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Interesting Reads – 2018-11-06
by Mohan Hr 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

*Interesting Reads – 2018-11-06* *Contents* *Articles* - Principles for Digital Development - USAID Guide: How to Use Machine Learning in International Development - The AI Cold War With China That Threatens Us All - 8 Best Practices for Robotic Process Automation - Organize for Innovation: Rethinking how we work - Get ready for humanity's dumbest ritual: turning back the clocks for daylight-saving time - A Solar Cell That Does Double Duty for Renewable Energy - What a 100-year-old idea can teach us about cybersecurity -- Randomness: The Fix for Today’s Broken Security - Unbundling The Autonomous Vehicle - ‘Poop vault’ of human feces could preserve gut’s microbial biodiversity—and help treat disease *Events / Announcements* - COMSOL Day Chennai on 30th Nov 2018 - Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship 2018 – 19 - Digital Disruption and Transformation Summit 2018 - SPIN Chennai: Watts Humphrey Awards 2018 event on 12th Nov 2018 - CSI-2018: 53rd Annual Convention of Computer Society of India 2018 at Udaipur during 14-16 Dec 2018 - INDICON 2018: Theme “Harnessing Technology For Humanity” at Coimbatore during 16-18 Dec 2018 Read at http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2018/11/interesting-reads-2018-11-06.html Archives at http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2018/05/interesting-reads-archives.html *======================================================== * *Articles* *Principles for Digital Development* Nine “living” guidelines designed to help digital development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programs. Explore the website <https://digitalprinciples.org/> *USAID Guide: How to Use Machine Learning in International Development* Emerging machine learning and artificial intelligence applications promise to reshape healthcare, agriculture, and democracy in the developing world, and show tremendous potential for helping to achieve sustainable development objectives globally. At the same time, the very nature of these tools — their ability to codify and reproduce patterns they detect — introduces significant concerns alongside promise. - In developed countries, machine learning tools have sometimes been found to automate racial profiling, to foster surveillance, and to perpetuate racial stereotypes. - Algorithms may be used, either intentionally or unintentionally, in ways that result in disparate or unfair outcomes between minority and majority populations. - Complex models can make it difficult to establish accountability or seek redress when models make mistakes. These shortcomings are not restricted to developed countries. They can manifest in any setting, especially in places with histories of ethnic conflict or inequality. As the development community adopts tools enabled by machine learning and artificial intelligence, we need a clear- eyed understanding of how to ensure their application is effective, inclusive, and fair. The USAID Guide to Making Artificial Intelligence Work for International Development aims to inform and empower practitioners as they navigate an emerging machine learning and artificial intelligence landscape in developing countries. Full post <https://www.ictworks.org/usaid-guide-machine-learning/> Related link <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o_a6FzhB0rU61T7ctp8G9XUD6oMSeNTe/view>: The USAID Guide to Making Artificial Intelligence Work for International Development (98 pages) *The AI Cold War With China That Threatens Us All* On October 18, 2017, China’s president, Xi Jinping, stood in front of 2,300 of his fellow party members, flanked by enormous red drapes and a giant gold hammer and sickle. As Xi laid out his plans for the party’s future over nearly three and a half hours, he named artificial intelligence, big data, and the internet as core technologies that would help transform China into an advanced industrial economy in the coming decades. It was the first time many of these technologies had explicitly come up in a president’s speech at the Communist Party Congress, a once-in-five-years event. In the decisive span of a few months, the Chinese government had given its citizens a new vision of the future, and made clear that it would be coming fast. Full post <https://www.wired.com/story/ai-cold-war-china-could-doom-us-all/> *8 Best Practices for Robotic Process Automation* Automation has become an integral component of digital transformation strategies for enterprises around the world. Specifically, today robotic process automation (RPA) is the technology of choice to streamline business operations and reduce costs. But how do you judge whether your RPA initiative is successful? It’s not just whether the first “go live” instance does well. It’s about building momentum with strategically selected RPA projects so you continuously automate more and more complex business processes, and achieve a sustainable—and ever-increasing—ROI. To realize this kind of success, you should follow the below mentioned 8 critical best practices that leading companies have learned from their RPA deployments. Full post <https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/technology/8-best-practices-…> *Organize for Innovation: Rethinking how we work* In Organize for Innovation, Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst reflects on the technological, social, and economic forces impacting the ways we work. Arguing that solving contemporary business problems requires new organizational principles, models, and dynamics, Whitehurst explains how leaders everywhere can begin rethinking how they