Monday, January 21, 2019
Tiny, smart robots can swim through blood vessels to deliver drugs
Ensure all students have Aadhaar cards: Edu dept to Maha schools
SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE TASK OF HANDING OUT AADHAAR CARD REGISTRATION FORMS TO PARENTS STARTING NEXT WEEK
MUMBAI: Schools across Maharashtra have been asked to ensure that no student is left without an Aadhaar card.
The education department recently received 816 machines from the government, which will be installed at schools across 408 talukas in the coming days.
The circular issued by the education department reads: “While the card is not required for school admissions, it is still an essential document for midday meal, scholarships, etc. It is thus important for students to get the card to avail these facilities.”
An official from the state education department said school staff will be trained for the task in the coming days.
Students who have an Aadhaar card but are yet to update their biometric details on the portal also need to complete the process soon.
Schools have been given the task of handing out forms to parents from the next week. After students register , schools have been asked to update their details on the government’s SARAL portal.
Prashant Redij, spokesperson of the Mumbai Principals Association, said the government should not shift the responsibility of ensuring that everyone has an Aadhaar card on schools.
“While 90%of students in most schools have the card, the others have not got them owing to some technical issues. It should be the responsibility of the government and the parents to ensure that children have their Aadhaar cards,” he added.
A suburban school principal said the initiative would add to the data entry work the school teachers have to do every day.
“When will we get the time to teach?” the principal added.
College kids design solutions to end city’s commuting woes
Solutions were
presented at Mumbai By Design, a festival organised by a city-based academy
From building sensors
to gauging traffic congestion in an area to magnetically levitated pods
providing public transport, college students came up with innovative
design-based solutions for transport-related problems in the city.
The solutions were
presented at Mumbai By Design, a festival organised by Pearl Academy — an
education institute from Andheri — last week to celebrate the diversity and
distinct cultural influences in the city.
One of the
competitions titled ‘Design Intervention’ invited design-led innovations to
solve daily issues such as traffic management and rail efficiency. Students
from 15 institutes present innovative measures and futuristic ideas to address
these problems.
Rajat Kushwaha, a
student of the Industrial Design Centre at Indian Institute of
Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) suggested installing electromagnetic induced charging
for electric cars on roads.
“We are using fossil
fuels, even though the future belongs to electric vehicles. However, there are
no charging stations available electric vehicles. It is possible to charge such
vehicles wirelessly through a magnetic field on the city roads. The vehicles
won’t even need to stop to recharge,” he said.
Experts welcomed the
initiative and said the ideas were very much doable.
“We need new ideas,
which may not necessarily come from experts. Even offbeat ideas can solve some
of the pressing transport problems in the city. The ideas presented by the
students are doable. In fact, they can be implemented in as less than 10
years,” said Ashutosh Atre, a transport expert
Chandrakant Naik, a
student from VIVA School of Architecture, Virar, suggested creating
multi-storied railway stations to make commute comfortable and efficient. “The
city’s population will swell in the coming years. This design will accommodate
more people,” he said.
Similarly, Naba
Usmani, a student at Pearl Academy, suggested basic modifications to the
existing infrastructure and monitoring systems such as digital speed limit
boards and thermal and pressure recognition belts for managing pedestrians and
traffic.
“The sensors will
calculate traffic congestion and send information to a control unit. This
information will be used to alter speed limit on certain sections of the road
to ensure a smoother flow of traffic,” she said.
Nidhip Mehta, dean of
the School of Design, Pearl Academy, said, “A good design has the potential to
bring a sense of order to the lives of Mumbaikars while still keeping true to
the city’s passion and energy. Mumbai By Design can offer a glimpse of a city
that can be systematic, efficient, and full of life and energy.”
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Good Reads: January 19, 2019
GOOD
READS
Article / Infographic
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Gist
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How Technology
Incumbents Can Realize Their Cloud Growth Ambitions
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Cloud services and
related software and hardware accounted for the majority of IT growth in
2013–17.
