IIITH Hosts Human Centric Digitisation Themed EU Day
To mark EU Day this year, a special webinar was hosted between an EU delegation and the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) on October 28, 2020. Here’s what it entailed. The concept of EU Day first began in 2017 when it was officially launched as part of EU Public Diplomacy in India through […]
From Carrybags To Carry-Your-Own-Bags And Much More – How IIITH Is Pursuing A Plastic-Free Pledge
In October 2018, a ban on single-use plastics was supposed to be put in place by the Prime Minister, Narender Modi – an announcement that was later put off (presumably due to the plastic industry lobby). However long before the term ‘single-use plastic’ became a dirty word, IIITH has been quietly undertaking a host of […]
IIITH Researchers Develop first-of-its-kind Hinglish Code-Mixed Data NLP tool
Researchers from the Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC), IIITH make a first-of-its-kind attempt at semantic role labelling of Hindi-English code mixed tweets. This was presented at the Linguistic Annotation Workshop during ACL 2019, Italy. Chalo jaldi karo, or we’ll miss the beginning of the movie. Nothing out of the ordinary in this sentence here. In […]
“Sophia, The Humanoid Robot Is Essentially A Sort Of A Puppet,” says Prof. Kambhampati
When the past president of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and one of the leading authorities on AI, Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati came visiting IIITH to deliver a talk on Human-AI collaboration, we caught up with him. Over a free-wheeling conversation, he talked about the past and the current AI buzz, portents of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
V-Labs – LEADing from behind: The march towards digital scientific education
For those clamouring to intern on open source projects, look no further. Here at IIIT-H lies an opportunity to contribute to and maintain a world-class learning platform for students. Read on to learn how IIIT-H is not only one of the 12 technological institutes across India, that is part of the virtual labs initiative of […]
Team FalconX Ranks 24th at CANSAT
A team of students from IIIT-H that qualified for the final launch phase of the annual CanSat competition organized by The American Astronautical Society (AAS) has just returned from Stephenville, Texas, securing a rank of 24 out of 41. This is an annual student design-build-launch competition for space-related topics. The IIIT-H team was among 40 […]