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 ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 .. Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Challenges of Predicting Mob Behavior at Political Rallies spectrum.ieee.org | Michelle Hampson |29 November, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** University Launches Degree Program Pairing Liberal Arts with Computer Science campustechnology.com | Rhea Kelly | 28 Novemer, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Marriott hack hits 500 million Starwood guests bbc.com | 30 November, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ ** 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 ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Fog robotics: A new approach to achieve efficient and fluent human-robot interaction Techxplore.com | Ingrid Fadelli | 30 November, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ 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) ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Making it easier to transform freeform 2-D sketching into 3-D models ACM | TechXplore.com | 29 November, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------
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