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20 Oct., 2017:

As part of the "50 Years of Turing Award" talk series, the 6th talk has been scheduled at CMI, Chennai. The details are as follows:

Topic     :  Contributions of Robin Milner
(1991 Turing Award Winner)
Speaker:    Dr. S.P. Suresh
Chennai Mathematical Institute(CMI)
Date      :   20th October
Time      :   5:00 PM
Venue    :   The Seminar Hall
Chennai Mathematical Institute(CMI)

Please check here (http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/milner_1569367.cfm) to know more about Milner's work.

Registration is FREE. However, if you intend to attend, please register (https://goo.gl/forms/ertls7cPph1ZLXT62) to facilitate logistics:

Tea and snacks will be served before the talk at 4:30 PM.

Headlines at a Glance

1. https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/10/11/faculty-predict-virtual-augmented-mixed-reality-will-be-key-to-ed-tech-in-10-years.aspx
2. https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/robotics/drones/how-is-a-drone-like-a-dog-ask-a-cop
3. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171010114606.htm
4. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2150330-driverless-cars-could-let-you-choose-who-survives-in-a-crash/
5. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609038/chinas-ai-awakening/
6. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41570933

News in Detail

** Faculty Predict Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality Will Be Key to Ed Tech in 10 Years 
campustechnology.com | Rhea Kelly | 10 October, 2017 
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Faculty in our 2017 Teaching with Technology Survey believe tech will play a positive role 
in the future of higher education — but some technologies will be more important than 
others ... 

Full Article (https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/10/11/faculty-predict-virtual-augmented-mixed-reality-will-be-key-to-ed-tech-in-10-years.aspx) 

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** How Is a Drone Like a Dog? Ask a Cop 
spectrum.ieee.org | Tekla. S. Perry | 13 October, 2017 
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Four years ago, Alameda County, California’s purchase of two drones 
(http://abc7news.com/technology/controversial-drones-unveiled-by-alameda-co-sheriff/421436/) 
for use by law enforcement was controversial. Now, the Alameda County Sheriff’s 
Department has six drones, and their use is routine ... 

Full Article (https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/robotics/drones/how-is-a-drone-like-a-dog-ask-a-cop) 

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** Seeing the next dimension of computer chips 
Osaka University | sciencedaily.com | 10 October, 2017 
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Researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to image the side-surfaces of 3-D 
silicon crystals for the first time. The pictures, captured with atomic-level of resolution, 
can help semiconductor manufacturers build the next generation of computer chips with 
three-dimensional features … 

Full Article (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171010114606.htm) 
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** Driverless cars could let you choose who survives in a crash 
Abigail Beall | newscientist.com | 13 October, 2017 
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 Would you ride in a car that was prepared to kill you? 

An “ethical knob” could let the owners of self-driving cars choose their car’s ethical s
etting. You could set the car to sacrifice you for the survival of others, or even to 
always sacrifice others to save you ... 

Full Article (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2150330-driverless-cars-could-let-you-choose-who-survives-in-a-crash/) 
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** China’s AI Awakening 
Will Knight | MIT Tech Review | 10 October, 2017
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 On a tropical island that marks the southern tip of China, a computer program called 
Lengpudashi is playing one-on-one poker against a dozen people at once ... 

Full Article (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609038/chinas-ai-awakening/) 
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** How do you build the next-generation internet? 
Mary-Ann Russon | bbc.com | 13 October, 2017 
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Imagine super-fast computers that can solve problems much quicker than machines today. 
These "quantum computers" are being developed in laboratories ... 

Full Article (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41570933) 
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