Artificial Intelligence

Digital CHAVI for Cancer Cure

Digital CHAVI for Cancer Cure

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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Where there’s a will…

Where there’s a will…

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 (http://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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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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PAN IIT Conclave 2019

PAN IIT Conclave 2019

PanIIT, the alumni association of more than 30,000 IITians from all the IITs, is going to hold a Conclave at IIT Delhi on Artificial Intelligence on January 19-20, 2019. The theme of the meet is “Artificial Intelligence: What does the Future hold for India?” The conclave will be attended by over 1,500 IITians from across the world, thought leaders, researchers and authors, ministers from the Central and state governments, senior bureaucrats, industry captains, entrepreneurs and practitioners. PanIIT has previously held national meets on issues of great national and international importance. There is no doubt that AI and Machine Learning are…
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IIT KGP Launches AI Drive for NexGen Indian Engineers

IIT KGP Launches AI Drive for NexGen Indian Engineers

Business Standard  India Today   Outlook With the launch of the Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence earlier this year, IIT KGP has been conducting several outreach programs focused towards challenges and applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which are directly going to impact people’s lives significantly in the near future. Following the IT wave of 90s and 21st century, AI could turn out to be the next key element for the economic development of India. IIT KGP has taken to the task of bringing the younger generation of engineers to venture into new technologies in this domain. The Institute along with…
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