The under-representation of women employees, especially in the technology domain, has always been a major conce with most industry players. To probe the on-ground situation at the corporate floors, TechGig India’s largest online technology community - recently conducted the ‘Gender Diversity Survey 2018’.The survey results re-established that the road to the top is extremely difficult for women technologists. More than 80% of women respondents in the survey revealed that they have a formal education/degree in Computer Science, and still, less than 10% women were in senior management positions. Even at the team lead level, the representation of women was poor with just 13% survey respondents occupying this position.

As many as 70% of women surveyed claimed that gender bias existed in their organisation.These findings again reinforce that Diversity and Inclusion programs need to be a top priority at all organisations.Platforms like TechGig Geek Goddess are a step in that direction with an aim to provide the right environment and career advancement opportunities for women technologists. Presently, TechGig Geek Goddess 2018 edition is underway with more than 68,000+ registrations.Other than the main coding contest, this edition also hosted two theme-based hackathons, namely IoT Hackathon and Machine Leaing Hackathon. Among these, Machine Leaing emerged as the most popular skill based on the number of registrations.TechGig Geek Goddess 2018 is presented by American Express, a globally integrated payments company.

Goldman Sachs, a global investment bank and active investor in India, is the title sponsor of TechGig Geek Goddess 2018."In its fourth edition, TechGig Geek Goddess 2018 has received a remarkable response so far. I’m happy to mention that quite in line with all our previous editions we have seen a surge in the number of registrations and submissions this year. Way to go, ladies! Our best wishes are with you," said Ramathreya Krishnamurthi, Business Head, TimesJobs and TechGig.Sharing her thoughts on the association with TechGig Geek Goddess, Ruchika Panesar, Head - Technology, American Express India said, "It is overwhelming to see women coders tu up in huge numbers for this iconic event.

We are proud to be associated with this flagship event, aimed at bringing the women tech gurus of our industry to the forefront and showcasing their technology prowess. TechGig Geek Goddess serves as the coerstone of our strategy to embrace diversity and at the same time encourage other industry organisations to recognise and utilise the abundant potential of these talented women."Shubha Iyer, a Managing Director in Technology at Goldman Sachs Bengaluru said, "At Goldman Sachs we share a passion to build an ecosystem to support women in technology and have aligned our efforts through an array of programs dedicated to ‘Women in Engineering’. As a fellow female in technology, I am encouraged to see the active participation and embrace the vision to strengthen our national workforce by fostering more women engineers."

Sanjay Goyal, knitting machine Suppliers Vice President and Product and Technology Head at TimesJobs and TechGig said, "Its heartening to see such enthusiastic participation at TechGig Geek Goddess 2018. Going by the participation level in this edition, Machine Leaing is the most popular skill with women technologists. This bolsters the fact that women programmers are second to none when it comes to experimenting with new technologies. Kudos to all the participants".Some of the popular programming languages this year are C, C++, Java and Python. India’s Silicon Valley Bengaluru is presently leading the race with the maximum participants, closely followed by Cheai, Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune.

No, it’s not a new horror film. It’s Norman: also known as the first psychopathic artificial intelligence, just unveiled by US researchers.The goal is to explain in layman’s terms how algorithms are made, and flat knitting machine Suppliers to make people aware of AI’s potential dangers.Norman "represents a case study on the dangers of Artificial Intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine leaing algorithms," according to the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Pinar Yanardag, Manuel Cebrian and Iyad Rahwan, part of an MIT team, added: "there is a central idea in machine leaing: the data you use to teach a machine leaing algorithm can significantly influence its behavior.""So when we talk about AI algorithms being biased or unfair, the culprit is often not the algorithm itself, but the biased data that was fed to it," they said via email.Hence the idea of creating Norman, which was named after the psychopathic killer Norman Bates in the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film "Psycho."

Norman was "fed" only with short legends describing images of "people dying" found on the Reddit inteet platform.The researchers then submitted images of ink blots, as in the Rorschach psychological test, to determine what Norman was seeing and compare his answers to those of traditionally trained AI.The results are scary, to say the least: where traditional AI sees "two people standing close to each other," Norman sees in the same spot of ink "a man who jumps out a window."And when Norman distinguishes "a man shot to death by his screaming wife," the other AI detects "a person holding an umbrella."

A dedicated website, norman-ai.mit.edu, shows 10 examples of ink blots accompanied by responses from both systems, always with a macabre response from Norman.The site lets Inteet users also test Norman with ink blots and send their answers "to help Norman repair itself."

Sonam’s PadMan co-star Akshay Kumar, however, decided to stoke the fire when he asked her, "Are you getting married this year?"The two were at an event to talk about inventions and iovators. The alteative is for patients’ families to scramble to pay a minimum Rs 4,000 for an ordinary MRI test or Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000 for a detailed China socks machine Suppliers one.At a time when the entire country is talking about the upcoming film "Padman", a woman scientist in Madhya Pradesh, who retued from the US, has been silently working on her mission to educate tribal women about menstrual health and offering them cheap sanitary pads.Maya Vishwakarma started her mission two years ago, prompted by her own experience of unsafe menstrual hygiene during her early years."I did not use sanitary pads till the age of 26. I even did not know about it.

At that time, neither did I have money, nor information," Vishwakarma told PTI.The 36-year-old biologist has retued to her village Mehragaon in Narsinghpur district from the US, where she went for higher studies, and is devoting her energy in spreading awareness about menstrual hygiene among tribal women.Her early lifes experience led her back to her native place, where she is working for menstrual hygiene and cost- effective manufacturing of quality sanitary pads under the baer of her organisation - Sukarma Foundation."I was told to use cloth by a woman relative during my first period. This had caused several infections. Talking about menstrual health is still a taboo in our society. My experiences in early life inspired me to work in this field."Vishwakarmas campaign has come into spotlight at a time when there is a buzz around the Bollywood movie "Padman", which will hit theatres on February 9.

The Akshay Kumar-starrer social drama is a fictionalised account of Tamil Nadu-based social entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham, who invented a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine. His machine manufactured affordable sanitary towels for women in villages."My work has nothing to do with the movie. I have been working on menstrual health since the past two years. I had met Muruganantham in coection with my work in 2016. He was known to me from my Califoia days," Vishwakarma said."I have seen Murugananthams machine but it was different from our equipment. Our machines are semi-automatic. Now, more and more women are coming forward to join us."She said films like "Padman" would create awareness about menstrual cycle and related problems but this alone is not sufficient and more work on the ground is needed."Real groundwork is needed. I work in areas, which lack basic amenities like power. We need Padwoman and Padman who can work on the ground.