March 22, 2019

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Two atrong women were awarded with Late Shri Pralhad P Chhabria Awardedit

The Times of India 

The envelopes were opened by Dinanath Kholkar and Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai and the winners were announced. This years winners are Shubhi Sareen Best Outgoing Female Student (final year graduation) from B.Tech at Delhi Technical University and Dr Rajlaxmi Chouhan Best Woman Professional (early career stage) Rajlaxmi is currently working as Assistant Professor at IIT Jodhpur. They will receive the award and the prizes during the forthcoming IEEE Event.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Towards farms of the futureedit

Business Standard 

This is set to change. In a pathbreaking initiative, the Karnataka Agricultural Price Commission has got technology major IBM to develop a smart platform that will use artificial intelligence (AI), big data and machine learning to predict the price patterns of the tomato crop. Launched this month, the platform will help farmers in these three districts take decisions on when and where to sell their crop and at what price. (IOT)

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Top 5 Artificial Intelligence Apps of 2019edit

Analytics Insight 

A standout amongst the most prevalent platforms in the science and technology field is Artificial Intelligence. To take the necessary steps in less time frame with the assistance of a machine, AI gives personal assistance. With assistance from the best artificial intelligence application, it can mechanize the tasks of people throughout numerous businesses so that they can work in less time frame.

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Telcos plan to use AI, data analytics to make networks smarter, more efficient ahead of 5G deploymentedit

The Economic Times 

IMobile phone companies are geared towards reengineering their networks to make them smarter and more efficient, preparing for multiple use cases which will come with massscale deployment of 5G technology in future.

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Scientists develop robotic swarm for medical useedit

Business Standard 

The study, published in the journal Science Robotics, described the nanorobots fleet that have demonstrated potential for inbody diagnosis and treatment at the cellular or even molecular level. A single robot is two micrometre in diameter, 40 times smaller than a hair, thus capable of running through blood capillaries, lead author Xie Hui, Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology in China, reported Xinhua.

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Now, Google Maps shows speed cameras, accident spots in Indiaedit

News X 

As per the latest reports, Google is going to launch a new Augmented Reality (AR) navigation feature for the Google Maps app. The AR navigation feature of the Google Maps app will provide users with more accurate directions by combining AR with artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision.

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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence Innovations in Astronomyedit

Analytics Insight 

Maximum count of scientists is trying to grip the help from artificial intelligence. With minimum human contribution, a few major AI systems such as artificial neural networks computer simulated networks of neurons that reflect as a function of brains can pull out through mountains of data, detecting patterns that human could never have spotted including highlighting anomalies.

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Industry 4.0 Shifts from Buzzword to Reality, Says Hampleton Partners M&A Reportedit

IT News Online 

GreenPocket, a German smart metering provider, received 3.1 million in a growth funding round led by DEW21. GreenPocket uses technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science to deliver software for consumption visualisation and energy management. The company has already realised 125 smart energy projects for more than 75 customers in 12 countries worldwide.

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How Indian Public Healthcare Sector Can Leverage AI To Make Remarkable Progressedit

Analytics India Mag 

By Akshaya Asokan

The application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the healthcare sector has been practised for long and now more and more medical practitioners and institutions are leveraging the technology not just driving precision medicine but also for delivering better services.

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Google celebrates musician Johann Christian Bach with AI powered doodleedit

Business Standard 

Made in partnership with the Google Magenta and Google PAIR teams, the doodle, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), is an interactive experience encouraging netizens to compose a twomeasure melody of their choice.

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Evolution Of Artificial Intelligenceedit

Business Standard 

Deep Blue, a chess playing computer developed by IBM defeated world champion Garry Kasparov 2000: Kismet, a sociable machine capable of expressing emotions, launched 2011: IBM’s Watson beats two of the most successful human contestants on Jeopardy!, a longrunning US game show 2016: Introduction of virtual agents with Siri, Google Now and IPSoft’s Amelia.

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Candidates rely on Artificial Intelligence to strike a chord with votersedit

The New Indian Express 

As the general elections approach fast, the IT companies and startups have begun wooing candidates with their services to help them campaign online using Artificial Intelligence (AI), with analytics being the key. IT experts say the thrust to connect with voters is on AI as promotional SMS and recorded telephone calls have become outdated.

