IIITH’s Newest IoT Lab Lets You Conduct Real Science Experiments Remotely

Remember the popular high school Chemistry experiment where a glass rod immersed in oil seems to ‘magically’ disappear while the same one in water doesn’t? Now, imagine testing this out and other similar scientific experiments in real while being in another geographical location. IIITH’s Remote Triggered Lab shows just how.   The best way to learn […]

iRASTE Trains Bus Drivers in Defensive Driving

Technological innovations such as Advanced Driver Assistive Systems (ADAS) can help in reducing road accidents by promoting defensive driving behaviours. Aiming to reinforce these skills via periodical driver training programmes, Project iRASTE kicks off the first such initiative.  If you’ve ever been in a speeding cab en route to the airport, chances are you’ve experienced […]

How IIITH Is Using AI To Accelerate Drug Discovery

The International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad is known for its research driven culture with a focus on AI and ML. But while you think AI and ML is all about computer vision, robotics, and IoT, here’s a sneak peek into the institute’s AI-powered data-driven drug discovery unfolding at iHub-Data centre.  A couple of decades […]

How IIITH’s AI initiative Is Driving Safe RASTE

Indian road safety got a shot in its arm with the recent unveiling of an AI solution that uses sensors and predictive analytics to warn of collisions even before they occur. The project titled iRASTE – Intelligent Solutions for Road Safety through Technology and Engineering  – was launched in Nagpur by the Union Minister of […]

Banking On Data: Tech Tales From The TiH Data Centre

An online testing solution to assess the cognitive impact of Covid-19; an autonomous driving platform with high-performance computing capability, a portable screening tool for early cancer detection; a mobile traffic-challan generating system – these are a few of the applied research prototypes from the data collection efforts of the Technology Innovation Hub housed at the […]

IIITH Researchers Set Stage For Artistic AI Video Editing

After an unprecedented year, live entertainment is set to make a comeback in 2021 with live audiences et al. However experts are of the opinion that a hybrid model where the same performance is recorded and streamed will also co-exist. An AI tool developed by researchers from the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) at […]

IIITH on a HAI with Novel Interdisciplinary Research 

Even as the COVID – 19 pandemic applied breaks to ongoing research and innovation activities world-wide, there has been a satisfactory research outcome at IIITH that originally began brewing as an interdisciplinary experiment. Read On. At the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH), the emphasis has always been on dissolving boundaries – physical or […]

From Reporting on AI to Reporting to AI

Not to state the obvious but we do live in an alarmingly digitized world. Everywhere you look, it’s AI this and AI that. As journalists, media persons often report on the latest technological advancements, research breakthroughs, their applications and so on. But even as they stand on the periphery, it’s time to acknowledge that they’re […]