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Every month we select users who have made maximum use of the library. Below are our active users for the month of January. The below users are entitled for 1 extra book. Sr. No. Member No. of Transactions 1 CHOUDHARY SANTOSH RAMJANAM SARSWATI 13 2 KHAN ARBAZ SALEEM YASMEEN 13 3 CHAUHAN AMAN KISHAN MAYA 12 4 NIRAJ YADAV 12 5 AISHWARYA NAMBIAR 12 6 TEJASWARARAO MOTAMARRI 11 7 SAYALI JAWRE 11 8 ASST.PROF.RAMJEE YADAV 11 9 MISHRA NILESH MARKANDAY DHARMAVATI 11 10 SAWANT SHIVANI SANDEEP SUMEDHA 10 11 SINGH SATYAM RAJNARAYAN MAYA 10 12 SHAILIN SHAH 10 13 ASST.PROF.PRIYANCA GONSALVES 10 14 SONALI PARAB 9 15 KULKARNI OMKAR SANTOSH RAJASHREE 9 16 SARVESH NARKAR 9 17 HRISHIKESH MAHESH TELANG 9

Source: The Indian Express dated January 29, 2017 http://epaper.indianexpress.com/c/16667145

The government is considering conducting a single entrance examination for admission to all engineering colleges, including private institutions, across the country. The proposed joint entrance examination (JEE) for engineering colleges, which is said to be human resource development (HRD) minister Prakash Javadekar brainchild, could kick in from 2018. The test, pending clearance, will be on the lines of the  national eligibility-cum-entrance exam (NEET ) for entry into medical colleges, sources in the HRD ministry said. It is aimed at bringing transparency to the admission procedure, including checking the practice in some private institutions of extracting a heavy capitation fee from students. “The aim is to make the process more transparent, standardised, and free of corruption and commercialisation,” a government official said. India has more than 3,300 approved engineering colleges affiliated to universities, with an annual approved intake of above 1.6 million st...

The new frontiers of virtual reality Virtual reality can change the way individuals and groups interact, and for those interested in experiencing and sharing its powerful benefits Virtual reality opens the avenues to experience places and time periods otherwise inaccessible to an individual. Virtual reality (VR) has entered its golden age and now has the potential to help people experience episodes and incidences, across time periods, from a uniquely first-person perspective. While VR continues to make its mark on entertainment, it has immense potential to allow people to experience something ground-breaking. It equips people to experience being in two realities at once, making ‘duality of presence’—being present in two ‘worlds’ at once—a possibility. This extrapolation of VR into reality has an extraordinary potential to create greater empathy, understanding, compassion, and connection to the ‘real world’. Virtual reality has the capability to make one ...

Source: Daily News & Analysis dated December 19, 2016

Microsoft releases MS MARCO dataset to train AI systems by MIKE WHEATLEY UPDATED 22:39 EST . 19 December 2016 Microsoft Corp. has made yet another big bet in its quest to help lead the development of artificial intelligence with the release of a new dataset containing 100,000 questions and answers. Called MS MARCO , or Microsoft Machine Reading Comprehension, the dataset is being made available for researchers wishing to train their AI systems. The company says the anonymized data is based on real-world queries typed into its Bing search engine, and that the aim is to make AIs better able to understand questions in a conversational context than they are now. Microsoft explains that while virtual assistants like Cortana and Siri are already quite adept at reciting facts and figures like the population of certain cities or previous World Series winners, they’re n...