ACM Chennai Chapter Newsletter - January 16-31, 2019
Chapter Activities Elections for Chapter Committee posts held. New Office Bearers: Chair: Mr. H. R. Mohan Vice-Chair: Dr. T. S. Pradeep Kumar(VIT) Secretary: Mr. Raghuraman Krishnamurthy(Cognizant) Treasurer: Ms. S. Angel Deborah(SSN) Congratulations and best wishes. Upcoming Events ~ mid February: New office bearers to take charge. 13-14 Feb: ACM India Chennai Professional Chapter along with SSN ACM and ACM-W student chapters is organizing a two day hands-on workshop on "Introduction to Blocckchain and Hyperledger tutorial" on 13th and 14th Feb 2019 at SSN campus. Mr. Rajesh Bhaskar, Founder, Trilloc and Dr. Balasundaram, CTO, Trilloc will be handling the sessions. The details of registration fee are as follows: Industry participants : Rs. 3000/ Faculty members : Rs. 2000/ Students and Research scholars: Rs. 1000/ Those who are interested can register through the following link: bits.ly/snnbtws Registration will be confirmed on a first come-first served basis after the payment of fees. For further details, please contact Sudha: +91 72992 26960 (or) Gajesh: +91 94453 37904 Headlines at a Glance 1. Government Shutdown Puts Pressure on University Research 2. Do Data Scientists Need Certification? 3. The airport that welcomes drone flights 4. Design Patterns for Managing Up 5. IBM Research releases 'Diversity in Faces' dataset to advance study of fairness in facial recognition systems News in Detail ** Government Shutdown Puts Pressure on University Research campustechnology.com | Sara Friedman | 29 January, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------ The month-long shutdown of critical federal government agencies puts university research work at risk, causing delays and the loss of critical funding ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Do Data Scientists Need Certification? spectrum.ieee.org | Tekal S. Perry | 30 January, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------ Defining a “data scientist” is tough; finding one to hire in today’s market can be even tougher. A certification program aims to help ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** The airport that welcomes drone flights bbc.com | Jane Wakefield | 26 January, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------ A crowd has gathered on Juma, an island in Tanzania's Lake Victoria, the world's second largest freshwater lake. The local people are standing behind makeshift nets which cordon off an area where a small group of engineers are consulting laptops and smartphones ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Design Patterns for Managing Up Kate Matsudira | ACM Queue | January 16, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Have you ever been in a situation where you are presenting to your manager or your manager's manager and you completely flub the opportunity by saying all the wrong things? Me too. ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** IBM Research releases 'Diversity in Faces' dataset to advance study of fairness in facial recognition systems phys.org, IBM | John R. Smith | 29 January, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------ Have you ever been treated unfairly? How did it make you feel? Probably not too good. Most people generally agree that a fairer world is a better world ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------
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