utilize data, approach failure, structure teams, and set goals—in short, how they can become more innovative. Compiled three years after the publication of his widely read management book, The Open Organization (Harvard Business Review Press), Organize for Innovation, collects Whitehurst's writing on organizational culture, organizational design, and organizational leadership today—all part of an ongoing conversation about the challenges we face in transformative, fast-moving, and uncertain times. Download with simple form filling <https://opensource.com/open-organization/resources/organize-innovation#down…> *Get ready for humanity's dumbest ritual: turning back the clocks for daylight-saving time* Daylight-saving time (and no, it's not daylight "savings" time) was created during World War I to decrease energy use. The practice was implemented year-round in 1942, during WWII. Not waking up in the dark, the thinking went, would decrease fuel use for lighting and heating - and help conserve energy supplies to win the war. Nearly 100 years later, though, the US is a divided nation on this topic. For example, a 2012 survey of 1,000 American adults by Rasmussen Reports found that 45% of American adults think daylight-saving is worth it, while more than 40% say it's worthless. Advocacy groups like Standardtime.com are trying to abolish daylight-saving time altogether. Energy-saving claims are "unproven," they write: "If we are saving energy, let's go year-round with daylight-saving time. If we are not saving energy, let's drop daylight-saving time!" More than 127,000 people have petitioned Congress to end daylight-saving time. Many of the comments on the petition are biting. "Daylight saving time is an antiquated practice and serves no purpose in the modern world," wrote Dustin M. from Kings Mountain, North Carolina. "It causes undo stress to millions of Americans and does nothing for anyone." Full post <https://www.businessinsider.in/Get-ready-for-humanitys-dumbest-ritual-turni…> *A Solar Cell That Does Double Duty for Renewable Energy* In the quest for abundant, renewable alternatives to fossil fuels, scientists have sought to harvest the sun’s energy through “water splitting,” an artificial photosynthesis technique that uses sunlight to generate hydrogen fuel from water. Full post <https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2018/10/29/a-solar-cell-that-does-double-duty-fo…> *What a 100-year-old idea can teach us about cybersecurity -- Randomness: The Fix for Today’s Broken Security* A 100 year-old idea, brought to life by modern technology, can protect us from even the smartest hackers, most powerful intelligence agencies and the fastest quantum computers. The cyberworld in which we spend our days — and on which our lives depend — is not safe, and is becoming more dangerous all the time. From nation-states trying to sway elections with fake news to ransomware that shuts down hospitals, we are living in a “Wild West” in which any data, or any transaction, may be attacked at any time. And like travelers in a lawless frontier, we are left to scan the horizon constantly for trouble, scrambling to plug the leaks in defenses we don’t quite trust. We are vulnerable not just because of the increasing sophistication of hackers, who are today as likely to be well-funded criminal organizations or governments as petty thieves or amateurs out for the thrill of defacing a Web site. Nor is the greatest threat the development of new offensive tools such as quantum computers, which might soon be powerful enough to crack today’s most widely used cryptographic ciphers. The biggest problem is that our basic approach to cyber security is flawed. Full post <https://medium.com/@cstoecker/randomness-the-fix-for-todays-broken-security…> *Unbundling The Autonomous Vehicle* Autonomous vehicles rely on several advanced technologies to self-navigate. We unbundle the AV to see how these technologies work together and which companies are driving them forward. Autonomous vehicles rely on a set of complementary technologies to understand and respond to their surroundings. Full post & a report on Auto Industry disruption <https://www.cbinsights.com/research/startups-drive-auto-industry-disruption/> *‘Poop vault’ of human feces could preserve gut’s microbial biodiversity—and help treat disease* Whether in villages on the coast of Ghana or in the mountains of Rwanda, asking for people's poop is a good icebreaker, Mathieu Groussin says. "Everybody laughs," says Groussin, a microbiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. "Especially when we stress that we need the whole fecal sample and show them the big bowl." He's asking on behalf of the Global Microbiome Conservancy (GMC), an effort to identify and preserve gut bacteria from different peoples around the world. Most microbiome research has focused on Western, urban populations, which typically eat processed foods and use antibiotics. The few studies of traditional peoples have found a far more diverse gut microbiome that appears to be linked to the absence of certain diseases. Full post <https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/poop-vault-human-feces-could-preser…> Related story <https://theconversation.com/your-poo-is-mostly-alive-heres-whats-in-it-1028…>: Your poo is (mostly) alive. Here’s what’s in it. If you’ve ever thought your poo is just a bunch of dead cells, think again. Most of it is alive, teeming with billions of microbes. Here’s what studies in healthy adults reveal makes up our poo. Related story <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/business/bill-gates-reinvented-toilet.ht…>: In China, Bill Gates Encourages the World to Build a Better Toilet *Events / Announcements* *COMSOL