May 22, 2019

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The Making of the 5G Standardedit

EE Times India

By  Kevin Krewell

Polar codes were first developed by a Turkish electrical engineer Erdal Arkan (recipient of the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award for his contributions to information theory, the Richard W. Hamming Medal, and the Claude E. Shannon Award) and a version of polar codes was adopted by Huawei in its proposals. The main competition was the convolution coding scheme from 3G and 4G.

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Institution of Engineers India (IEI), Mysuru Local Centreedit

Star of Mysore

The newspaper has feature rich articles and dedicated pages targeted at readers across the demographic spectrum of Mysuru city. With a readership of over 2,50,000 Star of Mysore has been the best connection between its readers and their leaders; between advertisers and customers; between Mysuru and Mysureans. (Institution Of Engineers)

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How to effectively align security with ITedit

The Economic Times

The CIO wont see the business impact if theres not a culture of risk mitigation, says Kayne McGladrey, director of security and IT for Pensar Development and a member of the professional association IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

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Cool Roof policy for Telangana soonedit

The New Indian Express

Speaking at a seminar on Cool, Green and Power Roofs organised by Energy Conservation Mission, at the Institution of Engineers (India), here on Monday, Municipal administration and Urban development (MAUD) principal secretary Arvind Kumar said that State government would ask all the apartments to necessarily go for cool roofing.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Technology and Indian National Securityedit

Bharat Shakti

By Maj Gen (Dr) P K Chakravorty (Retd)

These are digital applications, smart physical systems, the field of energy, empowering technologies like mobile internet, cloud technology, automation of work related to knowledge. Internet of things, intelligent transportation and distribution Advanced Geographical Information System (GIS), Renewable Energy and Nanotechnology. Apart from this, the Government is focussing on developing infrastructure which would pave the way for technology to reach all corners of our country. Most of these are dualuse.

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Niti Aayog Proposes Rs 7500 Crore For Making India A Powerhouse Of Artificial Intelligence: Will This Workedit

Trak

By Malvika Gurung

In a time when technology inventions have been disrupting jobs, India needs to create new jobs for people who’ve been rendered redundant by automation. To place India as a paradigm for emerging economies in the field of Artificial Intelligence and push India in the emerging field of AI technology, the government think tank Niti Aayog has proposed a plan for an institutional framework and transparent policies for AI development in the country, namely national strategy for artificial intelligence.

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Nine Experts All About Electronic Design and Testedit

EET India

Nine industry experts from Picotest, Texas Instrument, EyeKnowHow and Rohde & Schwarz share their design and test knowledge on DC/DC converters, DDR memory, ensuring power integrity, high speed interfaces and IoT wireless interface. Register and watch the sessions here.

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Meet Doggo: New lowcost robot that can jump, flipedit

The Week End Leader

In a bid to make robotics technology more affordable and accessible, researchers have developed a relatively low cost opensource robot that could one day help in rescue and search operations and pick up stuff with an arm or carry a package.

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MCA plans to introduce Artificial Intelligence system in MCA 21 portal to make compliance easieredit

KNN India

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has planned to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) system in the MCA 21 portal in order to make the compliance process easier as well as to ensure routine enforcement activities are done regularly on autopilot basis. (artifical intelligence)

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Launch of virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) product with a global financial services institutionedit

IT News Online

Crossword Cyber security plc (AIM: CCS, Crossword, the Company or the Group), the cyber security technology commercialization company, is pleased to announce that its Consulting division has launched a new product, virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) in partnership with Reliance acsn Ltd (Reliance), the IT security experts.

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Its paisa vasool for voter data vendorsedit

The Economic Times

By Sanghamitra Kar

Marketing agencies, which actively engage with political parties during election campaigning, are buying voter details online including names, mobile numbers and locations and privately sharing it on the Cloud at a paltry 1 paisa for each data set, industry players have said. (cyber security)

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India among top 20 countries in the Artificial Intelligence readiness rankingedit

Live Mint

By Nandita Mathur

India along with Singapore and Japan is among the top 20 countries in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Readiness Index released by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Oxford Insights on Tuesday. India stands at #19 in the AI readiness ranking, that examines 194 countries worldwide, assessing their governance, infrastructure and data, skills and education, and government and public services to measure how well these countries are prepared to manage the potentially transformative impacts of AI.

