October 29, 2019

News for the IET

India’s first-of-its-kind Event on Engineering the Future of Work held in Mumbai by the IETedit

Business News This Week

Shekhar Sanyal, Futurist Impact of Technology, Country Head and Director IET India inaugurated the event, which was followed by a opening address by Mandeep Maitra, Leadership, Transformation and Design Thinking Coach and Chair, IET’s Engineering the Future of Work Steering Committee.

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AITD students deliver engineering awareness seminaredit

The Navhind Times

Department of computer engineering, Agnel Institute of Technology and Design, Assagao, completed phase-I of IET Student Chapter’s Nurturing Intelligence for Curious Engineers (NICE) event which is a competition by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) that is based in UK.

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News for other PEI

Big data. Humanisededit

Business Standard

By mining the tweets and linking it to emergency room visits and atmosphere data, the researchers could build a robust model. As they say in the article published in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, “Rapid progress has been made in gathering non-traditional digital information to perform disease surveillance.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Why India needs deep tech startupsedit

Live Mint

Of the estimated 7,500 odd technology startups, Nasscom defines these deep tech based companies as those that have been consistently working towards driving innovation in new age technologies such as AI, IoT (internet of things), Blockchain, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Augmented and Virtual Reality, among others.

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India is emerging as a startup hub: John Chambersedit

Live Mint

By Meera Vankipuram

I look for four characteristics. One is, markets that are in a business transformation, enabled by new technology. Every market is starting to be changed by the cloud and the cloud moving to the edge. Internet of Things (IoT) is huge, and the security and the cyber security implications for that.

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Health Care AI Discriminates Black Patientsedit

Deccan Chronicle

One of the problems that AI decision-making was meant to solve, was bias. However, it has once again proven to be wrong. Algorithmic bias occurs when a computer system behaves in ways that reflects the implicit values of humans involved in that data collection, selection, or use. Algorithmic bias has been identified and critiqued for its impact on search engine results, social media platforms, privacy, and racial profiling

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AI And Cybersecurity: Plague Or Promiseedit

Forbes

Many, if not most IT teams do not have the resources to protect their enterprises, certainly not in real time. And in a world where minutes matter and thoroughness is paramount, we need to look at artificial intelligence (AI) to support and augment what we need to combat the bad actors.

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5 Billion dollar Industries That Will Be Changed By Artificial Intelligenceedit

Inc

Theres no question that artificial intelligence (AI) will be widespread in five years. Yet we dont know exactly what it will look like. Ask 27 experts how AI will change our lives, and you’ll get 27 different answers.

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Telangana to declare 2020 as year of AI: Minister for ITedit

ET Telecom

The Telangana government would be declaring 2020 as the year of Artificial Intelligence (AI), to promote its use in various sectors including Agriculture and Healthcare.

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Making computers intelligentedit

Business Standard

Computers need to be trained to recognise images. Indeed, this is one of the biggest stumbling blocks to machine learning applications, and many artificial intelligence (AI)-dependent applications, such as the use of self-driving cars, or facial recognition programs. This is less of a problem in a completely controlled environment, such as a factory floor, but it is a huge barrier to using AI in natural environments.

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How AI & smartphone apps are putting stethoscope’s fate at stakeedit

The Times of India

It is threatened by handheld devices that are also pressed against the chest but rely on ultrasound technology, artificial intelligence and smartphone apps instead of doctors’ ears to help detect leaks, murmurs, abnormal rhythms and other problems in the heart, lungs and else-where. Some of these instruments can yield images of the beating heart or create electrocardiogram graphs.

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Going Digitaledit

The Times of India

Indian banks are increasing their investments in emerging digital tech such as AI and blockchain to create new product offerings and respond to evolving customer demands. The CIOs in the sector are focusing on biometric authentication, machine learning and chatbots to deliver an enhanced user experience

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Deep Gap In DeepTechedit

Business World

Cumulatively, this has led to a strong entrenchment in DeepTech ability in China: AI, machine learning, robotics, biotech, IoT, sensors, nanotech, etc. And to a gap between them and the rest of the world that is poised to widen. A BCG report identified roughly 4,200 DeepTech companies in the USA, growing at about 10 per cent annually.

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Augmenting Cybersecurityedit

Business World

To stay ahead of cybercriminals, organizations need fresh intelligence on things such as new attack schemes or malware variants that come into play. To stay abreast of developments, organizations can coordinate with industry associations, regional IT groups, cybersecurity vendors, service providers, and relevant government agencies

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5G and AI Expected to bring heightened cybersecurity risksedit

ELE TIMES

The study also found that 86% of respondents expect artificial intelligence (AI) to have an impact on their cybersecurity strategy over the next five years, as AI systems are integrated into core enterprise security functions. The top three AI applications that respondents said they would consider implementing as part of their cybersecurity strategy are network intrusion detection and prevention, fraud detection and secure user authentication.

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Kochi gets a control centre to fight back cyber criminalsedit

The Times of India

The idea is to have a session in every school, every month. We will tell them about cybercrimes, cybersecurity, the things that they should be careful about while using the internet, things they should not do and things they should do, etc. We will teach them how they should use their devices so that they can remain safe from cybercriminals, said Sakhare.

