July 23, 2018

News for the IET

Saraswati Seva Foundation bringing project based learning to rural schoolsedit

SPO India 

Saraswati Seva Foundation (SSF), a non- profit organisation committed to serve the underprivileged communities using knowledge tools and networks to support a sustainable foundation of the society, with support from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET) has launched a STEM – C (Science, Technology, English, Mathematics and Computer) Program to create ‘Tech Awareness Events’ in schools.

 

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Engineering, Science & Technology Resources Portaledit

MBCET Word Press 

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) recently tried to quantify the current status and the challenges going forward. By the end of year 2020, India is expected to become the fifth largest manufacturing country in the world, according to the Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index published by Deloitte.

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News for other PEI

Doctors rely on more than just data for medical decision makingedit

Domain-B India 

Ghassemi and computer science graduate student Tuka Alhanai are the lead authors of the paper, which will be presented at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society conference on 20 July. Other MIT authors of the paper are Jesse Raffa, an IMES research scientist, and Roger Mark, a professor of health sciences and technology and of electrical engineering and computer science.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Battling cyber risks with intelligent automation: Nikhil Taneja, Radwareedit

Tech Observer 

Cybercriminals are weaponizing automation and machine learning to create increasingly evasive attack vectors, and the Internet of Things (IoT) has proven to be the catalyst driving this trend. IoT is the birthplace for many of the new types of automated bots and malware. At the forefront are botnets, which are increasingly sophisticated, lethal and highly automated digitized armies running amok over corporate networks.

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Machine learning, AI top professionals’ reskilling list’edit

The Hindu 

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are the most widely chosen domains for reskilling among working tech professionals in India, according to the findings of education technology company Simplilearn.

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Technology Trends Ready To Disrupt And Reshape Enterprises In 2018edit

Analytics Insight  

By Kamilika Some

However, exploiting the IoT opportunity will take proper planning and investment from the business enterprises. Organisations will need a strategy to identify quick wins in the IoT space, bringing these intelligent environments to life with IoT will require adding requisite skillsets and workforce capabilities.

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Merging of physical, digital, and biological worlds: has technology enslaved us?edit

Devdis Course 

Big Data is a valuable asset in the age of digitalization. A collection of extremely huge volumes of data sets in real-time is how big data can be defined as. All major emerging technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, the Internet of Things etc. use big data to bring enhancements and advancements to their solutions. To sum up, big data is everywhere.

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Intel’s focus is on innovation around AI, PCs and 5Gedit

The Hindu  

By Lalatendu Mishra

For 50 years, we have stayed at the core of innovation for the industry. So, innovation has been the cornerstone of our company. We started as PC company, 100% of our business was PC not so distant in the past. If you look now, we have evolved from that state to 55% of the business from PCs and 45% from data centre, storage, IOT. We also have several smaller businesses like drones.

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How to make your regular home a ‘smart home’edit

Gadgets Now 

Other appliances too add to the list. These IoT devices include everything from washing machines to Wi-Fi enabled ACs and geysers. All of these connect to your smartphone over the internet and can be activated or switched off remotely as and when required.

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How AI is engaging customers in insurance, banking sectorsedit

The Hindu Business Line 

By Amrita Nair Ghaswalla

While Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) recently launched an IoT device to solve customer grievances at the branch, State Bank of India (SBI) and Bank of Baroda (BoB) have started deploying AI in a big way to improve efficiency and reduce operational costs and enhance customer experience. Technology disruption has been driving the banking and financial sector landscape.

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Central government in process to frame net neutrality rules, amend telecom licence: Manoj Sinhaedit

The Indian Express 

TRAI had favoured tweaking of licensing norms for players to ensure “explicit restrictions” on discrimination in internet access, based on content. The Department of Telecom has to set up a multi-stakeholder body for monitoring and enforcement of net neutrality comprising government representatives, IoT providers, telecom operators, civil society members and consumer organisations.

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Be intelligent about AI or perish, says Mohandas Paiedit

The Times of India 

The AI is also changing the way people experience business and products. Augmented Reality (AR), a branch of AI, is enabling digitally-assisted performance of complex tasks, such as face recognition, product trials, translation and autonomous driving. In the US, Uber has deployed a face recognition system to allow its drivers to sign in at work by taking a selfie.

