LTRC: Celebrating A Legendary Research Centre

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NLP may be mainstream in undergraduate colleges today but 25 years ago it was a niche field taking its tentative steps at IIITH. As the Language Technology Research Centre (LTRC) rings in its silver jubilee, here’s an account of its

IIITH’s Smart And Sustainable Robotic Research

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At the recently concluded International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024) that was held in Abu Dhabi, IIITH’s Robotics Research Centre made a splash with a presentation of 6 research papers. Here’s a brief roundup of some of

IIITH Study On The Visual Gaze Shows How Attire Is...

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“She asked for it”. IIITH’s evidence-based research ought to put such statements blaming sexual assault victims to rest. A study funded by DST’s Cognitive Science Research Initiative and presented at the Cognitive Science Society (CSS) conference 2024 in Rotterdam in

International Linguistics Olympiad: One Silver, Tw...

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Even as the celebrations over Team India’s medals haul at the International Linguistics Olympiad 2024 are yet to die down, we take a look at the path to the finale that unfolds for the Indian contingent.  Competing against 206 participants

Developing Open Data Framework for Real Time Weath...

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In India, at least 10,000 people have died in the last 2 decades due to landslides alone. 110 districts spread across 16 states are prone to landslides every monsoon. Today, our country has enough technologies available to involve every citizen

How Personal Experiences And Conviction Are Helpin...

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Winner of the Bhashini Grand Innovation Challenge by MeitY, Govt. of India, eBhasha Setu is taking ‘knowledge for all’ very seriously with its language processing technology services. There’s a rather poignant moment in the movie “12th Fail” where Manoj Kumar,