Dear Professor,
Greetings from Infosys Campus Connect Team!!!
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New Courses Launched
1. Internet of Things
2. Blockchain
3. Speak Up
4. Email Writing Skills
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Please find below links for the information related to latest technology and trends. This could help your faculty members and/or your college students.
Tech News for the Day
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The field of robotics is going through a renaissance thanks to advances in machine learning and sensor technology.
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So long as cryptocurrency exists, so too will the extraordinary lengths to which thieves will go to try to steal it.
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After landing on Mars last November, the InSight probe first deployed a suite of meteorological equipment and then began to check the health of its science instruments.
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Programmer News for the Day
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Elixir has been steadily gaining in popularity over the last several years. It runs on the Erlang VM.
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Intel announces new 45W mobile parts and a full range of desktop chips.
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A simple explanation of how they work and how to implement one from scratch in Python.
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Word for the Day
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libertine noun
lib·er·tine | \ ˈli-bər-ˌtēn \
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disparaging : a freethinker especially in religious matters
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This man is known for his libertine character
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Puzzle for the Day
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Anagram for the Day
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Farmer Puzzle
A farmer wants to transport a fox, a chicken and some corn across a river.
They have a rowboat, but it can only carry the person and one other item.
If the fox and the chicken are alone together, the fox will eat the chicken.
If the chicken and the corn are alone together, the chicken will eat the corn.
How does the farmer do it?
Solution (Previous Puzzle):
They live in Australia, but they could have been born anywhere South of the equator, where the seasons are reversed.
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An anagram is a word made by using letters of another word in a different order.
Example: shot à host
Find the anagram for the following:
Former
Framed
Friend
Solution (Previous):
FEASTS : SAFEST
FILETS : ITSELF
FILLER : REFILL
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Innovation of the Day
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In 1796, the first U.S. patent for a pill of any kind was issued to Samuel Lee, Jr., of Connecticut, for a "Composition of bilious pills" which he renewed on 24 May 1810 and marketed as "Lee's Windham Pills."
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In 1883, a company that would build the first U.S. three-wire central station for incandescent lighting - the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. was incorporated.
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In 1897, at the Royal Institution Friday Evening Discourse, Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) first announced the existence of electrons (as they are now named).
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Video for the Day
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Podcast for the Day
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In tropical seas, flying fish leap out of the water, gliding for up to 200 meters, before dipping back into the sea. In the Indo-Pacific, a hunting sailfish swims up to 110 kilometers per hour. These feats are made possible by a fish’s form—which in most species is a smooth, long body, fins, and a tail. Lauren Sallan explains why these features are so common, and what it reveals about fish.
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Neil and Sophie talk about the hopes and risks of gene editing. Is it going to cure diseases? Or be used to create designer babies? And Neil wonders how many errors he might have in his genetic code.
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Idiom for the Day
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Act Up
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To act up, usually in regards to children, means to behave badly or cause trouble.
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If you children keep acting up, we are not going to go to the amusement park.
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Quote for the Day
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“God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into its nest.”
J. G. Holland
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Thanks & Regards,
Team Campus Connect,
Infosys Limited
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