ACM Chennai Chapter Newsletter - December, 2019
Chapter Activities
ACM Chennai Professional Chapter supported the following events.
- 19 Dec., 2019: “Industry 4.0 Implementation and Industrial IoT Security Framework Design”
- 19 Dec., 2019: Certification Workshop on Cyber Security
- 20 Dec., 2019: “Artificial Neural Networks” at SETS, Chennai
Upcoming Events
20-21, January, 2020: First International Conference on Urban Data Science: Theme: Smart Cities, IIT Madras.
You can register for the conference at https://in.explara.com/e/uds-2020
Headlines at a Glance
1. Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet
2. Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials
3. Gartner: 10 Ways Technology Will Change What It Means to Be Human
4. The Coolest Hacks of 2019
5. As natural language processing techniques improve, suggestions are getting speedier and more relevant
6. Distributed, not remote
News in Detail
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Russia ‘successfully tests’ its unplugged internet
bbc.com | Jane Wakefield | 24 Dec., 2019
Russia has successfully tested a country-wide alternative to the global internet, its government has announced. Details of what the test involved were vague but, according to the Ministry of Communications, ordinary users did not notice any changes. The results will now be presented to President Putin …
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Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials
Rob Matheson | MIT News Office 19 December, 2019
Knowing a company’s true sales can help determine its value. Investors, for instance, often employ financial analysts to predict a company’s upcoming earnings using various public data, computational tools, …
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Gartner: 10 Ways Technology Will Change What It Means to Be Human
campustechnology.com | Rhea Khelly | 04 Dec., 2019
“The human condition is being challenged as technology creates varied and ever-changing expectations of humans,” according to research firm Gartner. That’s the theme behind 10 strategic predictions …
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The Coolest Hacks of 2019
darkreading.com | Kelly Jackson Higgins | 30 Dec., 2019
A FaceTime fail, weaponized sound, a ‘Prying Eye,’ and a wearable fingerprint ring, were among the more novel and odd hacks this year. In a year punctuated by endless reports of leaky cloud storage buckets, firmware flaws, and the resurgence of ransomware into a full-blown epidemic, security researchers still found innovative …
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As natural language processing techniques improve, suggestions are getting speedier and more relevant
MIT | Kim Martineau | 23 Dec., 2019
With billions of books, news stories, and documents online, there’s never been a better time to be reading—if you have time to sift through all the options. “There’s a ton of text on the internet,…
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Distributed but not Remote
cio.com | Dave Mangot | 23 Dec., 2019
Every company may be a software company, but many software companies are now becoming distributed software companies. By adopting an everyone remote culture, we can hire, empower, and enable employees, wherever they happen …
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