*Interesting Reads – 2018-10-06* *Contents* *Articles* - IT jobs: 10 must-reads for job hunters - Halfway to boiling: the city at 50C - BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980-1989 - Honoring the 2018 Nobel Laureates with free access to their research - Plagiarism Detection - Here Are 18 Industries Cannabis Is Disrupting - The power of a hug can help you cope with conflict - The 50 Most Genius Companies of 2018 - The Incredible Scientists Who Are Solving the Brain - Whitepaper on using electromechanical design to streamline the design process *Events / Announcements* - UK-India Social Innovation Challenge - GIAN Course on “Digital Business: The Innovation Challenge of the Next Decade” at IIT Madras - 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/2018/10/interesting-reads-2018-10-06.html Archives at http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/2018/05/interesting-reads-archives.html *======================================================== * *Articles* *IT jobs: 10 must-reads for job hunters* IT people have many passions, ranging from mobile technology to security. But one thing you’re always passionate about is your career success. It’s an interesting moment in the IT profession, marked by great change both in individual roles and team organization. More CIOs are leading digital strategy. More workplaces are blurring the boundaries between teams, thanks to DevOps and agile ways of working. New technologies like AI and automation are taking over some manual tasks, ideally freeing IT people to do more valuable work. Based on our recent readership numbers on career-minded stories, this is a time of year when many of you start to think about whether you’re still in the right place. So we’ve rounded up some must-reads if you’re hunting for your next IT role – or preparing to hunt – because preparation is key. These ten articles will give you everything from a look at what roles are hot to salary negotiation tips. So dig in. And let us know what aspects of IT job hunting you’d like us to bear down on in the future. Good luck with the job hunt. Full post https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2018/9/it-jobs-10-must-reads-job-hun... *Halfway to boiling: the city at 50C* It is the temperature at which human cells start to cook, animals suffer and air conditioners overload power grids. Once an urban anomaly, 50C is fast becoming reality Not long ago, 50C was considered an anomaly, but it is increasingly widespread. Earlier this year, the 1.1 million residents of Nawabshah, Pakistan, endured the hottest April ever recorded on Earth, as temperatures hit 50.2C. In neighbouring India two years earlier, the town of Phalodi sweltered in 51C – the country’s hottest ever day. Dev Niyogi, professor at Purdue University, Indiana, and chair of the Urban Environment department at the American Meteorological Society, witnessed how cities were affected by extreme heat on a research trip to New Delhi and Pune during that 2015 heatwave in India, which killed more than 2,000 people. “You could see the physical change. Road surfaces started to melt, neighbourhoods went quiet because people didn’t go out and water vapour rose off the ground like a desert mirage,” he recalls. “We must hope that we don’t see 50C. That would be uncharted territory. Infrastructure would be crippled and ecosystem services would start to break down, with long-term consequences.” Full post https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/aug/13/halfway-boiling-city-50c *BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980-1989* In the 1980s, the BBC explored the world of computing in The Computer Literacy Project. They commissioned a home computer (the BBC Micro) and taught viewers how to program. The Computer Literacy Project chronicled a decade of information technology and was a milestone in the history of computing in Britain, helping to inspire a generation of coders. This site contains all 146 of the original Computer Literacy Project programmes plus 121 related programmes, broken down into 2,509 categorised, searchable clips. - Watch any of the 267 programmes - Explore 2,509 programme clips by topic or text search - Find out how the BBC Computer Literacy Project came about - Run 166 BBC Micro programs that were used on-screen Explore https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/ Related story https://hub.packtpub.com/the-bbc-brings-the-history-of-computing-to-life/: The BBC brings the history of computing to life *Honoring the 2018 Nobel Laureates with free access to their research* Most scientific progress stems from a team effort. The Nobel Prize recognizes scientific achievements that have brought real and lasting change to health, the physical sciences, technology and economics and to our understanding of these fields. Each prize is awarded to up to three individuals, but the reality is that each breakthrough is the culmination of millions of hours of work conducted in labs around the world. Each award is only possible because of the community of researchers, reviewers and co-authors that enabled it. The formidable achievements recognized by the Nobel Foundation will, in turn, empower today’s scientists to make further discoveries. Thanks to their predecessors, who dedicated their time in pursuit of these truths, the winners listed below are finding new answers, reshaping human knowledge and tackling global crises. Most of the Nobel Laureates in science have published their work in Elsevier's journals and books — 181 out of 182 since the year 2000, according to a Scopus analysis — and many have served as editors, editorial board members or reviewers. At Elsevier, we are proud to support such scientific achievement. Many of our people began their careers in research, medicine or science, and they are passionate about working closely with people in the research community to support the great work they do and make it possible for researchers around the world to find it and build on it. To honor this year’s Nobel Laureates, their achievements, and the community that made these amazing breakthroughs possible, we have made a selection of their most cited papers published with Elsevier freely available. - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Nobel Prize in Physics - Nobel Prize in Chemistry Full post https://www.elsevier.com/connect/honoring-the-2018-nobel-laureates-with-free... *Plagiarism Detection* Explore the latest articles, projects, and questions and answers in Plagiarism Detection, and find Plagiarism Detection experts. Full post https://www.researchgate.net/topic/Plagiarism-Detection *Here Are 18 Industries Cannabis