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5 cool smart home tricks for youedit

Giz Bot 

The Internet Of Things is a system of interrelated computing devices, machines (mechanical and digital), objects, animals or people that are assigned unique identifiers (UIDs) and the option of transferring data over a network without the aid of human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Smart homes are a by-product of this initiative.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Maruti Suzuki way ahead of the packedit

The New Indian Express  

By Arshad Khan

“We are doing a market research across the country to understand what the customers feel about EV, availability of personal charging infrastructure and its feasibility. We are trying to get a lot of insight and once we g et that study, we will proceed with our plans,” Kalsi said, confirming that the company will roll out its first EV in 2020.

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Fuel-cell booster: Toyota looks to introduce Miraiedit

The Times of India 

Toyota will study the introduction of Mirai fuel cell car in India, while homegrown Tata Motors and Korean Hyundai could be other manufacturers that may bet on zero emission technology, following GST Council’s decision to slash duty on hydrogen-powered vehicles.

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Industry News: Education

Current Higher Education System Consistently Lacked Practical and Applied Educationedit

CIOL 

The transformation from RDBMS to Big Data is leading to specialized skills in open source data management tools like Hadoop, MongoDB, and Tableau. Apart from these, skills in IoT, VR/AR, and Edge Computing has also started to get more visible, however, in my opinion, the exact skill frameworks around these emerging technologies are yet to be formalized.

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Skill India’s first batch of Indo-Japan technical interns reaches Japanedit

 Business Standard 

A grand welcome event and felicitation ceremony was held today at the India Consulate General, Osaka in Japan for the first batch of Skill India’s technical interns, who reached Japan on July 17. T Armstrong Changsan, Consul General of India, wished the newly arrived interns success and appreciated the efforts taken by all the stakeholders, extending support towards the forthcoming endeavours.

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Do not remove teachers citing new ratio: AICTEedit

The New Indian Express  

By Rashmi Belur

Engineering colleges across the nation have been told not to downsize teachers, citing the new teacher-student ratio that has been introduced. Several teachers of various engineering colleges across the nation had complained about colleges asking them to leave by saying that there is no workload as per the revised teacher-student ratio.

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Engineering or no engineering?edit

The Statesman 

The craze for engineering is phenomenal in India, and most parents want their children to pursue engineering after Class XII. This has resulted in a mushrooming growth of engineering institutes. Reports say India produces nearly 1.5 million engineers every year, though not all of them manage to get a job. A student, who will soon have to decide on his career choice, pens down his thoughts.

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An ecosystem for women entrepreneurshipedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Also, we need to encourage women to invest in other female-led companies to balance gender disparity, co-creating both mentorship and networking platforms. Lastly, with emerging technologies such as hashgraph, blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (A.I), deep learning and Internet of Things (IoT), it is of vital importance that the skillset of women be expanded to match the current market trends.

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AI, ML primary domains for reskillingedit

The Financial Express 

Edtech Company Simpli learn has announced the findings of Career Impact Survey 2018, whose findings reveal that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are the most widely chosen (25% respondents) domains for reskilling, followed by Big Data and data science (20%).

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Move to provide solar energy to industryedit

The Statesman 

To provide solar energy to industries and commercial consumers in India, Delhi based Amplus Energy Solutions is providing over 300 MW of operational and under construction capacity to serve more than 100 customers in about 200 locations across 20 states.

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Rooftop solar power installations cross 1 GWedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Rooftop solar installations in India have crossed 1 GW, according to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy’s SPIN portal. SPIN is an online application for expediting project approval, reporting submission and monitoring the progress of implementation of rooftop solar projects.

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A GST boost for alternative fuelsedit

The Hindu Business Line 

By Twesh Mishra

The Goods and Services Tax Council has lowered the applicable tax rates across alternative fuels. The tax rate on lithium ion batteries has been lowered to 18 per cent from 28 per cent in a bid to boost prospects of electric vehicles. Tax on fuel cell vehicles has been lowered to 12 per cent from 28 per cent.

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