October 26, 2017

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Industry News: Information and Communications

How Chatbots And AI Are Changing The Way Enterprises Communicate With Their Audienceedit

Inc 42

Since 2015, the chatbot market has seen an explosive growth of 35% since 2015, with a CAGR of 35% with over 80% businesses expected to develop chatbots which are estimated to bring in $8 billion in annual savings. Within a span of five years, Artificial Intelligence has moved from the domain of academic research to mainstream business communication.

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Artificial Intelligence has more pressing issues such as biased learning models that need solutions, says Intel VP for AIedit

First Post

By Nimish Sawant

Lately, there have been a lot of discussions on the rise of AI. Visionaries such as Elon Musk have even gone to the extent of saying that AI could be vastly more risky than North Korea and has the potential to cause World War III.

Artificial Intelligence
125 Billion Connected IoT Devices by 2030edit

BW CIO World

The number of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices worldwide will jump 12 percent on average annually, from nearly 27 billion in 2017 to 125 billion in 2030, according to new analysis from IHS Markit.

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A journey to somewhere new: How Internet of Things is transforming traveledit

First Post The travel industry is in the throes of unprecedented change, driven by new technology. There’s a trend towards leveraging mobility services, big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) to automate services, while process management and cloud based applications are revolutionising the sector too. We’re also seeing new competitors in this space, with many organisations introducing more customer-centric, digital business models, while industry stalwarts play catch-up.

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Industry News: Education

How to make digital education more accessibleedit

Deccan Herald

The rapid growth of the education sector in recent years and growing proliferation of digital technology have led to an era where e-learning is becoming a norm in almost all institutions. Leveraging technology to the benefit of society is extremely desirable. However, the disruptive influence of e-learning over conventional methods needs to be assessed critically and mid-course corrections need to be applied where necessary to make a robust, well balanced approach.

Education
15% engg depts fail to get NBA stampedit

DNA

By Kritika Sharma

Fifteen per cent of the various departments in engineering colleges across the country have failed to get accreditation from National Board of Accreditation (NBA) in the last two years. NBA accreditation is given to specific programmes run by professional institutions like Engineering, Management and Pharmacy, which then decides government’s criteria of giving more funding for a government institution and increase in seats for private and government institutes.

Engineering

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Encourage members to increase renewables in energy mix: Singhedit

Zee Business

The International Energy Agency (IEA) should encourage its member countries to increase share of renewables in their energy baskets, Power Minister R K Singh said today.

Renewable Energy
Call for favourable policy to promote renewable energy in Keralaedit

The New Indian Express

This is despite the fact Kerala is one of most potential states in India as far as adopting renewable energy is concerned. Favourable policies and their implementation will enable growth in the sector,” he said. Though the solar scam had its effect on the industry initially, the public have now started preferring authentic companies.

Renewable Energy
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