August 17, 2017

News for the IET

VIT students shubham saraff wins IET south asia competitionedit

Trinity Mirror

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) announced Shubham Saraff, 3rd year student of Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai as the winner of the IET South Asia ‘Present round the World (PATW) 2017 finals in a ceremony that took place at My Fortune Hotel, Bangalore.

Present Around the World Competition
VIT students shubham saraff wins IeT south asia competitionedit

Viduthalai (Scanned clip attached in mail)

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) announced Shubham Saraff, 3rd year student of Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai as the winner of the IET South Asia ‘Present round the World (PATW) 2017 finals in a ceremony that took place at My Fortune Hotel, Bangalore.

Mr Shekhar Sanyal: Director and Country Head of the IETPresent Around the World Competition
Vellore Institute of Technology student Shubham Saraff is the Winner of IET South Asiaedit

Namathu Murasu (Scanned clip attached in mail)

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) announced Shubham Saraff, 3rd year student of Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai as the winner of the IET South Asia ‘Present round the World (PATW) 2017 finals in a ceremony that took place at My Fortune Hotel, Bangalore.

 

Mr Shekhar Sanyal: Director and Country Head of the IETPresent Around the World Competition

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Artificial Intelligence is the engine of the fourth industrial revolutionedit

The Hindu Business Line

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new engine that is going to launch the fourth industrial revolution after loom, steam engine and assembly line, according to Malcolm Frank, Executive Vice-President, Strategy & Marketing, Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Artificial Intelligence
Enact data protection law soonedit

The Hindu

By Peerzada Abrar

Data is being vacuumed out of the country and going into unaccountable systems that don’t come under Indian law, which probably share data with foreign governments

Data Policy
Artificial Intelligence: A Real Threat To Jobsedit

Business World

The biggest area that the AI revolution is likely to impact is the low-skilled market and the jobs that machines can do easily and more efficiently. Oxford University researchers have already predicted that at least 40% of jobs will be lost to automation by the middle of the century.

Artificial Intelligence
IoT to be a game changer for Intensity Global Technologiesedit

Channel World

The sole partnership with TrakitNow gives us the first mover advantage in IoT, said Aditya Narain Kakkar, Director, Intensity Global Technologies. Intensity Global Technologies (IGT) is eyeing big opportunities with new age technologies like IoT. The systems integrator and service provider company is the sole partner of the U.S. headquartered TrakItNow in India. Delhi-based IGT aligned with TrakItNow last year to explore the market potential for IoT solutions.

 

Internet of Things
7 hot new IT jobs and why they just might stickedit

Computer World

From CIoTO to automation architect, new IT roles are rising to fill emerging needs. Some may fizzle, but others may have a long future thanks to underlying IT trends. Unusual job titles aren’t new in the IT world. Before the Twitter ninja and social media rockstar, before the webmaster was hired to conjure up HTML sorcery, there was the software evangelist, an IT job title that merged the worlds of sales and religion. In the early ’80s an Apple executive coined the term for an Apple marketer who would praise the first Macintosh to potential developers and customers.

IT Jobs
Cannot imitate the West in terms of data policy: Nandan Nilekaniedit

The Financial Express

Former UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani on Wednesday pitched for new regulations to protect and regulate data in India. The country cannot blindly imitate the data policies of the West, he said. Addressing the Carnegie India panel discussion on ‘Who owns personal data: Technology and Policy frameworks’, here on Wednesday, Nilekani said, “We can’t imitate the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the Indian context.” He said the European GDPR was over two decades old and that India needs a new framework in the time of Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Data Policy

Industry News: Education

Exempt higher education institutions from GSTedit

Deccan Chronicle

Calling out to stakeholders of higher education institutions across the country, a group of like-minded people led by the members of the management of a leading educational group from the city have decided to launch a campaign seeking the government’s attention to auxiliary services being taxed at Higher Educational Institutions (HIEs), between 5, 12, or 28% towards operational, developmental and maintenance costs.

GSTHigher Education

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Cabinet apprised of India-Spain renewable energy MoUedit

ET Energy World

The MoU will help in strengthening bilateral cooperation between the two countries with the exchange of expertise and networking of information.

Renewable Energy
Will low tariffs eclipse India’s solar run?edit

Mint

By Utpal Bhaskar

With solar power tariffs hitting a low of Rs2.44 per unit in May, states are now looking to renege on their offtake commitments for projects awarded at a comparatively higher tariff

Solar Energy
How India can improve its rooftop solar journeyedit

The Economic Times

Energy security is perhaps the most powerful lever that pivots the growth trajectory of an economy irrespective of the country’s political milieu. Massive international efforts invested in decarbonization over the past few decades have proven that renewable energy, with its enduring potential is no doubt a far more potent propeller of inclusive development than its conventional counterparts. Ideologically too, this movement toward greener energy is redefining what it means to be a responsible entity, be it individual, corporate or nation.

Solar Energy
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