Listen to Rohit Prasad, the inventor of Alexa and a distinguished alumni of BIT Mesra

 https://youtu.be/7OKJd3T2CjI

Top Companies in India

Top Companies in India

Zoom Removes 40-minute Limit Yet Again, Check Details of the Dates for Unlimited Meetings

After offering unlimited meetings to users around Thanksgiving, Zoom has announced that a similar feature would be offered yet again

COVID-19 has changed how we live, work, and celebrate in 2020, and like everything else this year, the holiday season doesn’t look the same. As a token of appreciation to the users during an extraordinary time, Zoom is removing the 40-minute limit on free accounts for all meetings globally for several upcoming special occasions. Previously, the company had announced a similar initiative around Thanksgiving.

To read the full article, please click - 

https://www.dqindia.com/zoom-removes-40-minute-limit-yet-check-details-dates-unlimited-meetings/

Amazon unveils dozens of machine learning tools

Calling machine learning "one of the most disruptive technologies we will ever encounter in our generation," Amazon Machine Learning Vice President Swami Sivasubramanian introduced  a bevy of new tools Tuesday at AWS re:Invent. There will be nine new Amazon SageMaker capabilities, a HIPAA-eligible service for healthcare and life science organizations called Amazon HealthLake, and general availability for Amazon Neptune ML, he said.

Read the full article at:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/amazon-unveils-dozens-of-machine-learning-tools/

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TOP 10 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INVENTIONS IN 2020

The inventions in Artificial Intelligence are thriving the pace of invention despite the existing pandemic.

The year 2020 has surprised humans in many ways. From encountering a pandemic, addressing a global recession, and witnessing the global geopolitical changes, humanity is standing in ambiguous times. However, not everything is uncertain. Throughout the year, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, Internet of Things, and augmented/virtual reality, amongst others have spearheaded innovation with a promising future. These technologies have validated that despite the crisis, technology will transform the world.

Henceforth, Analytics Insight brings you the major inventions of 2020 that has shaped the world.

Read the full article at: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-10-artificial-intelligence-inventions-in-2020/

How Is TCS Helping With COVID-19 Testing In India

COVID-19 cases have only been on the rise, and with the non-availability of effective drugs and vaccines, one of the effective ways to control it is to detect it early in patients. However, the task is easier said than done. While a large number of test kits are being produced, they are not enough to conduct it in large numbers. Government-run bodies such as C-CAMP or Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platform have been a key enabler in driving COVID-19 testing as it has been aggressively building, managing and scaling the ecosystem of MSMEs to produce COVID-19 test kits indigenously. However, they might not be enough. 

To scale up this production of test kits to a million test kits a day, TCS has come up with a solution to support C-CAMP in achieving that. In a recent announcement, TCS said that it had deployed a blockchain-based digital supply chain platform to drive the ambitious new project launched by C-CAMP.

Read the full article at:

https://analyticsindiamag.com/how-is-tcs-helping-with-covid-19-testing-in-india/

Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak Opens Blockchain Firm

 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak moves into blockchain with a token named after him.

WOZX went on sale on HBTC; Bithumb Global is next.

His company, Efforce, focuses on energy efficiency.

Read the full article at: https://beincrypto.com/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-opens-blockchain-firm/

Engineering admission deadline now December 31: AICTE

MUMBAI: All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has extended the last date for admissions to engineering courses to December 31, after requests from many state governments. In a revised circular, the council said dates have been extended only where counselling and admissions had not started due to delayed CET. Meanwhile, the state CET cell plans to complete admissions to all courses, including engineering, MBA/MMS, law and BEd in two rounds, instead of three.

Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/79578938.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

TCS to Power New Government Initiative to Double India’s Covid-19 Testing Capacity through Supply Chain Solution

 TCS through its supply chain solution is helping the Indian Government’s C-CAMP build, manage and scale an ecosystem of MSMEs to indigenously produce a million Covid-19 test kits a day

TCS recently announced that it has deployed a blockchain-based digital supply chain platform that powers an ambitious new project launched by the Government of India’s Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) to scale up indigenous Covid-19 diagnostic test-kit production capacity to a million test kits a day.

