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Flagship digital solutions built by NIC
A compilation, highlighting the flagship digital solutions, that NIC has built in the recent years
Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It
The inside story of personal computing at the legendary research lab
https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-parc
E-waste management in India: Challenges and Opportunities
Quantum computing may create ethical risks for businesses. It’s time to prepare
Leaders can prepare now to avoid potential ethical pitfalls that quantum computing may create in the coming years.
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/cyber-risk/quantum-computing-ethics-risks.html
Amrita Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do. When Chancellor Amma spoke at the United Nations in July 2015, she stated, “I often reflect deeply on the future of the Earth, the preservation of nature, and the disappearing harmonybetween humanity and nature. This contemplation has led me to the conviction that science, technology, and spirituality must unite in order to ensure a sustainable and balanced existence of our world. The presentage and the world around us demand this transformation.”
The Amrita Vasudha Initiative at Amrita seeks to be a resource and a force that provides knowledge, energy, motivation and inspiration to the stakeholders of the organization/institution, in turn enabling them to be supportive of, and engaging in, sustainable ways of living, and thereby also more effectively participating in, and contributing to, the democratic process of governance (in India).
To read about the excellent initiative, related activities/projects and the latest annual report, pl visit
Air-mobility solutions: What they’ll need to take off
Innovators are designing air taxis and delivery drones. But these won’t take flight unless stakeholders accelerate investment in air-mobility infrastructure.
From livable to lovable: Making cities more human
Cities can take concrete steps to embody elements of a lovable city, helping their residents feel more connected. The payoff: happier, more resilient citizens poised to drive economic growth.
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/public-sector/elements-of-lovable-cities.html
Reshoring and “friendshoring” supply chains
Reshaping supply chains to improve economic resilience. Nations around the world are trying to fix supply chain weaknesses by reshoring, but they will also need "friendshoring"—working with other nations and trusted supply sources.
What Is the Environmental Impact of Cryptocurrency?
Are your crypto dreams destroying the planet?
As the world grapples with how best to combat climate change, we've identified fossil fuels, farming, and industrial pollution as major offenders, but in recent years, the discussion has turned to cryptocurrency. Mining, particularly Bitcoin mining, uses an immense amount of energy, while the race among would-be crypto millionaires to build the most powerful mining rig produces a lot more electronic waste than fat bank accounts.
How much does cryptocurrency cost the environment? Does mining and transacting with crypto actually contribute to climate change? Here's what we know so far.
https://au.pcmag.com/old-cryptocurrency/91807/what-is-the-environmental-impact-of-cryptocurrency
Deadbots can speak for you after your death, but how ethical is that?
Machine learning and AI might have gone too far. Machine-learning systems are increasingly worming their way through our everyday lives, challenging our moral and social values and the rules that govern them. These days, virtual assistants threaten the privacy of the home; news recommenders shape the way we understand the world; risk-prediction systems tip social workers on which children to protect from abuse; while data-driven hiring tools also rank your chances of landing a job. However, the ethics of machine learning remains blurry for many.
Searching for articles on the subject for the young engineers attending the Ethics and Information and Communications Technology course at UCLouvain, Belgium, I was particularly struck by the case of Joshua Barbeau, a 33-year-old man who used a website called Project December to create a conversational robot – a chatbot – that would simulate conversation with his deceased fiancée, Jessica.
Known as a deadbot, this type of chatbot allowed Barbeau to exchange text messages with an artificial “Jessica”. Despite the ethically controversial nature of the case, I rarely found materials that went beyond the mere factual aspect and analyzed the case through an explicit normative lens: why would it be right or wrong, ethically desirable or reprehensible, to develop a deadbot?
https://interestingengineering.com/deadbots-speak-death-ethics
11 laws driving success in tech: Amazon’s 2-pizza rule, the 80/20 principle, & more
What separates success from failure? These 11 laws contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products.
