ACM Chennai Chapter Newsletter – August 1-15, 2018

Chapter Activities, Upcoming Events, Tech News
Chapter Activities
No significant updates.
Upcoming Events
Will update when the next event is planned.
Headlines at a Glance
1. The smarter city: Las Vegas tunes IT operations with AIOps
2. Cybersecurity’s insidious new threat: workforce stress
3. Innovative Presidents Finding Ways to Use Social Media for Student Engagement
4. A new defensive technique could hold off attackers by making software buggier 
5. Toward a universal quantum computer
6. Banks lead in digital era fraud detection
News in Detail 
** The smarter city: Las Vegas tunes IT operations with AIOps
gcn.com | Sara Friedman | 03 August, 2018
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From smart lights in parks to sensors that can detect potholes before they happen, Las Vegas 
is leveraging a wide range of connected technologies to transform itself into one of the 
smartest cities in the United States. To reach ...

Full Article (https://gcn.com/articles/2018/08/03/aiops-las-vegas.aspx)
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** Cybersecurity’s insidious new threat: workforce stress
MIT Tech Review | Martin Giles | 07 August, 2018
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The thousands of cybersecurity professionals gathering at Black Hat, a massive conference 
held in the blistering heat of Las Vegas every summer, are encountering a different type of 
session this year ...

Full Article (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611727/cybersecuritys-insidious-new-threat-workforce-stress/)
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** Innovative Presidents Finding Ways to Use Social Media for Student Engagement
campustechnology.com | Dian Schaffhauser | 13 August, 2018
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A new report that examines how college presidents interact with students shares how the most 
innovative leaders have gone beyond the standard fare (photo opportunities and participation 
in service events) to embrace social and digital mechanisms ...

Full Article (https://campustechnology.com/articles/2018/08/13/innovative-presidents-finding-ways-to-use-social-media-for-student-engagement.aspx)
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** A new defensive technique could hold off attackers by making software buggier
Tech Xplore | Ingrid Fadelli | 10 August, 2018
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Researchers at New York University have recently devised a new cyber defense technique, which 
works by adding so-called "chaff bugs," non-exploitable bugs, rather than eliminating 
existing ones. A pre-print version of their inventive study was uploaded to ArXiv last week ...

Full Article (https://techxplore.com/news/2018-08-defensive-technique-software-buggier.html)
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** Toward a universal quantum computer
sciencedaily.com | Yokohama National University | 13 August, 2018
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Researchers have demonstrated holonomic quantum gates under zero-magnetic field at room 
temperature, which will enable the realization of fast and fault-tolerant universal quantum 
computers ...

Full Article (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180813082742.htm)
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** Banks lead in digital era fraud detection
computerweekly.com | Warwick Ashford | 13 August, 2018
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Various technological advances have reduced the risk of card-not-present fraud, but as we 
enter a new era of autonomous machines and devices, a new type of risk is emerging, warns 
Daniel Cohen, director of RSA’s fraud and risk intelligence unit ...

Full Article (https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252446771/Banks-lead-in-digital-era-fraud-detection)
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