ACM Chennai Chapter Newsletter – December 1-15, 2018
Chapter Activities, Upcoming Events, Tech News
Chapter Activities 12 Dec., 2018: We had a talk by Dr. Richard Baeza-Yates on 'Bias on the Web' in IIT Madras.
Upcoming Events
Nothing planned for the immediate future.
Headlines at a Glance
1. "What Would Doug Engelbart Do?" Ask Organizers of a Silicon Valley Event 2. Intro AI, Machine Learning Courses Wooing More Students 3. Amazon uses dummy parcels to catch thieves 4. Researchers discover computer chip vulnerabilities 5. New building block in quantum computing demonstrated 6. These incredibly realistic fake faces show how algorithms can now mess with us
News in Detail
** "What Would Doug Engelbart Do?" Ask Organizers of a Silicon Valley Event spectrum.ieee.org | Tekla S. Perry | 14 December, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ Fifty years ago this month Doug Engelbart (http://dougengelbart.org/) demonstrated what we’ve come to know as computing—the mouse, hypertext, and windows. His goal wasn’t to revolutionize computing per se ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Intro AI, Machine Learning Courses Wooing More Students campustechnology.com | Dian Schaffhauser | 13 December, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ Enrollment in artificial intelligence (AI) introductory courses in the United States grew by 3.4 times between 2012 and 2017, and introductory machine learning (ML) classes grew by five times ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Amazon uses dummy parcels to catch thieves bbc.com Technology News| 13 December, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ Officers in New Jersey are planting dummy boxes fitted with GPS trackers, coupled with hidden doorbell cameras, at homes around the city of Jersey ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Researchers discover computer chip vulnerabilities techXplore.com | Tina Hindling, WSU | 13 December, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ A Washington State University research team has uncovered significant and previously unknown vulnerabilities in high-performance computer chips ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** New building block in quantum computing demonstrated ScienceDaily.com | Oak Ridge Lab, DoE | 4 December, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ The researchers’ innovative experimental setup involved operating on photons contained within a single fiber-optic cable ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** These incredibly realistic fake faces show how algorithms can now mess with us Will Knight | MIT Tech Review| 14 December, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ The faces above don’t seem particularly remarkable. They could easily be taken from, say, Facebook or LinkedIn. In reality, they were dreamt up by a new kind of AI algorithm ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------
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