C-CAMP’s newly launched project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, is called Indigenisation of Diagnostics (InDx), and aims to build a robust, scalable supply-chain ecosystem of Indian MSMEs capable of producing large quantities of reagents and other components needed for RT-qPCR-based and other diagnostic test kits for Covid-19. The project entails eliminating supply-chain bottlenecks, and handholding MSMEs to help them bridge capability gaps, meet necessary quality standards and expand capacities to be able to indigenously produce a million test kits a day.

As C-CAMP’s technology partner, TCS has developed and deployed a dynamic digital supply-chain platform to manage the MSME ecosystem, powered by the TCS Data Marketplace solution. The solution enables organizations to embrace new ecosystem-based business models, giving them the ability to democratize data and monetize it to create value. It facilitates standardized, controlled data exchanges across ecosystem participants with the necessary security and privacy protection, using blockchain at the back-end to ensure the immutability of audit logs, says a statement from the company.

This capability has been harnessed in the InDx project to build a supply-chain platform that aggregates test kit supply data of Tier 2 and 3 manufacturers of kits, enzymes, primers and antibodies, and provides ready visibility to Tier 1 suppliers as well as to C-CAMP on supplier-specific quality levels, capacities and inventories across the ecosystem, enabling the latter to respond to the demand for those test kits from the Government as testing programs are ramped up across the country.

“As a purpose-driven organization, we are delighted to partner with C-CAMP in this bold new initiative to scale up India’s testing capacity, and make Covid-19 testing accessible to every Indian who needs it. The TCS Data Marketplace solution is the lynchpin that anchors InDx’s supplier ecosystem of micro, small and medium enterprises, democratizing supplier data, enhancing supply-chain visibility, and driving superior outcomes for all stakeholders. The success of this initiative sets an example for how ecosystem-based partnerships can be put to work for other mission-mode programs of national importance,” said Dinanath Kholkar, global head – analytics and insights, TCS.

Source: https://www.dqindia.com/tcs-power-new-government-initiative-double-indias-covid-19-testing-capacity-supply-chain-solution/

GATE 2021 MOCK TEST LINKS and PAST QUESTION PAPERS

Mock Test Links: https://gate.iitb.ac.in/mock.php

Previous Years Question Papers: https://gate.iitb.ac.in/prev_qp.php

Previous Years Question Papers are also on our Institute Repository at:

http://dspace.sfittest.online:8004/jspui/handle/123456789/843

UPDATE TO SPECIAL FACILITIES FROM LIBRARY DURING COVID 19 LOCKDOWN

EXTENDED ISSUE PERIOD

1) Books borrowed by all students have been renewed till 15/01/2021.

2) Books borrowed by all students have been renewed till 31/12/2020.

2) Book Bank books have been renewed till 15/01/2021.

For other online facilities, please access:

https://www.sfit.ac.in/pdf/library/SPECIAL%20FACILITIES%20FROM%20LIBRARY%20DURING%20COVID%2019%20LOCKDOWN.pdf

IIT Bombay invites applications for Free Online Course on Programming Through C++ via NPTEL

IIT Bombay has organised this course while keeping in mind the value of basic programming to all. According to IIT Bombay, C++ allows one to design very fast programs and access low-level machine features. At the same time, its libraries provide a very high-level programming model. Some even consider C++, a modern, safer version of the C language.

This course provides an approach to problem-solving and programming using the C++ programming language. The topics include basic programming notions, control flow, variables and assignments statements, conditional execution, looping, function calls including recursion, arrays and structure, an elementary aspects of classes, heap memory, program design. It further ventures into the array of how human beings solve problems manually.

Moreover, the course includes strategies to translate manual strategies to computer programs, organizing large programs into units such as functions and classes, introduction to assertions and invariants, programming applications, arithmetic on polynomials, matrices, root finding, sorting and searching, design of editors and simulators, including graphical editors; elementary animation, a rudimentary graphics system, standard Library of C++ and the string, vector and map classes.

Who can enrol in the course?

This is an Undergraduate computer science level course which the first and second-year students can easily take. But anyone can enrol in the course. The only prerequisite is you should have had Science in Class 12.

Timeline of the course

This Elective course has a duration of 12 weeks. It will start from 18 January 2021 and end on 09 April 2021. If you want the certificate, you have to give a proctored exam on 25 April 2021. The last date to enrol is 25 January 2020.

