[LIS-Forum] Interesting Reads – 2018-08-16

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*Interesting Reads – 2018-08-16*

*Contents*

*Articles*

   - Google's DeepMind AI can accurately detect 50 types of eye disease
   just by looking at scans
   - Decoded: How Amazon ensures speedy delivery of your orders
   - AI-Driven Leadership
   - The Value Proposition of IIoT, Industry 4.0
   - 10 Amazing Leadership Lessons From Design Thinking
   - Open Source Artificial Intelligence: 50 Top Projects
   - The Top 20 Reasons Start-ups Fail
   - The Strangest Things That Were 3D-Printed in 2017
   - 24 Underwater Drones – The Boom in Robotics Beneath the Waves
   - Generation Z enters the workforce

*Events / Announcements*

   - SPIN Chennai Workshop on  “GDPR 360”
   - TCS National Qualifier Test on 2nd & 3rd Sep 2018
   - INSA - JSPS Fellowship
   - IEEE CIS Summer School 2018 on Computational Intelligence: Theory,
   Implementation and Applications at Hyderabad during 22-27 Nov 2018
   - TAMC 2019: 15th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models
   of Computation. 13-16 April 2019 at Japan

Read at http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2018/08/interesting-reads-201
8-08-16.html

Archives at http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2018/05/interesting-reads-arc
hives.html

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*Articles*

*Google's DeepMind AI can accurately detect 50 types of eye disease just by
looking at scans*

   - Google's artificial intelligence company DeepMind has published
   "really significant" research showing its algorithm can identify around 50
   eye diseases by looking at retinal eye scans.
   - DeepMind said its AI was as good as expert clinicians, and that it
   could help prevent people from losing their sight.
   - DeepMind has been criticised for its practices around medical data,
   but cofounder Mustafa Suleyman said all the information in this research
   project was anonymised.
   - The company plans to hand the technology over for free to NHS
   hospitals for five years, provided it passes the next phase of research.

Full story
<https://www.businessinsider.in/Googles-DeepMind-AI-can-accurately-detect-50-types-of-eye-disease-just-by-looking-at-scans/articleshow/65390603.cms>

*Decoded: How Amazon ensures speedy delivery of your orders *

Amazon has around 50 fulfilment centres in India and considering that it
delivers products across all 20,500 pins in the country, the rules that
employees follow in these warehouses are pretty strict.

Full story
<https://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/companies/article/decoded-how-amazon-ensures-speedy-delivery-of-your-orders/268232>

*AI-Driven Leadership*

Many companies are experimenting with AI on a small scale, and a few have
made a commitment that their organizations will be “AI first” or
“AI-driven.” But what does this mean? What is AI doing or leading, and, in
particular, what is the role of leadership in making organizations
AI-driven?

We see a lot of confusion around opportunity and action. In the 2018
Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends survey and report of business and HR
leaders, 72% indicated that AI, robots, and automation are important — but
only 31% felt their organizations were prepared to address strategy to
implement these technologies.

There aren’t that many AI-driven companies yet, and while we have seen a
few examples outside of tech, most of the ones that do exist are technology
companies. That makes it a little speculative to define the traits leaders
need to help move their organizations to an AI-first future. Still, it’s
useful to begin to develop a framework for what we already know about what
it takes to be an AI-driven leader.

Full story <https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/ai-driven-leadership/>

Related report
<https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/HCTrends2018/2018-HCtrends_Rise-of-the-social-enterprise.pdf>:
2018 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends survey and report

Related report
<https://sloanreview.mit.edu/offer-download-the-2018-digital-leadership-report/>:
2018 Digital Business report on “Coming of Age Digitally: Learning,
Leadership, and Legacy,” by Deloitte by Deloitte (Registration is required
to download)

*The Value Proposition of IIoT, Industry 4.0 *

Industrial Internet of Things, collaborative robots, digital twins and more
aren’t just new ways of trying to get you to loosen your purse strings.
They bring with them the promise of improved business outcomes.

