July 1, 2019

News for the IET

Induction ceremony for B. Tech courses at SRMIST, Vadapalaniedit

B4U Media 

Mr.M.Sakthivel, Final Year B.Tech. CSE appreciated the efforts of faculty of SRMIST in widening his knowledge about computer science. Mr. Jaiakaash, ECE, expressed that he was able to do many projects with the help of faculty and professional bodies like IET, IEEE etc. Ms.R.Swarna, Final year Mechanical student, valued the activities of the department in moulding her as a mechanical engineer.

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News for other PEI

A Glimpse Of What AI Can Doedit

Telangana Today 

From city level road audit systems that locate potholes and water logging, to sports analytics, the applications of AI appear to be endless. According to CV Jawahar, head of the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) at IIIT-H, the buzz at the 2019 IEEE Conference was on ‘Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): Inverse Cooking’, an AI technique that uses food images to generate recipes!

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Industry News: Information and Communications

HRD ministry releases EQUIP, a fiveyear vision plan to transform higher educationedit

India Today 

The department of higher education of the HRD Ministry on Friday finalised and released a fiveyear vision plan Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP) to transform higher education in India.

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Robotic Process Automation: A Possible Trigger for Digital Transformationedit

Analytics Insight 

RPA is an amazingly ground breaking innovation, and it’s just improving with the advances we’re presently observing in artificial intelligence. That is the reason there is such a great amount of spotlight on it. Notwithstanding, essentially automating a procedure isn’t sufficient for companies to make progress in the digital world.

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Meet Gen, A New AI Programming Language That Thrives On Automation, Flexibility And Speededit

Analytics India Mag 

The good thing about artificial intelligence is that it brings together a variety of domains like statistics, computer vision and deep learning, among others, under one roof and enables the developers to mutually benefit from them. The growing demand for AI-based applications has also raised the bar for the platforms that are used to build them.

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Emerging tech in Insurance: Success lies in finding the right use casesedit

Money Control 

As an industry where traditionally customers prefer active human interaction, adoption of new technologies like artificial intelligence and chatbots can be quite a challenge for insurers. Finding the right use cases is going to be very critical for tech leaders in the industry. Here are some primary use cases of AI, chatbots and Blockchain that are likely to make an impact in the recent future.

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Convergence of Big Data & AI shaping the future of BFSI sectoredit

Money Control 

AI leverages this huge chunk of data to make decisions thus enabling banking and financial institutions to improve efficiency, offer seamless services to their customers, and reduce time and cost in various processes. According to a recent study by Markets and Markets, the artificial intelligence market, which was valued at USD 16.06 billion in 2017, is expected to reach USD 190.61 billion by 2025.

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Artificial intelligence: Boon for early adopters and bane for latecomersedit

ET CIO 

The era of artificial intelligence has arrived and the world’s leaders are increasingly acknowledging its arrival. AI is said to automate around 35% jobs in US by 2030. The main question, however, remains how society will choose to engage with the new technological revolution.

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5G will adversely affect weather predictions: Meteorologists in the USedit

Down To Earth 

Meteorologists are not happy sharing frequency band as they believe it will interfere with weather forecasting5G frequencies for mobile communication has been a subject for a lot of debates. While it will be a game changer when it comes to communication, a number of experts have pointed out the adverse health effects it could cause. (Internet of Things)

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10 Artificial Intelligence Applications that will change the futureedit

CIOL 

There will be tens of billions of IoT (Internet of Things) devices that will transmit unprecedented data. There is no way any fleet of humans could manage that and only AI could do the trick and make sense of it all. Data analytics would go to the next level.

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Why Artificial Intelligence Is Taking The World By Stormedit

Business World 

Technology is a driving force that has made peoples lives simpler and convenient. It has been undergoing progressions each day with the best possible developments. It streamlines, simplifies and substantially reduces the human intervention with just a click of the button. One of the major technological innovations of all times is Artificial Intelligence. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Internet of Things: Once a dream now a Realityedit

Rising Kashmir 

The ‘Internet of things’ (IoT) is becoming an increasingly popular and hot topic of conversation among educated and tech savvy people. It’s a concept that not only has the potential to impact how we live but also how we work. One may ask, what is the ‘Internet of things’ and how does it work.