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IOT And AI At The Edge Creating Artificial Intelligence Of Thingsedit

Analytics Insight

By Priya Dialani

Named AIoT, the union of AI and IoT is an amazing tool, either at the Edge or in the Cloud. The objective for the innovation, which is here and there alluded to as Artificial Intelligence of Things, is to accomplish progressively proficient IoT operations, improve human-machine interactions, and upgrade data management and analytics. Whenever actualized appropriately, those AI analytics can change IoT data into valuable data for an improved decision-making process.

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Check Point Unveils 2020 CyberSecurity Predictions, Warns of New Cyber Cold Waredit

IT News Online

We need a more holistic approach to IoT security, with a combination of traditional and new controls to protect these ever growing networks across all industry and business sectors. The new generation of security will be based on nano security agents: microplugins that can work with any device or operating system in any environment, controlling all data that flows to and from the device and giving always on security

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Artificial Intelligence to Predict Thyroid Cancer Risk in Ultrasoundedit

News 18

Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) with thyroid ultrasound offers a quick and noninvasive approach to thyroid cancer screening, says a new study. The study, published in the journal PLOS Pathogens, suggests that automated machine learning shows promise as an additional diagnostic tool that could improve the efficiency of thyroid cancer diagnosis.

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AI a game changer in medical diagnostics spaceedit

The Hans India

This involves deep learning, a sophisticated type of machine learning, where a series of labelled images are fed into the AI system that picks out features in them and learns how to classify similar images. The AI system, as it learns more and more, gets ready to help doctors in the diagnosis of all kinds of diseases from colon cancer to dental work to eye problems.

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Malware Attacks On IoT-enabled Devices Are On The Rise: Kasperskyedit

Republic World

Cyber attacks on IoT devices are at an all-time high. Cybersecurity researchers have detected 105 million attacks on IoT devices coming from 276,000 unique IP addresses in the first six months of the year 2019. This figure is around nine times more than the number found in the same period last year

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Is India The Next Hyperscale Data Center Destination?edit

Communication Today

On the enterprise side, Public Cloud adoption is disrupting the traditional data storage and management practices. IDC reports that by 2022, 40% of new enterprise applications developed in India will be cloud-native and by 2023, the top 4 clouds (”mega-platforms”) in the country will be the destination of choice for 50% of workloads

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Indians Of All Ages Are Welcoming The Idea Of Tech-Assisted Livingedit

Inc 42

As emerging technologies such as AI (artificial intelligence), ML (machine learning), and IoT (Internet of Things) take over our lives, it’s hard to imagine a world without smartphones, computers, video games, and, of course, smart devices. India, as a country, is also experiencing this tech revolution head-on.

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How AI is Powering the Future of Bankingedit

Analytics Insight

By Vivek Kumar

The banking sector is rapidly shifting towards technology as the industry stores the world’s wealth in databases and transactions that simply exchange information over networks. New-age technology here, such as Artificial Intelligence particularly, can assist the industry, from accounting and sales to contracts and cybersecurity.

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FinTech Will Lead India’s Financial Formalisationedit

Business World

Finally, the adoption of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and big data, fuelled by the rising internet and mobile penetration has empowered financial organisations to tackle the pressing pain-points of the time.

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5G technology poised to become connectivity fabric, transform businesses: Infosys studyedit

ANI News

It has huge transformational potential across industries with its service-based, cloud-native architecture and higher-frequency bands that enable a greater amount of data to be transmitted in real-time. Indeed, most industries are investigating 5G and how it can add value to their business.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

EV charging outlets upedit

The Telegraph

By Anasuya Basu

Today we are getting one vehicle per day at the charging stations on the EV corridor, whereas we had set up the stations under the assumption of one car per week.” The company has also set up the first solar based EV charging station in Navi Mumbai. “EVs are not a solution to pollution. It is just transferring the problem from fuel to chimneys. The solution to pollution lies in solar power or renewable energy,” said Lewis.

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Chandigarh draft policy pushes for electric vehicles, lists subsidy, free parkingedit

The Indian Express

The UT Administration is trying hard to push electric vehicles in the city. For this, according to the draft policy, they have put forth several points in its policy in order to encourage people to buy electric vehicles.

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Kejri flags off 104 new busesedit

The Tribune

The tender for balance 350 buses is being floated soon, the Chief Minister said. The government is also inducting 1,000 electric buses in phases. In the first phase, the tender for 300 electric buses was floated on October 15. The last date for submission of bids is November 13.

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Merely moving to EVs won’t help India clean up its air. The fix: use renewable power to charge them.edit

ET Prime

An employee of Carzonrent plugs in an electric car for charging in Bengaluru. The buzzword in the auto industry for the last few years has been electric vehicles (EVs), a key aspect in reducing emission intensity and cleaning up the urban air. As anyone in Delhi will attest, it is an important issue. But why are EVs so popular among urban planners? But in this particular attempt to clean up

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FAME II subsidy should be extended to electric bicycles to increase their adoption; says Aditya Munjal of Lectro eMobilityedit

The Financial Express

A recently popular section of mobility is that of e-bikes. While cycling was widely accepted as a good exercise jaunt, the electric bug has caught on to them. No longer are people using it for exercise but also for commuting. The idea is to have to not pedal when going to work. If the battery is depleted, you can of course pedal your way back.