Read the post
<https://www.automationworld.com/value-proposition-iiot-industry-40>

For more about optimizing the value of automation, read Automation World’s
four-part series on the topic:

   - How to Determine Automation Value and Focus
   <https://www.automationworld.com/article/food-and-beverage/how-determine-automation-value-and-focus>
   - Break the Replacement Cycle
   <https://www.automationworld.com/article/topics/system-integration/break-replacement-cycle>
   - How to Get Executive Buy-In for Automation
   <https://www.automationworld.com/article/food-and-beverage/how-get-executive-buy-automation>
   - Best Practices for Implementing Automation
   <https://www.automationworld.com/article/topics/project-management/best-practices-implementing-automation>

*10 Amazing Leadership Lessons From Design Thinking*

Leadership is a challenging proposition in a world of disruptions and
changes due to the rate of change being overwhelming. How do leaders cope
with constant changes, enormous expectations and an unpredictable future?
Well, a lot of the top organisations including Pepsi, Nike, Apple and
Google use Design Thinking for leadership matters.

Design thinking is coming up with visual patterns that lead to the desired
solutions. In other words, it is about connecting the dots to come up with
solutions to practical problems that you want to solve. The Design thinking
approach is widely appreciated and adopted by leaders around the globe.

Below, we look at 10 intriguing leadership lessons from design thinking:

Full post
<https://addicted2success.com/success-advice/10-amazing-leadership-lessons-from-design-thinking/>

*Open Source Artificial Intelligence: 50 Top Projects*

Since the earliest days of computers, creating machines that could "think"
like humans has been a key goal for researchers. In the past few years,
computer scientists have made huge leaps forward in artificial intelligence
(AI), to the point where the technology is becoming commonplace.

In fact, Gartner predicts, "By 2020, AI technologies will be virtually
pervasive in almost every new software product and service." And IDC
forecasts that companies will spend $12.5 billion on AI technology in 2017,
59.3 percent more than in 2016. That tremendous growth is likely to
continue through 2020, when revenues could top $46 billion.

Open source software development has played a huge role in the rise of
artificial intelligence, and many of the top machine learning, deep
learning, neural network and other AI software is available under open
source licenses.

For this list, we selected 50 of the most well-known of these open source
artificial intelligence projects. They are organized into categories and
then alphabetized within those categories. The lines between some of the
categories can be fuzzy, so we used the project owners' descriptions of
their applications to determine where to place the various tools.

Know these projects
<https://www.datamation.com/open-source/open-source-artificial-intelligence-50-top-projects-1.html>

*The Top 20 Reasons Start-ups Fail*

From lack of product-market fit to disharmony on the team, we break down
the top 20 reasons for start-up failure by analyzing 101 start-up failure
post-mortems. After we compiled our list of start-up failure post-mortems,
one of the most frequent requests we got was to use these posts to figure
out the main reasons start-ups failed. Start-ups, corporations, investors,
economic development folks, academics, and journalists all wanted some
insight into the question:

“What are the reasons start-ups fail?”

So we gave those post-mortems the CB Insights’ data treatment to see if we
could answer this question. After reading through every single of the 101
post-mortems, we’ve learned there is rarely one reason for a single
start-up’s failure. However, we did begin to see a pattern to these
stories. And so after sifting through the post-mortems, we identified the
top 20 reasons start-ups failed. Since many start-ups offered multiple
reasons for their failure, you’ll see the chart highlighting the top 20
reasons doesn’t add up to 100% (it far exceeds it). Following the chart is
an explanation of each reason and relevant examples from the post-mortems.

Full post <https://www.cbinsights.com/research/startup-failure-reasons-top/>

*The Strangest Things That Were 3D-Printed in 2017*

3D printing isn't new to 2017, but this year, researchers pushed the
boundaries of the seemingly sci-fi technique, printing objects that
required intricate details — such as a lifelike model of a newborn and a
microscopic camera — as well as objects made with materials that may sound
surprising, including cheese and glass.

Read on for a roundup of the coolest and kookiest things that were
3D-printed in 2017.

Slideshow
<https://www.livescience.com/61224-strangest-3d-printed-objects-2017.html>

*24 Underwater Drones – The Boom in Robotics Beneath the Waves*

Robotics Beneath the Waves

Aerial drones have buzzed their way into almost every aspect of the modern
world, from photography and television news coverage, to environmental
monitoring and archaeology.

And many of the concepts developed for aerial drones are being adopted and
adapted to work in a very different environment — underwater.

Look at the many ways that drones are being used beneath the waves, by
oceanographic scientists, archaeologists, militaries, commercial divers,
photographers and undersea explorers.

Slideshow <https://www.livescience.com/61431-underwater-drones.html>

*Generation Z enters the workforce*

With Generation Z entering the workforce and the nature of entry-level jobs
changing, how can organizations redesign these jobs in a way that can both
attract and engage Gen Z and ensure that these jobs continue to generate a
pipeline of future talent?

