ACM Chennai Chapter Newsletter – July 16-31, 2017
Chapter Activities, Upcoming Events, Tech News
Chapter Activities No significant updates. Upcoming Events
As part of the "50 Years of Turing Award" talk series, the fourth talk has been scheduled at IIT Madras. Topic : Contributions of Leslie Lamport (2013 Turing Award Winner) Speaker : Dr. D. Janakiram Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Madras, Chennai Date : 17th August @ 5PM Venue : CS 25, Department of CSE, IIT Madras, Chennai
Headlines at a Glance
1. https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/07/27/mit-researchers-aim-to-bring-neural-networks-to-smartphones.aspx 2. http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/tech-workplace-gossip-app-blind-opens-to-the-massess 3. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608249/for-computers-too-its-hard-to-learn-to-speak-chinese/ 4. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170726103010.htm 5. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/8/219608-how-adults-ages-60-are-learning-to-code/fulltext 6. http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450423530/Singapore-to-review-personal-data-protection-rules 7.https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/07/11/how-utahs-silicon-slopes-became-clouds-new-capital/ News in Detail
** MIT Researchers Aim to Bring Neural Networks to Smartphones Campustechnology.com, Joshua Bolkan, 27 July 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------ A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (http://web.mit.edu/) is working to bring neural networks to handheld devices. ... Read More (https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/07/27/mit-researchers-aim-to-bring-neural-networks-to-smartphones.aspx) ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Tech Workplace Gossip App Blind Opens to the Masses spectrum.ieee.org, Tekla S. Perry 27 Jul 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------ Want to know what it’s really like at a tech company? You can check out reviews on Glassdoor (https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm) , but those tend to be very limited in scope, along the lines of “hard ... Read More (http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/tech-workplace-gossip-app-blind-opens-to-the-massess) ------------------------------------------------------------ ** For Computers, Too, It’s Hard to Learn to Speak Chinese ------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Technology Review, Yiting Sun, July 25, 2017 Challenging written characters make voice-based computing a natural for China, but computers that can hold a conversation in Chinese are some way off … Read More (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608249/for-computers-too-its-hard-to-learn-to-speak-chinese/) ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Taking technology to the next level ------------------------------------------------------------ Science Daily, July 26, 2017 Physicists have developed a new hybrid integrated platform, promising to be a more advanced alternative to conventional integrated circuits. The researchers demonstrated their approach is mass manufacturable, making it possible to integrate the platform into everyday electronic equipment ... Read More (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170726103010.htm) ------------------------------------------------------------ ** How Adults Ages 60+ Are Learning to Code ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Philip Guo, Communications of the ACM, August 2017 I recently published and presented a paper at CHI 2017 (the annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, https://chi2017.acm.org (https://chi2017.acm.org/) ) called "Older Adults Learning Computer ... Read More (https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/8/219608-how-adults-ages-60-are-learning-to-code/fulltext) ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Singapore to review personal data protection rules ------------------------------------------------------------ ** computerweekly.com, Aaron Tan, 28 July, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------ ** If given the green light, the proposed changes to the Personal Data Protection Act will require organisations to notify the authorities of data breaches ... ------------------------------------------------------------ Read More (http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450423530/Singapore-to-review-personal-data-protection-rules) ------------------------------------------------------------ ** How Utah's 'Silicon Slopes' Became Cloud Computing's New Capital ------------------------------------------------------------ ** July 27, 2017 Forbes ------------------------------------------------------------ ** In a particularly decadent McMansion, complete with personal theater, tennis court and replica hobbit hole, in the appropriately named Alpine, Utah, a few miles north of Provo, the clock ticks past 1 a.m. ... ------------------------------------------------------------ Read More (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/07/11/how-utahs-silicon-slopes-became-clouds-new-capital/)
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