up.AI summit

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 (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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Eat, pray, love Artificial Intelligence

Eat, pray, love Artificial Intelligence

In one of the most impressive student events organized at IIT Kharagpur, teachers, students, industry experts came together to talk Artificial Intelligence. Spelled up.AI and pronounced “Upay” or ‘solution’ in Hindi, the up.AI summit from October 5-7 tried to delve into the problems – illiteracy, hunger, disease, natural disasters – and how AI can be used to solve them. Up.AI was organized by the Computer Science and Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur and its newly established Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence. The meet not only focused on the thematic areas of AI, but also its practical applications. Speakers, -…
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