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IIT Delhi has extended an invitation to professionals at early and mid-level stages to apply for its Certificate Programme in Data Science and Machine Learning to boost their career growth prospects. This IT course is ideal for those seeking a cutting-edge perspective on Data Science and ML to enhance their career prospects. The application deadline for this certificate course is December 6, 2023. The course is scheduled to commence on February 11, 2024, spanning a duration of six months through live online sessions.…

The Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur (IIT Jodhpur) and the Zoological Survey of India will be working together to collect, study and share the data related to faunal specimens for science. In this first of its kind collaboration, both the institutions will work together on mutually beneficial projects focused on the study of the fauna of Thar Ecoregion.The duo will conduct joint fieldwork expeditions, identify fauna in the region, and develop models for climate change based on ecosystem phenomics. The association…

In a first, a team of scientists from India, Japan and Europe has found evidence of gravitational waves in the universe. The team included researchers from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT-R).According to the results published in two seminal papers in the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, the team monitored data from pulsars using six of the world's most sensitive radio telescopes, including India’s largest telescope, uGMRT. Pulsar is a highly magnetised neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic…

Billionaire Infosys Ltd. co-founder Nandan Nilekani will donate $38.5 million to his alma mater Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, making one of the largest such gifts by an alumnus of an educational institution in the country.The grant takes the technologist's total donations to the school to 4 billion rupees ($49 million) and is intended to foster research in emerging areas while supporting a deep-tech startup ecosystem, Nilekani's office announced on Tuesday after a memorandum signing by the two parties. Nilekani,…

The company will invest in Australia in sustainable energy solutions, such as green hydrogen and set up Metakaolin processors.Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Guwahati have developed a catalyst that can produce sustainable green hydrogen fuel from wood alcohol with no carbon dioxide as a by-product, according to officials. The easy and environmentally safe process also produces formic acid which is a useful industrial chemical. This makes methanol a promising Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) and…

Generative AI platforms have been the rage since the second half of last year with Microsoft and Google pushing these programs into their existing services. Even the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), on 3 February, said it is “cognizant" of the emergence and proliferation of generative AI and noted that AI can be a “kinetic enabler" for growth in India. However, researchers at institutes underline a host of challenges for generative AI projects in…

A 4m modern astronomical observatory, which is the first in-campus astronomical research facility among all IITs, has been established by the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H).Primarily designed as a frontier research facility in astronomy, the Advanced Darksky Observatory (ADO), with adaptive imaging and multi-filter spectroscopy, will deliver imaging and spectroscopic data banks, which will be valuable assets for research and modern teaching.Former Chairman of ISRO, K. Radhakrishnan, on Tuesday…

The global market for lab grown diamonds (LGD) that the Indian government has decided to focus on is expected to rise to $5 billion by 2025 and exceed $15 billion by 2023 from the $1 billion in 2020.Besides, the jewellery industry, LGD are used in computer chips, satellites and 5G networks as they can be used in extreme environments due to their potential to operate at higher speeds while using less power than silicon-based chips.The LGD has vast application in the field of defence, optics, jewellery, thermal and medical…

The haptic smart watch developed at IIT Kanpur comes in different styles as suited for the wearerThe Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur on Friday announced to launch "haptic smartwatch for the blind and visually impaired" in association with Ambrane India Private Limited for mass manufacturing and sales of the smartwatch.The haptic smartwatch comes in two variants and has 12 touch-sensitive hour markers arranged over the dial face, and the users will be required to scan the markers with their fingers."We believe…

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur filed a record 107 IPRs (intellectual property rights) in the year 2022.This marks the second consecutive year the institute has filed the highest IPRs (107) in its history.Among the 107 IPRs filed, the different IPR prospects included 80 patents, 23 design registrations, 2 copyrights and 1 trademark applications along with 1 US patent application.The patents included inventions from varied domains ranging from Nano technology to…