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FEU Tech named Top University for Real Impact for third consecutive year
Real-world impact and contributions to society are the best measures of education. It stands as the most valid indicator of effective learning. The World University Rankings for Innovation has revolutionized the way we measure academic success, putting emphasis on tangible outcomes that shape communities and drive progress. Leading the charge among Philippine universities, FEU Tech (Far Eastern University Institute of Technology) has risen through the ranks of this prestigious award for three consecutive years, showcasing its unwavering commitment to modern education. With groundbreaking research, cutting-edge methodologies and a transformative approach to learning, FEU Tech is not just creating graduates but shaping future Filipino trailblazers who can thrive in workplaces and create substantial impact in different industries. Real-world results WURI aims to effectively measure such impact by highlighting creative and innovative approaches universities have in their research and educational programs through six categories: Industrial Application, rather than the traditional ways of counting research papers and lecture-type teaching; Value-Creating startups and entrepreneurship, rather than a traditional focus on the number of jobs filled; Social Responsibility, Ethics and Integrity, rather than a focus on knowledge and skills just for material success; Student Mobility and Openness for exchange and collaboration between schools and across national borders, rather than an independent yet closed system; Crisis Management in the midst of climate change, Covid-19 pandemic and other global and local crises; Progress during the Fourth Industrial Revolution through digital technology, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud services, blockchain and so on. FEU Tech, which has always been on the lookout for opportunities to innovate its educational programs, was the only university in the Philippines to join the WURI Rankings back in 2020. After ranking Top 19 for Ethical Values on their first try, the institution was poised to garner more awards in succeeding years. In 2021, FEU Tech ranked Top 24 for Entrepreneurial Spirit. In 2022, they ranked Top 98 overall globally, and in 2023, ranked Top 77 overall in a very competitive pool of top-performing universities and institutions both in the Philippines and around the globe. FEU’s invaluable contribution towards the internationalization of Philippine higher education also garnered recognition from the Commission on Higher Education during the Internationalization Champions of Nation-Building and Sustainability Awards 2023 last 6 October. The award was received by Dr. Florante D. Poso Jr., director of Quality Assurance. Immersive FEU Tech’s commitment to revolutionizing education goes beyond rankings. Amidst the pandemic crisis, the university has unveiled its innovative Mastery-based Individualized Learning Enhancement System, which aims to create an adaptive, immersive and personalized learning experience. MILES empowers students with the flexibility to explore and master their subjects at their own pace, fostering critical thinking, problem-solving and creativity. At the heart of MILES lies a cutting-edge virtual learning environment where students can immerse themselves in interactive simulations, collaborate with peers and engage in hands-on learning experiences, transcending the limitations imposed by physical classrooms. The university’s enhanced WURI ranking is just the beginning when it comes to its pivotal role in shaping innovation ecosystems, creating significant contributions to society and becoming a recognized global leader in transformative education. The post FEU Tech named Top University for Real Impact for third consecutive year appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Tech’s carbon footprint: can AI revolutionize responsibly?
