Warangal Urban: A two week Faculty Development Program (FDP) commenced at Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science, Warangal (KITSW) on Monday. It is being organised by the department Computer Science & Engineering(CSE), KITSW, and sponsored by Department of Science & Technology (DST), New Delhi. It will be held from November 11 to 22. Addressing the faculty Prof. T. Sreenivasulu said that the main objective of this FDP is to contribute to the cross fertilization between the research on machine learning methods and their applications to speech processing. The participants should learn the basic algorithms that helps to build and apply prediction functions with an emphasis on practical applications. He also appreciated KITSW for conduction of FDP/Workshops regularly in equivalent to IITs and NITs for benefit of faculty and students.

Warangal: The students of SR Engineering College (SREC) have put up a fine performance at the National level Artificial Intelligence Hackathon organised by the TATA Motors at Symbiosis Institute of Technology (SIT) in Pune. The two-member team of Krishna Teja Jillelamudi and Rahul Bayya, both studying third year CSE- led by mentor Dr D Kothandaraman (Team CAIDL) won the second runner-up prize. The team worked for 72 uninterrupted hours on their solution, which is based on Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing (Technologies of AI). The team was awarded with a cash prize of Rs 50,000, besides gaining attention from industry & academia circles. The round 02 is a 72-hour AI Hackathon which started at 10 am on September 27 and concluded at 10 am on September 30.

What if a car is operated by hand gestures or an automated rover that cleans the floor? Well, around 90 engineering students from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are working on such innovative concepts to make them a reality. The students, all final year engineering students from reputed educational institutions in the two Telugu States, are here in the city for a two-month internship programme as part of which they work on several artificial intelligence-based projects and developing apps to understand the nitty-gritty of the Internet of Things (IoT). Students from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal, GITAM College of Engineering in Visakhapatnam and GMR Institute of Technology in Srikakulam among others have formed a talent pool that is working simultaneously on various software projects. They have made two floors of a three-storied building at Atchampeta on the city outskirts their workplace while they are putting up in paying guest accommodations and rented houses near their office premises.