ACM Chennai Chapter Newsletter – September 1-16, 2018
Chapter Activities, Upcoming Events, Tech News
Chapter Activities
12 September, 2018
We had an engaging insightful expert talk by Dr. Manish Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of Videoken
on "Applying Machine Learning to support Human Learning".
Upcoming Events
27 September, 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 Robert Tarjan and John Hopcroft
(1986 Turing Award Winners)Speaker: Prof. Venkatesh Raman
Institute of Mathematical SciencesDate : 27th September
Time : 5:00 PM
Venue : Ramanujan Auditorium
Institute of Mathematical SciencesPlease check the following links to know more about Tarjan and Hopcrft’s work:https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/tarjan_1092048.cfm
https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/hopcroft_1053917.cfm
Registration is FREE. However, if you intend to attend, please register through the following link, to facilitate logistics:
Tea and snacks will be served after the talk at 6:00 PM. |
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Headlines at a Glance
1.North Dakota arms teachers with cybersecurity resources statewide through national partnership
2.Norfolk Constabulary Using Controversial Algorithm to Help Decide If Burglary Investigation Warranted
3.Making E-Textbooks More Interactive
4.Technology streamlines computational science projects
5.Wall Street's embrace could break bitcoin
6.Cloud Computing takes on new meaning for scientists (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180911151858.htm)
News in Detail
** North Dakota arms teachers with cybersecurity resources statewide through national
partnership
edscoop.com | Ryan Johnston | 11 September, 2018
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EduTech, the education arm of North Dakota’s statewide technology agency, became the first
state-level partner of a federal cybersecurity education provider late last month. K-12
teachers across ...
Full Article (https://edscoop.com/north-dakota-partners-with-federal-cyber-education-provider-for-teacher-training)
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** Norfolk Constabulary Using Controversial Algorithm to Help Decide If Burglary Investigation
Warranted
spectrum,ieee.org | Robert N. Charette | 07 September, 2018
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A controversy has erupted in England over a report that the Norfolk Constabulary has been
quietly experimenting with a computer algorithm to decide whether a burglary is worth police
efforts ...
Full Article (https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/software/norfolk-constabulary-using-controversial-algorithm-to-help-decide-if-burglary-investigation-warranted)
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** Making E-Textbooks More Interactive
campustechnology.com | David Raths | 05 September, 2018
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IE-textbooks made up of open educational resources can greatly alleviate the cost of students'
course materials, yet many open source textbook efforts are specific to STEM courses. The
majority ...
Full Article (https://campustechnology.com/articles/2018/09/05/making-etextbooks-more-interactive.aspx)
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** Technology streamlines computational science projects
phys.org Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Scott Jones | 15 September, 2018
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Since designing and launching a specialized workflow management system in 2010, a research
team from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has ...
Full Article (https://phys.org/news/2018-09-technology-science.html)
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** Wall Street's embrace could break bitcoin
MIT Technology Review | Mike Orcutt | 07 September, 2018
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Ready or not, Wall Street is coming for Bitcoin. Intercontinental Exchange, the owner of the
New York Stock Exchange and one of the largest infrastructure providers for financial markets
in the US, said recently ...
Full Article (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611981/wall-streets-embrace-could-break-bitcoin/)
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** 'Cloud computing' takes on new meaning for scientists
Sciencedaily.com | U of California, Irvine | 11 September, 2018
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Clouds may be wispy puffs of water vapor drifting through the sky, but they're heavy lifting
computationally for scientists wanting to factor them into climate simulations ...
Full Article (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180911151858.htm)
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