IIIT Hyderabad Celebrates 19th Convocation Online
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) conducted its 19th convocation online this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and live-streamed the eConvocation. It graduated 459 students and a record number of 11 PhDs and 86 Masters with a thesis.
Virtual Labs Initiative Hits 4 million Page Views
Even as the Covid-19 situation reignites the great debate about the merits and demerits of streamed education, a government initiative under the National Mission on Education through ICT has been quietly witnessing a rising uptake. Read on to learn about
Director’s Message to Students
I hope you are all doing well given the conditions prevailing in the country and more specifically in the area you live in currently. I am pleased that we could bring the Spring 2020 semester to a close. The grades
Completing Spring 2020 Semester Entirely Online in...
The corona virus shocked and seriously disturbed everyone including the educational institutions. The autonomous, undergraduate-dominated, national, and primarily-residential institutions – including IITs, IIITs, NITs, etc. – had to necessarily close down the hostels and send their students home to all
IIITH combats COVID-19
The COVID pandemic sweeping the country made significant impact on the IIITH community, naturally. We started to watch the situation early and took decisions at the earliest possible time. Health advisories were sent to the community starting early in March.
CVIT’s Latest Face-to-Face Translation
Imagine Greta Thunberg’s impassioned speech at the UN Climate Change Conference translated into Assamese, Telugu, Marathi and other languages for regional viewers. Well, it could soon be a possibility thanks to IIITH’s Machine Learning model that can automatically translate a