March 26, 2019

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Rs 24 lakh support to floodhit city schooledit

The Times of India 

By Laxmi Prasanna

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), Kochi chapter, has offered Rs 24 lakh to the flood-affected Government Higher Secondary School (GHSS) at Kuttamassery in Aluva. The school will be provided with books, library, furniture, computer and other basic requirements. Situated opposite the River Periyar, GHSS was one of the worst flood-hit schools in Ernakulam. Entire ground floor, including inclusive education for disabled buildings, school office, kitchen, high-tech classrooms and toilets remained submerged in flood waters from August 15 to 18 last year.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

How blockchain technology is revamping the logistics industryedit

CIOL

Logistics is the lifeblood of most of the businesses in the present era. From food to pharmaceutical, and consumer electronics to heavy machinery, it is the logistics that bridge the gap between manufacturer, distributor, retailer, and consumer. And, in the age of e-commerce where everything is fast and forward, the efficiency of the sector relies a lot more on supply chain and logistics. It is the logistics that helps businesses to deal with competitions and catalyses the economic growth of progressive nations. y.

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Opinion | The big picture of innovation is in the small thingsedit

Live Mint 

Going forward, artificial intelligence or AI is really being seen as the gamechanger the new electricity. One sees the eyes of VCs shine once again with the mention of AIas was seen in the previous two gold rushes of ecommerce and fintech. Just as we started to electrify the world through the electrical revolution, AI is poised to start an equally large transformation on many industries, perhaps barring hairdressing, they say.

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Opinion | Molecular biology could hold the key to data storageedit

Live Mint 

One of the main contributors to making Artificial Intelligence a powerful tool today is the advanced level of computing we have arrived at. Most of us hold smartphones in our hands that have more computing capability than it took to land Neil Armstrong on the moon 50 years ago. Efforts are on to keep increasing this capability, and the advances researchers are seeking to make in quantum computing is one of these.

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Neural network automation kicks speededit

Trinity Mirror 

A new area in artificial intelligence involves using algorithms to automatically design machine-learning systems known as neural networks, which are more accurate and efficient than those developed by human engineers. But this so-called neural architecture search (NAS) technique is computationally expensive.

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NASSCOM CoE for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Identifies Top Social Impact AI Solutions in The Country Through AI for Goodedit

CIOL 

The AI for Good program challenged participating organizations to present their best deployed and deployable solutions which leveraged Analytics, IoT, Computer Vision, Robotics, AR, VR and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in areas of healthcare, agriculture, education, public utilities, safety, smart cities, natural resources, transportation, governance, waste management and fiscal management from startups and corporates across the country.

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India needs a cyber security strategyedit

The Asian Age 

States are at different stages of maturity in terms of implementing the policies. Almost 1000 cyber incidents are happening every day, not all of which gets registered. We have to understand that cybersecurity is not a technology problem. Maharashtra has a Rs 1000 crore project where we are building cyber labs and cyber police stations in each district.

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In a world where data is everywhere, Businesses need always on protectionedit

Digital Terminal 

The rapid proliferation of embedded systems, loT, real-time data and Al-powered cognitive systems as well as new legislation like the European Union’s GDPRmeans that data security has to be a priority for businesses like never before. With data used, stored and analyzed at both the hardware and software level, we need a new and more nuanced approach to data security.

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How Voice of Cancer Patients Is Empowering The Healthcare Community With AIDriven Insightsedit

Analytics India Mag 

By Harshajit Sarmah

With a mission to empower patients with knowledge, Dr Alok Aggarwal founded Voice of Cancer Patients (VoCP) that organise and analyse this data to help patients make better decisions. Using Artificial Intelligence based techniques, the companys VoCP platform for cancer patients analyses millions of such patient conversations and provides meaningful insights for patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, and payers.

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GeoSpock and XLocations collaborate to deliver next generation location data analysisedit

Geospatial World 

Through the utilisation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, XLocations accelerates the analysis and visualisation of big spatial data, enabling clients to make smarter decisions across multiple industries, including retail, real estate, manufacturing, and finance

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FinTech Conclave: RBI Governor delivers keynote address on opportunities, challengesedit

Devdis Course 

Mr Kant noted the need to evolve regulatory and policy paradigms keeping in mind the need of nearly 450 million millennials of India to access institutional credit and charting out the future of fintech in India in light of digital technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence.

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Digitisation proved to be a great democratiser in India: Telecom secretaryedit

The Week 

Digital is (also) throwing up as many challenges as answers, she added, referring to the growth of AI (artificial intelligence) and how it may make many jobs obsolete. In fact, another speaker at the conference organised by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) said that once AI comes into its own, as much as 70 per cent of the present jobs could get vulnerable.

