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We have curated a list of books by Indian authors that both you and your child can enjoy. Revisit the magical world of fun and adventure on International Children's Book Day. To read the full article, please visit: https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/international-childrens-book-day-2019-5654489/  Accessed on April 3, 2019)

Bengio (Photo by Maryse Boyce), Hinton (Photo by Keith Penner), LeCun (Photo, courtesy of Facebook) By  JONATHAN VANIAN   April 2, 2019 Artificial intelligence’s growing importance, in both business and research, is largely because of Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun—otherwise known as the “godfathers of deep learning.” Last week, the trio won the annual Turing Award, the technology world’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize, presented by the Association for Computing Machinery. Their research has led to huge  breakthroughs  in computers translating languages and identifying objects and people in photographs. At the heart of the men’s research are neural networks, the software created decades ago to mimic how the human brain learns. The technology plays a huge role in artificial intelligence and its close cousin, deep learning. The analogy of neural networks being like the human brain is something many A.I. researchers and ne...

The Internet of things (#IoT) is one of the most exciting trends in the recent history of technology so far. As connectivity, storage, and compute become more universal, we’re seeing an explosion of IoT solutions, from health care to public safety, all pointing towards one conclusion: The IoT is here to stay. As with any other trends in technology, it’s starting to require a new generation of platforms, standards, regulations, and protocols to name few. Gartner  defines  the Internet of Things as the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology (such as intelligent sensors) which can communicate, sense or interact with internal or external systems. This can generate volumes of real-time data that can be used by organizations for a variety of applications, including smart appliances to monitoring equipment performance. The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming so ubiquitous that ABI Research  predicts  that there will be more than 30 billion IP-co...

Picture a plant floor that is updating operators, managers and even other plants about potential machine problems. It would connect one machine to another and one system to the next. In order to maintain the highest quality, the systems would monitor any data that seems out of order or check on the line in process. The Internet of Things is here to make these manufacturing concepts a reality. While buzzwords like this sound intimidating, the benefits can be substantial. You’ve likely heard the terms, whether in the pages of  Quality  or in another context related to autonomous vehicles, equipment monitoring, or smart home devices. Although there is a lot of confusion around what exactly the term Internet of Things (IoT) means, the idea is that it allows products to communicate with people and one another. It could be described as the intersection of cyber and physical systems. But at its core, it’s all about data. With this newly available granular detail regarding machi...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) will allow over 10,000 institutes, both colleges and universities, to offer women’s studies programmes, a move the education regulator believes will highlight women’s contributions to society and the economy. Eligible colleges will get a grant of Rs 25 lakh per annum and universities Rs 35 lakh per annum from the UGC. UGC will monitor and engage in both teaching and research activities on issues related to women and also promote entrepreneurship among them. These centres or departments will undertake field research in areas on women leadership, gender gap analysis, inclusion of women in economic and social development and existing policy and legislation related to women. Besides, it will also ask such centres to conduct research on women’s contribution to science and technology. Women and their contributions to the economy have been a debate in India, particularly the participation of the woman labour force. In India, the women labour...

Zoom Bookmark Share Print Listen Translate For decades, our education system has followed a conventional approach to learning. But in recent years, we have been proactive in adopting new pedagogical trends aimed at fostering skill development and better learning outcomes. But the biggest deterrent to embracing novel developments has been the slow rate of social acceptance. Many important factors have been responsible for bringing about a slow but definite change in mindset, including the government’s increasing focus on competing with developed economies where impetus is given to nurturing a knowledge economy rather than just equipping its citizens for survival. This applies in the case of pursuing higher education degrees as well. The Indian education system tends to follow certain conventions, which are set on pursuing one single degree like engineering, medicine etc. However, in some metros, the trend of pursuing dual or integrated degrees, is slowly gathering pace. Sour...

For years, students were prohibited from revealing their identity (mentioning their names or the institute) on their answer sheets during MU exams. This was done to curb malpractices during the assessment of answer sheets. Less than six months after University of Mumbai (MU) introduced a provision for students to write their names on the answer sheets, it rolled back the feature. The newly-printed answer sheets have been printed as per the old format, in which students can mention only their seat numbers. “The idea behind allowing students to write their names on the answer sheets was to trace them easily in case a student makes a mistake while writing his/her seat number. However, we returned to the old format — seat numbers only — after several officials panned the decision letting students write their names on the answer sheets,” said an official from the examination department. He added new answer sheets were printed as per the old format and were issued for examinations t...

NEWDELHI: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will offer about 500 seats to candidates from economically weaker sections this year, IIT officials familiar with the matter said. In January, the Centre had announced 10% reservations in jobs and educational institutions to economically weaker sections (EWS) from the general category in a move that, it said, was done to provide social equality. The EWS quotas were done without disturbing the existing quotas for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes, it clarified. In case of admission to central institutions, the 10% reservation for EWS entails an overall increase of around 25% seats to ensure the number of general category seats remains unchanged. Implementing the EWS quota can be staggered over two years. According to the tech school officials, most of the 23 IITs will, on average, implement around 4% EWS quota this year. The Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced), for admission to IITs, is scheduled...