Alumni boost to Artificial Intelligence research at IIT Kharagpur

Kharagpur, (West Bengal) The IIT Kharagpur is setting up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and extending its science-heritage initiative to boost documentation, promotion of classical and folk arts and music, with alumni support, its director said on Friday. "Two Centres are being planned. Alumni is organising support for developing these two areas," IIT Kharagpur director PP Chakrabarti said here during the institute's 67th Foundation Day. For CoE in AI, the institute requires Rs 20 crore to get started for the core infrastructure. "But it will also get linked with the supercomputing facility, cloud computing etc. Additionally we want to do some really good projects in climate change and AI, big projects on healthcare and AI so that will require augmented funds," he said.