October 5, 2017

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IEEE hosts ‘Internet Inclusion: Advancing Solutions—India’ to collaborate on connecting the unconnectededit

The Hindu Business Line

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced Internet Inclusion: Advancing Solutions—India, hosted by the IEEE Internet Initiative, will take place 6 October at the ITC Maurya New Delhi and is a pre-event leading up to the Global Conference on Cyberspace 2017 (GCCS) on 23-24 November in New Delhi.

IEEE

Industry News: Information and Communications

Internet of Things: Facing the data challengeedit

The Financial Express

Driven by the convergence of cloud technology, rapidly growing data volumes and increasingly connected devices, the Internet of Things (IoT) poses new challenges and presents a host of new opportunities that can be seized by businesses. This system of systems will be fundamental to realising business value in the future and developing new and innovative user experiences.

Internet of Things
6 Jobs Artificial Intelligence Is Replacing Soonedit

CXO Today

There has been an explosion of new age technologies over the past couple of years, leading to massive digital transformation across industries. There is not one industry or sector that is not affected by the tsunami of data and analytics.

Artificial Intelligence
Challenges and the way forward in the journey of digitizationedit

ET Tech

When did we become DIGITAL? Is it from the time when needles were replaced with digits on the watches? Probably from then till today the digital journey had been evolving – from ‘being digital’ to a matured state of selling ‘digital services’.

DigitisationIoT
Everything you need to know about IoT that you didn’t know to askedit

YourStory

While explaining how IoT can lead to unplanned benefits, he cited the example of market coolers that are in use in shops across the country. He said there are about 2.5 million coolers in the market today.

Internet of Things

Industry News: Education

Five challenges engineers face in 2018 comes from emerging technologies, check what they areedit

Tech Observer

From machine learning to the Internet of Things (IoT) to 5G and the electrification of vehicles, these are not only innovation but also newer challenge to traditional engineers.

Engineering
How to create industry-ready engineersedit

Deccan Herald

According to traditional wisdom, an engineering degree guarantees a stable, well-paying office job. However, according to a recent survey, only 7% of the engineering graduates can handle core engineering tasks. As per the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India has 6,214 engineering and technology institutions which are enrolling 2.9 million students, and approximately 1.5 million engineers enter the job market every year.

Engineering
Education Sector Will Grow At 7.5% To $144 billion By 2020edit

Business World

Vikas Singh, MD, Pearson India shares his thoughts about virtual international education narrowing gap between upper and lower strata, and skills needed to create studetns skilled enough to be employed

Education

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India’s renewable energy capacity to double by 2022, report saysedit

Hindustan Times

The International Energy Agency revised its forecast for renewables upwards taking account of growth of renewables in China and India.

Renewable Energy
Wind power tariff drops below Rs 3/unit in 2nd auctionedit

Money Control

Wind power tariff has dropped to all-time low of Rs 2.93 per unit in the ongoing auction for award of 1 GW capacities by the Solar Energy Corporation of India, an industry source said.

Renewable Energy
India, emerging economies can attract billions of dollars for solar, wind poweredit

The Economic Times

The government has set a target of 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022, including 100 GW of solar and 60 GW of wind. India’s draft Third National Electricity Plan (NEP3) for the next two five-year periods, to 2027, unambiguously concludes that beyond the half-built plants already under construction, India does not require any new coal-fired power stations.

Renewable Energy
How professors at IITs are improving India’s solar power efficienciesedit

The Economic Times

By Hari Pulakkat

The IIT campus was not ready when Saroj Nayak moved to Bhubaneswar from the US in 2012. The condensed matter physicist had been a professor at Renssealer Polytechnic when IIT Bhubaneswar made him a job offer.

Solar Energy
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