, especially for e-commerce companies, whose customers expect content across a variety of different channels.
Headless CMS powers personalized, omnichannel e-commerce
The headless content management system is an appealing way to deliver content quickly and efficiently, especially for e-commerce companies, whose customers expect content across a variety of different channels.
What is a Headless Content Management System (CMS)? The Ultimate Guide [2021 Edition]
34 Headless CMS That Should Be On Your Radar
Quantum Computing
How Quantum Computing Will Transform These 9 Industries
Quantum computers will soon be able to tackle some problems much faster than any conventional computer. These capabilities could especially impact how businesses approach challenges involving a daunting number of variables and potential outcomes — like simulating chemical interactions, optimizing logistics, or sorting through massive datasets.
The emerging technology has the potential to reshape countless sectors, but some will have to adapt more quickly than others. Below, we look at 9 spaces where quantum computing is already making waves.
The global quantum computing race has begun. What will it take to win it?
Plenty of nations want to be the quantum computing leader, but with billions in investment flying around, coming out on top won't be easy.
Internet & Communications
Elon Musk Promised Starlink Internet Speeds of 1 Gbps. Will It Happen?
Starlink internet speeds are rising, but will the 1 Gbps promise come true?
What Is 6G and When Will It Be Implemented in Our Daily Lives?
6G could bring Star Wars-esque holograms and accelerate cloud computing.
The Internet vs. Democracy
A review of Robert W. McChesney, Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy (The New Press, 2014)
Smart Cities
A city that knows your every move: Saudi Arabia's new smart city might be a glimpse of the future
Saudi Arabia is building a smart city in the desert that will know its residents better than they know themselves. Snapshot of the future, or an example to avoid?
Software Development
9 techniques for fixing bugs in production
IT organizations have many ways of fixing bugs in production. The variety of techniques reflects a range of tolerance for risk and how urgently the team wants to push out new features. Bug fixes can vary depending on the type of product and its mission criticality. The magnitude of a bug can also determine whether it gets an immediate fix or not.
Software teams can follow these nine ways of fixing bugs in production:
Establish a standardized process.
Make plans to quickly fix defects.
Practice time management.
Implement benchmarks.
Prioritize test code.
Perform chaos engineering.
Move fast and break things.
Adopt a mission-critical mentality.
Mature the product.
Top 10 software development and test tips of 2020
What can you do better in 2021? Adopt different test tools, automate more processes, run a more productive dev team? Follow this advice from various experts to make it all happen.
Reference
Programming Glossary
Definitions related to software programming, including tech terms about programming languages and words and phrases about software design, coding, testing and debugging.
Education
The Feynman Learning Technique
The Feynman Learning Technique is a simple way of approaching anything new you want to learn.
Why use it? Because learning doesn’t happen from skimming through a book or remembering enough to pass a test. Information is learned when you can explain it and use it in a wide variety of situations. The Feynman Technique gets more mileage from the ideas you encounter instead of rendering anything new into isolated, useless factoids.
How universities can support local businesses and communities
Cultivating Critical Consciousness in the Classroom: 10 Counternarrative Resources
In the classroom, the use of storytelling—guided by an ethic of compassion and informed by critical consciousness—begins by fostering a community of trust, support, and care. After such conditions have been established, students engage in critical reflection to fully understand the dynamics of privilege, power, social location, resistance, and resilience, largely through counternarratives. Once students have a more critical understanding of society and its processes, they are ready to begin sharing their own stories or amplifying the stories of those typically left out of mainstream discourses. This critical understanding, however, ought to consider that neither students of color nor other marginalized students are expected to share their stories as a means of teaching those with dominant identities. The expression of personal narratives coupled with critical reflection is intended to foster greater connection and mutual understanding across differences and develop more confidence in political change to engage in informed action meant to inspire positive change.
We offer the following ten resources for integrating counternarratives into the classroom with the aim of illuminating inequity at the core of many crises around the world, cultivating critical consciousness, and initiating potentially transformative responses towards social and global change.
