CIE@IIITH conducts unconventional startup pitch ev...
Centre of Innovation and Entrepreneurship(CIE), also known as CIE@IIITH is a DST approved incubator operational since 2008 organises UNPITCH – an unconventional pitch event to help startups tide over lockdown triggered slowdown. A 3-day online funding pitch event was just
IIITH to complete its spring semester through onli...
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad has decided to do away with formal final examinations this semester and instead grade students on assignments, projects, quizzes and reports. The institute also decided to award ‘W’ (Withdraw) grade in place of an
Prof. P J Narayanan suggests to use JEE-Main inste...
Prof. P J Narayanan, "My suggestion to the IITs for admitting B.Tech students this year is that they use the JEE-Main to admit students and cancel the JEE-Advanced in the light of the pandemic. This would not only reduce stress
Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy’s views on engineer...
Gone are the days of purists, today’s engineering and science education have to be interdisciplinary, says Prof Jayanthi Sivaswamy, dean of academics at IIIT Hyderabad. She notes that with the phenomenal rise in computing power, for instance, the long-drawn boundaries
Prof. K S Rajan shares his observations on the Aar...
“In my understanding, Aaroga Setu app is trying to accomplish two roles - one, is to enforce social distancing using Bluetooth-enabled app-installed devices coming in proximity of each other; and two, a post-facto contact tracing (over say, the last one
IIITH starts a community kitchen for the homeless ...
Every morning at 9am, a community kitchen slowly begins humming on the campus of the International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad. A few individuals walk in and begin chopping vegetables. These are handed over to mess workers who then start the