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Sep 13, 2017 - AICWiC 2017 iSIGCSE Faculty Summit.

Upcoming Events

As part of the "50 Years of Turing Award" talk series, the fifth talk has been scheduled at IMSc. The details are as follows:

Topic     :  Contributions of Donald Knuth (1974 Turing Award Winner)

Speaker:   Prof. Dr. Venkatesh Raman
Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Date      :  21 September
Time      :  5:00 PM
Venue    :  Ramanujan Auditorium
Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Registration is FREE. However, if you intend to attend, please register (https://goo.gl/forms/vOx6OZZMAl0D2n5l1) to facilitate logistics.

Tea and snacks will be served after the talk at 6:00 PM.

Please check here (http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/knuth_1013846.cfm) to know more about Knuth's work.

Headlines at a Glance

1. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608811/drones-and-robots-are-taking-over-industrial-inspection/
2. https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/09/05/california-state-university-moves-administrative-systems-to-hybrid-cloud.aspx
3  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170913192957.htm
4. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170907102410.htm
5. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41186824
6. http://news.mit.edu/2017/how-neural-networks-think-0908
7. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-in-tech-an-interview-with-wendy ea_us_59b6b9b6e4b0e1d937790416?section=us_technology (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-in-tech-an-interview-with-wendy-lea_us_59b6b9b6e4b0e1d937790416?section=us_technology)

News in Detail 

** Drones and Robots Are Taking Over Industrial Inspection
MIT Tech Review | Will Knight | 7 September, 2017
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Advances in AI have made it possible for machines to autonomously inspect pipelines, 
power lines, and transportation systems ...

Full Article (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608811/drones-and-robots-are-taking-over-industrial-inspection/)
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** California State University Moves Administrative Systems to Hybrid Cloud
Campustechnology.com | Rhea Kelly | 05 September, 2017
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The California State University System (https://www2.calstate.edu/)  is transforming 
the way it delivers services to students, faculty and staff with a systemwide hybrid 
cloud from Unisys (http://www.unisys.com/) . The cloud will be home to the ...

Full Article (https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/09/05/california-state-university-moves-administrative-systems-to-hybrid-cloud.aspx)
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** 'The dark side' of quantum computers
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sciencedaily.com |  Eindhoven University of Technology | 13 September, 2017

The era of fully fledged quantum computers threatens to destroy internet security 
as we know it. Researchers are in a race against time to prepare new cryptographic 
techniques before the arrival of quantum computers, as cryptographers now describe …

Full Article (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170913192957.htm) 
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** Fast magnetic writing of data
Sciencedaily.com | ETH Zurich | 07 September, 2017
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Magnetic data storage has long been considered too slow for use in the working 
memories of computers. Researchers have now investigated a technique by which magnetic data writing can be done considerably faster and using less energy ...

Full Article (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170907102410.htm)
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** The app that inspires tens of millions to go cycling
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BBC News | Will Smale | 11 September, 2017 

Thankfully for tens of millions of cyclists around the world, Mark Gainey didn't 
walk away from the sport when he had a nasty crash back in 2002 ...

Full Article (http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41186824)
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** How neural networks think
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Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 8 September, 2017 

Artificial-intelligence research has been transformed by machine-learning systems 
called neural networks, which learn how to perform tasks by analyzing huge volumes 
of training data ...

Full Article (http://news.mit.edu/2017/how-neural-networks-think-0908)
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** Women In Tech: An Interview With Wendy Lea
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Huffingtonpost.com | Rebecca Vogels | 11 September, 2017

I was able to sit down with Wendy Lea, CEO of Cintrifuse, and talk about her career, and the question how tech can be more inclusive for minorities ...

Full Article (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-in-tech-an-interview-with-wendy-lea_us_59b6b9b6e4b0e1d937790416?section=us_technology)
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