Chapter Activities

07 Nov., 2017: We had the 7th talk in "50 Years of Turing Award" talk series by 
Prof. Dr. Meena Mahajan in IMSc on 'Contributions of Stephen Cook and Richard Karp'.

Upcoming Events

19 Dec., 2017:

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Deepak Khemani, Department of CSE, IIT Madras
Topic     :Contributions of Judea Pearl (Turing Award Winner of 2011)
Venue   : CS 25, Aryabhatta Hall, IIT Madras
Date      : 19th December
Time      : 5 PM

Headlines at a Glance

1. https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/11/07/cornell-prof-teaches-transmedia-design-in-studiolab-classroom.aspx
2. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171106121050.htm
3. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631513-300-your-data-is-too-valuable-and-sensitive-to-dish-out-for-free/
4. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609452/alibabas-ai-fashion-consultant-helps-achieve-record-setting-sales/
5. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41980836
6. https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236472/data-center/researchers-developing-building-free-data-centers.html

News in Detail

** Cornell Prof Teaches Transmedia Design in StudioLab Classroom
campustechnology.com | Joshua Bolkan | 11 November, 2017
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A Professor at Cornell University (https://www.cornell.edu/)  is looking to break down 
barriers between disciplines and media formats by combining different kinds of learning 
from seminars, studios and labs into an approach called "studiolabs." ...

Full Article (https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/11/07/cornell-prof-teaches-transmedia-design-in-studiolab-classroom.aspx)
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** Quantum computing on the move
sciencedaily.com | Universitaet Mainz | 06 November, 2017
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Scientists are currently struggling to build devices with more than a few qubits, 
with the challenge arising that the qubits mutually hamper each other's proper operation ...

Full Article (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171106121050.htm)
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** Your data is too valuable and sensitive to dish out for free
newscientist.com | 08 November, 2017
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IF SOMEBODY from a shop you occasionally visited phoned and asked what you had been 
doing for the past month, would you tell them? Almost certainly not. Yet often without 
thinking we allow technology companies to track and collect such data. Everything  …

Full Article (https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631513-300-your-data-is-too-valuable-and-sensitive-to-dish-out-for-free/)
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** Alibaba’s AI Fashion Consultant Helps Achieve Record-Setting Sales
Yiting Sun | MIT Tech Review | 13 November, 2017
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On the third floor of a shopping mall in the heart of Shanghai last week, Xiaolan He, 
a woman in her 50s, took an olive-green down jacket to a fitting room. To her surprise, 
she found a screen about the size of a large poster on the wall. It recognized the item of 
clothing in her hands through a tiny sensor embedded ...

Full Article (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609452/alibabas-ai-fashion-consultant-helps-achieve-record-setting-sales/)
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** FDA approves 'trackable' pill
bbc.com |14 November, 2017 
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US regulators have approved the first pill that can be digitally tracked through 
the body ...

Full Article (http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41980836)
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** Researchers developing building-free data centers
Patrick Nelson | Network World | 08 November, 2017
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Servers should be stored in vats of cooling, non-conductive oil instead of elaborate, 
outfitted structures, say engineers who are working on a radical, building-free, data center 
concept ...

Full Article (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236472/data-center/researchers-developing-building-free-data-centers.html)
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