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2020

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IIT Kharagpur develops COVID-19 Predictive Model for Decision-making

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The study also predicts that new cases of the disease will continue until at least the end of September 2020. India Today Hindustan Times Times of India Economic Times (Health) Business Insider News 18 Outlook The New Indian Express Down to Earth NDTV The Hindu India Blooms Telangana Today Lokmat …

VGSOM Assigns COVID Case Study

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IIT Kharagpur’s Vinod Gupta School of Management assigns Pandemic Case Study for Organizational Leadership education It has been almost 2 weeks since the teaching and learning at IIT Kharagpur has gone virtual. The Center for Educational Technology at the Institute has been using the online interface Webex for conducting classes across all levels of study. Shorter sessions are also being conducted through Zoom. Several research groups are also conducting studies on people’s perception and behaviour towards COVID-19 through progression of time. In one such initiative, the Vinod Gupta School of Management, business school in India of IIT Kharagpur ranked among…

Social Media to Help Disaster Relief

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Economic Times Gadget Now India Today Business Standard Business Standard (PTI) Devdiscourse VC Circle Your posts on social media and internal messaging applications can now help victims receive relief during natural disasters. While you tweet about the situation of the victims in specific locations in English or Hindi, a computer program can read through your empathetic post and send the relevant information to nearby relief operators. A research team led by Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur is developing the algorithms for this task. At the wake of the recent Kerala floods and other…