Month: March 2019

Happiness in the Air

Happiness in the Air

Happiness and wellbeing are the two most causal factors of our existence. Today policymakers and corporate giants strongly acknowledge how crucial these are in comparison to financial growth, stability, profit and affluence. In all fields exploring social realities or bringing about social changes, happiness and wellbeing have become key areas of interest. The Rekhi Centre for Science of Happiness at IIT Kharagpur will explore these domains in an international workshop from April 4-6, 2019, bringing in global experts to interrogate the current state of happiness and wellbeing studies, especially in the context of Communities, Cities and States, and the Networked…
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Thrust to 5G and AI

Thrust to 5G and AI

Business Standard    Business Standard (PTI)     Times of India    India Today    Indian Express    Careers360      Economic Times      Money Control    Jagran    Equity Bull Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company and IIT Kharagpur, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on March 28, 2019 to collaborate on high-impact, industry-focused applied research in the areas of 5G and AI. Research outcomes from this partnership will be leveraged by Wipro to develop solutions for its customers, across industry verticals. IIT Kharagpur will benefit from the commercialization of the joint…
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Gurudakshina

Gurudakshina

Telegraph The golden boy of IIT Kharagpur, Vinod Gupta, the US-based entrepreneur and philanthropist, is back and this time to honour his former faculty. Vinod Gupta made a contribution of USD 100,000 to his alma mater to set up a Chair Professorship endowment in the name of Prof. A S Davis who was his teacher for the courses of thermodynamics, air conditioning and refrigeration. While gifting the cheque of USD 100,000 on March 25, to IIT Kharagpur Director, Prof. P P Chakrabarti, Vinod remarked on the teaching style of Prof. Davis which strengthened his analytical bent of mind, observation and…
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In fond memory of Ranjan Khastgir

In fond memory of Ranjan Khastgir

We are deeply saddened by the demise of our much respected and admired alumnus, Shiva Ranjan Khastgir (1957/BTech/ME/AZ). He passed away at home in Kolkata, surrounded by his family, on March 18, 2019. Lovingly referred as ‘Khasta’ by his friends, many of whom continued to be in close touch with him long after their graduation from college, Ranjan Khastgir was a frontrunner among those who are the life force of the Technology Alumni Association of Kolkata. He was a former President of TAA, Calcutta Chapter, and strived hard to bring together IITians of all “shape and vintage under a common…
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Business Analytics Placement Scales New Heights

Business Analytics Placement Scales New Heights

Times of India      Business Standard     Outlook    NDTV       India Today    Careers360 The Final Placements for the Postgraduate Diploma in Business Analytics Programme of IIM Calcutta, ISI and IIT Kharagpur for the 2017-2019 batch concluded with the batch of 52 receiving a total of 66 offers made by 35 firms. The programme which has been ranked top in India and 14th globally among full-time business analytics course by the QS Rankings has witnessed a record increase of 11% in domestic offers alone with the mean salary going upto Rs. 24.40 lakh per annum. The…
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Build small, think big

Build small, think big

“The duty of universities, more than ever now, is to train students to think critically,” said Prof. Ben L. Feringa during his visit to IIT Kharagpur Professor Ben L. Feringa won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Jean-Pierre Sauvage (France) and Sir James Fraser Stoddart (UK) for their work on the development of molecular machines. He has been a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Groningen since 1988. In 1999, his discovery of the 'molecular motor' - a light-driven rotary molecular motor -was widely recognized as a spectacular scientific breakthrough. Prof. Feringa is internationally recognized as a…
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Amazon Cloud for IIT KGP Students

Amazon Cloud for IIT KGP Students

Hindustan Times   Times of India     Business Standard     India Today      News18     Careers360     Asian Age     Express Computer (Indian Express)    India Education Diary      Gadgets Now    NDTV      Reddit IIT Kharagpur will adopt Amazon Web Services (AWS) Educate, a program designed to help students gain in-demand cloud computing skills, including artificial intelligence (AI) hands-on experience, and other competencies from the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud services provider. "We are happy to introduce AWS Educate program to provide AWS Cloud Computing experience and AI-enablement for all our students, irrespective of their branch of…
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And the 1st Prize goes to . . .

And the 1st Prize goes to . . .

Times of India       India Today     Careers360    Jagran Josh A two-member student team from IIT KGP has adjudged winner of the APICS Supply Chain Case Competition for South and Western Asia. The American Production and Inventory Control Society known as APICS is the world’s leading professional body for end-to-end supply chain excellence. The Case Competition has two segments in Asia, the Singapore edition for East Asian and South East Asian countries and the Hyderabad edition for West Asian and South Asian countries. The winning team comprising Rohan Sewani and Rohit Sar from IIT Kharagpur was given…
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Ground rules

Ground rules

Two new MTech courses introduced by IIT Kharagpur will have wide acceptability in the industry India Today Jagran Josh AglaSem Swarajya Starting next semester, that is July 2019, the Mining Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur will throw open two new MTech programs – one in GeoMechanics for Mineral and Energy Resources, and the other in Safety, Health and Environment. The Department so long allowed an MTech in Mining Engineering, which will be replaced with the two new ones. However, it also allows a Dual Degree in Mining Engineering and in Safety Engineering that will continue. “The MTech course in GeoMechanics…
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IIT KGP’s Another First – 1.3 petaFLOPS High-Performance Computing

IIT KGP’s Another First – 1.3 petaFLOPS High-Performance Computing

IIT Kharagpur and C-DAC to set up India’s First 1.3 PetaFlop HPC Facility and Data Centre under National Supercomputing Mission Times of India Indian Express India Today The Week Business Standard Millenium Post BusinessLine Jagran Josh Swarajya Down To Earth NDTV High-Performance Computation based R&D in India is going to witness a new phase with the setting up of India’s first state-of-the-art 1.3 PetaFlop High-Performance Computing facility and datacenter ecosystem at IIT Kharagpur under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). The Institute signed an MoU with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an autonomous Scientific Society of the Ministry…
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