CIE-startups bag awards at HYSEA Product Awards & Expo 2018
If you’re starting up now in the Hyderabad or Telangana region, you have plenty of support with an elaborate startup ecosystem in the form of the IIIT-H’s CIE, T-hub, or the more recent WEhub for women entrepreneurs. But the growth of IT and ITES sectors in Hyderabad more than a decade ago can be attributed to […]
Towards A Truly Connected World With 5G Technology
The existing mobile network technology (2G, 3G and 4G) is unable to accommodate an ever-increasing mobile phone subscriber base putting pressure on limited data. Add to this: Over-stressed and clogged mobile networks. We met up with Shaik Zakir Hussain, MS by Research student from the Signal Processing and Communications Research Centre (SPCRC) who chatted about […]
Graduating Batch of 2018: The World Is Their Oyster
The graduating batch of 2018 BTech students is gearing up for their convocation this weekend. And all of them are doing the happy dance. While some of them have decided to further their interests towards higher education in research, the rest have all gotten comfortably placed in reputed firms. Of these industry-bound students, 16 have […]
Take a Trip Down History Lane With Your Own Choice Of Stories
For those who love soaking in history and enjoy an unhurried pace through ruins and monuments, an audio guide seems to be the preferred choice. Europe-bound travellers, hard-pressed for time yet desperate to tick off the must-sees from their list of museums, castles, amphitheatres and palaces, prefer popular (and free!) audio tour guides such as […]
Prof Vineet Gandhi wins patent for split screens research
One usually associates split screens with news channel panel discussions with multiple guests in the same frame. And that is typically done with an elaborate camera crew and their multiple cameras, a cameraperson focussing one camera each on a panel member. Similar is the case of stage performances like a dance recital or a play. […]
Salghuna Nair – first Indian to attend DART workshop at Paul Sabatier University
When everyone else was either out on vacation or cribbing about the rising mercury levels, this soft-spoken and unassuming senior research fellow from the Lab of Spatial Informatics has been winning accolades and creating waves at every international conference and workshop she’s attended in May, June and July 2018. Meet 26-year-old Salghuna Nair from Trichy, […]
How This Pahadi Prof Is Plotting Progress In Spiti With Computational Tools
Having spent most of his childhood and adolescent years in Shimla, for Prof. Aniket Alam of the Centre for Exact Humanities, the hills do come alive with the sound of music. However, his first research interest into the social history of the Himalayas began in the aftermath of the recommendations of the Mandal Commission, forcing […]
Young and Innovative Start-ups from IIIT-H Students
A brilliant business idea can come out of anywhere. But it takes a certain amount of genius to know just where to look. It could be a solution to an everyday common problem, a gap in an existing market, or expertise or skill set that you possess and would like to cash in on. Several […]
Megathon 2018 – A Student Hackathon To Solve Social And Corporate Challenges
Time to put your thinking caps back on! The Megathon is here. What is it? A mega brainstorming of life hacks over a marathon session. And this student-led event jointly organized by the Entrepreneurial-cells (E-cells) of IIIT-H and IIT Hyderabad respectively is here again, but in different avataars.For those who came in late, the E-cell […]
Hackers Gonna Hack And What’s Hyderabad Doing About It
Data is wealth. Period. And like all wealth is to be guarded and protected fiercely, data is even more so, especially in today’s internet and digitally-driven world. According to Internet World Stats, a website featuring data on global internet usage, India ranks second in the number of internet users worldwide at 462.12 million after China. […]