March 1, 2018

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Northeastern University Launches “Pop-Up Classrooms” Using Data Analytics to Design Short-Format Coursesedit

IT News Online

Prior to joining NTENT, Dr. Baeza-Yates served as Vice President of Research at Yahoo Labs in charge of many worldwide sites including Barcelona, Haifa, and London as well as teams in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. He is a co-author of the best-selling textbook, Modern Information Retrieval, and he is also a fellow of both the ACM and IEEE, the main professional associations in computing.

IEEE

Industry News: Information and Communications

India Advances With Its Innovation Cultureedit

Business World

This budget has provided a major boost to “Digital India” in its attempt to make ‘innovation culture’ in India mainstream and has created a unique window to generate entrepreneurial opportunities for its vast young population

Artificial IntelligenceIoT
Dealing with digital: Age, hierarchical mindsets are a key challenge for HRedit

Business Standard

Organisations are responding to the advent of digital in a world that is experiencing change at an exponential speed

AIIoTWorkplace
Is your vendor being honest about AI?edit

CIO

New technologies generate new buzzwords. Cloud, fabric, bitcoin, blockchain, containers, microservices, and so on. Artificial intelligence (AI) as a technology and term has been around for decades, but only recently seems buzzworthy. Unfortunately, some vendors are associating the buzzword with their products without having any real AI.

Artificial Intelligence
Machine intelligence addresses increasing network complexityedit

Business Standard

The complex reality of today’s telecommunications systems will only accelerate further with the introduction of 5G, IoT and ongoing industry digitalization. Machine intelligence, using machine learning and other AI technologies, is vital to handling this complexity with more efficiency.

AIMachine IntelligenceMachine Learning

Industry News: Future of Mobility

New Auto Policy To Be Industry-Friendly, Flexible And Foolproof: Anant Geeteedit

BW Businessworld

Close on the heels of Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari making a U-Turn on EV policy, Anant Gangaram Geete, Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India said, “It is the Government’s endeavor to make the New Auto Policy industry-friendly. We are trying to make a foolproof policy, to ensure the success of Make in India.”

AutomobileElectric VehiclesPolicy
Electrification of public transportedit

Business Standard 

By Jyoti Mukul

Malawi in the south-eastern edge of the African continent is one of the poorest countries in the world with per capita GDP of $1134. Following long spells of no rain, the country’s water reservoir level dropped so low around the end of 2017 that power supply even to its 10 per cent of the population, which had electricity, became difficult. The reason: 98 per cent of its electricity comes from hydropower.

Electric VehiclesTransportation

Industry News: Education

How government fails to understand higher educationedit

Daily O

What the authorities are trying to do is focus only on increasing enrolment in universities and colleges to make their political report cards look better.

Higher Education

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Dependence On Imported Energy Needs To Be Reducededit

Pioneer

Considering the growing energy requirements of India, special attention must be given to techniques developed in the country so that dependence on importing energy is reduced. Solar energy, atomic energy and biomass can prove important towards meeting this aim.

Renewable Energy
Solar power’s gap yearedit

Mint

By R Sree Ram

Solar power is facing wind energy’s predicament, though for different reasons. Solar capacity additions this year are estimated to drop 22% to 7.5 gigawatts (GW), forecasts Mercom Capital Group Llc, a clean energy communications firm. One GW equals 1,000 megawatts. In 2017, the sector added 9.6GW, a record. “The lower forecast is underpinned by a smaller pipeline of projects scheduled for commissioning in the coming year.

Solar Energy
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