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Indian manufacturing industry at high cyber security riskedit

Deccan Chronicle 

Many IoT-enabled devices commonly leveraged by manufacturers such as sensors, barcode readers; quality control systems, inventory management solutions, etc. come with weak or minimal security. Such unsecured connected devices present a lucrative avenue to cybercriminals to attack and infiltrate the larger enterprise network.

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Improving Networks with Artificial Intelligenceedit

Cellit 

Artificial intelligence is changing how we manage networks, and it’s a change we need. Because as we rely more every day on networks and networked applications to keep businesses agile, secure, and competitive, we also need more advanced tools to keep on top of the networks themselves. AI will us make network operations simpler, smarter, safer, and speedier. They help us manage our networks at machine speed.

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5 IoT trends and predictions for 2019edit

The Asian Age 

The concept of the Internet of Things, or IoT as it is more commonly known, has been around for almost four decades. After all, the first internet-connected machine was developed as far back as 1982. As a technology with wide-ranging applications within the market, however, IoT only started gathering momentum in the mid-to-late 2000s.

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India gains momentum in Digitalisationedit

The Economic Times 

It ensured productivity and availability for the entire lifecycle of the production facilities by using the specified components to control and drive systems. Manufacturers are looking at higher degrees of automation to make facilities and factories efficient.

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Getting to the Digital Summitedit

The Hindu Business Line  

While digital applications create significant economic value, they require new skills and labour re-deployment. The government’s initiative on Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Nasscom’s ‘Future Skills’ programme and creation of 110+ centers of excellence are steps in the right direction. India’s meteoric rise as a digitally empowered nation has been made possible due to a strong collaboration between industry and government.

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Deepfakes powerful weapons in wrong hands, warn expertsedit

Pune Mirror 

Videos that use AI to impersonate people could be used to create rifts between different communities Deepfakes, videos or images that look surprisingly real, have already created ripples in the entertainment industry, but they also pose huge dangers to countries with a diverse populations, like India, as miscreants could easily use these manipulated media to create rifts among different communities, warn experts.

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As cyber attacks increase, Indian IT clients seeks stricter contracts, more auditsedit

The Economic Times 

As Indian IT companies face a slew of cyberattacks, their clients are asking for more security audits and are looking into whether the companies are investing enough to keep their data safe, say analysts.

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Artificial intelligence technology developed to help crops cope with climate changeedit

Times Now News 

Israeli and US researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method that can help crops cope with climate changes, the Ben Gurion University (BGU) reported on Sunday.

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A digital poweredit

The Indian Express 

Digital initiatives like smart cities, digitisation of governance, digital villages, high speed internet in every part of India, digital inclusion and digital empowerment shall be fueled by emerging technologies like the internet of things, data analytics and artificial intelligence.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Smart Manufacturing Could Speed Up EV Manufacturing in Indiaedit

Times Now News 

As a result, EV manufacturers are forced to import parts and technology from different parts of the world, thus resulting in an increase in electric vehicles’ cost. However, one solution to this problem has been proposed in the form of smart manufacturing (SM) techniques.

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Flipkart aims to replace 40% delivery fleet to electric vehicle by 2020edit

The Times of India 

Flipkart, Indias largest etailer has announced a nationwide process to bring electric vehicles (EVs) for its lastmile deliveries, cited yourstory. The aim is to replace nearly 40 per cent of its existing lastmile fleet of delivery vans with EVs by March 2020, starting with nearly 160 EV vans to be deployed across cities by the end of 2019.

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Electric vehicles will help in cutting imports and pollution: Nitin Gadkariedit

The Economic Times 

There seems to be a major push to ensure India has more electric vehicles (EVs). What are the challenges on this path The country is going to adopt EVs in the natural course be it electric bikes, electric rickshaws, electric cars, trucks or buses and even electric highways. We are working on that front. This will help us to reduce imports and tackle the pollution problem.

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The future is electric: When a Niti Aayog consultation meet got heatededit

DNA 

The government wants to make threewheelers and twowheelers (up to 150cc) compulsorily electric by 2023 and 2025, respectively. The industry has opposed the plan, citing there was no ground infrastructure for electric vehicles in the country. The goal can be achieved by disincentivising fossil fuel vehicles and giving incentives for EVs

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Kerala targets speedy emobility with 1 million EVs by 2022edit

Auto Car Professional 

The southern state of Kerala, which is one of the major automobile markets in India and among the biggest buyers of fossilfuelled vehicles, is undertaking a major shift in mobility practice. It is aiming to have a million or 10 lakh electric vehicles (EVs) on its roads by 2022, which is just about three years from now.

