April 10, 2018

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Why AI Could Be Cybersecurity’s Next Big Thingedit

CXO Today 

The repetitive nature of this work makes AI an ideal replacement, says Kayne McGladrey, IEEE Member, Director of Information Security Services at Integral Partners (US): “Artificial intelligence has been shown to be good at pattern recognition and correlation over a vast number of data points, and can make connections faster than human analysts would.”

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IEEE Power And Energy Society Student Branch Chapter Inauguratededit

Star Of Mysore 

National Institute of Engineering (NIE) IEEE Power and Energy Society (IEE PES) Student Branch Chapter was inaugurated by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), at NIE, Mysuru recently. V Suresh, Chair, IEE PES, Bangalore Chapter and General Manager, Power System Operation Corporation Ltd. and Dr. R. Nagaraja, Senior Member of IEEE, former Chair of IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter and Managing Director, PR & DC Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru, were the chief guests.

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Can Machine Learning Algorithms Be Patented? And Should They Be?edit

Analytics India Magazine 

Machine Learning (ML) is one of the hot topics in the technological space and everyday there are better improvements that come up in this field. The number of algorithms and techniques in ML are progressively increasing with researchers and engineers working hard towards its implementation and benefits. (IEEE)

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Artificial Intelligence could be next big thing for cybersecurity: Here’s whyedit

Tech Observer  

Developing cybersecurity-specific AI with machine learning capabilities isn’t exactly easy. Unfortunately, other factors will make the challenge even harder. Andre Leon S. Gradvohl, IEEE Senior Member, Professor at the University of Campinas (Brazil), points to the emergence of cybercrime-as-a-service, “which, in a nutshell, means that we can buy or rent kits for practicing ransomware or malware.”

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5 Telangana colleges sign pact with ‘largest’ technical instituteedit

Deccan Chronicle  Daily Hunt

With the aim to adopt a new and refined learning method 13 colleges in India and 5 colleges from Telangana has signed MoU with IEEE, dubbed the world’s largest technical professional organisation dedicated to advancing technology. Vardhaman College of Engineering Hyderabad, MLR Institute of Technology, CMR College of Engineering & Technology, SR Engineering College, SRKR Engineering College, Kantha Reddy Muthangi, and Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering Chittoor have signed the MoU from Telangana and AP.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

How technology-enabled manufacturing is changing the market landscapeedit
The Financial Express

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is becoming increasingly feasible due to the halving of sensor costs supported by a similar drop in networking and data processing costs. Event-based models, built based on real-time data on multiple parameters collected from sensors, can predict failure in equipment and provide early warning.

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How IoT Is Revolutionizing CPG Industryedit

CXO Today

Why Use IoT And Predictive Maintenance: There is a lot of scope of IoT and Predictive Maintenance in improving processes specific for CPG companies. Let’s examine the ways in which consumer-goods companies are using digitization majorly to optimize value chain processes and operations: · Avoid sudden, unplanned downtime period and accurately forecast demand with predictive analysis · Better inventory management to avoid stock-out situations and ensuring products are always placed on shelves

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How Drones are crucial for Smart Cities?edit

Geospatial World

By Amit Raj Singh

A smart city is a city that aspires to achieve the objectives of a future city by utilizing communication technology solutions and trends. The main objective of a smart city is to enhance the life of its residents by providing efficient infrastructure and services at a reduced cost. The concept of a smart city is based on the integration of ICT and its trends.

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Fourth Industrial Revolution is Hereedit

The Economic Times

We are living in an incredible period of innovation, where tech is transforming society, business and customers (Artificial intelligence, 3D printing, Virtual and augmented reality, Internet of Things)

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Data Analytics: Fuelling IoT revolutionedit

Business World

Therefore, IoT and data analytics feed off each other and enterprises are adopting this trend globally as they are able to drive effectiveness and efficiency in their operations and business outcomes. With networked sensors, data stores that store massive amounts of structured and unstructured data and analytics engines, the value that this can drive for enterprises is phenomenal.

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7 Technology Trends for Actual and Future Business Competitivenessedit

BW CIO World

Each link in the chain operates independently and is able to determine what information should be stored locally and what should be sent to the cloud for its later use. Internet of things (IoT) will continue to take the lead: The Internet of things has been one of the most popular terms over the past few years in the technology industry. It refers to the networking of all kinds of things through the Internet.

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Can Machine Learning Algorithms Be Patented? And Should They Be?edit

Analytics India Magazine

By Abhishek Sharma

Machine Learning (ML) is one of the hot topics in the technological space and everyday there are better improvements that come up in this field. The number of algorithms and techniques in ML are progressively increasing with researchers and engineers working hard towards its implementation and benefits. (IEEE)

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Artificial Intelligence could be next big thing for cybersecurity: Here’s whyedit

Tech Observer

Developing cyber security-specific AI with machine learning capabilities isn’t exactly easy. Unfortunately, other factors will make the challenge even harder. Andre Leon S. Gradvohl, IEEE Senior Member, Professor at the University of Campinas (Brazil), points to the emergence of cybercrime-as-a-service, “which, in a nutshell, means that we can buy or rent kits for practicing ransomware or malware.”

