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Global symposiumedit
The 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Science technically co-sponsored by IEEE was recently organised by Mahindra Ecole Centrale (MEC), Hyderabad to bring together researchers working in the fields of machine learning and big data and discuss the current trends and future scope of data sciences.
IEEEAsia’s largest symposium Kshitij coming soon!edit
The fest consists of 33 events spread across 10 genres. This include online, submission events as well as on the spot events. The flagship events were certified by famous organisations like IEEE, IMechE, ASME…etc and consists of flagship events like robowars, embetronix, a business plan event and a hardware designing contest etc.
IEEEIndustry News: Information and Communications
Robots killing off all the jobs? No evidence so far, says World Bankedit
The rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale, the World Bank chief economist said, despite common gloomy predictions that humans are set to be replaced by machines.
JobsrobotsThe data economy and landscape for 2019edit
In 2019, security has to be the number one focus point for organisations to ensure the safety and efficacy of edge devices and networks accordingly. There are too many vulnerabilities and gaps in the security posture for IoT devices — organisations must take a proactive approach to securing devices. Organizations must use the data, metadata, device logs – treating IoT devices like any other network device to predict and accurately respond to the available signals.
IoTMachine LearningIoT Security Continues To Be Greatest Challenge For Electronic Product Developers To Overcomeedit
The company surveyed 1,190 members of the 1.3 million strong Hackster.io and element14 engineering communities to understand where they are focusing their development efforts, what the challenges are, and what has changed over the past year.
IoTSecurityIndustry News: Future of Mobility
E-vehicles ride their way into rural areasedit
Battery-operated short distance commute vehicles that look like bicycles and autorickshaws have found their way into rural markets, as dealers have started showrooms in certain district headquarters to sell these environment-friendly vehicles. Though the concept is pretty new for customers living in rural towns, people are definitely considering this vehicle as an alternative to vehicles run on petrol and diesel.
Electric Vehicles2019 is going to be a year of electric vehicles: Okinawa Scootersedit
The two-wheeler market is a big segment in the automobile industry. This is still the starting phase for electrification. It’s only going to go up from here. This year is going to be for electric.
Electric VehiclesAt 30% plus Electric Vehicles this country is a world leader: What this country did differently!edit
In a bid to cut carbon emissions and air pollution, Norway exempts battery-driven cars from most taxes and offers benefits such as free parking and charging points to hasten a shift from diesel and petrol engines.
Electric VehiclesIndustry News: Education
‘UGC working to reduce gap between private, public varsities’edit
Prof Bhushan Patwardhan, Vice-Chairman, UGC said: “The UGC is concerned with the quality and affordability of education in India and is working to reduce the gap between public and private universities.”
EducationIndia’s tech-education woes: Is AICTE the problem itself?edit
This has meant that industry, given its demand for engineers, has been forced to take on an ever-increasing share of the burden of training engineers.
EngineeringUncategorized
Soon, a green end to power blackoutsedit
At the turn of the last year, Union power minister R K Singh announced that from April 1 2019, India would not face any blackouts, except in a couple of sectors like agriculture where electricity is not required 24×7.
PowerRenewable EnergyIndia’s renewable energy dream needs to be realistic, can’t just follow Western countriesedit
While India’s renewable targets are admirable, we need to look at them more realistically. Renewable power has its own constraints. First, the intermittent and unreliable nature of renewable power makes it a complementary, and not a primary source of electricity. Renewables cannot serve the base-load demand. Given the erratic nature of power generation from solar and wind, many a times an equivalent fossil-based backup capacity also needs to be created.
Renewable Energy