IIT to have centre of excellence in AI

Kharagpur: IIT Kharagpur will set up an artificial intelligence centre of excellence that will cover education, training, research, projects, incubation and entrepreneurship. "IIT Kharagpur has developed a deep expertise in the overall area of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data sciences and its applications in several critical domains over a long period of time," institute director Partha Pratim Chakrabarti said on Thursday. "It is time we lead this initiative in artificial intelligence to fulfil the need of the technologies in the 21st century," he said. Capillary Technologies Ltd will provide Rs 5.64 crore to the institute to set up computing infrastructure, hardware simulation platforms, software and the coursework. The Oxford dictionary says artificial intelligence is the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.