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January 19, 2019
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5 Industries
Blockchain is Slated to Disrupt in The Coming Years
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January 19, 2019
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Transportation,
logistics and supply chain processes are going through intense
transformation. We have identified three ways AI can revolutionize
supply chain management and logistics.
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January 19, 2019
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Blockchain
for Internet of Things
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IoT solutions using
blockchain can be built to maintain a continuously growing list of
cryptographically secured data records protected against altering and
updates.
Such distributed
systems will make our planet smarter, more productive, and open up a colossal
scope of opportunities.
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January 19, 2019
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TCS a Leader in
Blockchain Services: Everest Group
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Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT
services, consulting, and business solutions organization, has been
recognized as a Leader in the Everest Group PEAK Matrix™ for Blockchain Services[1].
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January 19, 2019
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TCS Research and Innovation
(Video)
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MIT's
Daniela Rus talks to TCS EVP and CTO K Ananth Krishnan on emerging
applications of AI and robotics
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January 19, 2019
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Around
the World: Latest Trends and Innovations
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In
this article, we take a look at the various technology trends and interesting
solutions we came across while visiting different parts of the globe
throughout the year
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Electronics For You
Volume 51, No. 1
January 2019
Page 54
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The
future of Present Technologies
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Technology
runs our lives these days. This article provides a quick look at the scope of
the present technologies a few years down the line
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Electronics For You
Volume 51, No. 1
January 2019
Page 56
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The
latest in AI and its applications
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AI is
becoming a disruptive force that is redefining the modern industry. This
article features some exciting applications of AI, along with a glimpse into
the future, illustrating how AI will continue to transform industries and our
lives
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Electronics For You
Volume 51, No. 1
January 2019
Page 34
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How
the IoT has evolved from M2M communication
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The
IoT is a network of devices connected to ISPs or WAN/MAN through an M2M
gateway
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Electronics For You
Volume 51, No. 1
January 2019
Page 61
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The
Industries of tomorrow will be run by the IIOT
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The
Industrial Internet of Things enhances manufacturing and industrial
processes.
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Electronics For You
Volume 51, No. 1
January 2019
Page 64
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How
the Blockchain can add transparency to Healthcare
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Ever
since the price of bitcoin went sky rocketing, the computer world has been
excited about the blockchain. Everyday, new applications of the blockchain
are being thought up and the focus has shifted to using it in every
conceivable human activity. This article explains how blockchain technology
can be used in healthcare
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Open Source For You
Volume 07, Issue 04
January 2019
Page 30
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Potential
Risks of Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial
Intelligence (AI) is benefiting society in about every way possible.
AI-driven devices are becoming cognitive enough to aid people in times of
need. However, AI can be a great risk to society if it ends up in the wrong
hands.
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Open Source For You
Volume 07, Issue 04
January 2019
Page 40
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OpenIoT:
Enabling the Convergence of IoT and Cloud Computing
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OpenIoT
is a simple-to-use open source application, which connects all the sensors
that use cloud technologies to make them an extension of your IoT application
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Open Source For You
Volume 07, Issue 04
January 2019
Page 100
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Cloud Data Security - 2018 Ponemon Study Infographic
From safenet.gemalto.com
Key Points/Stats from this Infographic:
- In two years an average of 51% of all IT and data processing requirements will be in the cloud, an increase from today’s average of 39%.
- The average number of cloud apps & services used by companies today is 27.
- While 53% of respondents say their organization uses multi-factor authentication to secure access to data in the cloud environment, only 36% of respondents say their organization encrypts or tokenizes sensitive data within cloud applications.
