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IIIT Hyderabad conducts stakeholder engagement workshop for UK-India Tech Hub

Hyderabad: IIIT Hyderabad conducted a stakeholder engagement workshop on Friday in Hyderabad for the UK-India Tech Hub At the stakeholders workshop we discussed the current state of the tech innovation ecosystem in Hyderabad broadly, and also specifically in relation to social impact with a focus on women and marginalized groups. Participants highlighted various gaps and […]

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IIIT Hyderabad announces new measures to improve gender diversity

Hyderabad: IIIT-Hyderabad has decided to take positive steps to improve the gender ratio among its undergraduate students. Towards this goal, the institute has set a target of 25% representation of girls among students admitted to the 4-year B.Tech program through the JEE mode of admission for 2020-2021. Several measures are being taken to facilitate this, […]

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IIT Hyderabad trains junior lecturers of TMRJC

Hyderabad: Telangana Minorities Residential Educational Institutions Society (TMREIS) Secretary B. Shafiullah has informed that the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-Hyderabad) conducted a training workshop for 29 Junior Lecturers of 12 Telangana Minorities Residential Junior Colleges (TMRJC). A five days’ workshop on 21st-centuryteaching strategies was conducted for 29 Junior Lecturers from Maths, Physics and Chemistry stream […]

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IIIT-Hyderabad, NDMA develops Earthquake Disaster Risk Index

Hyderabad: International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) along with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, has developed Earthquake Disaster Risk Index (EDRI) for 50 cities and 1 district. In this pilot study, the cities were selected based on population density, housing threat factor and cities identified by Government […]

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TMREIS signs MoU with IIT-H for curriculum development

Hyderabad: B. Shafiullah, IFS., Secretary Telangana Minorities Residential Educational Institutions Society (TMREIS) ina Press Statement today stated that TMREIS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H) which would help the development of curriculum and teaching, establishment of advanced laboratories for Artificial Intelligence and conducting faculty development programmes and students workshops […]

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IIIT-Hyderabad opens admissions for UG programmes

Hyderabad: The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) announced the opening of admission process to its undergraduate programs for the academic year 2019-20. From this year, the institute is offering a new dual degree programme, namely B.Tech in Computer Science & M.S in Computing & Human Sciences by Research. Admission to all research-based dual-degree […]

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CIE Incubator at IIIT-H opens applications for Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program

Hyderabad: CIE (Centre of Innovation and Entrepreneurship) of IIIT Hyderabad have opened applications for its Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) Program. The program is supported by, NIDHI-EIR Scheme of Department of Science and Technology (DST). National Initiative for Developing and Harnessing Innovations (NIDHI) is an umbrella programme for nurturing ideas and innovations (knowledge-based and technology-driven) into successful startups. […]

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Intl symposium on new technologies for Urban Safety concludes

Hyderabad: The 17th international symposium on new technologies for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia (USMCA 2018) hosted by IIIT-Hyderabad from 12-14 December at its campus concluded on Friday. The symposium was organized jointly by IIIT Hyderabad, and ICUS, The University of Tokyo, Japan. United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) summarized a […]

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Youth told to participate and shape the digital future

Hyderabad: IIIT-Hyderabad hosted a developer tutorial and hackathon on October 27-28 October. It was concluded Sunday. This was organized using an open source implementation of one M2M, developed by French research lab, LAAS – CNRS and organised by India EU ICT Standards Collaboration Project. The tutorial, conducted by a team of French professors from University […]

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IIIT-Hyderabad to host hackathon on Smart City solutions

Hyderabad: IIIT-Hyderabad is hosting a developer tutorial from 27-28 October using open source implementation of oneM2M, developed by French research lab, LAAS – CNRS and organised by India EU ICT Standards Collaboration Project. This activity is part of “India-EU Partnership Project for Collaboration on ICT standardization, Policy and Regulatory matters”, which is jointly anchored by […]