Vol. 13 :: No. 4 :: Oct – Dec 2018 Message from the Chairman Dear IEEE Members, I am happy to write to you in this fourth and final issue of IEEE ICNL for 2018, which will also be the last issue of ICNL during my tenure as IEEE IC Chair. I would like to express my sincere thanks to Mr. HR Mohan, IEEE ICNL Editor, for his untiring efforts to bring out ICNL issues unfailingly in every quarter of 2017-2018. It was a herculean job done admirably well. It was a great honour for me to serve the IEEE fraternity of India as the IEEE IC Chair for two years during 2017-2018. I sincerely thank the IEEE members in India to repose their faith on me. From my side, I have tried my best within my capabilities, the outcome of which are to be judged by the IEEE fraternity at large. I take this opportunity to express our happiness for the fact that Sri Deepak Mathur, former IEEE India Council Chair, has been elected as the IEEE R10 Chair-Elect in the IEEE Annual Elections held in 2018. On behalf of IEEE India Council, I would like to profusely thank the IEEE voting members in India to cast their votes in large number in this election and make it happen. It has been clearly shown by this election that, if IEEE India fraternity works in unison, many positive things can happen in the years to come. I am also happy to note that Prof. Toshio Fukuda, former IEEE R10 Chair, has been elected as IEEE President–Elect for 2019. It is for the first time that an IEEE volunteer from R10 has been elected as IEEE President. IEEE India Council extends its full support to both Sri Deepak Mathur and Prof. Toshio Fukuda during their tenure in office. Indicon 2018, the flagship conference of India Council, was organized by IEEE Madras Section with Amrita Institute of Science and Technology, Coimbatore, as the local host during 16-18 December 2018 with technical support from IIT Madras. It was a neatly organized and well attended conference, for which the full credit goes to the organizing committee. IEEE Mini POCO 2018 co-sponsored by IEEE Region 10 was organized jointly by IEEE Malabar Sub-Section, IEEE Kerala Section and IEEE India council on 10 th November 2018 in NIT Calicut. India Council Meeting with IEEE President was held on 22 nd Oct 2018 at IEEE Bangalore office. India Council CAS Chapter and Saintgits College of Engineering organized 2018 International Conference on Circuits and Systems in Digital Enterprise Technology (ICCSDET) on 21 st Dec 2018 at Kottayam, Kerala. Computational Intelligence Society Chapter organized one week Summer School on “Computational Intelligence: Theory, Implementation and Applications” during 22-27 November 2018 in Hyderabad. I express my heartfelt appreciation of the hard work of IEEE volunteers in making all these programs successful and in the process making IEEE IC a vibrant entity. I congratulate all the IEEE leaders and volunteers, who have extended their strong support to IEEE IC team over the last two years. With a happy frame of mind, our IC team would hand over the charge to the new team under the leadership of Prof. SN Singh wef Jan 2019. I look forward to active cooperation of IEEE members in IC activities in greater numbers in the years to come. With warm fraternal greetings, Sivaji Chakravorti IEEE IC Chair 2017-2018 [email protected] IEEE India Info. Vol. 13 No. 4 Oct - Dec 2018 Page 1 Message from Editor H.R. Mohan, [email protected] Dear readers, We are happy to present the fourth quarterly issue of India Council Newsletter (ICNL) for the year 2018. This current issue of ICNL in 108 pages (largest so far) has 15 articles (two more than last issue), along with reports of few Section events, India Council activities. The Secretary’s Report of IEEE IC for the year 2018 and the report of the flagship event INDICON-2018 are also published. We thank the chairs of the sections and the conveners of the events for sending the reports as per guidelines and IC Chair and Secretary for their coordination. We look forward to receiving matter from all the organizers of events directly at the newsletter email id [email protected] as per the guidelines published in the newsletter and also available at https://goo.gl/DcVPmx ICNL thanks the authors who have responded to our request and contributed the following informative and interesting articles included in this issue. • Cyber Physical Systems – Overview and Evolution -- A tool for continuous evolution of systems by Mr. Abhilash Gopalakrishnan • Hardware Trojan Horses: The New Face of Cyber Terrorism by Krishnendu Guha, Debasri Saha, and Amlan Chakrabarti • Artificial Intelligence: Impact on Labour and Employment by Dr. Parasuram Balasubramanian • Incubation Centres – A Need for Successful Innovations via. Entrepreneurs! By Dr. Shajulin Benedict • Contextual Knowledge Digitisation and its Application in Software Development by Mr. Manoj Kumar Lal • System on chip methods for Autonomous Cars by Mr. V. P. Sampath • Teaching Learning Centre for Design and Manufacturing Education at IIITDM Kancheepuram-Toward Extremely Affordable