Prof. Madhava Krishna: The Man Behind The Intellig...
In this month’s ‘Know Your Professor’ series, we catch up with Prof. Madhav Krishna. Head of the Robotics Research Centre and the Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems, this self-confessed “shy” professor who would rather let his work do all the
Living A Life Of Learning
Sai Prasad Gollapudi recently obtained his doctorate in Computer Science and Engineering, a process that he began in 2009. As a living example of the adage, ‘You’re never too old to learn’, the 52-year-old talks of his motivations behind going
IIITH Team Wins Prize At Smart India Hackathon 202...
Since 2017, a nationwide hackathon has enabled lakhs of students to pitch in and innovatively solve some everyday pressing problems faced by governments, industries, and NGOs with the help of technology. This year, a IIITH team of students built an
CovidWire – Verified News Snippets In The (M...
When students joined hands to beat misinformation about the pandemic, CovidWire.in was born. Here's how they’ve simplified information consumption even for non-native speakers of English. When Raghavendra R, 68, read an online article of a study with a headline suggesting
CVIT Researchers’ Submission in MOT 2020 Ranks N...
In June 2020, when two student researchers from the Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) turned in their entry to the Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) challenge, the submission gained them the first rank in the famously challenging problem. Here’s a
VR Dating Ups Chances of Real Life Hook-Ups, Finds...
The Indian match-making scene has gotten severely disrupted thanks to the advent of technology. Now, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad have attempted to analyse the effects of virtual reality (VR) on dating