ACM Chennai Chapter Newsletter – November 16-30,  2018

Chapter Activities, Upcoming Events, Tech News
Chapter Activities
30 November, 2018: We had an expert talk by Mr. Kaarthik Sivakumar on 'Security and Trust' 
at IMSc.
Upcoming Events
Nothing planned for the immediate future.
Headlines at a Glance
1. Point: Should AI Technology Be Regulated?: Yes, and Here's How
2. The Challenges of Predicting Mob Behavior at Political Rallies
3. University Launches Degree Program Pairing Liberal Arts with Computer Science
4. Marriott hack hits 500 million Starwood guests
5. Fog robotics: A new approach to achieve efficient and fluent human-robot interaction
6. Making it easier to transform freeform 2-D sketching into 3-D models
News in Detail 
** Point: Should AI Technology Be Regulated?: Yes, and Here's How
CACM | Oren Etzioni | December, 2018
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Government regulation is necessary to prevent harm. But regulation is also a blunt and 
slow-moving instrument that is easily subject to political interference and distortion. When applied to fast-moving fields like ..

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** The Challenges of Predicting Mob Behavior at Political Rallies
spectrum.ieee.org | Michelle Hampson |29 November, 2018
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For many people, it’s easy to get caught up in the throes of political passion. But when 
political tensions reach a boiling point, this can have profound consequences, such ...

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** University Launches Degree Program Pairing Liberal Arts with Computer Science
campustechnology.com | Rhea Kelly | 28 Novemer, 2018
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A new degree program at Dominican University of California (http://www.dominican.edu/)  aims 
to provide students with both the technical and the soft skills they need to succeed in the 
workplace. The program combines a liberal arts or pre-professional degree with ...

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** Marriott hack hits 500 million Starwood guests
bbc.com |  30 November, 2018
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** The records of 500 million customers of the hotel group Marriott International have been 
involved in a data breach. The hotel chain said the guest reservation database of its Starwood 
division had been compromised by an unauthorised party ...

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** Fog robotics: A new approach to achieve efficient and fluent human-robot interaction
Techxplore.com | Ingrid Fadelli | 30 November, 2018
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Researchers at the Innovation and Enterprise Research Laboratory (The Magic Lab) of the 
University of Technology Sydney have proposed a new robotics architecture called fog 
robotics (FR) ...

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** Making it easier to transform freeform 2-D sketching into 3-D models
ACM | TechXplore.com | 29 November, 2018
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A new computational approach, built on data-driven techniques, is making it possible to turn 
simple 2-D sketch into a realistic 3-D shape, with little or no user input necessary. A global 
team of computer scientists from University of Hong Kong, Microsoft and University of British 
Columbia, have developed a novel ...

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