News for the IET
Automation, AI – Threat or Thriller?edit
By Krishna Mukherjee
“Roles such as Data Analyst and Project Manager will continue to be in demand but the skills required to perform these roles will witness a shift. Professionals in these domains should thus look at re-skilling and up-skilling themselves to stay relevant in their careers. Assessing the current situation,” the research said. Dr Rishi Bhatnagar, Chairman, IET-IoT India Panel and President, Aeris Communications, India, opines: “Automation would lead to skilling up the current workforce.
Dr. Rishi Bhatnagar: Chairman of IET India IoT panelNews for other PEI
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Industry News: Information and Communications
Artificial intelligence is helping researchers to find new drugs for ALS, a motor neurone diseaseedit
Artificial intelligence robots are turbocharging the race to find new drugs for the crippling nerve disorder ALS, or motor neurone disease.
Artificial IntelligenceSweden poised to become key destination for Indian IT: reportedit
Another technology that is increasingly penetrating the Swedish markets is the Internet of Things (IoT) market in the vehicle, health, banking and logistics space,” said Nasscom quoting the findings of the report.
Indian IT SectorPrivacy laws: Alternatives to consentedit
Legitimate-interest processing can legitimize many ordinary business uses of data, such as improving and marketing a company’s own products or services, or ensuring information and network security. It also plays an increasingly significant role in the context of Big Data, the Internet of Things and machine learning by enabling beneficial uses of data where consent is not feasible and the benefits of the proposed uses outweigh any privacy risks or other harmful impact on individuals.
Cyber SecurityAre international cyber attacks the wave of the future?edit
Norms that may be ripe for discussion outside the GGE process could include protected status for the core functions of the Internet; supply-chain standards and liability for the Internet of Things; treatment of election processes as protected infrastructure; and, more broadly, norms for issues such as crime and information warfare.
Cyber SecurityIoTIndustry News: Education
No plans to replace UGC, AICTE with single regulator: Governmentedit
The government is not considering any merger of the UGC and the AICTE into a single higher education regulator at present, the Rajya Sabha was informed today. However, HRD Ministry officials had earlier claimed that the government was mulling introducing Higher Education Empowerment Regulation Agency (HEERA) to replace the UGC and the AICTE with an aim of eliminating overlaps in jurisdiction and remove irrelevant regulatory provisions.
Higher EducationUncategorized
Over threefold jump in India’s solar capacity in past two years: Piyush Goyaledit
By Anisha Dutta
India’s total installed solar power generation capacity grew over threefold to 13,652 Megawatt (MW) over the past two fiscal years, power, coal, renewable energy and mines minister Piyush Goyal said today. “The cumulative solar energy capacity installed as on 31 July 2017 is 13,652 MW while the same at the end of 2014-15 was 3,743.97 MW,” Goyal said in a written reply in Lok Sabha.
Solar EnergyHarvesting The Sun: India’s Push For Renewable Energyedit
Last month Indian Railways’ first solar-power augmented diesel-electric train chugged into Haryana from a neighbourhood in Delhi. Its six coaches are equipped with 16 solar panels on the roof and will be used to power all electrical appliances inside. The Railways hope to reduce 239 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions by saving approximately 90,800 litres of diesel on the train.
Solar Energy