LIRC@SFIT

Leveraging blockchain's distributive properties to create trust, accountability. 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. To read more,  https://www.tcs.com/content/dam/tcs/pdf/technologies/internet-of-things/abstract/Blockchain%20for%20the%20IoT.pdf

Source:  https://www.slideshare.net/tataconsultancyservices/measuring-the-impact-of-ai-on-13-global-industries/  (Accessed on January 11, 2019)

LEARNING AND INFORMATION RESOURCE CENTRE BOOK BANK FACILITY FOR FE TO BE The library is providing the “Book Bank” facility for FE to BE students Dates & Timings are as mentioned below : CLASS DATE TIMINGS BE 14/01/2019 12.15 pm to 1.00 pm / Lunch Break (as applicable) TE 15/01/2019 12.15 pm to 1.00 pm / Lunch Break (as applicable) SE 16/01/2019 12.15 pm to 1.00 pm / Lunch Break (as applicable) FE 17/01/2019 12.15 pm to 1.00 pm / Lunch Break (as applicable) The “Book Bank” system works as under: 1) A maxi...

Paakhee Jain dropped out of school last year in Class VII. A state-level badminton player, she wanted to concentrate on her chosen sport but the month-long training sessions were taking a toll on her academic life and the school was not too happy with her low attendance. On Thursday, Paakhee along with two other children and education minister Vinod Tawde in Pune launched the online registration for admission to Class V and VIII of the Maharashtra State Board of Open Schooling (MSBOS). “The students who take admission in these courses will have to complete 20 contact sessions in their respective study centres before appearing for the examination, which will be taken twice in a year,” said Subhash Rathod, state coordinator, MSBOS. “There are 543 study centres across the state and students must compulsorily pass in at least five subjects as per the norms of the board to qualify in the respective levels and move on to next stage.” The registrations will be on till January 31 an...

KOLKATA: Concerned over the diminishing habit of extensive reading and research, St Xavier’s College (autonomous), Kolkata, has decided to award three students spending maximum hours at the college library. The students will be handed over certificates, cash and mementos. “The library can accommodate 300-400 students at a time. To encourage and inculcate reading habit among students, we have decided to introduce the incentives. Three students from undergraduate courses across all disciplines will be considered for the award,” said principal Fr Dominic Savio. The library at the college remains open from 7am-7pm. The college is also set to open a new state-of-the-art ‘finance laboratory’ on the Park Street campus. “It will be the first of its kind in any college in Bengal. It is a research laboratory for students with finance specialization and commerce. It can also be used by accounting and finance faculties and researchers. It will have all major data on finance and economics. Da...

In May, the UGC had disqualified 4,305 journals out of 32,659 from its list of approved journals owing to their dubious nature Located in the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) campus, the cell will be headed by Shubhada Nagarkar, assistant professor, department of library and information science, SPPU. The University Grants Commission’s (UGC) National Cell for Journal Analysis to weed out dubious journals was inaugurated by UGC’s vice-chairman Professor Bhushan Patwardhan on Saturday. Located in the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) campus, the cell will be headed by Shubhada Nagarkar, assistant professor, department of library and information science, SPPU. In May, the UGC had disqualified 4,305 journals out of 32,659 from its list of approved journals owing to their dubious nature. This action followed a study published in the March 25 issue of Current Science journal which had reported a spurt in the number of predatory and dubious journals offering ‘pay and ...

OVER THE PAST   year   Google   has been making its virtual assistant, the eponymous Google Assistant, more capable of handling what might usually be awkward or onerous conversations. Need to make a dinner reservation by picking up the phone and speaking to a real live human being? Google Assistant can   do that for you , as creepy as it might seem. Need to screen a call that you suspect is from a spam caller, for the 27th time that day? The Assistant will   take care of that too . Now Google is trying to outsource another human-to-human interaction: the kind that occurs between a person who works in hospitality and a guest who speaks a different language. A new feature in Google Assistant, called Interpreter Mode, turns the virtual assistant into a real-time language translator between two people who are trying to chat in the same physical space. It starts rolling out today on Google-powered smart displays and smart speakers. The company showed off t...

E-books are convenient, but do not give the true experience of reading It is a huge challenge for a writer to remain motivated in spite of repeated rejections from book publishers Christopher C. Doyle imitates the writing style of his favourite authors. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint Gurugram-based 52-year-old Christopher C. Doyle is a CEO coach who runs The Growth Catalysts, a consultancy working with business leaders. Doyle started writing really early in life and he wrote about schoolmates, friends and teachers. His parents encouraged him to read a lot—they ensured he always had a supply of books to read—and to write. The trigger to write his first book came when he started making up bed-time stories for his two-year-old daughter. However, he never managed to get it published. Eventually, he began to write another story for his daughter, which brought together elements of mythology, history, and science. That book, grew into   The Mahabharata Secret , eventually publish...

From the next academic year, the new autonomous colleges can introduce their own curriculum and assessment method. All the institutes had scored 3.51 or more out of 4 during their last assessment by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), The University Grants Commission (UGC) recently granted academic autonomy to eight colleges in Maharashtra, of which three are from Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). The number of autonomous institutes in the state is now 68. Dr Bhanuben Mahendra Nanavati (BMN) College of Home Science, Matunga, became the first college affiliated to Shrimati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey (SNDT) Women’s University to get autonomy. Similarly, Hansraj Jivandas College of Education, Khar and Changu Kana Thakur (CKT) College, Panvel, were granted autonomy. Both the institutes are affiliated to the University of Mumbai (MU). All the institutes had scored 3.51 or more out of 4 during their last assessment by National Assessment and Accreditation Cou...