Full story
<https://www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/focus/technology-and-the-future-of-work/generation-z-enters-workforce.html>

*Events / Announcements*

*SPIN Chennai Workshop on “GDPR 360” *

SPIN Chennai is organising a workshop on “Data Protection and Regulation on
GDPR 360” on 1st Sep 2018 with Ramkumar Ramachandran - CIO, Tevel Cyber
Corps as the resource person at  Andhra Chamber of Commerce, T. Nagar,
Chennai.

Concessional registration fee applicable to members of SPIN Chennai &
Partner organizations (IEEE, CSI, FICCI, CIO Klub, CySI, ISACA, PMI, ACC,
TCC, CXO Club, IOD).

Last date for early bird registration at a lower fee is 19th Aug 2018

Workshop website at http://spinchennai.org/events/event/gdpr-360-workshop/

Registration at https://in.explara.com/e/gdpr-workshop

For queries, please reach out to Ragav @ 9944.111.920 /
admin at spinchennai.org

*TCS National Qualifier Test on 2nd & 3rd Sep 2018*

TCS is hiring 2019 batch engineering students of BE/BTech/ME/MTech/MSc/MCA
through a national qualifier test scheduled on 2nd & 3rd Sep 2018.

TCS national aualifier test aims to select the best talent in the country
to fuel the growth plans of TCS with its Business 4.0 Strategy, gaining
mindshare across the industry. Being a leader in the digital transformation
space, we are happy to invite bright minds from across the country to
explore the world of digital opportunities with TCS.

TCS offers aspiring students a wide range of technologies and areas to
choose and kickstart their careers. Apart from hiring for the general IT
service line, TCS also offers career streams in the following niche
Business Units:

Engineering & Industrial Services and Internet of Things (IoT)

IT Infrastructure Services

Cyber Security Practice

Enterprise Content Management

Quality Engineering

Registration for the above test is open till 20th Aug 2018.

For registration pl. visit https://careers.tcs.com

*INSA - JSPS Fellowship*

Call for Indo-Japanese Joint Project on "Establishment of Young Researcher
Fellowship Programme 2018-19".

The main objective of this young researcher exchange program is to
contribute to the advancement of Science & Technology and to the benefit of
society at large. This fellowship programme is designed to support Indian
scientists/researchers to travel to Japan and work with leading researchers
at major Japanese science and technology
institutions/universities/organizations
for a period of 2 to 6 months. They are intended to facilitate long-term
science, technology and innovation collaboration between India and Japan by

   - developing researchers’ expertise in international collaboration and
   fostering long-term relationships between Indian and Japanese researchers;
   - developing the researchers’ leadership skills as future ‘science
   ambassadors’ for India; and
   - providing a catalyst for future India-Japan research collaboration.

Last date: 15th Sep 2018

Further Details
<http://insaindia.res.in/pdf/Indo_Japan_Fellowship_2018_19_Application_Form_Cum_Guidelines.pdf>

*IEEE CIS Summer School 2018 on Computational Intelligence: Theory,
Implementation and Applications at Hyderabad during 22-27 Nov 2018*

IEEE CIS Summer School at Hyderabad invites participation from researchers,
faculty, students and professionals. It shall provide a unique opportunity
to meet and listen to leading international experts working on cutting edge
technologies of computational intelligence. The program is designed to give
an exposure to theory with hands-on interactions. It also gives an industry
exposure with AI start-ups at T-Hub, the famous Hyderabad Start-ups Center.

In addition to the conventional talks and tutorials it shall provide young
researchers in AI with a unique platform to share their current research
thoughts through poster sessions. The Top three selected posters would
receive awards. Participants would receive a signed copy of the
participation certificate from IEEE CIS.

Summer school website at https://cishyd-ss.ieeehyd.org/

*TAMC 2019: 15th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of
Computation. 13-16 April 2019 at Japan*

TAMC 2019 aims at bringing together a wide range of researchers with
interest in computational theory and its applications. The main themes of
the conference  are computability, computer science logic, complexity,
algorithms, models of  computation and systems theory. There are special
sessions on "Soft Computing and AI Models".

Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2018

Further details at https://drive.google.com/open?
id=1tYAEUR1pRw9PBLcvVnm7bRgZ0hk1G5EV

Professor T V Gopal, Anna University, India is the conf. co-chair. You can
contact him for assistance and clarifications at  gopal at annauniv.edu / +91
9840121302

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