Day Chennai on 30th Nov 2018* COMSOL Multiphysics is a cross-platform finite element analysis, solver and multiphysics simulation software. It allows conventional physics-based user interfaces and coupled systems of partial differential equations (PDEs). COMSOL provides an IDE and unified workflow for electrical, mechanical, fluid, and chemical applications. COMSOL Day Chennai on 30th Nov 2018 is a day of minicourses, talks by invited speakers, and the opportunity to exchange ideas with other simulation specialists in the COMSOL community. It is a free event. To attend pl. register at http://comsol.co.in/c/7u0j *Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship 2018 – 19* Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) will be awarding Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowships in the area of Science & Engineering to outstanding engineers to recognize, encourage and support translational research by individuals to achieve excellence in engineering, innovation and technology development. Last Date for Apply– The last date for the receipt of nominations for the second call of Nominations for the Financial Year 2018-19 is 31 December 2018. More details at https://researchersjob.com/national-fellowship-2018/ *Digital Disruption and Transformation Summit 2018* FICCI TNSC with support from Government of Tamil Nadu is organizing its 3rd Edition of Digital Disruption and Transformation Conference (also known at DT3), the 3rd annual flagship event of FICCI under the theme of “Digital Rumpus – Perish or Prosper” on 1st December 2018 at Hotel ITC Grand Chola, Chennai. CSI & IEEE members are eligible for 10% discount in the registration fee. The discount code to be applied at the time of registration is CSIDT3, IEEEDT3 respectively. For details pl. visit http://ficci-tnsc.com/it-ddts-2018/ or contact: Mr R Sudharsan at sudharsan.ramu(a)ficci.com, 044-42849614-15 *SPIN Chennai: Watts Humphrey Awards 2018 event on 12th Nov 2018* The most prestigious Watts Humphrey Awards 2018 event will be held on 12th Nov 2018 at Chennai. The shortlisted teams will be presenting their projects. Dr. Bill Curtis - Co-creator, CMM, PCMM, IEEE Fellow, Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University – USA will deliver a special address and also present the prizes to the winning teams. For more details contact: R Ragavendra Prasath, admin(a)spinchennai.org, 9944.111.920 *CSI-2018: 53rd Annual Convention of Computer Society of India 2018 at Udaipur during 14-16 Dec 2018* The 53rd Annual Convention of CSI will be held at Hotel Inder Residency. Udaipur, Rajasthan, India during 14-16 Dec 2018. For details visit the convention website at http://www.csi-2018.org *INDICON 2018: Theme “Harnessing Technology For Humanity” at Coimbatore during 16-18 Dec 2018* With the theme of “Harnessing Technology for Humanity”, the 15th IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON 2018), being organized by the IEEE Madras Section during December 15-18, 2018, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, with technical support from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, promises to be bigger and better than before. With plenary sessions, keynote addresses by reputed academicians, tutorials, workshops, Student Paper contests, industry exhibits and stalls and most importantly, high quality presentations from the best of the researchers in India, no effort is being spared to make INDICON 2018, the best so far. 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BOSLA Annual Lecture Series 2018
by Satish Munnolli 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

BOSLA Annual LECTURE series - 2018 Next Generation Libraries: The Way Forward... at MMRDA, New Building, 4th Floor Committee Room, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai Saturday, 8th December, 2018 Dear Professional Colleagues, Greetings ! It is a great pleasure in inviting you for the BOSLA Annual Lecture Series-2018 and for the celebrations of 126th birth anniversary of Father of library science, Dr. S. R. Ranganathan on Saturday, 8th December 2018 at MMRDA, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra East, Mumbai. The one day event starting at <http://9.30.am/> 9.30.am will have series of lectures by eminent speakers on the theme 'Next Generation Libraries: The Way Forward..., and felicitation to superannuated members and PhD Awardees. The concept of libraries has changed multi-fold in the last two decades. The advancement in technologies has revolutionized the formats, transitions and transformation of information that has enabled access to the desired contents anywhere in the world. The digital age and tech savvy generation expect the information at the point of time. The social networking and online tools have enhanced and enabled the access to desired information at a rapid rate. They are playing a major role and in sharing the information. There is a high expectation from future generation from the libraries in terms of how best they can serve the information needs instantaneously on their hand held devices. The architecture of source database, cloud based storage concepts, navigational and discovery tools, remote access applications, how best the library spaces can be converted to attract the users and how fast the services can be delivered with innovative ideas are the key points of deliberations of the one day event. Registration fees : Rs.200/- (Rupees two hundred only) for BLISc. & MLISc. students. Rs.300/- (Rupees three hundred only) for BOSLA members; Rs.500/-(Rupees five hundred only) for Non-BOSLA members; The Cheque / DD drawn in favour of Bombay Science Librarians' Association (BOSLA) payable at Mumbai may be sent to the