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Automation Anywhere unveils the industrys smartest IQ botedit

The Asian Age 

Automation Anywhere, the global leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), today announced major advances to IQ Bot 6.5, its artificial intelligence (AI) solution that greatly expands the global market for RPA

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Make ethical EV batteries: Amnesty to industryedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Amnesty International attacked the electric vehicle (EV) industry on Thursday for selling itself as environmentally friendly while producing many of its batteries using polluting fossil fuels and unethically sourced minerals. Manufacturing batteries can be carbon intensive, while the extraction of minerals used in them has been linked to human rights violations such as child labour, a statement from the rights group said.

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Lower GST on luxury cars will help Mercedes sell more, benefit Indian economyedit

Live Mint 

MercedesBenz India CEO Martin Schwenk says demand for luxury cars in India is likely to revive in the second half of 2019A higher GST rate on luxury cars, import duty structure impacts localization, says the CEO (Electric Vehicles)

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DNA EXCLUSIVE: Maharashtra government receives investment proposals of Rs 11,500 croreedit

DNA 

Electric vehicles Chinese player WanFeng Auto Holding Group plans to invest Rs 4,500 crore Maharashtra government has received investment proposals worth Rs 11,500 crore in the auto, electric vehicles and steel sectors especially after the recent announcement of its new industrial policy for 201924 which envisages attracting investment of Rs 10 lakh crore with creation of 40 lakh jobs.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Women Analytics Leaders Get Candid About Gender Disparity, The Need For Re-Starter Programmes & Moreedit

Analytics India Mag 

By Shrishti Deoras

In a world where technology changes fast, even a two-year break may make the skills and knowledge that a woman acquired prior to her break obsolete. This is one of the bigger challenges that women in tech currently face. In India, there are still many women who take much longer breaks and there is a dire need to upskill them and reintroduce them into the corporate industry through reskilling programs

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SKILL GAP WIDENS: 97,000 data analytics jobs remain vacantedit

The Times of India 

India is lagging in adapt ing to a new era of tech jobs as skills gap in data analytics records a 45% increase from last year

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How To Become A Successful Data Engineeredit

Analytics India Mag 

When data engineering teams implement a set of tools for data ingestion, sync, transformation, and models, they need to be aware of data governance concepts and be sure that the tooling and platform also support the need for good governance.

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Just 3% of desi techies have AI skills’edit

The Times of India 

The seventh annual report on employability by Aspiring Minds, one of the largest employability assessment and job credentialing companies in the world, sounds a tocsin for our technical institutions: The United States has a much higher proportion, almost four times, of engineers who can code than India.

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How Indias data labellers are powering the global AI raceedit

Factor Daily

Its in this village that Mujeeb Kolasseri, a highschool dropout, commands a team of over 200 employees working on artificial intelligence solutions for clients across America, Europe, Australia and Asia. At 28, Kolasseri is the oldest member of Infolks, a company he founded three years ago.

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Employability for newage jobs on average is mere 1.7 pc: Reportedit

UNI India 

Additionally, a mere 3 pc engineers have newage technological skills in areas like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science and Mobile Development. More NewsBJP drops at least nine sitting MPs: MoS Krishnaraj replaced from Shahjahanpur

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CFOs are becoming driver of Digital Transformationedit

Tech Observer 

By Sanjay Singh

The survey indicates that CFOs are keen to explore emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), drones and robots, blockchain and robotic process automation (RPA), among others for business growth.

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By 2030, AI Will Transform The PPM Market, Says Gartneredit

CXO Today 

By 2030, 80 percent of the work of todays project management (PM) discipline will be eliminated as artificial intelligence (AI) takes on traditional PM functions such as data collection, tracking and reporting, according to Gartner, Inc.

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4 mistakes CIOs make in the digitization journey (and how to correct them)edit

The Economic Times

By Vaishnavi J Desai 

Organizations need to simplify and rationalize their IT landscape, architect systems for integration and sharing, balance operational and capital expenses using the cloud. Adopting of technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT), deploying of Digital Marcom.

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Industry News: Education

Higher Education Bill: Unshackling education from power gamesedit

The Financial Express 

The Indian higher education system is not yet prepared to develop leading professionals, innovators and entrepreneurs for this world. It needs a major upheaval. Ultimately, the market and the principles of economics must be allowed to reform and restructure the higher education sector, not a Bill.

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Getting ready for the 4th industrial revolutionedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Last month, Microsoft India said it plans to train five lakh youth in artificial intelligence across the country over the next three years and set up AI labs in 10 universities. There is no doubt that the announcement is being seen as a potential game-changer for the fledging sector in India. It also indicates the direction higher education in the country should be taking in the next decade.

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