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Community data in the draft ecommerce policy Parminder Singhedit

Media Nama 

With data being the most important economic resource, ownership and economic appropriation of datas value will determine how individuals, firms and countries fare in the formative digital economy. The latter will supersede the industrial economy paradigm, which can result in new winners and losers. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Banking the Unbanked: Technology the Gamechangeredit

BFSI ELETS Online 

Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), chatbots and blockchain are transforming the BFSI industry in unimaginable ways. Banks are almost becoming technology companies themselves, going by the sheer pace and volume of modern technology adoption in the sector.

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Automation in App Development: How AI is empowering the industryedit

CIOL 

By Ashok Pandey

Today we are in the fourth industrial revolution and that is the reality around us. There is a proliferation of mobile, proliferation of narration on digital transformation, the proliferation of IoT, Artificial Intelligence that is becoming important.

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Affle: Forging Digital Transformation with AI-Powered Consumer Engagement Platformedit

Analytics Insights 

In this rapidly converging digital age, everything has become digitally accessible for users. From food to grocery, clothes to furniture, almost every commodity is available online via apps and their marketing which has nurtured the competition between online market providers. In rush of this new ecosystem, to make the brand/company at the forefront, one has to flow with the wave of digital transformation.

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Advanced superspecial interventional methods vie for attention in cardiac space : Dr.Haresh Mehtaedit

The Economic Times 

With more and more cardiologists seeking personalized interpretations when it comes to maintaining health records of their patients, a lot of tech companies are investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to help usher in advancements in cardiac care.

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5G is unlikely to cause health concernsedit

Down To Earth 

By Akshit Sangmola

It is a paradigm shift in the sense that apart from enhanced mobile broadband experience, the technology will be tailored towards largescale machine to machine communications and ultra reliable and low latency applications, say, for advanced robotics and intelligent transportation.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

With No Money And Only Kindness Of Strangers, This Guy Travelled 90,000 Kms In His Electric Car To Put Across A Messageedit

India Times 

The journey was titled the Plug Me In project and Wakkers ride throughout was an electric Volkswagen nicknamed The Blue Bandit. The idea was to traverse across continents in an electric car to spread the word about electric vehicles and help in boosting the transition to a zero emission future. A purpose driven adventure with the aim to inspire, educate and accelerate the transition to a zero carbon future, mentions its website.

 

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Ford cars in India to feature Incar Alexa personal assistant next year Reportedit

Indian Autos Blog 

CarandBike reports that Ford will soon start offering an Amazon Echosourced incar Alexa personal assistant on many of its models. It is said that the new feature will be introduced in the carmakers Indian lineup by 2020. The network connectivity will be through either a SIM card or via a smartphone paired to the infotainment unit. (Electric Vehicles)

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Everyones looking for the magic halfprice EV battery but nobodys found it!edit

The Financial Express 

Bosch is the worlds leading automotive supplier and is betting big on the growth in the Indian market. This is partly on the back of upcoming safety and emission regulations. In this exclusive interview, we discuss the suitable technologies for Indian twowheelers and the shift to electric vehicles.

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Electric vehicles must produce public transport permit from April to avail FAMEII sops: Govtedit

Business Today 

Starting April 1, electric threewheelers and fourwheelers will have to produce a valid permit from a government agency stating that the vehicle will be used only for public transport purposes, to avail incentives under the Rs 10,000 crore FAME India scheme (Electric Vehicles)

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Delhi To Install 131 EV Charging Stations In Next 3 Months To Cater To Entire NCR Regionedit

India Times 

By Sarthak Dogra

The consistent efforts by the Delhi government to set up a viable infrastructure for an increased adoption of electric vehicles will now take the shape of 131 new public charging stations to be set up across the region.

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Aurora Is Not Building Autonomous Cars, Its Building Safe Driversedit

Pc Mag 

By Dan Costa

Aurora is the most important selfdriving car company youve never heard of. And its CEO, Chris Urmson, was building and racing vehicles long before Uber, Lyft, or Waymo were on the scene. Chris Urmson was designing selfdriving vehicles at Carnegie Mellon years before Uber, Lyft, or Waymo were founded, let alone hit the open roads. (Internet of Things)

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Industry News: Future of Work

AI Is The Global Force That Will Transform The Indian Workforce & Create Jobsedit

Analytics India Magazine 

Artificial Intelligence has majorly shifted the jobs statistics debate. At one point, while the world mulls over 30% of all jobs being siphoned off by 2030 ( a McKinsey report indicates) there is also an upside to AI. Despite all talks of doom and gloom, AI-led automation will also generate a new set of jobs that workforce has to be ready for, thereby ushering in a skills-based economy.