Across the globe, data servers are humming, consuming both megawatts and precious natural resources to bring life to our digital world. The planet's 8,000 or so data centers are the foundation of our online existence and will grow ever further with the advent of artificial intelligence -- so much so that research estimates that by 2025, the IT industry could use 20 percent of all electricity produced, and emit up to 5.5 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. This poses a real -- and to some, increasingly urgent -- question about the industry's carbon footprint as startups and companies fall behind Silicon Valley's latest forward march. "Pandora's box is open," said Arun Iyengar, CEO of Untether AI, a highly specialized chip-making company that strives to make AI more energy efficient. "We can utilize AI in ways that enhance the climate requirements or we can ignore the climate requirements and find ourselves facing the consequences in a decade or so in terms of the impact." The transformation of the world's data servers to AI readiness is already well underway, in what one Google executive called a "once-in-a-generation inflection point in computing." But the scope of the mission is huge. The creation of generative AI tools such as GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT, or Google's Palm2, behind the bot Bard, can be broken into two key stages, the actual "training" and then the execution (or "inference"). In 2019, University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers trained several large language models and found that training a single AI model can emit the CO2 emission equivalent of five cars over their lifetimes. A more recent study by Google and the University of California, Berkeley, reported that training GPT-3 resulted in 552 metric tons of carbon emissions, equivalent to driving a passenger vehicle 1.24 million miles (2 million kilometers). OpenAI's latest generation model, GPT-4, is trained on around 570 times more parameters -- or inputs -- than GPT-3, and the scale of these systems will only grow as AI becomes more powerful and ubiquitous. Nvidia, AI's chip giant, provides the processors that are indispensable for training, known as GPUs. And while they are more energy efficient than typical chips, they remain formidable consumers of power. The ChatGPT 'problem' The other side of generative AI is deployment, or inference: when the trained model is applied to identify objects, respond to text prompts or whatever the use case may be. Deployment doesn't necessarily need the computing heft of an Nvidia chip but taken cumulatively, the endless interactions in the real world far outweigh training in terms of workload. "Inference is going to be even more of a problem now with ChatGPT, which can be used by anyone and integrated into daily life through apps and web searches," said Lynn Kaack, assistant professor of computer science at the Hertie School in Berlin. The biggest cloud companies insist that they are committed to being as energy-efficient as possible. Amazon Web Services pledges to be carbon-neutral by 2040 while Microsoft has pledged to be carbon-negative by 2030. The latest evidence that the companies are serious about energy efficiency is reassuring. Between 2010 and 2018, global data center energy use rose by only 6 percent, despite a 550 percent increase in workloads and computing instances, according to the International Energy Agency. 'Backwards' thinking Silicon Valley's AI tycoons believe discussions of AI's current carbon footprint are beside the point, and underplay its revolutionary potential. The naysayers have it "backwards," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told reporters on a recent visit to his company's headquarters in California. The mass deployment of AI and faster computing will in the end diminish the need to go to the world's data clouds, he argued. AI's superpowers will turn your laptop, car, or device in your pocket into an energy-efficient supercomputer without the need to "retrieve" data from the cloud. "In the future, there'll be a little tiny model that sits on your phone and 90 percent of the pixels will be generated, 10 percent will be retrieved, instead of 100 percent retrieved -- and so you're going to save (energy)," he said. OpenAI's Sam Altman meanwhile believes that AI will soon enough be able to build humanity a completely new future. "I think once we have a really powerful super intelligence, addressing climate change will not be particularly difficult," Altman said recently. "This illustrates how big we should dream... Think about a system where you can say, 'Tell me how to make a lot of clean energy cheaply, tell me how to efficiently capture carbon, and tell me how to build a factory to do this at planetary scale.'" But some experts worry that the mad dash for AI has elbowed out fears about the planet, at least for now. "Large corporations are spending a lot of money right now deploying AI. I don't think they are thinking about the environmental impact yet," said Untether AI's Iyengar. But, he added: "I think that is coming." The post Tech’s carbon footprint: can AI revolutionize responsibly? appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
DoF: Rural banks should adopt tech
Rural banks must speed up the integration of digital services in their systems to allow more Filipinos to obtain various financial services, Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno said. “The digital divide has continued to widen, leaving vulnerable sectors of the society on the margins of economic progress,” Diokno said in a statement shared Monday by the Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines. RBAP has at least 400 members and is celebrating their rural banking consciousness week until Saturday with the theme “Rural Banks: Ensuring that No Juan is Left Behind in the Age of Digitalization.” He stressed the digital gap in banking among Filipinos is evident despite the rise of digital technologies in banking, including mobile apps and the cloud system which is an online data-sharing tool and computer programs manager. A 2022 survey by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas showed 55 banks could adopt digital