Association for Computing Machinery

ACM Chennai Chapter Newsletter – 27 Feb., 2017
Chapter Activities, Upcoming Events, Tech News

Chapter Activities

We have a new Twitter handle ! @ChennaiAcm

We had 3 Seminars during this month. We shall continue posting the invites to this group as timely as we can.

We are working towards our chapter website. Volunteers, welcome. Please email me: kraghuraman@yahoo.com

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Event Updates

COMAD 2017
Dates: March 8-10
Venue: IIT Madras Campus, Chennai

CODS 2017
Dates: March 9-11
Venue: IIT Madras Campus, Chennai

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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Tech News
Self-Driving Cars Have a Bicycle Problem

http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/self-driving/selfdriving-cars-have-a-bicycle-problem

“Robotic cars are great at monitoring other cars, and they’re getting better at noticing pedestrians, squirrels, and birds. The main challenge, though, is posed by the lightest, quietest, swerviest vehicles on the road …”
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** Paying with your Face
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https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603494/10-breakthrough-technologies-2017-paying-with-your-face/?set=603724

“Face-detecting systems in China now authorize payments, provide access to facilities, and track down criminals. Will other countries follow? …”
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Reflections on Structurelessness

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/reflections-on-structurelessness/63618

“This post is inspired by an article called The Tyranny of Structurelessness (http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm) by Jo Freeman. Thanks to Gardner Campbell (http://www.twitter.com/gardnercampbell) for sharing it while collaboratively annotating an article for the #OpenLearning17 MOOC …”
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** Students Who Comment More in MOOCs Have Higher Rates of Completion
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https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/02/24/students-who-comment-more-in-moocs-have-higher-rates-of-completion.aspx

“A recent study (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcal.12165/full) found that students who comment more on massive open online courses (MOOCs) are more likely to complete the course than those who do not comment…”
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** These Smart Glasses Automatically Adjust to Your Eyes
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/video/semiconductors/devices/these-smart-glasses-automatically-adjust-to-your-eyes

** “Imagine glasses that could bring everything into focus, shifting prescriptions from near to farsighted and back again in moments …”
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** Imagining the Future of VR at Google
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https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603468/imagining-the-future-of-vr-at-google/
“Jessica Brillhart (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603468/imagining-the-future-of-vr-at-google/?p=articles&e=603468) is the principal filmmaker for virtual reality at Google, where she enjoys one of the most creative jobs in Silicon Valley. She makes VR experiences (http://www.jessicabrillhart.com/gallery-vr/) …”
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** The 6 Major Barriers to Technology Adoption in Higher Ed
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https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/02/15/6-major-barriers-to-technology-adoption-in-higher-ed
“Even as technology proliferates in education at unprecedented rates, new hurdles — including limitations of the human mind to keep up with technological advances — are throwing themselves in the way of effective implementation …”

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