- Source: https://safenet.gemalto.com/resources/data-protection/2018-cloud-data-security-ponemon-study-infographic/ (Accessed on January 19, 2019)
Here are the top 10 learning trends of 2019
Gen Z has a set of unique behavioural attributes which are shaping the needs of the education industry and pushing them to develop ways to deal with them.
the present scenario, we are witnessing industries undergoing a disruption with a rapid convergence of technologies; which is faster than ever before! These constant changes are making competencies in workforce go obsolete leaving Lifelong Learning as the only feasible option. On the other side, Gen Z has a set of unique behavioural attributes which are shaping the needs of the education industry and pushing them to develop ways to deal with them.
Here are some of the industry trends of delivering learning by Venguswamy Ramaswamy, Global Head of TCS iON, a Tata Consultancy Services unit focused on education, assessment boards and SMBs:
1. Nano-learning
The attention span of learners is persistently shrinking. With the existence of lengthy, text-intensive, un-interactive learning content, students are unwilling to sit in sessions spread over hours. To address this, nano-learning or bite-sized learning is fast becoming a significant trend to support the learner behaviour and ensure attention.
2. Lifelong Learning
As per a report, by 2022, 9 per cent of India's workforce is expected to be employed in job roles that don't exist today while 37 per cent is believed to be in new job roles. In order to prepare for this change, it is important to know that learning is not discreet, rather a continuous and connected process in which the needs of the learners vary with time and the stage of their life. Every moment provides a learning opportunity.
Hence, it is necessary to keep a track of the learning culture of an individual across different stages and not just specific learning in a particular stage. This will help understand the capabilities of a learner in its true sense.
3. Mass personalization
The pattern of customer-based personalization is gradually progressing wherein adaptive means of learning is taking over the concept of 'one-size fits all'. Being an effective mode of learning, this approach takes into consideration the individual learner abilities, and the appropriate time to consume content, thereby enhancing the quality of learning and the overall experience of learners.
4. Data-driven learning
Every individual leaves a large footprint of his/her learning behaviour while learning. Today, such interactions (learning better with video, preferring game format, etc.) are acting as data sources for understanding the learner's patterns and trends, and for devising strategies to make learning more effective than before.
5. Self-paced learning
Learners have some nuances, which are unique to them where some students slow in a certain subject but might have the ability to grasp other subjects better. Taking this into consideration, the pace of the content is now being adjusted according to the strengths and weaknesses of the individual student in specific subjects.
6. Addictive mechanisms in learning
There are specific constructs either in the content or in the learning platform that attract a learner's attention. These include 'like' or 'comment' buttons, challenges, the capability to score and compete, win badges and points, and so on. The focus of learning is slowly transforming to include these constructs in the content to make learning more addictive.
7. Engaged or Immersive Learning
The learner today desires a learning experience with engaging, interactive content that includes games, puzzles, and surprises embedded within. Hence, there is a growing trend of designing content using technologies like augmented reality and virtual reality to create immersive and engaging experiences.
8. Collaborative learning
Learning is no longer a one-to-one interaction between the content and the learner. Instead, it is transforming to be an interaction between a group of people in a community construct where students can learn by debating and deliberating on a common platform.
This concept moves beyond the traditional custom of a student and a teacher. A teacher's role is to facilitate learning for learners together learn from each other.
9. Twenty-first-century skills
According to a survey, India is expected to form 25 per cent of the world's workforce by 2025. This creates the urgency to equip the country's youth with 21-century skills which have a much higher preference over specific domain skills.
Today, learners are assessed on their ability to work in teams, be ethical in given scenarios, and to be creative and assertive. As a result, the focus has shifted towards developing these capabilities to help learners have a greater advantage in the job space. It is not just academics; it extends beyond to social skills.
10. Learning experience platform
Today, rendering mere content is not enough; instead one needs to render experiences to make learning enjoyable. The emphasis rests on enhancing the learner experience management system which uses engaging game cartridges to modulate experiences while delivering content.
As we progress in 2019, we have our energies focused on these evolving trends which are about to dominate the next set of years and we are in the forefront of driving these trends in the market itself.
Source: https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/story/the-top-10-learning-trends-of-2019-1427682-2019-01-10 (Accessed on January 19, 2019)
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