Prof. Ramesh Loganathan has clarified that it is a myth that jobs will be lost due to artificial intelligence (AI). He suggested that employees in the IT sector should update themselves to new technology. He said that out of the total 10 lakh IT employees in Hyderabad, only 20-30 thousand are working using AI. He said that AI will not have any impact on engineering education. Just as civil and mechanical engineers are software employees, anyone who has completed any course in engineering can get qualified AI jobs. He said that there is currently a need for graduates in all fields, and there is a worrying situation in the construction and manufacturing sectors where there is a shortage of civil and mechanical engineers. In an exclusive interview with ‘Namasthe Telangana’, he shared several interesting facts about the impact AI will have on engineering education as well as the IT sector.

In an ET Education exclusive conversation, Sheeba Chauhan, Senior Associate, ET Education delved into India’s tech education ecosystem with Prof P J Narayanan, Director of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. India is now the second-largest higher education system in the world— home to over 1,100 universities. This expansive landscape focuses on research, deep-tech innovation, startup culture, and much more. One such trailblazer is the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad — a pioneer in AI, computer vision, robotics, natural language processing, and more. In this ET Education exclusive conversation, we delved into “What it takes to build a deep-tech academic powerhouse” with Prof. P J Narayanan, Director of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Setting new standards in legislative transparency, the IIITH, Punjabi University (PU) Patiala, and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Noida, have digitised images of Punjab assembly debates dating back to 1947 and made them available online. The institutions have also created a search engine to enhance public accessibility. Not only that, the team has also made it inclusive with audiobooks. The search engine, developed under the guidance of CV Jawahar of IIITH, and Gurpreet Lehal, consultant at PU, is an initiative of the National Language Translation Mission, Bhashini. The institutions launched the project about two years ago. “Using Optical Character Recognition (OCR), we have converted scanned PDFs into searchable PDFs,” said Krishna Tulsyan, a research engineer from IIITH, who worked as team leader on the project. “Now, using the search engine, users can search for anything — not only in English, but also in regional languages — in these PDFs without even opening them.”