following address. The name, affiliation and contact numbers of the participant to be mentioned at the backside of the cheque. Dr. K. Praveen Kumar Treasurer, BOSLA Assistant Library & Information Officer International Institute for Population Sciences, Govandi Station Road, Deonar, Mumbai - 400088 Ph: 022-4237 2472 Email: <mailto:praveenkpati@gmail.com> praveenkpati(a)gmail.com Online Payment Details: Bank Name: Saraswat Bank A/c No.: 015200100011829 IFSC Code: SRCB0000015 MICR Code: 400088023 SWIFT Code: SRCBINBBGHT Kindly also confirm your participation by registering online in order to make necessary arrangements like lunch and other logistics for the programme. Superannuated BOSLA members and PhD Awardees, are requested to inform their names to the office of General Secretary, BOSLA with membership details and send their brief bio-data for their felicitation on or before November 26, 2018. Please spread the message and come along with all your professional colleagues and participate in the event. Looking forward to seeing you all in large numbers! Ms.Vasundhara Deshpande Organising Secretary & Librarian Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East, Mumbai - 400 051 Mobile : 9322048881 E-Mail: <mailto:vasundhara.deshpande@mailmmrda.maharashtra.gov.in> vasundhara.deshpande(a)mailmmrda.maharashtra.gov.in Please click on the link below for Program Schedule and more details! <http://bosla2013.wixsite.com/bosla/mmrda-seminar-2018> http://bosla2013.wixsite.com/bosla/mmrda-seminar-2018 Location of MMRDA New Building: <https://www.google.co.in/maps/place/Mmrda+New+Administrative+Building/@19 .0541606,72.8521355,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x57aa27b554f14d61!8m2!3d19.05 41606!4d72.8521355> https://www.google.co.in/maps/place/Mmrda+New+Administrative+Building/@19. 0541606,72.8521355,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x57aa27b554f14d61!8m2!3d19.054 1606!4d72.8521355 SAVE THE DATE!..8th December, 2018. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Feedback request on Bound Volumes: How to make them relevant and put them use.
by ishappa.bandi＠pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in 04 Nov '18

04 Nov '18

I've invited you to fill out the following form: Bound Volumes: How to make them relevant and put them use. To fill it out, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpSy6DfO6p9DOXMx6yVXSKPRV9pbkkZZQ… Dear Madam/Sir, Greetings!! Please give your feedback on Bound Volumes usage in your Library. Many libraries in the world are facing usage crunch of their Bound Volumes. It is very difficult for academic libraries including University Libraries to manage the Bound Volume section and make them use by their research community. Two decades ago Bound Volumes were known as Perl of any library collection and they were a direct impact on the research output of any organization. Now they have become just a dust accumulator and are in a very bad condition in many libraries. It is the duty of Library professionals to revisit and make their Bound Volume collection relevant to their user community. This Questionnaire is to get insight from various library professionals and discuss their best practices with others so that the Bound Volume section should not become a mere collection in any libraries in the world. I request all the Library professionals to give their feedback, it will take hardly 15 minutes of your time and the outcome will be shared to you all. Thank you, With regards Google Forms: Create and analyze surveys. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Need E-Book
by Manjunath K.S. 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

Respected members of LIS Forum, One of our faculty members needs this book please send an ebook to us. *Details of the Book* *Title: Mobile Commerce: Technology, Theory and Application * *Author: Brian E. Mennecke and Troy J. Strader* *DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09564230410532529 <https://doi.org/10.1108/09564230410532529> * *https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/09564230410532529 <https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/09564230410532529>* *Thanking you in Anticipation.* -- *Manjunatha K S* *Assistant Librarian* *AIMS Institutes* I 1st Cross, 1st Stage, Peenya, Bangalore - 560 058, INDIA I www.the*aims*.ac.in <http://www.theaims.ac.in/> *"Live as if you were to die tomorrow,* *Learn as if you were to live Forever."*

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SEMINAR-16 : Sports Information Management with an emphasis on shooting
by drtc＠isibang.ac.in 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research and Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE post Bangalore 560059 SEMINAR-16 Abstract Topic: Sports Information Management with an emphasis on shooting In the digital age, technology has been efficiently utilized across different domains. The realm of sports have also witnessed substantial technology applications. Information related activities such as collection of information, its storage, analysis and retrieval, plays an important role in the management of sports. This in turn allows efficient development of the Sports sector. This seminar will discuss Sports Information Management and is usefulness. The study will list out the information sources that manage the sports information. A case study of electronic scoring system will also be discussed. The seminar will conclude by discussing the issues and challenges in sport information management and also will propose some suggestions. Speaker: Paritosh Kumar Coordinator: Dr. Biswanath Dutta Date: 5-11-2018 Time: 3.30 p.m. Venue: DRTC class room (G-16) ISI Bangalore All are cordially invited.