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India second most optimistic globally about executive job market in 2019: Surveyedit

MoneyControl

Senior management leaders in India are optimistic about growth of executive jobs in 2019, only second to Brazil. According to the 2019 BlueSteps Executive Career Outlook report, nearly 57 percent of India’s senior executives believe that there will be stellar growth in job market opportunities as compared with 2018 levels. In Brazil, 72 percent leaders are positive of growth. India is followed by Africa at 54 percent and France at 40 percent. The results are based on a survey of over 1,400 senior executives worldwide.

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Will you lose your job What are the signs and how to prevent itedit

The Times of India 

So what are the indicators that you could be replaced by a machine The roles that require manual intervention, follow a standardised procedure and are repeatable will be impacted. Machine learning and robotic process automation will reduce number of people required for customer service, backoffice and testing roles, impacting ITeS, IT and consumerfacing industries, says Dupuis.

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Why is agility critical for a Computer Science engineeredit

The Times of India 

In the modern world of computing, business and technology is changing rapidly. The introduction of modern technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), and many more have led industries to adapt to the change in technology and business. (Internet of Things)

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Real threat of Artificial Intelligence displacing jobs, says Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajanedit

Zee Biz 

While digitisation has delivered great benefits to the country, the threat of automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) displacing jobs is real, Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said on Monday. Adoption of digital technology has proved to be a great democratiser and leveller in India, especially in doing away with many hierarchies in the Indian economy.

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57% desi professionals want to switch careers: Surveyedit

The Times of India 

By Avik Das

About 33% of Indians are career sleepwalking — they feel like they are on a treadmill going nowhere — while 57% are keen to pivot to build a more rewarding career, according to the findings of a survey by LinkedIn. The professional network also found that in spite of the urge to move to something more meaningful, more than half of those surveyed are apprehensive that such a move could impact pay packages and designations adversely.

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How To Help Older JobHolders Adjust To New Jobsedit

BW Smart Cities 

With changes in the over infrastructure of a number of industries by the advent of robots, technology, and artificial intelligence, there is a problem growing in the shadows. It is our responsibility to prepare employees and workers in these areas, lest we be faced with a massive unemployment problem we are unprepared for.

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How advanced analyticsdriven PLM can help you achieve more business valueedit

CIO 

But apart from that, they all vouch for the transformative power of having a cuttingedge product lifecycle management (PLM) approach in place to facilitate topnotch customer experience, boosts R&D, manufactures new goods, and fuels efficiency. (Internet of Things)

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Employability Survey 2019: Jobs slip away from the illequipped Indian engineeredit

The Economic Times 

At a time when artificial intelligence is taking root as the very basis of newage tech, just 2.5% of Indian engineering graduates have the relevant skills to make a career out of it. Tech industry now requires skills like machine learning and data science, things that are way beyond the vast majority of desi engineers, the findings underline.

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Conviction and courage are key to embrace something as profoundly disruptive as changeedit

Analytics Insight 

With Cloud migration, Service Management and the Internet of Things becoming core business and technology themes, this milestone development was a key step towards reiterating Trianz’ value promise of delivering measurable impact to our clients across their business value chain.

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80% of Indian engineers not fit for jobs, says surveyedit

Business Today 

The new Annual Employability Survey 2019 report by Aspiring Minds reveals that 80% of Indian engineers are not fit for any job in the knowledge economy and only 2.5% of them possess tech skills in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that industry requires.

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Industry News: Education

Indore: Youngistan wants education, infrastructure, empowermentedit

Free Press Journal 

Every vote counts and if it is in the hands of youngsters in the city, they expect rural development along with urban, and most importantly improvisation in education level with increased opportunities to get wellpaying jobs. This was concluded based on interaction with several youngsters in the city, who are studying in renowned colleges and institutes. When it comes to female students, safety is their prime concern.

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CBSE directs school principals to act as pedagogical leadersedit

The Indian Express 

CBSE, Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE school principals, school principals, Central Board of Secondary Education school principals, CBSE principals Besides formulating and executing teaching as well as learning plans, the principals will be responsible for evaluating the effectiveness of the learning program and meet standards established to optimise learning environments

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Atal Tinkering Lab opens at Dayanand Public Schooledit

Avenue Mail 

Dayanand Public School (DPS) got its own Atal Tinkering Lab on Saturday. The lab will let students explore skills of future such as design and computational thinking, adaptive learning and artificial intelligence and will help encourage innovation skills and develop ideas.

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A 2-wheeler ride that helped Prabha take AI to villagesedit

The Hindu Business Line 

By Narayanan V 

Prabha wasted no time to express her bigger ambitions to her husband. She had an idea of taking artificial intelligence (AI) to an unusual audience children in remote villages. A supportive husband that he has always been, Karthik Kannan (36) not only helped her launch ‘Youcode Intelligence Solutions’, but also taught her technology.

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