AI and Data Science lead the way – Outbreak Analysts are creating weapons to fight the Coronavirus
‘Crimson Contagion” – Simulation foreshadows reality Through the first eight months of 2019, the US city of Chicago was witness to a strange simulation exercise. It involved a scenario where unsuspecting US tourists returning home from China carry along a deadly respiratory virus and spread it throughout the country.The findings were chilling. The model predicted […]
Demand for Cyber Security Professionals on the rise
As companies across the globe are still trying their level best to cope up with the crisis situation and manage their business operations, cyber security is being perceived as a ‘must-have’ enabler to keep businesses afloat and prepare better with a robust Business Continuity Planning approach for the unforeseen times. Industry specialists claim that the […]
Important guidelines on how to stay safe on-line
We are in the midst of perhaps the toughest challenge faced by humankind in our lifetime and we need to ensure that we do all we can to protect ourselves, our families and our communities. One of the fallouts of the lockdown is that we are all using our home and mobile networks for socializing […]
New Paradigms in Machine Learning
Dr.Sourav Saha Dean Academics and Director Executive Education at Praxis Business School spoke on New Paradigms in Machine Learning in the Machine Learning Developers Summit 2020. To listen to his take on the subject, click on : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvFKhUOfTXM #machinelearning #datascience #praxisbusinessschool #datascienceeducation #highereducation
Crisis Leadership: Conjuring the best out of the worst
Throughout history, catastrophes have always exposed the contrasting extremes of human nature. Perhaps the most famous quote in this regard can be found in the opening lines of “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the French Revolution, it begins with: “It was the best of times, it […]
The PGDM 2020-22 batch starts its learning process online – The Praxis Way
Praxis Business School starts the Praxis Prep Program in an endeavour to engage the incoming PGDM Batch 2020-22. The Praxis Prep Program is a series of interactive sessions designed to prepare the students of the incoming PGDM batch for the exciting Praxis journey that lies ahead of them. Each session aims to introduce the students […]
Algorithm sings a different tune to end legal battles!
Allegations of lifting tunes abound in the music industry. Plagiarism is a nagging issue and legal battles on intellectual property rights, royalties and out of the court settlements with big labels are common occurrences. Why this happens so frequently with music, and not with other art forms, might be a good question to ask. And […]
COVID-19 creates fresh cyber security challenges as employees Work-From-Home
Stay safe – both in person and online The threat The recent surge in Work-From-Home, triggered by the COVID-19 crisis, is here to stay and the first sign of it is that ‘WFH’ has been added to the alphabet soup of jargons crowding the technology industry. WFH, however, has also created a fresh set of […]
Growing rush for AI talent in non-IT verticals
Gartner Inc. has released its latest TalentNeuron data this month. It reveals that in the 12 top countries GDP-wise, the requirement of AI jobs in non-IT departments grew by 74% between 2015 and 2019. While in July 2015 non-IT departments had posted 89,895 AI jobs, by March 2019 the figure rose to 156,294 jobs. Surprisingly, […]
Want to refine this neural network for COVID-19 diagnosis?
The innovation Scientists from the University of Waterloo, in collaboration with a Canadian Artificial Intelligence firm has developed an open-access neural network that can speed up diagnosis of COVID-19 infections. Developers Linda Wang and Alexander Wong partnered with DarwinAIto come up with a convolutional neural network named COVID-Net. Such networks specialize in image recognition through […]