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Interesting Reads – 2018-11-01
by Mohan Hr 01 Nov '18

01 Nov '18

*Interesting Reads – 2018-11-01* *Contents* *Articles* - Effective Presentation Tips – Smart Sheets & Expert Guides - Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019 - NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework - 20 top lawyers were beaten by legal AI. Here are their surprising responses - Alan Mathison Turing, 1912-1954: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society - Death is not the end: Fascinating funeral traditions from around the globe - Making Electronic Voting Machines Tamper-proof: Some Administrative and Technical Suggestions - How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction - India’s Emerging 100: A report on startups shaping India’s digital economy by YourStory with Akamai - What a massive database of retracted papers reveals about science publishing’s ‘death penalty’ *Events / Announcements* - SETS: Training Programme on Linux Security and Network Programming in 'C' Language - Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) - COMET 2K19: 2nd International Conference on Emerging Current Trends in Computing and Expert Technology - IEEE MiniPoco at NIT Calicut on 10th Nov 2018 - CSI-2018: 53rd Annual Convention of Computer Society of India 2018 at Udaipur during 14-16 Dec 2018 - INDICON 2018: Theme “Harnessing Technology For Humanity” at Coimbatore during 16-18 Dec 2018 Read at http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2018/11/interesting-reads-2018-11-01.html Archives at http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2018/05/interesting-reads-archives.html *======================================================== * *Articles* *Effective Presentation Tips – Smart Sheets & Expert Guides* Active Presence Limited offers effective presentation tips for business communicators. The library contains a collection of unique material and provides presentation tips in the areas of public speaking, presenting and PowerPoint Presentations. Smart Sheets : Smart Sheets are double-sided PDF documents, packed with effective presentation tips. Although their focus is narrow, each sheet provides a clear, concise foundation to its topic. You are welcome to open and save whichever Smart Sheets appeal to you, no sign-up is necessary. So far, we have produced presentation tips across nine Smart Sheets: Planning a Presentation, What is Your Presentation Sales Message?, Presentation Preparation Tips, How to Write a Presentation, Engaging Your Audience, Presentation Eye Contact, Microphone Presentations, Presentation Handouts and How to Give a Good Presentation. Expert Guides: Expert Guides provide effective presentation tips across a multi-page PDF design. Each guide addresses its particular subject in greater detail, with more space than the Smart Sheets can afford. Inside you’ll find presentation tips that will inspire you to confidently make changes in the way you plan, prepare and perform key business presentations, public speaking engagements or meeting facilitation roles. Our most popular guide is PowerPoint Presentation Ideas. Business presentations are notoriously dull: bullet-points, unimaginative corporate graphics and too much information, most of which is irrelevant… But they don’t have to be this way. Other guides include: PowerPont ‘Smart Art’; How to Speak Well in Public; Breathing Exercises: Presenting; Powerful Questions to Facilitators; and International English Style Guide. These effective presentation tips will help you: Unlock the potential for presentation design within PowerPoint; Focus on the critical issues that need communicating; and Win more business with effective PowerPoint presentations Full post <https://www.activepresence.com/effective-presentation-tips-free-advice-libr…> *Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019* Although science fiction may depict AI robots as the bad guys, some tech giants now employ them for security. Companies like Microsoft and Uber use Knightscope K5 robots to patrol parking lots and large outdoor areas to predict and prevent crime. The robots can read license plates, report suspicious activity and collect data to report to their owners. These AI-driven robots are just one example of “autonomous things,” one of the Gartner Top 10 strategic technologies for 2019 with the potential to drive significant disruption and deliver opportunity over the next five years. “The future will be characterized by smart devices delivering increasingly insightful digital services everywhere,” said David Cearley, Gartner vice president and Fellow, at Gartner 2018 Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida. “We call this the intelligent digital mesh.” - Intelligent: How AI is in virtually every existing technology, and creating entirely new categories. - Digital: Blending the digital and physical worlds to create an immersive world. - Mesh: Exploiting connections between expanding sets of people, businesses, devices, content and services. “Trends under each of these three themes are a key ingredient in driving a continuous innovation process as part of the continuous next strategy,” Cearley said. The Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology trends highlight changing or not yet widely recognized trends that will impact and transform industries through 2023. Full post <https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartner-top-10-strategic-technol…> Access the related Research Document at https://www.gartner.com/doc/3891569/top--strategic-technology-trends