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IIITH develops AI tool to mine information from documents

AI has been put into play by researchers at IIITH, to demonstrate how information can be quickly mined from documents. While the AI process developed by them was used to analyse, extract and tag information from documents of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the researchers pointed out that it can be easily applied to many other domains such as health, scientific literature, manuals etc. The researchers developed a multi-layer Applied Semantics Extraction and Analytics (ASEA) framework for document processing with the support of JP Morgan AI Faculty Research Award.

IIITH’s SCLL wins Best Education Institute Exhibit of the year Award at IMC-2024

IIITH’s Smart City Living Lab was awarded ‘Best Education Institute Exhibit of the Year’ at the India Mobile Congress Exhibition. The eighth edition of India Mobile Congress took place from 15-18 October 2024 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, in concurrence with WTSA’24, the governing conference of the ITU Standardization Sector (ITU-T). The event featured global attendance, including international delegates from diverse sectors such as member states, standardization bodies, industries, academia, and start-ups.

Workshop on data centres for AI – Global expansion and environment

Telangana is not the only State that is supportive of these industries. State governments are bending backwards to attract data centres and they include Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka which have attractive policies to host these centres. Because data centres are seen as a critical infrastructure we cannot ask any questions,” said Pradip Thomas of University of Queensland at a workshop on ‘Data Centres for AI: Global Expansion and the Environment’ hosted in hybrid mode at the International Institute of Information Technology.

Prof. P J Narayanan’s views on how institutions can shape the Indian IT industry

Several esteemed foreign universities are setting up their campuses in the country and a lot of prestigious institutions from India have secured higher ranks in global rankings. Still, there is a large skill gap, especially in the technology domain as companies are always on the lookout for candidates for exceptional technical prowess.
TechGig recently had the opportunity to have a deep discussion with Prof P J Narayanan, Director, IIIT Hyderabad about the role of premium educational institutions in shaping the Indian IT industry.