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How technology-enabled manufacturing is changing the market landscapeedit

Financial Express

Technological advances in manufacturing have resulted in three industrial revolutions, hugely benefiting customers through new, meaningful and quality products, while improving efficiencies and profitability of manufacturing companies. We are now in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, which is driven by advances in computing, connectivity, robotics and Artificial Intelligence. It is in this context.

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Global Internet of Things Market to Register Revenue CAGR of 21.6% Over Next 10 Yearsedit

IT News Online 

Market Research.biz has published a new report titled Global Internet of Things Market by Components (Hardware, Software, and Services), Application, and Region – Global Forecast to 2026., which offers a holistic view of the global internet of things market through systematic segmentation that covers every aspect of the target market. The first five-year cumulative revenue (2017-2021) is projected to be US$ 7,760.8 Bn, which is expected to increase rather significantly over the latter part of the five-year forecast period.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

BSES, EESL PARTNER FOR EV CHARGING STATION IN CITYedit

The Pioneer

BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and ‘Energy Efficiency Serviced Limited’ (EESL) have entered into a strategic partnership to provide reliable services to over 24 lakh consumers in South and West Delhi in the areas of smart and emerging technologies.

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Mumbai based startup launches India’s cheapest electric caredit

The Mobile Indian 

Till now in India, all we had in the name of electric cars are the Mahindra e2o Plus and E Verito – both costing a bomb, making them really unattractive. But now the green lovers have something to cheer for. A Mumbai-based startup has announced the launch of a electric car that would cost just about Rs 3 lakh.

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How Connected Vehicles are Set to Revolutionize the Automobile Industry in Indiaedit

BW Disrupt

A day dedicated to growing network of physical objects with Internet connectivity – few would know that April 9th is World Internet of Things Day. Riding on the wave of broadband penetration, IoT has slowly expanded into many new areas like connected vehicles where IoT is turning vehicles into connected intelligent platforms that offer safety, security, infotainment, better vehicle management and lesser environmental impact.

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Industry News: Education

India is in the middle of an engineering education crisisedit
Gadgets Now The Economic Times

However, Rao’s suggestion was never followed. In 2008-09, 30 per cent more students joined engineering colleges over the previous year, the highest jump since 2001, according to the AICTE data. More than over 700 new colleges were approved that year. In 2016-17, half of the 15.5 lakh BE/BTech seats were vacant in 3,291 engineering colleges in the country. India’s crisis of engineering education is quite visible.

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Govt. crash course to crack NEET kicks offedit

The Hindu

By S. Poorvaja

Some 10,800 students enrol in free residential and non-residential programmes; teachers specially trained in Bengaluru With less than a month left for the NEET 2018 examination, the school education department launched a free crash course for aspirants from across Tamil Nadu on Monday. The residential crash course, ‘Thoduvaanam’ is being taken up by 2,804 students in nine engineering colleges. The intensive course is designed to help them crack the competitive exam.

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CS reviews progress of skill initiatives for youthedit

Daily Excelsior

A detailed account of the implementation status of the skill initiatives for youth/ women across various departments was presented during the meeting with directions from the Chief Secretary to the Mission Director, Skill Development to consolidate the information/ progress of each department for capturing the exact picture of the outreach effort.

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CM promises jobs to 1L skilled youthsedit

The Pioneer

There will also be residential facility at these centres. A batch will be of 100 boys and 100 girls. In a year, one lakh students will be given training linking them with constructive jobs. Utilizing the resources, Skill Development centeres will be opened in such government buildings that are not in use now. Considering the requirement of industry, programme of study will be industry-integrated covering all latest development

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APSSDC trains engg graduates in drone techedit

The Hans India

Taking a step forward in offering innovative courses to youth to enhance employability, the Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) has taken up ‘Drone training for engineering graduates in the state. A total of 100 engineering graduates of Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical and Computer programme stream of engineering drawn from the 13 districts in the state are undergoing the Drone training in the 21st Century Gurukulam located on the Dravidian University campus in Kuppam in Chittoor district.

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Imported Solar Equipment Won’t Attract Customs Dutyedit

The Economic Times

By Kaavya Chandrasekaran

Much to the relief of solar project developers, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBITC) has clarified that the bulk of imported solar panels and modules will not attract customs duty, putting to rest a controversy raging for more than six months. Around 90% of panels used in Indian solar projects are imported.

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Government allows thermal power gencos to use renewablesedit

The Indian Express

According to IDFC Securities, the scheme will allow power generating companies such as NTPC to set up wind/solar power stations and avail of the benefits of this policy, given that some of the power stations located far from pithead have an energy charge higher than Rs 3/unit. In a push to increase the share of green energy in its installed capacity, NTPC has recently come up with tenders for 4,750 MW of wind and solar power projects.

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