Registration is required. *NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework* Welcome to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NICE Framework) page. The NICE Framework provides a blueprint to categorize, organize, and describe cybersecurity work into Categories, Specialty Areas, Work Roles, tasks, and knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs). The NICE Framework provides a common language to speak about cybersecurity roles and jobs. Within the NICE Framework, there are seven Categories, each comprising of several Specialty Areas. Additionally, within each Specialty Area, there are Work Roles. Each Work Role includes the tasks required to perform the role, as well as the KSAs required to perform those tasks. Additionally, Capability Indicators have now been added to the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework on the NICCS website. The Capability Indicators are a combination of education, certification, training, experiential learning, and continuous learning attributes that could indicate a greater likelihood in an individual’s ability to perform a given Work Role. This organizing structure is based on extensive job analysis that group together work and activities that share common functions, regardless of job titles or other occupational terms. Full post <https://niccs.us-cert.gov/workforce-development/cyber-security-workforce-fr…> *20 top lawyers were beaten by legal AI. Here are their surprising responses* In a landmark study, 20 top US corporate lawyers with decades of experience in corporate law and contract review were pitted against an AI. Their task was to spot issues in five Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), which are a contractual basis for most business deals. The study, carried out with leading legal academics and experts, saw the LawGeex AI achieve an average 94% accuracy rate, higher than the lawyers who achieved an average rate of 85%. It took the lawyers an average of 92 minutes to complete the NDA issue spotting, compared to 26 seconds for the LawGeex AI. The longest time taken by a lawyer to complete the test was 156 minutes, and the shortest time was 51 minutes. The study made waves around the world and was covered across global media. Full post <https://hackernoon.com/20-top-lawyers-were-beaten-by-legal-ai-here-are-thei…> *Alan Mathison Turing, 1912-1954: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society* The sudden death of Alan Turing on 7 June 1954 deprived mathematics and science of a great original mind at the height of its power. After some years of scientific indecision, since the end of the war, Turing had found, in his chemical theory of growth and form, a theme that gave the fullest scope for his rare combination of abilities, as a mathematical analyst with a flair for machine computing, and a natural philosopher full of bold original ideas. The preliminary report of 1952, and the account that will appear posthumously, describe only his first rough sketch of this theory, and the unfulfilled design must remain a painful reminder of the loss that his early death has caused to science. Alan Mathison Turing was born in London on 23 June 1912, the son of Julius Mathison Turing, of the Indian Civil Service, and of Ethel Sara Turing (néeStoney). The name ‘Turing’ is of Scottish, perhaps ultimately of Norman origin, the final g being an addition made by Sir William Turing, of Aberdeenshire, in the reign of James VI and I. The Stoneys, an English-Irish family of Yorkshire origin, produced some distinguished physicists and engineers in the nineteenth century, three of whom became Fellows of the Society; and Edith A. Stoney was one of the early women equal-to-wranglers at Cambridge (bracketed with 17th Wrangler, 1893). Alan Turing’s interest in science began early and never wavered. Both at his preparatory schools and later at Sherborne, which he entered in 1926, the contrast between his absorbed interest in science and mathematics, and his indifference to Latin and ‘English subjects’ perplexed and distressed his teachers, bent on giving him a well-balanced education. Full biography in PDF <http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/1/253.full.pdf> *Death is not the end: Fascinating funeral traditions from around the globe* The funerals I’ve attended have all been very much the same. Relatives and friends arrive in all black and take seats in the church or synagogue pews for a somber ceremony where prayers are said, memories are shared and tears are shed. The attendees walk slowly out to their cars and form a single file line a behind the hearse, arriving at the graveyard where they place roses on the casket just before it’s lowered into the ground. Then, they proceed to the immediate family’s home, where the doorbell rings with a steady stream of loved ones — casserole dishes in hand — since, in the days ahead, people often forget to eat. Cultural anthropologist Kelli Swazey (TED Talk: Life that doesn’t end with death) shares a different approach to memorializing the dead. In Tana Toraja in eastern Indonesia, funerals are raucous affairs involving the whole village. They can last anywhere from days to weeks. Families save up for long periods of time to raise the resources for a lavish funeral, where sacrificial water buffalo will carry the deceased’s soul to the afterlife. Until that moment — which can take place years after physical death — the dead relative is referred to simply as a “person who is sick,” or even one “who is asleep.” They are laid down special rooms in the family home, where they are symbolically