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IBM Security: Cybersecurity Threats Growing In Travel and Transportation Industriesedit

IT News Online

IBM (NYSE: IBM) Security today issued new research highlighting that the travel industry and its customers are increasingly the targets of cyber attacks as criminals seek to monetize highly valuable travel data. Compounding the problem, a new survey conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of IBM Security1 reveals that travelers are still blind to the risks they face on the road.

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Google’s AI system better than humans at spotting lung canceredit

Business Standard

TPG Growth Tuesday said it has signed a definitive agreement to sell Cancer Treatment Services International (CTSI) to Varian Medical Systems for $283 million (over Rs 1,970 crore). Radiologists generally examine hundreds of two dimensional images or ‘slices’ in a single CT scan but this new machine learning system views the lungs in a huge, single three dimensional image,” said Mozziyar Etemadi, a research assistant professor at Northwestern University in the US.

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Existing 4G networks in India need to be strengthened to support 5G: NXP Indiaedit

The Economic Times

By Tina Gurnaney 

The SoC maker is also bullish about the growth of Indian Internet of Things (IoT) market and attributes it to the government pushing IoT related policies and regulatory framework. The Indian government is actively implementing various large scale IoT projects across manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, wearable devices and logistics; I thereby expect the market to grow even further, said Gupta.

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DeepQuanty Artificial Intelligence Labs Announces the Launch of its First Product SnapChekedit

Business Standard

An Automatic Cheque Processing Engine Delivers above 90% extraction accuracy on any handwritten field such as date, name, amount in words and amount in figures 100% extraction accuracy in printed fields such as account number, MICR, and IFSC Code. Significantly reduces time & error in cheque clearing operations Deep Quanty Artificial Intelligence Labs is proud to announce the launch of its first product SnapChek an Automatic Cheque Processing Engine, powered by Artificial Intelligence.

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Cybersecurity: How to Best Protect Your Companyedit

CIOL

A few years ago, the world suffered one of the largest cyber attacks in history. The breaches of Equifax and Target had incredible consequences that we are still feeling to this day. Once this tragedy struck, we all began to understand the importance of cyber security.

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AI, ML programmes launched across countryedit

Business Standard

The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH), Tuesday announced countrywide roll out of its executive programmes on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), blockchain and digital ledger technologies, in association with Talent Sprint.

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Adopt Artificial Intelligence to improve operational efficiency in financial services sectoredit

Money Control

By Vishwesh Padmanabhan

The explosion of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) is dramatically changing the way businesses operate today. As businesses collect more and more data, the need for solutions to drive true value from that data grows in importance. AI, in conjunction with big data and analytics, can deliver that baseline value and go beyond traditional solutions to find deeper insights.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

FAMEII subsidy: Tata Motors hopes private electric vehicle buyers get incentivesedit

Money Control 

Without incentives, electric vehicles appear to be priced significantly higher, enough to discourage several private buyers. For instance, even with an incentive of Rs 1.24 lakh, the electric Tata Tigor (on sale only for a government company) is priced twice that of its petrol cousin.

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India To Soon Have Its Own Standards For EV Charging Stations; Will Help Reduce Costsedit

India Times 

In a first of its kind initiative, the two authorities (BIS and DST) are reportedly working on establishing Indias own charging standards to help cut down on the cost of establishing the infrastructure to cater to Indias growing EV ecosystem. The new standards will contest with the three globally acceptable ones currently in use Japanese, Chinese and European.

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No hike in electricity tariff this yredit

The Times of India 

To encourage people to use electric vehicles, the commission has introduced a new category in the tariff Electric Vehicle Charging Stations for those setting up infrastructure for charging electric vehicles and electric rickshaws.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Artificial Intelligence workforce to boom in futureedit

Deccan Chronicle

The real time business, healthcare, life sciences and social problems are presented to the students and these are then solved with the help of technology using AI space and are closely monitored by the industry

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Now, digital learning platforms turn into recruitment groundsedit

The Times of India 

Take for example the case where Sudharsun Santhiappan, chief scientist officer from Buddi Health, recruited students from Great Learning, a digital learning and upskilling platform. We have made 2 hires from the platform and we look forward to hiring more, so that the hiring process is simplified, he says.

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Industry News: Education

Telangana: No BTech courses in AI, ML in 2019edit

The Times of India

Although the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is encouraging colleges to offer courses in new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, data sciences, and the like, college managements in Telangana will continue to offer traditional courses for the academic year 201920. (artificial intelligence)

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Poor education quality in engineering stopping growthedit

The Times of India 

The Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU) on Tuesday warned the state government against the poor quality of education being imparted at engineering colleges, saying that it was hampering industrial growth.

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