Is Disrupting* As legal cannabis goes mainstream, it's creeping into everything from CBD-oil infused beauty products, to houses made of hemp, to banking for marijuana retailers. Once an illegal and somewhat niche product, legal cannabis is now a fast-growing global industry. And it’s proving to be disruptive, impacting everything from beverage production to home construction. Recent analyst reports estimate that the global legal marijuana industry will reach more than $20B by 2025. Medical marijuana is already legal in more than half the United States, and eight states (plus Washington DC) have legalized marijuana for recreational use. It’s soon to be fully legal in all of Canada. There’s also been a large uptick in public and private investment in new, safer forms of ingestible marijuana, while cannabis startups — focused on everything from therapeutics applications to cultivation techniques — are also cropping up. Financing to cannabis companies more than doubled in 2017. Full post https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/cannabis-disruption-legal-marijua... *The power of a hug can help you cope with conflict* Friends, children, romantic partners, family members – many of us exchange hugs with others on a regular basis. New research from the United States, published today in PLOS, now shows hugs can help us to cope with conflict in our daily life. Hugs are considered a form of affectionate touch. Hugs occur between social partners of all types, and sometimes even strangers. They often arise in positive contexts – while greeting, celebrating an achievement, or simply enjoying the presence of a loved one – but they can also occur in negative contexts when support is needed. Affectionate touch buffers anxiety associated with potential negative events. For instance, in one study, brain activity among participants who held their romantic partner’s hand during a stressful situation reflected less intense threat responses compared to that of participants who held a stranger’s hand, or no hand at all. The new research, led by Carnegie Mellon’s Michael Murphy, reveals the important role that hugs can play in buffering against the negative impact of interpersonal conflict such as disagreements and arguments. Full story https://theconversation.com/the-power-of-a-hug-can-help-you-cope-with-confli... *The 50 Most Genius Companies of 2018* At the heart of every great business is a creative solution to a problem—and those solutions sometimes change the world. To assemble TIME’s first annual list of Genius Companies, we asked our global network of editors and correspondents to nominate businesses that are inventing the future. Then we evaluated candidates on key factors, including originality, influence, success and ambition. The result: 50 companies that are driving progress now, and bear watching for what they do next. To see the full list, click here. http://time.com/collection/genius-companies-2018/ *The Incredible Scientists Who Are Solving the Brain* True stories of indefatigable researchers, heroic engineers, and champions of, neuroscience who are finally turning the corner in the effort to understand, heal, and improve the human brain. Full post https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a22824573/the-brain/ *Whitepaper on using electromechanical design to streamline the design process* Today’s products have become ultra-sophisticated cyber-physical systems. They have software, interconnected circuits and attached sensors, actuators and communications interfaces. Download this whitepaper to learn how working on an integrated platform with cross-domain technologies, common data backbones and shared libraries helps engineers make faster, more informed decisions; ultimately delivering better designs. Whitepaper http://leadwise.mediadroit.com/files/67477Why%20Multidisciplinary%20Design%2... *Events / Announcements* *UK-India Social Innovation Challenge* CSIE IIT Madras along with the Social Impact Lab, University of Southampton, UK has launched the 2nd edition of UK India Social Innovation Challenge -2018 on the theme Waste Management. The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) at Defra estimates that around 600 million tonnes of products and materials enter the UK economy each year and we generate approximately 290 million tonnes of waste. Only 115 million tonnes of this combined material gets recycled. Although there has been a gradual decline in waste over the past few years, there is still a long way to go in identifying ways to prevent waste in manufacturing and production processes, through supply chains and particularly at a community level. There has been significant success in reducing waste in recent years, but it remains an enormous challenge and an area which needs new solutions. We throw away more than seven million tonnes of food and drink every year from our homes – most of which could have been safely consumed. The UK hospitality sector alone (hotels, pubs, restaurants and quick service restaurants) could save £724 million a year by tackling food waste. The UKISEEN SIC is challenging participants to create hard impact through one of the following areas: - The sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources. Halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses. - Achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment. - Substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse. Prize Money: 2900 UKP. Deadline: 4th November 2018 For more details pl. visit http://ukiseen.org/uk-india-social-innovation-challenge-new *GIAN Course on “Digital Business: The Innovation Challenge of the Next Decade” at IIT Madras* The GIAN Course on “Digital Business: The Innovation Challenge of the Next Decade” hosted by Indian Institute of Technology, Madras from 26th to 30th November, 2018. The sessions will be handled by Prof. Richard Watson, University of Georgia in coordination with Prof. Saji K. Mathew, DoMS, IIT Madras. Course Brochure at https://goo.gl/5KfKxP Please follow the following steps for the registration: 1. Go to GIAN website (http://www.gian.iitkgp.ac.in/GREGN/index). First time users need to register and pay a one-time fee of INR 500. 2. Enroll for the course: Digital Business: The Innovation Challenge of the Next Decade. Once you enroll for the course, an Enrollment/Application number will be generated, and the course coordinators will be notified. For clarifications pl. contact: Dr. Saji K. Mathew, Professor, DoMS, IIT Madras. Tel: +91 44 2257 4573; Cell: +91 8056078251; Email: saji@iitm.ac.in *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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