fed, cared for and taken out — very much still a part of their relative’s lives. Full post <https://ideas.ted.com/11-fascinating-funeral-traditions-from-around-the-glo…> *Making Electronic Voting Machines Tamper-proof: Some Administrative and Technical Suggestions* The Election Commission of India (ECI) has been consistently claiming that its Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are unique and that tampering is not feasible under real election conditions with its security protocol and administrative safeguards in place. Notwithstanding the ECI’s claims, at various points in time, the entire spectrum of political parties in India [including BJP and Congress] have expressed their reservations about the integrity of its EVMs. There have also been demands to revert to paper ballots. Confidence in the integrity of EVMs is important for voters to trust the outcomes of elections. The ECI cannot allow this confidence to be eroded. In this Policy Watch, K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty, a former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, examines the vulnerabilities of EVMs in the light of the ECI’s claims thereof, the adequacy of its security protocol and administrative safeguards, and the risks due to the perfunctory implementation of VVPAT systems as done in the recent Assembly Elections. He provides several practical administrative and technical suggestions to make Indian EVMs tamper-proof. Full post & Policy Watch document <https://www.thehinducentre.com/publications/policy-watch/article24816856.ece> *How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction* Computer science faculty have a responsibility to teach students to recognize both the larger ethical issues and particular responsibilities that are part and parcel of their work as technologists. This is, however, a kind of teaching for which most of us have not been trained, and that faculty and students approach with some trepidation. In this article, we explore the use of science fiction as a tool to enable those teaching artificial intelligence to engage students and practitioners about the scope and implications of current and future work in computer science. We have spent several years developing a creative approach to teaching computer ethics, through a course we call "Science Fiction and Computer Ethics. The course has been taught five times at the University of Kentucky and two times at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has been successful with students, as evidenced by increasing and full enrollments; high teaching-evaluation numbers; positive anonymous comments from students; nominations and awards for good teaching; and invitations to speak about the course on conference panels and in talks. Contributed paper in ACM Communications <https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-t…> *India’s Emerging 100: A report on startups shaping India’s digital economy by YourStory with Akamai* With close to 40,000 startups in India, the country's startup game is on point and many young entrepreneurs are on the run to showcase their disruptive ideas to the world. The startup ecosystem is filled with euphoric highs and lows, but thanks to affordable and accessible technology, entrepreneurs now have more opportunities to scale their innovations and positively impact industries. YourStory, together with Akamai features many such new-age startups who are instruments of positive change in sectors like healthcare, tech for impact, travel, deeptech, consumer internet and more. Leveraging Internet and cutting-edge technology, these next-generation innovators are showing gravity-defying momentum and solving quintessential Indian problems. The India Emerging 100 Report will feature startups in the country who are seizing opportunities in their journey to growth and taking centre stage in the innovation ecosystem. The ecosystem has already seen euphoric highs and crushing lows and is all the more mature for it. While there is no way to predict which of these could be the next Flipkart or Paytm, we do believe that these companies provide much-needed solutions and innovative products. They also have tremendous potential for growth and could well be trailblazers in the years to come. This report, which lists the India Emerging 100, is unique in its ability to identify these startups that have potential to grow and become benchmark companies in each sector. For Full post & to download the report <https://yourstory.com/2018/10/indias-emerging-startups-digital-economy-your…> *What a massive database of retracted papers reveals about science publishing’s ‘death penalty’* Nearly a decade ago, headlines highlighted a disturbing trend in science: The number of articles retracted by journals had increased 10-fold during the previous 10 years. Fraud accounted for some 60% of those retractions; one offender, anesthesiologist Joachim Boldt, had racked up almost 90 retractions after investigators concluded he had fabricated data and committed other ethical violations. Boldt may have even harmed patients by encouraging the adoption of an unproven surgical treatment. Science, it seemed, faced a mushrooming crisis. The alarming news came with some caveats. Although statistics were sketchy, retractions appeared to be relatively rare, involving only about two of every 10,000 papers. Sometimes the reason for the withdrawal was honest error, not deliberate fraud. And whether suspect papers were becoming more common—or journals were just getting better at recognizing and reporting them—wasn't clear. Still, the surge in