ACM Chennai Chapter Newsletter – 15 March, 2017
Chapter Activities, Upcoming Events, Tech News
Chapter Activities
We now have our chapter website ! Please visit us @ https://chennai.hosting.acm.org/chennai-acm/ We worked with acm.org to create our subdomin.
Volunteers skilled/interested in WordPress welcome ! Your help will be timely in enhancing the website.
Do note our Twitter handle: @ChennaiAcm. Please follow us, we shall be keeping you posted of all important developments as it happens !
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Event Updates
ACM Chennai Professional Chapter is planning to organize a series of talks on Turing Awardees and their contributions. The first talk of this series will be about the 1972 Turing award winner, Edsger. W. Dijkstra and will be given by Prof. Madhavan Mukund, CMI.
Date & Time : 21st March 2017 5:00 PM
Venue : Ramanujan Auditorium, Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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Headlines at a Glance
1. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39252042
2. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170313110742.htm
3. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Autonomous-Delivery-Robots-to-Hit-Virginias-Streets-84362.html
4. https://phys.org/news/2017-03-solutions-complex-problems-domains-application.html
5. https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/03/09/mining-data-across-the-campus.aspx
6. http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/california-gives-the-green-light-to-selfdriving-cars
7. http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/diagnostics/in-hospital-intensive-care-units-ai-could-predict-which-patients-are-likely-to-die
8. http://www.computerworld.com/article/3180384/it-management/after-rocky-tenure-mayer-leaves-yahoo-tarnished.html
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News in Detail
SXSW 2017: Why is the Vatican at a tech conference?
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39252042
“As Bishop Paul Tighe sat down for our interview, he joked that not only is he probably the only priest at South by Southwest, but also the only person with grey hair. …”
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** World’s first ‘lip password’ utilizes a user’s lip motions to create password
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170313110742.htm
“Scientists have invented a new technology entitled “lip motion password” (lip password) which utilizes a person’s lip motions to create a password …”
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** Autonomous Delivery Robots to Hit Virginia’s Streets
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Autonomous-Delivery-Robots-to-Hit-Virginias-Streets-84362.html
“Autonomous delivery robots will be able to travel on sidewalks, crosswalks and shared-use paths throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia this summer. ….”
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** How can we share solutions to complex systems problems across domains and application areas?
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https://phys.org/news/2017-03-solutions-complex-problems-domains-application.html
“What do power networks, transportation hubs, weather patterns, commercial organisations and swarming robots have in common? ..”
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** Mining Data Across the Campus
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https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/03/09/mining-data-across-the-campus.aspx
** “An increased focus on data at Clemson University is impacting decision-making in finance, operations, facilities and more. …”
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** California Gives the Green Light to Self-Driving Cars
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/california-gives-the-green-light-to-selfdriving-cars
“In a bold attempt to regain its place as a self-driving pioneer, California today proposed regulations that would make it one of the first places in the world where autonomous vehicles could carry paying passengers without a licensed driver on board …”
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** In Hospital ICUs, AI Could Predict Which Patients Are Likely to Die
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/diagnostics/in-hospital-intensive-care-units-ai-could-predict-which-patients-are-likely-to-die
“Hospitals have an understandable goal for their intensive care units: to reduce “dead in bed” events. With streams of data coming from equipment that monitors patients’ vital signs, the ICU …”
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After rocky tenure, Mayer to leave Yahoo ‘tarnished’
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3180384/it-management/after-rocky-tenure-mayer-leaves-yahoo-tarnished.html
“After nearly five rocky years as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer will be leaving her post with something of a tarnished image. As Yahoo continued to struggle under her tenure, so did Mayer’s reputation as someone who could run a top-tier company …”
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