Artificial Intelligence

Nov
24
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
AI4ICPS Setting Pace for India’s Transition to Smart Industry Hub

AI4ICPS Setting Pace for India’s Transition to Smart Industry Hub

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IIT Kharagpur is all set to transform the nation’s industrial sector with scalable application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). The Institute has recently set up a special purpose vehicle, the IIT Kharagpur AI4ICPS I Hub Foundation for translation of academic research at the proof of concept level to industrially scalable products and processes, focused on AI interventions to CPS.  “While research has been happening in AI&ML for decades, mostly limited to software with limited inclusion in consumer goods and daily used gadgets; graduating innovation…
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Sep
15
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
AI to Detect How Safe is Your Drinking Water

AI to Detect How Safe is Your Drinking Water

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Researchers from IIT Kharagpur have developed an AI-based prediction model for  detecting Arsenic pollution in drinking water Arsenic has been a menace in Eastern India especially along the banks of the Ganga for almost two decades now, putting millions of people at severe health risk. Researchers have been studying the distribution patterns of the contaminated groundwater for years to develop a large-scale ecological and environmental framework addressing this challenge in the region. For the first time, a breakthrough has been achieved. A group of researchers from IIT Kharagpur has successfully predicted the distribution of groundwater arsenic and human health risk…
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Sep
10
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
New AI Diagnostics for Lung Diseases

New AI Diagnostics for Lung Diseases

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AI and IoT based Diagnostic Device for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases developed by IIT Kharagpur Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a common chronic respiratory disease caused by exposure to harmful gases and particulate matters, with a high health burden on the country’s healthcare services and society. For long, the medical community has been depending on patient history and clinical symptoms for disease diagnosis, which often prevents early detection of the disease and advancing of the disease adds to the medical bill through frequent hospitalizations.  Researchers at IIT Kharagpur have developed an affordable diagnostic intervention for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease…
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Feb
29
2020
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By Chirosree Basu
Bridging the divide

Bridging the divide

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A novel Science Communication Conclave at IIT Kharagpur tries to bridge the gap between the scientific community and the media to pave the way for better news dissemination February 28 was the day C.V. Raman went to the media to disclose to the world his discovery of the ‘Raman effect’. What better way to celebrate National Science Day, as this day is known, than re-energize the bond between the scientific community and its messengers and interlocutors – the media? That is precisely what IIT Kharagpur’s two-day Science Communication Conclave 2020 has done. This unique initiative of the Institute brought together top…
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Nov
06
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Gandhipedia

Gandhipedia

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The Hindu BusinessLine      The Hindu        Careers360        The Week         India Today (Web)       India Today      Deccan herald        News18        Hindustan Times     Indian Express             NDTV          Jagran           IndiaTV             OrissaPost          Business Standard          The Statesman           Financial Express                        IIT KGP has…
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Sep
27
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Facebook Awards IIT KGP’s AI Research

Facebook Awards IIT KGP’s AI Research

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Indian Express       Financial Express        The Week        Times Now           Hindustan Times         NDTV           Business Standard Animesh Mukherjee, Associate Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur has been selected for the Ethics in AI Research Award in the ‘operationalizing ethics’ category for his project “Targeted Bias in Indian Media Outlets”.  The Award is part of Facebook’s initiative to encourage research on AI ethics and address intricate challenges and complex ethical questions in the AI domain. The award-winning project is part of…
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Aug
31
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
India’s Own AI Resource Platform

India’s Own AI Resource Platform

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Indian Express     Outlook    NDTV    Careers360      Quint     Gadgets Now     The Week     The Statesman      NavBharat Times        Business Standard      Hindustan Times IIT Kharagpur today announced that it will collaborate with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, to develop a National Artificial Intelligence Resource Portal (NAIRP) platform powered by Amazon SageMaker to promote learning and development in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for all AI learners, practitioners, and researchers in India, and to make the search for AI learning resources simpler and more accessible. IIT Kharagpur will use AWS Promotional…
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Jul
27
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Digital CHAVI for Cancer Cure

Digital CHAVI for Cancer Cure

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Outlook   ET HealthWorld   Millennium Post   Lokmat   Financial Express   Business Standard    India Today    Amar Ujala    Navbharat Times   NDTV   New Kerala    The Quint    Indian Express     IIT Kharagpur and Tata Medical Center have set up an open architecture image biobank to aid cancer research in the country. Named CompreHensive Digital ArchiVe of Cancer Imaging (CHAVI) it will address the emerging field of imaging-related research and will be India's first step towards harnessing artificial intelligence and deep learning methods to answer medical questions of importance in the field of image banking. IIT Kharagpur and Tata Medical Center…
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Jul
08
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Where there’s a will…

Where there’s a will…

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Careers360 An AI-based intelligent traffic control system could revolutionize traffic management in India. Already, the Delhi Traffic Police are mulling over the matter. At IIT Kharagpur, an undergraduate student team  -Bits n Bytes – presented an exhaustive model of such an AI system based on real time traffic feed and lifted the top prize at the up.AI Challenge recently. The up.AI Challenge is what can be called the ‘endgame’ of the up.AI summit that was held at the IIT Kharagpur campus last October (https://www.kgpchronicle.iitkgp.ac.in/eat-pray-love-artificial-intelligence/). After a week-long jamboree in 2018 that saw a congregation of close to a thousand students,…
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Mar
29
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Thrust to 5G and AI

Thrust to 5G and AI

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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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