retractions led many observers to call on publishers, editors, and other gatekeepers to make greater efforts to stamp out bad science. The attention also helped catalyze an effort by two longtime health journalists—Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, who founded the blog Retraction Watch, based in New York City—to get more insight into just how many scientific papers were being withdrawn, and why. They began to assemble a list of retractions. That list, formally released to the public this week as a searchable database, is now the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. It includes more than 18,000 retracted papers and conference abstracts dating back to the 1970s (and even one paper from 1756 involving Benjamin Franklin). It is not a perfect window into the world of retractions. Not all publishers, for instance, publicize or clearly label papers they have retracted, or explain why they did so. And determining which author is responsible for a paper's fatal flaws can be difficult. Still, the data trove has enabled Science, working with Retraction Watch, to gain unusual insight into one of scientific publishing's most consequential but shrouded practices. Our analysis of about 10,500 retracted journal articles shows the number of retractions has continued to grow, but it also challenges some worrying perceptions that continue today. The rise of retractions seems to reflect not so much an epidemic of fraud as a community trying to police itself. Full post and related articles <https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/what-massive-database-retracted-pap…> *Events / Announcements* *SETS: Training Programme on Linux Security and Network Programming in 'C' Language* SETS is organising a Training Programme on Linux Security and Network Programming in 'C' Language from 19th to 21st November (Three Days) at MGR Knowledge City, CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai - 600 113. Programme Brochure at http://www.setsindia.in/PdfDocs/Linux.pdf Contacts: Dr. P. Nageswara Rao, Workshop Coordinator, SETS. Mobile: 9884143131 Landline: 044-66632506 & Email: workshop(a)setsindia.net *Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA)* Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India to systematically rank all major higher educational institutions and universities in India on indicators related to “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development” amongst students and faculties. Registration Open: 25th Oct 2018, Closes: 15th Nov 2018 Data Submission Open: 16th Nov 2018, Closes: 31st Dec 2018 More details at https://mbcet.wordpress.com/2018/10/30/atal-ranking-of-institutions-on-inno… *COMET 2K19: 2nd International Conference on Emerging Current Trends in Computing and Expert Technology* Panimalar Engineering College Chennai, India, is organizing the “2nd International Conference on Emerging Current Trends in Computing and Expert Technology" (COMET 2K19) on March 22nd and 23rd, 2019. The conference includes workshops, poster presentation project demo, invited talks and technical paper presentations. All registered papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies. Last date for paper submission: December 10,2018 For details pl. visit http://www.pecteam.in/ *IEEE MiniPoco at NIT Calicut on 10th Nov 2018* IEEE Kerala Section and IEEE India Council invite potential conference organizers to learn about the core of organizing a successful IEEE conference. The theme of this year's mini POCO workshop scheduled on 10th Nov 2018 is “How to successfully organize an IEEE Conference?”. Last Date for Registration is 6th November 2018. Only 100 seats are available. Registration will be purely on First come First serve basis. For more details pl. visit https://sites.google.com/nitc.ac.in/minipoco2018/ *CSI-2018: 53rd Annual Convention of Computer Society of India 2018 at Udaipur during 14-16 Dec 2018* The 53rd Annual Convention of CSI will be held at Hotel Inder Residency. Udaipur, Rajasthan, India during 14-16 Dec 2018. For details visit the convention website at http://www.csi-2018.org *INDICON 2018: Theme “Harnessing Technology For Humanity” at Coimbatore during 16-18 Dec 2018* With the theme of “Harnessing Technology for Humanity”, the 15th IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON 2018), being organized by the IEEE Madras Section during December 15-18, 2018, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, with technical support from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, promises to be bigger and better than before. With plenary sessions, keynote addresses by reputed academicians, tutorials, workshops, Student Paper contests, industry exhibits and stalls and most importantly, high quality presentations from the best of the researchers in India, no effort is being spared to make INDICON 2018, the best so far. For details visit the website at http://indicon2018.in/ *Archives of Interesting Reads * To access the past posts of Interesting Reads, pl. visit http://infoforuse.blogspot.in/2018/05/interesting-reads-archives.html *Feedback* We will be pleased to have your feedback on the “Interesting Reads” posts being sent once in five days. Pl. share the links of any interesting things you come across so that we can include them in these email posts. Also, pl. share the email ids of your colleagues, friends, peers and contacts, if you want them to be included in the google group to get regular posts. Pl. send all your communications to hrmohan.ieee(a)gmail.com With regards HR Mohan

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