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Clean Energy CXOs Make Hay while Sun Shinesedit

The Economic Times

PE-funded startups looking to take action in the clean energy space have mushroomed, said Suchet Narain, senior client partner at Korn Ferry. These startups work in segments such as electric vehicles, battery storage, solar energy and wind energy. Ather Energy, CleanMax Solar, Tata Power Solar, Waaree and SoftBank Energy have been or are hiring for leadership roles, said people with knowledge of the matter.

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Research group unveils third-gen wireless in-wheel motoredit

Auto Car Professional

Automakers across the world are promoting the development and spread of automobile electrification. Not having an internal combustion engine, nor emitting CO2, electric vehicles (EV) are seen as a particularly effective means to solve the emissions issue. Nevertheless, there have been concerns raised regarding the convenience of charging EV and the amount of resources required to produce large amounts of battery cells

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RCEP: Electronics, tariff cut to be back-loaded, relief for ailing sectorsedit

The New Indian Express

Officials said their analysis showed that electronics and automobiles, especially electric vehicles were at risk of being brought in cheaply from China defeating India’s efforts to set up a production hub locally.

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Bescom will charge you for charging e-vehiclesedit

Bangalore Mirror

By Akhila Damodaran

A users of a Mahindra E Verito car says that a regular charger takes close to five hours to charge and the DC (Direct Current) charger takes 90 minutes to charge the vehicle from 0 to 100 per cent. The meter in the car displays the percentage as it is being charged. Once the car is completely charged to 100 per cent, I get a mileage of 140 km.

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Why quiet cars are turning up the volumeedit

The Economic Times

Existing electric vehicles are required to incorporate the device by July 2021.Existing electric vehicles are required to incorporate the device by July 2021.Driving an electric vehicle in near silence can be a joy for those who dont relish the rumble and whine of an internal combustion engine.

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UP: Auto sales dip by 30% on festivaledit

The Times of India

Auto sales in the state capital plummeted by 30% as compared to last year as the industry reeled from the effects of a slowdown, Centres push for electric vehicles and myths over BS6 norms. Bharat Stage 6 also called BS6 is a standard of emission norms set by the Union government. BS6 norms will come into effect by April next year and automakers will need to upgrade their engine. Therefore, some customers have postponed their purchase.

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Big drive for e-vehicles: Kerala govt offices to turn charging stationsedit

The Times of India

On Saturday, the transport department convened a meeting of various departments at Thiruvananthapuram for mapping the points where such charging facilities can be provided. Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has sent out a letter seeking willingness of various government departments in providing their land for this.

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Unorganised Players with Cost Edge Lead the E-rickshaw Raceedit

The Economic Times

More than two years after organised players like Kinetic, Hero Electric and Mahindra & Mahindra forayed into the growing erickshaw market they are yet to gain a toehold in this space. An electric-vehicle revolution is gaining ground in India, home to about 1.5 million battery-powered, three wheeled rickshaws — a fleet bigger than the number of electric passenger cars sold in China since 2011.

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Industry News: Future of Work

More and more IT professionals looking for a new jobedit

The Economic Times

By Prachi Verma

At the same time, companies are nudging employees to perform and acquire new and niche skills, she said. It is this chunk of talent pool with niche skills like in artificial intelligence, robotics, data analytics and cyber security that is quite high in demand. Companies are also putting a premium on talent with niche skills and high level of performance, Gupta added.

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How Innovative Technologies Are Changing Employment Landscape In Indiaedit

Business World

The new age jobs are envisioned to spawn in emerging technology areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), big data, blockchain, Augmented Reality (AR), and data science, among others. While these technologies add greater efficiency to enterprise operations by reducing human hours and increasing productivity levels, the new jobs also call for skilled professionals adept at handling digital tools, which most Indian enterprises apparently lack at present.

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Skilling India: Maximising value creation from demographic dividendedit

The Financial Express

By Uma Ganesh

Before considering how to maximise the value from this demographic dividend, it is important to recognise that countries without the advantage of demographic dividend are already using digital tools and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in place of humans wherever possible or are augmenting human capability with these tools

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Industry News: Education

Higher Education in numbers: Latest AISHE statistics releasededit

Curriculum

On September 21, the union ministry of human resources development (HRD) used the specially convened Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) committee meeting on draft NEP, to release the statistical report of All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2018-19 as well.

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Entrepreneurial education is coming of ageedit

The Financial Express

Universities have become more experiential and outward facing. The capstone of entrepreneurial curricula has become a routine part of classes, as business plans, VC plans, pitches, financial statements get complemented with more dynamic companions. Today, the focus is on creating a viable, sustainable, replicable business model.

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