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Haste Makes Wasteedit

The Times of India 

Electric vehicles are indeed the future. At this moment however the technology is still at an early stage of development. The dominant battery technology is lithium-ion and Chinese and South Korean companies are among the key manufacturers. Its lack of competitiveness is brought out by the huge subsidy that the Chinese government has to provide to encourage electric vehicle sales there.

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Govt wants petrol stations to charge your e-vehicleedit

The Times of India 

The government is looking to put in place a framework for a mega battery manufacturing and charging infrastructure — including the use of petrol pumps for electric charging points — to push electric vehicles (EVs) in the country. The finalisation of plans comes amid resistance from the powerful auto lobby to the mandate to sell only electric three-wheelers by 2023 and that all new two-wheelers with engine capacity of up to 150cc may have to be electric powered by 2025.

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Government to announce incentive for EV infrastructure soonedit

The Economic Times 

Speaking at the recently held ETAuto Tech Summit, Anil Srivastava emphasised that electric vehicles are the focus area of the government and soon incentives may be announced to support its infrastructure.

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FAMEII Scheme: FICCI Wants Battery Swapping to Be Incentivized Tooedit

Times Now News 

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) recently said it wants battery swapping to also be eligible for FAME II incentives. A PTI report stated that the industry chamber said this model of charging electric vehicles batteries under the purview of the second phase of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles (FAME) scheme will help speed up the adoption of electric mobility in India.

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Electric mobility is Indias big opportunityedit

The Financial Express

Fiscal incentives to promote Electric Vehicles, in the form of FAME (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles), were launched in 2015 for a period of two years. These were later extended up to March, 2019. With its outlay of Rs 450 crore during the last four years, FAME I helped about 2.63 lakh electric/hybrid vehicles, including 1.4 lakh two-wheelers (E-2W) and 1.01 lakh four-wheelers (E-4W). These are already on the road all over the country.

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Ecosystem for migration to EVs not ready, say twowheeler companiesedit

The Navhind Times

According to the industry players, EV migration needs proper planning to ensure ecosystem readiness. Echoing views of industry leaders who have called for a calibrated approach towards electric mobility, N Chandrasekaran, chairman, Tata Sons said that migration to EVs needs to be planned to ensure entire ecosystem is ready through a multiyear road map.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Tapping into the gig economyedit

Business Standard 

Recently, the Bengaluru-based company raised a funding of $650,000 from over 50 investors, including Paytm, 500 Startups, AngelList India, Stanford Angels, and SucSeed Venture Partners, alongside marquee angels like Vokal founder Aprameya Radhakrishna, Freecharge founder Kunal Shah, former Flipkart executive Mekin Maheshwari, and Slideshare founder Amit Ranjan.

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Blue collar jobs in telecom space will drop with evolving technologies: TSSC CEOedit

Business Standard 

He further said that tariff war doesn’t seem to be easing in the telecom sector and companies will look at selling products around big data analytics, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence which will boost demand for knowledge worker. “Employment from tier 2 and 3 colleges will be higher as demand for workers in mid level of telecom companies will be more. Employment from school level education will taper down,” Kochhar said.

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Niche jobs rise as banking sector sees digitisation pushedit

Business Standard 

Due to the prevalence of new technologies like robotics process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), the need for roles like data entry operators and data verification personnel, among others, are becoming increasingly redundant, said banking experts.

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Bank digitisation creates new jobs: Robot programmer to blockchain expertedit

Business Standard 

The shift towards digitisation has also led to the growing importance of digital officerBanks have seen a rise in employee count as profiles evolve and business scales up even as automation leads to various job profiles becoming redundant. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Industry News: Education

Engineering Education Industrys Challenges And Prospectsedit

BW Education 

With growing manpower demand and institutions, questions have often been raised on the quality of Engineers and hence that of Engineering education.

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Artificial intelligence can revolutionise educationedit

The Sunday Guardian 

On the back of continuous technological advancement, we are witnessing a paradigm shift in the teaching-learning process. The relationship between educators and students is changing, where educators have become more approachable and much better at understanding their students’ perspectives. Technology has made learning more collaborative, as teachers and students are working in tandem to achieve better outcomes

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Technology in education enriches learningedit

The Times of India 

Seeking to boost the education sector through technology, chief minister Pramod Sawant said that smart classrooms and virtual class studios have been set up at four educational institutes to accomplish this goal.

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