technologies efficiently. “With accelerated adoption of digital technologies in recent years, access to financial services and critical information has never been more readily available to the general public. DoF supports RBAP’s initiative to integrate financial technologies in their services to expand access to formal credit,” the finance chief said. Opportunity to expand services Citing the performance of ASA Philippines, a microfinance lender to rural entrepreneurs, the Asian Development Bank said rural banks could expand their loan portfolios by over 50 percent using cloud technology. To help modernize the systems of rural banks, global market analyst McKinsey & Company said foreign expertise and resources can be tapped to reach over 71 million Internet users in the Philippines and the projected growth in Filipinos with bank accounts from 50.3 million to 85 million by 2030. “The underserved rural sector is well suited to digital-first or hybrid offerings, and recent changes to onboarding requirements and agent-banking rules are designed to enable digital service providers to maximize the impact of the country’s limited rural banking infrastructure,” McKinsey analysts said. The post DoF: Rural banks should adopt tech appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Upskilling Filipinos helps bridge jobs gap
Filipinos should develop tech skills to secure future jobs. India’s Tata Consulting Services said Filipinos must expand skills from English proficiency to technology skills to secure jobs of the future. Shiju K. Varghese, country head for Tata Consultancy Services Inc. in the Philippines, said Filipinos speak more like native English speakers, unlike other races with mother tongue influence or obviously different pronunciation of English words. “When we started expanding, obviously, we wanted to leverage the talent pool that is available in the local market, which is language,” he said Tuesday on the Daily Tribune’s show Straight Talk. English useful for BPO Filipinos’ English skills have been useful in the firm’s voice operations for contact services or business process outsourcing. “But that was the story back in 2008 to 2010. We are less into contact centers now and we have more end-to-end solutions,” Varghese said. Tata has expanded to providing information technology or IT services to businesses, such as cloud, cybersecurity and data analytics. Varghese said these are used in manufacturing, infrastructure, telecommunications and banking industries. “The industry is moving from voice-centric industry to technology-centric industry. The Philippines is gearing up for that but there is a bit of a gap in terms of the pool availability for some of the skills,” he said. To address this problem, Varghese said Tata is working with the Department of Education to heighten interest of Filipino students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math or STEM. He said the Philippines has a big population of energetic workers and students to be tapped to help technology firms serve customers. “By promoting STEM education, we’re trying to bridge the gap between the pool which is available to be employed by the IT industry versus what’s really out in the market.” Half of the Philippine population are aged 25 and below, according to government data. For comparison, half of Japan are people 45 years and below. Applying STEM Varghese said Tata has approached at least 400 schools to teach students to apply STEM to various, actual problems. “We help them identify a problem within their community and find a solution for that problem. And we help them build applications, mobile apps and tools which can address those challenges.” Varghese observed many Filipinos are educated but somehow slow in turning knowledge to problem solutions. “I think the Philippines is the second largest producer of certified public accountants, but when they come to employer space and they will have to be hired, you’ll see their applicability of what they learn is low or not able to apply their theoretical knowledge into the practical world.” Still, Varghese is optimistic Filipinos can acquire IT skills as Tata helps build the proper training programs and conducive environments for the IT industry. “They can always be trained for something new and given a new opportunity, new environment for them to succeed. It’s never people who fail by themselves but because we have not probably given them the right opportunity.” The post Upskilling Filipinos helps bridge jobs gap appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
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Digital readiness paradigm
When we hear the word “digital,” we instinctively imagine the realm of hi-tech gadgetry, smart phones, high-speed internet, the cloud, apps, databases, and all the online content we habitually log on to for work and entertainment. For consumers living in a pandemic, these technologies are just indispensable. Still, many end-users have little understanding of the complexity and the enormous investments needed to build and sustain a network of digital infrastructures to support this convergence of services we access through our phones, tablets, and computers......»»
VMware unlocks power of Kubernetes, App Modernization for Southeast Asia& rsquo;s Innovation Economy
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Philippines announces decisive measures amid tensions with China
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Israel bombs Gaza, fights Hamas around hospitals
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Security Council warns of foreign interference in 2025 polls
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Marcos Jr. eyes stronger maritime ties with India
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Ati tribe fenced off in Boracay
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PLDT puts up new unit for data centers
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EAM Jaishankar, Singapore PM exchange views on deepening engagement in fintech, digitalization, green economy
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Philippines declares 'strategic defeat' of NPA rebels
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