3rd International Conference on Communication Systems, Computing & IT Applications (CSCITA 2020)

3rd International Conference on

Communication Systems, Computing & IT Applications

RECEPIENT OF AICTE QIS GRANT FOR ORGANIZING CONFERENCE

April 3-4, 2020

Venue: St. Francis Institute of Technology, Mumbai

https://www.cscita.sfit.ac.in/

DRDO unveils slew of incentives to lure private industries

In an effort to get a bigger role for Indian industry in defence production, the DRDO has come up with a slew of policies that include zero fee for transfer of technology (ToT), free access to over 450 patents, open test facilities, upfront funding up to ₹10 crore, says its Chairman, G Satish Reddy.

Read more: DRDO offers 450 patents for free access to industries

To meet the target of reaching 70 per cent indigenisation from the present 45 per cent, there is a need to ensure ease of collaboration and private sector participation in defence production, he said at a DRDO-Industry meet in Hyderabad today.

The meet, attended by over 250 industries and officials, was an exercise to offer technologies and also listen to the issues that were limiting partnerships and private sector investments in the defence sector.

Satish Reddy said, the Indian industry has built capabilities to manufacture components to complete systems and from critical sub-systems to missiles. He cited the example of Akash missile, wherein the Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) is manufacturing 60 numbers per month. “Recently, the Chairman & Managing Director of BDL told me that they have capacity to produce 120 numbers per month too. This shows the confidence and maturity”, says Satish Reddy, who is also Secretary, Defence Research & Development.

The industry representatives highlighted the procedure delays, financial constraints in bidding, lack of assured orders, long gestation in project execution as some of the issues that needed to be ironed out to facilitate greater collaborations and participation.

At present, there are 1,800, big, small and medium enterprises that are associated with the DRDO in its wide range of projects from smart bombs to Agni missile, radars to battle tanks, field guns to on board propulsion systems.

In a video message, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said an ambitious target of reaching $26 billion by 2025 in defence production with an investment of $10 billion and creation of 20 lakh jobs has been set. He expressed confidence of achieving it. Similarly, in Artificial Intelligence, big plans of producing atleast 25 specific products by 2024 is the road map laid out for the DRDO, he said.

Source: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/drdo-unveils-slew-of-incentives-to-lure-private-industries/article30051121.ece# 

GOOD READS 1-15 November 2019

“Good Reads” is a monthly alert service, initiated by SFIT LIRC for all the students and staff. This service provides a list of most recent articles which would be of interest to all. The objective of this Current Awareness Service is to keep abreast of the recent happenings in the fields of science and technology.

GOOD READS 1-30 November 2019

Article / Infographic	URL / Source
Various Techniques of Data Mining in Social Network Mining	Journal of Advanced Database Management & Systems Vol.6,No,2,2019 Pages 15-17
Solar System Tracking Using MPPT Tracking	Journal of Advancements in Robotics Vol.6,No,2,2019 Pages 15-17
Underground Cable Fault Detector Using IoT	Journal of Open Source Development Vol.6,No,2,2019 Pages 21-25
IoT Based Smart Home Security System Using Arduino Uno	Journal of Open Source Development Vol.6,No,2,2019 Pages 12-14
Intelligent Computing with Natural Language Processing	Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research & Advances  Vol.6,No,2,2019 Pages 63-68
Tracking of Solar System	Journal of Web Engineering & Technology  Vol.6,No,2,2019 Pages 20-24
Machine Learning Cluster Analysis for Large Categorical Data Using R Programming	Recent Trends in Programming Languages Vol.6,No,2,2019 Pages 23-34
The Power of One!	The Machinist, Vol.14,No.10, Pages 36-44
Optimistic About Future	The Machinist, Vol.14,No.10, Pages 58-60

GOOD READS

GOOD READS – AN INITIATIVE OF SFIT LIRC

(CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICE)

“Good Reads” is a monthly alert service, initiated by SFIT LIRC for all the students and staff. This service provides a list of most recent articles which would be of interest to all. The objective of this Current Awareness Service is to keep abreast of the recent happenings in the fields of science and technology.

GOOD READS (updated on November 4, 2019)

Article / Infographic	Gist	URL / Source	Accessed On
Neural Network-based classification of Germinated Hang Rice Using Image Processing		IETE Technical Review July-August 2019 Vol 36 No.4 Pages 375-381
Digital Disruption, AI and IOT in CRM	Colleen Berube, CIO,Zendesk, talks about Customer Relationship Management, solutions, how small and large companies should deal with them respectively and also the future that is shaping the industry.	PC Quest,September 2019  Vol.32 No.9 65-67
Why Blockchain Matters in Cybersecurity and in Open Internet	Blockchain can be used for protecting personal data. It Provides  identify protection solutions that can be more effective than the existing password-based security as well as multi-factor authentication.	PC Quest,September 2019  Vol.32 No.9 30-32
Dataquest Top 20 Companies	TCS,CTS,Infosys,HCL Technologies,Wipro, Tech Mahindra, Ingram Micro, Redington, Dell Technologies,IBM, L & T Infotech, HP Inc, Lenovo, Intel, HP Enterprise, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, L & T Technology Services, SAP, Oracle	Dataquest, September 2019  Vol.xxxvi, No.9  Pages, 16-50
The Outlook :How are India’s top IT companies gearing up to be a part of the national vision to be a $1 Trillion digital economy by 2023.		Dataquest, September 2019  Vol.xxxvi, No.9  Pages, 10-14
IoT for ICT	Ninad Desai,District Chair, BICSI India, in an interaction with us, unearths how the evolution of IoT is setting certain demands-in terms of equipment and talent-for redefining the telecom infrastructure to suit the needs of the current and the future generation networks.	Voice & Data September 2019 Vol.26,No.09 Pages 58-59
5G and Machine Leaning		Voice & Data September 2019 Vol.26,No.09 Pages 34-39

ACTIVE USERS OF THE LIRC OCTOBER 2019

ACTIVE USERS OF THE LIRC

(1^st October to 31^st October 2019)

 All the below Active Users are eligible for one extra library book for the month of November 2019

Sr. No.	Member	No of Transactions
1	AHUJA RISHIKA SANDEEP DIPALI	30
2	SAHU MADHUSHREE DAMBARUDHAR SONALI	27
3	LOBO ANDREA KARLTON ALICE	26
4	CLETUS AGNELLO DSOUZA	24
5	RODRIGUES DAVID DARIN MAXCY	24
6	REDDY KRISHNA ANBALAGAN PARIMALA	23

Good Reads OCTOBER 1-31, 2019

“Good Reads” is a monthly alert service, initiated by SFIT LIRC for all the students and staff. This service provides a list of most recent articles which would be of interest to all. The objective of this Current Awareness Service is to keep abreast of the recent happenings in the fields of science and technology.

Article / Infographic	Gist	URL / Source
Company Highlights: Key developments in the past 12 Months	An Annual Review of the key developments relating to power sector majours in the past 12 Months	Power Line, Vol.24 No.1  Pages 166-174
Cloud-Based Security Solutions		The IUP Journal of Computer Sciences, Vol XIII No.4, Pages 72-78
Hackers are Leveraging Radical Attack Vectors	Banks should have a very good Last line of Defence with EDR Solutions to protect their endpoints as these endpoints are the weakest link in the network and very easy to compromise	PC Quest, October 2019, Vol 32, Issue 10, Page 40-42

CSCITA 2020: International Conference