ACM Chennai Chapter Newsletter – September 16-30, 2018
Chapter Activities, Upcoming Events, Tech News
Chapter Activities
27 September, 2018 We had an interesting talk by Prof. Venkatesh Raman, IMSc on 'Contributions of Robert Tarjan and John Hopcroft' as part of our Chapter's '50 Years of Turing Award Talk Series'. We also filed the annual chapter activities report to ACM HQ.
Upcoming Events 05 October, 2018: As part of the "50 Years of Turing Award" talk series,we are organizing the 12th talk at IMSc. The details are as follows:
Topic : Contributions of Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn (2004 Turing Award Winners) Speaker: Prof. Krishna Sivalingam, Department of CSE, IIT Madras Date & Time : 5 Oct @ 5.30pm Venue : CS 25, Aryabhatta Hall, Department of CSE, IIT Madras Those who are interested can find more about Cerf's and Kahn's work. Registration is FREE. However, if you intend to attend, please register to facilitate logistics: Tea and snacks will be served before the talk at 5:00 pm. Headlines at a Glance 1. Survey: 1 in 4 Professors Ban Mobile Phone Use in Class 2. How Programmable Calculators and a Sci-Fi Story Brought Soviet Teens Into the Digital Age 3. The Business of Quantuum Computing 4. Droidbugs: A new benchmark to evaluate automated repair methods for Android apps 5. The secret data collected by dockless bikes is helping cities map your movement 6. Seeking ways to reduce traffic jams, USC engineers turn to AI
News in Detail
** Survey: 1 in 4 Professors Ban Mobile Phone Use in Class campustechnology.com | Rhea Kelly | 19 September, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ Should cell phones be permitted in class? In a recent survey of faculty members at colleges and universities across the country, feelings on the subject were mixed. While 26 percent ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** How Programmable Calculators and a Sci-Fi Story Brought Soviet Teens Into the Digital Age spectrum.ieee.org | Ksenia Tatarchenko | 27 September, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ Despite the ubiquity of computers in modern society, the vast majority of today’s students never study computer science or computer programming. Those who are exposed to... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Business of Quantuum Computing CACM | Michael A. Cusumano | October, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ In 1981, nobel Laureate Richard Feynman challenged the computing community to build a quantum computer. We have come a long way. In 2015, McKinsey estimated there were 7,000 researchers working on ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Droidbugs: A new benchmark to evaluate automated repair methods for Android apps TechXplore.com | Ingrid Fadelli | 28 September, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ Automated program repair (APR) is an emerging field of research that sets out to develop methods of fixing software bugs automatically, without intervention by human programmers ... Full Article (https://techxplore.com/news/2018-09-droidbugs-benchmark-automated-methods-android.html) ------------------------------------------------------------ ** The secret data collected by dockless bikes is helping cities map your movement MIT Technology Review | Elizabeth Woyke | 28 September, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ Lime and other companies are gathering masses of location-based information that some cities are leveraging to improve their streets ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Seeking ways to reduce traffic jams, USC engineers turn to AI Alya Rehman | U of S. California | 20 September, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ Americans spend an average of 25.4 minutes commuting to work, according to U.S. Census Bureau (https://www.census.gov/) data. That amounts to 104 hours per year spent in traffic, with averages steadily rising every year ... Full Article ------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================================
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