Hour of Code session

Computer science opens more doors for students than any other discipline in today’s world. Learning even the basics will help students in virtually any career—from architecture to zoology. All top IT Company’s are passionate about technology and committed to help students to learn and love coding.   Dec 5-11^th week is a week where Accenture offer our support for Hour of Code events. Hour of Code is a grassroots movement to empower every student in every school worldwide to learn to code. Through this volunteer-based program, students from around the world have learned an Hour of Code, a free, one-hour introductory course designed to demystify computer science and show that anybody can learn the basics. #hourofCode

Rather than taking computer session in Tier 1 and 2 cities, I went to my hometown, kotdwara.  Schools from Kotdwara very much appreciated it .. Net result was 15+ school participated with 400 Students for an hour of code. I was accompanied by my team member Anurag Bhandari as well. Couple of photos are below

 

 We have taught basics of web programming. At the end of the sessions, all the students were awarded hour of code certification. It was indeed a very soothing session. This news was also covered in some of the national newspapers.. Some of them are below

  

 

Top 15 AI companies

I have been working on lot of other areas professionally and personally and have not been able to blog it.. I was planning to start looking on giving more attention to the  blog but somehow i have missed. Today, after a gap of more than 4 years, I am starting it again..   

With so much enormous amount of data being generated every minute and having data storage cost being so less, AI is able to overcome his winter era.  I personally feel summer of AI have just started. World have just seen the glimpse of what disruption AI can bring..  I personally feel AI would be at his peak in and around 2020 where the usage of world "Guess" would be replace by actual facts and predictions coming from the Predictive Analytics. In this blog , I would try to make AI understanding simpler for the folks.  

Every companies have been speaking and discussing about disruption Artificial Intelligence(AI) is been making. More disruption feel is coming from Startups and now in last couple of years we see startups getting acquired by AI giants. Yesterday only i read about company API.AI being acquired by google.  Certainly this is an exciting era to be at..   I just came across list of top 15 companies who are really doing(rather than talking) about AI .. See here