DIY Laboratory Education by Dr. S. R. Pandian • Active Learning in Computer Science @ UT Dallas by Dr. Jey Veerasamy, Mr. John Cole & Dr. Miguel Razo • Research Trends and Opportunities in Machine Learning in Biotech & Health Sciences by Dr. Kolla Bhanu Prakash & Dr. B. Mahendran • Setting up Super Silicon Valley Smart City in India – A High-tech Innovation through Secured Governance by Dr. P. Sekhar & Dr. Venkata Rayapati • Digital Forensics – As we know it today… by Dr K Rama Subramaniam • Shaping India’s Future in Enterprise AV-IT Convergence by Mr. Gaurab Majumdar • The importance of HiST(ory) for S&T by Dr. John Bosco Lourdusamy • Next What? -- PPR (Possibility, Potential and Reality) Quotient by Mr. M. K. Anand • Atal New India Challenges – A first step towards becoming an Innovation Nation by Mr. R. Ramanan We are happy to have published the following excerpts with the permission of the author & publisher. • The Chapter-end Takeaways from the book Neoskilling for Digital Transformation and the Artificial Intelligence Revolution As usual, the Chairman message (last one) by Dr . Sivaji Chakravorti is comprehensive. The IT in Oct-Dec 2018 by Prof. S. Sadagopan, Director, IIIT Bangalore, the regular column in ICNL provides a broad overview on various important happenings in the IT and Telecom sectors. We are sure that readers will find the information provided in the column “Information Resources” compiled by the editor Mr. H.R. Mohan will be of interest to ICNL readers. We have also included briefs on nine books -- From Internet of Things to Smart Cities: Enabling Technologies; Neoskilling for Digital Transformation and the Artificial Intelligence Revolution; Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome; Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies; Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good; SHAPE IT: A Perfect Gift for Budding Engineers to Become Industry Ready; 36 Golden Rules - Build Your Business for Generations...; The 99 Day Diversity Challenge: Creating an Inclusive Workplace; and Life Skills 101 - The Science of Personal Mastery. We request the readers to make note of the announcements on Late Shri Pralhad P Chhabria Award 2019 and send their nominations. The membership renewal for 2019 is due and we request the members to renew in time for continued benefits from IEEE and its societies. ICNL thanks the various internet sources, inshorts ( https://www.inshorts.com ) for the information nuggets and Mr. Sunil Agarwal and Mr Ajit Ninan for granting permission to use their cartoons in this issue. ICNL wishes to add that the articles published in this issue are not peer reviewed and are also not checked for plagiarism for which the authors are responsible. Further, the views expressed in these articles are that of the authors and ICNL is not responsible for any consequences of using the information provided in these articles. IEEE India Info. Vol. 13 No. 4 Oct - Dec 2018 Page 2 IEEE India Council Secretary’s Report – 2018 The India Council Executive Committee – 2018 comprises the following Members along with all the Section Chairs as its ex- officio members- Name Office Section Sivaji Chakravorti Chair Kolkata S.N.Singh Chair Elect UP Deepak Mathur Immediate Past Chair Gujarat Preeti Bajaj Secretary Bombay S M Sameer Treasurer Kerala Abhay Phanshikar Vice Chair, Membership Development Bombay Suresh Nair Vice Chair, Conferences Kerala Rajesh Ingle Vice Chair, Awards Pune Atul Negi Vice Chair, Educational Activities Hyderabad Puneet Mishra Vice Chair, Industrial Relations Bangalore J. Ramkumar Vice Chair, Student Activities UP B. Satyanarayana Vice Chair, Technical Activities Bombay Rajashree Jain Vice Chair, WIE Affinity Group Pune Gitansh Anand Vice Chair, Young Professionals Delhi M. Ponnavaikko Ombudsman Madras HR Mohan Vice Chair, Professional Activities & Newsletter Editor Madras Suryanarayana Doolla Webmaster Bombay Amit Kumar Coordinator- Branding Hyderabad Jayakumari Chair- IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Chapter India Council (CAS04) Shaligram Chair- IEEE Chapter of Electronic Devices Society (ED15) India Council Deepak Bhatnagar Chair- IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society India Council (MTT17) Madheswaran Chair- IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Chapter (OE022) India Council Hitesh Mehta Chair- IEEE Photonics Society Chapter. (PHO36) India Council Madheswaran Chair- IEEE Solid Circuits Society Chapter (SSC 037) India Council Mahadevan Ramachandran Chair- IEEE Education Society Chapter (ED25) India Council Q. Bakir Chair- Joint IEEE Chapter of Aerospace & Electronic India Council Systems Society, and Communications Society (AES10/COM19) Annappa Basava Chair- IEEE Computer Society (C16) India Council A.K.Tripathy Chair- PES chapter India Council Indranil Sengupta Electronic Design Automation Council Chapter, CEDA-44 India Council Bikash Kumar Dey Information Theory Society Chapter, IT12 India Council Ex-Officio All IEEE Section Chairs of India IEEE India Info.