Source: https://www.ciol.com/iit-bombay-invites-applications-free-online-course-programming-c-via-nptel/

In 5 Days, You Can Get a Certificate From ISRO With This Free Online Course

 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is offering a free course on Advances in SAR-Polarimetry and Interferometry, which is scheduled to be conducted from 14 to 18 December 2020.

Things to know:

• This course being offered by ISRO is free of any charge.
• The course is open to all and will be conducted online.
• Upon completion participants will also be awarded a certificate of completion.
• There will be an examination conducted upon the completion of the course.
• There will be a self-assessment that will be conducted for the participants.
• Participants can also take the online quiz for enhancing their learning.
• Certificate will be awarded on the basis of the participation as well as a minimum of 70 per cent attendance.
• The working language of the course is English.
• Undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and faculty members can apply for this course.
• The registration for the course has already begun.

For guidelines, please have a look at: https://eclass.iirs.gov.in/assets/guidelines_for_participants.pdf

READING INSPIRATION DAY 2020: Report

 READING INSPIRATION DAY 2020

LIRC celebrates Reading Inspiration Day or Waachan Prerana Diwas every year on 15 October to commemorate the birth anniversary of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam – our ex-President and the Missile Man of India. Every year, we organize various activities such as Exhibition of books and Take Away of Donated books. 

This year due to the COVID 19 lockdown, we  conducted an Online Quiz which judged the respondent’s knowledge through guessing the book by the given description. 61 responses were received. The favourite genre of books was Fiction followed by True Stories and Autobiographies. Many varied book recommendations were received which we will compile and a selected few will be soon added to the library’s collection. A big thank you to Asso. Prof. Bidisha Roy (CMPN) and Asst. Prof. Jovita Serrao (ExTC) for the creative digital bookmarks.

Ms. Bidisha Roy

Ms. Jovita Serrao

                                    Department Wise Participation for the Quiz

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Video Lectures for Machine Learning from National Digital Library of India

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Open Educational Resources from SFIT Library

 https://sites.google.com/sfit.ac.in/oersfit/home?authuser=0

Indian Standard Time was adopted today in 1947

 Seventy years ago, India first adopted Indian Standard Time (IST) #OnThisDay in 1947. 

Time zones were officially established in India in 1884, during the British rule. Two time zones - Bombay Time and Calcutta Time, were used -  due to the importance of these cities as commercial and economic centres. 

Today India’s time zone is calculated according to the longitude of 82.5° E. at Shankargarh Fort in Mirzapur (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh) as the central meridian for India. With a time offset of UTC+5:30, India is five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. 

Read more about #IST and it uses from this journal in our archive: http://www.ndl.gov.in/document/aVZOeWNnOU8zckVBa2U0ZUQyVFI5Rzk3MTFwZVVQZ0NlcnJJenNreDNGVT0http://www.ndl.gov.in/document/aVZOeWNnOU8zckVBa2U0ZUQyVFI5Rzk3MTFwZVVQZ0NlcnJJenNreDNGVT0

#LearnShareGrow #OneLibraryAllOfIndia #DigitalIndia #FreeKnowledge #freelearningresources #studyathome #DidYouKnow

Source: National Digital Library of India Facebook page

Link: https://www.facebook.com/372543279561870/posts/1726913137458204/

Resources for Research - Series 10 (VIDWAN - EXPERT DATABASE)

Expert Database and National Researcher Network

VIDWAN is the premier database of profiles of scientists / researchers and other faculty members working at leading academic institutions and other R & D organisation involved in teaching and research in India. It provides important information about expert's background, contact address, experience, scholarly publications, skills and accomplishments, researcher identity, etc. The database developed and maintained by Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) with financial support from the National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT). The database would be instrumental in selection of panels of experts for various committees, taskforce, established by the Ministries / Govt. establishments for monitoring and evaluation purposes.

Subject Category

• 4633 Agricultural Sciences
• 4112 Arts & Humanities
• 2390 Biological Sciences
• 3309 Chemical Sciences
• 20073 Engineering & Technology
• 5717 Medical & Health Sciences
• 6469 Physical Sciences
• 11915 Social Sciences

Reference:

https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/ (Accessed on August 20, 2020)