February 5, 2019

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IIT Mandi professor refines Cognitive Radio for wireless communicationedit

The Statesman

Their work has recently been published in IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems. The radio-wave is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that lies beyond the red end of the visible rainbow, and has been used for decades now, to carry information through space over long distances.

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Future Of Tech Includes The Internet Of Bodies, Social Credit Algorithms And Digital Twins: IEEE Computer Societyedit

Express Computer

IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) tech experts unveil their annual predictions for the future of tech, presenting what they believe will be the most widely adopted technology trends in 2019. This year, the experts also review additional technologies that have not yet reached broad adoption and will be revisited next year–such as digital twins–as well as technologies that have outpaced many others, including Kubernetes and Docker.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Why 2019 will be a Big Year for Conversational AIedit

Analytics Insight

The greatest strength of these interfaces lies in their capability to complete humanlike discussions, nonstop. Regardless of whether you are searching for gift recommendations, spots to eat, the status of your request, or approaches to determine an issue with the product you as of late purchased, conversational AI interfaces can assist you with everything.

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Channels need to provide customers a holistic approach to cybersecurityedit

Channel World

Cybersecurity has again proven its prominence with the growing number of mass data breaches around the world such as Facebook, Google, Hotel Marriott and many more. Businesses are keenly looking at innovative tools to protect themselves from cyberattacks and threats.

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Key Technologies for Telecom Digital Transformationedit

BW CIO World

IHS Markit recently surveyed 25 leading telecom operators about the following four digital transformation technologies: operator priorities for automation; target use cases and drawbacks of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) projects; qualities and hindrances of blockchain; and open-source software versus standards.

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Data is India’s handicap in AI but help is at handedit

Factor Daily

The global race in artificial intelligence is like the space race of the 20th century with large powers vying for the pole position. China currently leads the pack with countries such as the US and Israel trailing behind.

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Integrating Artificial Intelligence for rebooting the futureedit

Financial Express

Although the government’s initiatives on ‘Start-up India’ have not yielded much success, one front where it has outshined has been artificial intelligence. Ranked thirteen in a recent survey of AI forward countries, India has been home to over two hundred start-ups working in the field of AI innovations. Not only the private sector, but the government has also been making headwinds concerning AI adoption.

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5 IoT trends and predictions for 2019edit

Deccan Chronicle

Internet of Things (IoT) is growing at an exponential rate and it is going to witness an extreme rise in IoT investments in 2019. Connected devices such as wearable gadgets, sensors and software are advancing by each passing day. As per the Gartner Research project, the number of connected devices in 2019 is projected to touch 14.2 billion and 25 billion by 2021. This will give enormous opportunities to manufacturing, retail, healthcare, insurance and many other important sectors to grow.

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Automation impact: 76 per cent Indian employers plan to increase, maintain headcountedit

ET Auto

Notwithstanding the increasing adoption of automation, 76 per cent of employers in India plan to increase or maintain their headcount, while the global figure stands at 87 per cent, says a report.

Automation

Industry News: Future of Mobility

1k electric buses by July: Govt to SCedit

The Times of India

Delhi government on Monday assured the Supreme Court that 3,000 buses would be procured within eight months in a phased manner, including 1,000 electric buses which would be rolled out by July, to augment the public transport system in the capital.

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Electric Vehicles (EVs): The Future of Transport Technologyedit

CIOL

Optimization stands on the foundations of large volume of data, quick information processing and accurate and reliable predictions that aid decision making. IoT and 5G connections will help gather location data, cab health data, and commuter experience data in real time, reliably. Thus, the quality of predictions and optimization engines would improve as fewer human guesses will fill the information gap.

Electric Vehicles

Industry News: Future of Work

Engineering the workplace of tomorrowedit

People Matters

It is a dynamically changing world whether you are ready for it or not. The incredible pace of technology advancement provides businesses, talent managers and technologists the perfect opportunity to engineer a fascinating workplace of tomorrow. The question is-are organizations ready for the opportunity? Are they ready to harness technologies that could enable disproportionate leaps in work efficiency? What frameworks do they need to put in action to nurture a future-ready digital workforce?

 

Industry News: Skilling

Hone skills needed to succeed in corporate worldedit

The Times of India

Engineers generally seem to crack the competitive exams (such as CAT, XAT) better than the students from other streams and so they get a better chance of being selected. We cannot say that others do not have employment opportunity (they may get in other fields) all we can say that they do not have an equal opportunity as engineers in the selection process.

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IITs roll out courses, incubating centres to bridge AI talent gapedit

The Economic Times

Sensing the urgent need of corporates for solutions based on artificial intelligence (AI) coupled with the government’s push on AI, the country’s premium engineering schools are busy upping their game on this new technology. From rolling out certificate, bachelor’s and master’s courses to creating a talent pool and incubating AI-based startups, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are trying to bridge the talent gap in this space.

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