20 Invention Opportunities in Learning & Development
As a culmination of our Invention Opportunity series, we have compiled a report that focuses on 20 areas where collective investment in learning and development could benefit the education system.
10 Lessons of an MIT Education
Online learning during COVID-19: 8 ways universities can improve equity and access
Management & Self Development
8 Movies That Might Make You Smarter
If you're looking to boost your intelligence you can always read a book, surround yourself with educated people, learn a new skill and take care of your health by exercising, getting enough sleep and eating "brain foods." You can even increase your intelligence by watching TV and movies from time-to-time.
Of course, you have to be discriminating in which shows and movies to view. Educational content like documentaries and current affairs programs are your best options since they may improve your general knowledge and conversational repertoire. Sometimes this type of content can even help you discover a new interest that you may wish to turn into a hobby.
Besides documentaries and programs like the news, you can watch the occasional movie like the following eight films. I've found that these movies have not only peaked my interest in new subject matters, they've also provided some valuable life and business lessons.
10 Scary Leadership & Management Mistakes
Management isn’t something that you receive a handbook for. In fact, becoming a manager is often something that you are thrown into and have to learn on the fly. In order to help you avoid some of the most common management mistakes, we asked a panel of experts to share a few spooky management stories…
Here are ten common management mistakes – and some expert tips on how you can avoid them!
How to Make Smart Decisions Without Getting Lucky
Few things will change your trajectory in life or business as much as learning to make effective decisions.
The decision-making principles in this article aren’t pulled out of thin air. They’re the result of many years of experience and experimentation. They draw upon the combined expertise of some of history’s deepest thinkers. They summarize the core insights and skills from influential books on decision-making.
What to Do When You Have a Bad Boss
Despite the $15 billion companies spend annually on managerial and leadership development, bad bosses are common in the American workforce. So why do employees end up working longer (two years, on average) for toxic bosses than nontoxic bosses?
Business Strategy
Ultimate Guide To Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is an organized, systematic and coordinated way to plan for achieving specific goals. Using strategy to map out a path for your personal career, your team or your organization can create direction and clarity, ultimately leading to success.
In this guide to strategic planning, we will explain the importance of strategic planning, how to develop and plan a strategy and the benefits of doing so. With a strategy process in place, you can optimize the operations of your career and establish a process for achieving goals.
10 Business Strategy Examples
A business strategy is a powerful tool for helping you reach your business goals, defining the strategies and tactics you need to take within your company. The business strategy also guides many of your organizational decisions, such as hiring new employees. Creating a business strategy that's in line with the vision you have for your company takes time and development. In this article, we will discuss what a business strategy is and why it's important, the components of a business strategy and 10 examples of business strategies to help you generate ideas for your own company.
Books & Periodicals
40 Books that Improve your Ability to Make Decisions
Who can you ask for book recommendations on decision making? At Re:Think Decision Making, I asked a crowd that one former ivy league professor called “the best public crowd he’s ever seen” what they would recommend reading. These people are paid to make decisions for a living and want to find every edge they can.
So when I asked them what books on decision making influenced them, you can bet they had a lot to say. Here’s the list in no particular order:
Software Defined Storage for Dummies -- ebook
Videos to Watch
Jaw-dropping science breakthroughs
Revolutionary achievements, important discoveries and astounding leaps of progress that have fundamentally transformed the scientific world.
9 talks · Total run time 2:03:19
Talks to save you time at work -- so you can focus on what you love
For all those days you've ever checked the clock and thought, "Where did the last hour go?" These talks share helpful hacks for stealing back a few seconds, minutes or even hours from your busy workday.
6 talks · Total run time 55:01
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.
10 talks · Total run time 1:56:54
Health & Wellness
Headaches: three tips from a neuroscientist on how to get rid of them
Stress and Its Effects on the Body
Interesting to know
Bitcoin Pizza Day
22nd May is known as Bitcoin Pizza Day, is the annual celebration of the first known Bitcoin transaction for a physical product.
Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer at Florida made a post on 18th May 2010 on crypto website forum BitcoinTalk in which he stated he wanted to exchange 10,000 BTC for 2 pizzas. Jeremy Sturdivant, a British crypto enthusiast took the offer and completed the transaction on 22nd May. While he benefited by this transaction to the tune of $16 at that time ( $41, worth of 10000 Bitcoins minus $25, cost of two pizzas), the story goes beyond this simple transaction.
This legendary transaction is valued at $520 million today.
Pl read the story of Bitcoin Pizza Day 2021 story at https://www.coolwallet.io/
It’s Time to Get Used to Drinking Recycled Wastewater
North American cities are preparing to source water from toilets and sinks
Election Commission of India working on remote voting system
IIT-Madras is providing the technology.
ENIAC Turns 75
The history of computing is filled with mythical figures, but often lost in the shuffle is the accomplishment of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr. On February 14, 1946, the pair publicly unveiled the world's first true computer: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer). From their lab at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, they launched a revolution that truly changed the world. On its 75th anniversary, ENIAC is once again in the spotlight.
A History of Finding Our Way: 15 Pre-Google Maps Navigation Tools
Early seafarers would have believed our smartphones were using black magic.
The Mysterious Physics of 7 Everyday Things
Physicists have figured out some extremely fine details of the universe, from the radius of black holes to the behavior of subatomic particles neither of which we can even see. It may surprise you to learn, then, that they lack explanations (or have only recently stumbled upon them) for many common phenomena we observe in daily life.
As you'll learn in the following slides, some of the most mysterious things of all may be those that, on the face of it, seem mundane.
The 11 Most Beautiful Mathematical Equations
Mathematical equations aren't just useful — many are quite beautiful. And many scientists admit they are often fond of particular formulas not just for their function, but for their form, and the simple, poetic truths they contain.
While certain famous equations, such as Albert Einstein's E = mc^2, hog most of the public glory, many less familiar formulas have their champions among scientists. LiveScience asked physicists, astronomers and mathematicians for their favorite equations; here's what we found:
Differences Between Copyright and Copyleft
Copyright is a sort of intellectual property that provides its owner with the exclusive right to make copies of a creative job, usually for a limited time.
Copyleft is the custom of granting the right to freely distribute and modify intellectual property with the requirement that the exact rights be preserved in derivative works generated from that property.
What Is Minicorn, Soonicorn, Unicorn, Decacorn and Hectocorn Startups?
Indian space startup fires world’s first fully 3D printed rocket engine as others play catch up
IRAI Quiz -- 210301
1. Who is called as "The Queen of Code / Software"? ----------------------- (Ada Lovelace / Grace Hopper)
2. ---------------- is an early programming language developed at IBM, intended as the business programming equivalent of the scientific programming language FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslator). It served as one of the forerunners to the COBOL language.
3. The language Ruby was developed in --------- (Japan / Finland / Canada / France)
4. Pony, Rust, Swift, Xojo, Scala, Delphi, Halide. What is common to all these?
5. The science fiction author -------------- (Arthur C Clarke / Issac Asimov) is well-known for devising the "Three Laws of Robotics".
6. Grace Hopper ------------ (coined/popularised) the term "Computer Bug"
7. What is the opposite of Fuzzy Logic
8. Expand I18N
9. What is the 4th R of Waste Management
10. "Linux is a Cancer" -- who said this in 2011
Forthcoming Events
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IoT Cloud Symposium
Research & Industry Symposium on "IoT Cloud For Societal Applications" in honour of Mr. FC Kohli, Father of Indian Software Industry. More info at: http://icentre.iiitkottayam.ac.in/iotcloudsymp.html
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Answers to IRAI Quiz -- 210301
1. Grace Hopper
2. COMPTRAN
3. Japan
4. Programming languages
5. Isaac Asimov
6. Popularised
7. Boolean Logic
8. Internationalisation
9. Reform
10. Steve Ballmer
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