December 14, 2017

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‘E-mobility presents a huge opportunity to India’: Dr Abhay Firodiaedit

Auto Car Professional

He also urged manufacturers to ensure that a larger number of young students who are pursuing engineering enter the industry’s talent pool. Commenting on the growing research in the field of e-mobility, IEEE-IAS’s Dr Sebastian said that currently a lot of research is being conducted. “Linking this research into practice and making it beneficial for the Indian automobile market is what we should emphasise on from now,” he said.

IEEE

Industry News: Information and Communications

Two myths about automationedit

Mint

The coming technological transformation won’t entail occupational shifts on the scale of the Industrial Revolution

Automation
Is your job really at risk of being taken over by AI?edit

YourStory

The “catch up game” has already begun, but not all jobs are going the AI route; we need to figure out what roles are best suited for the AI space and which ones are not.

Artificial Intelligence
Top five cyber security trends to look out for in 2018edit

Deccan Chronicle

While security technologies have grown so have the tactics, techniques, and procedures cyber attackers use to penetrate your defences.

Cyber Security
By 2022, 37% of India’s workforce would be in new jobsedit

The Economic Times

The joint report by Ficci-Nasscom and EY said by 2022, nine per cent of the country’s 600 million estimated workforce would be deployed in jobs that do not exist at present.

Jobs
By 2020, Artificial Intelligence will create more jobs than it eliminates: Gartneredit

Economic Times

By Shelly Singh

Downplaying fears of jobs getting wiped out with Artificial Intelligence (AI), research firm Gartner said more jobs will be created than lost. The firm says 1.8 million jobs will be eliminated by 2020, but 2.3 million new jobs will be created by then.

Artificial Intelligence

Industry News: Education

VTU to include humanities, culture in engineering curriculum from next yearedit

Times of India

By Aditi Gyanesh

A model curriculum has been prepared by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for implementation in colleges across the country. The AICTE syllabus, prepared by 11 subject committees, is available on its website.

Engineering
Artificial Intelligence Transforming India’s Education Sectoredit

CXO Today

No matter what the critics have to say, AI is all set to change the landscape of learning and the way it is approached by educators. The prominence of adaptive learning is bound to increase in times to come, with more bodies wake up to the potential of AI.

Artificial IntelligenceEducation

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Solar power auction sees 98% fall in Novemberedit

Business Standard

The solar power auction in November saw a 98 per cent drop with only 5 MW auctioned against 270 MW in October, a report said on Wednesday.

Solar Energy
GST led to 12% rise in cost of solar projects, says AISIAedit

Money Control

This will, in turn, result in increase in the cost of power, AISIA general secretary Gyanesh Chaudhary said in letters to Revenue Secretary and other senior government officials.

Solar Energy
Clean energy initiative launched in a big wayedit

The Hindu

By G V Prasada Sarma

GVMC has initiated a number of smart city projects to bring about efficiency in services, conservation of energy and clean environment to citizens. Of them, solar power generation is an initiative on clean energy that falls in the pan-city category.

Renewable Energy
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