Download a comprehensive 67-page report for deep dives on 11 of the most famous tech laws, with examples from tech leaders like Amazon, Apple, IBM, and Salesforce.
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/tech-laws-success-failure
We spend Rs 5,000 cr on skilling every year: Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar
The ongoing digital transformation across the world presents India with a big economic opportunity, which it can take advantage of only if it has a skilled workforce. The Government of India is working on a plan to not just skill the workforce at the district level, but to also upskill, reskill and multiskill it.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship says the government is spending Rs 4,000-5,000 crore every year on skilling and has trained 30 million citizens over the past five years. Excerpts from an interview:
A Brief Guide to Writing a Good Dissertation
A dissertation is a piece of academic writing that aims to demonstrate the validity of a hypothesis. This phase focuses on collecting and analyzing data to prove that hypothesis. It is the most time-consuming part of the dissertation writing process. Evidence may be collected from a variety of sources. However, it must be relevant and useful.
https://www.datasciencecentral.com/a-brief-guide-to-writing-a-good-dissertation/
Positive Feedback From Manager to Employee: 10 Examples
Positive feedback can be key to improving your work environment. Here are a few tips on how to give positive feedback to your team.
https://fellow.app/blog/feedback/positive-feedback-from-manager-to-employee-examples
ebook: Building Serverless Applications with Google Cloud Run
Get started with serverless. If, like many developers, you're excited by the prospect of no longer needing to babysit infrastructure when you'd rather be coding — this free O'Reilly book on Google Cloud Run might be for you.
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/guides/oreilly-building-serverless-applications-with-google-cloud-run
Online book: Data Mining and Machine Learning: Fundamental Concepts and Algorithms
Authored by Mohammed J. Zaki, Wagner Meira, Jr., , 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, March 2020.
You can read all the chapters online. These are provided for personal online use.
https://www.dataminingbook.info/book_html/
IEEE open access articles on Wearables
IEEE Xplore digital library has over 6000 articles on Wearables available for open access.
Cyber Risk -- Collection of Articles
Investments in security are at an all-time high, yet successful cyberattacks are still on the rise, both in number and sophistication. While innovations in technology power new strategic initiatives, it also opens new doors for cyber criminals. How can organizations fight back?
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/cyber-risk.html.html
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How to Buy a Used Car: A Definitive Guide: 15 Tips to Help Buy a Used Car Through a Dealership or a Private Seller
New car prices have reached record highs. For car buyers on a budget, buying a used car used to be an attractive alternative. But with used car supply down we've seen their prices increase over 30 percent in the past year.
Beyond the recent price hikes, some consumers are wary of buying a used vehicle because of the uncertainty of the vehicle’s history and the difficulty of the buying process. However, being a well-informed shopper can help you navigate the used car buying process and find the right car at the right price.
We'll discuss each step of the used car buying process below
https://www.iseecars.com/articles/how-to-buy-a-used-car
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IRAI Quiz -- 220611
1. Microsoft schedules the release of security updates on "Patch Tuesday," the ------------- Tuesday of each month at 10 am PST
2. PC Quest magazine from Cyber Media which is now celebrating 35th year of it publication was started in 1987 as ------------ and subsequently named as PC Quest
3. US/EU ------- mandates USB-C charging ports for small and medium-sized portable electronic devices
4. Prescriptive analytics is a branch of data analytics that uses ----------- models to suggest actions to take for optimal outcomes.
5. "Software and cathedrals are much the same — first we build them, then we pray." -- who said this?
6. While Dolly the sheep was the first animal to be cloned in 1996, recently scientists in China have successfully cloned ------- using only AI, without any human intervention, in a world first
7. Theory of Everything: Stephen Hawking = Imitation Game: --------------
8. The Apple Lisa was conceived in 1979 when Steve Jobs, Apple’s chairman, toured PARC and saw the first -------------------
9. ---------- is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple whose name is also a brand of popular Indian four wheeler.
10. Apple recently discontinued it's iconic product -------- after 21 years of its introduction
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