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22 Oct

IIT Madras To Double The Number Of Seats In Its Data Science Course

In a piece of positive news, IIT Madras is planning to almost double the number of seats for its Inter-Disciplinary Dual Degree (IDDD) program on Data Science owing to the positive response from the industry as well as demand from the students. With a massive curriculum overhaul in 2015, IIT Madras offers great flexibility to…

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22 Oct

NVIDIA’s Powerful 5G Pitch & Other Announcements From Mobile World Congress

This week at the Mobile World Congress held in Los Angeles, tech giant NVIDIA is making a strong bid towards pushing 5G networks to use its chipsets. NVIDIA is making a hard pitch at this year’s Mobile World Congress Los Angeles that the future of software-defined 5G networks should be powered by its chipsets. NVIDIA…

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21 Oct

Gojek Founder & CEO Nadiem Makarim Resigns To Joins Indonesia’s New Cabinet

In a surprising move, Gojek's 35-year-old founder and CEO Nadiem Makarim has resigned from his position, to take up an unspecified post in Indonesia's new cabinet. A Gojek spokesperson said in a statement that Makarim was summoned to the Palace by Joko Widodo, Indonesia's new President to accept an appointment as a member of the…

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21 Oct

LTI Takes Over Powerupcloud Technologies, Its 4th Acquisition This Year

Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd is set to acquire Powerupcloud Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a fast-growing cloud consulting company headquartered in Bengaluru. With more than 180 employees, Powerup brings a strong team of cloud consulting, artificial intelligence and data analytics professionals to LTI. Founded in 2015, Powerup is a born-in-the-cloud, Premier Consulting Partner of AWS. It…

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17 Oct

TCS iON Opens New AI-Powered Command Centre In Chennai To Monitor Exam Venues

TCS iON, a strategic unit of Tata Consultancy Services, inaugurated its new Artificial Intelligence-driven Command Center in Chennai which can monitor more than 6,000 of its unique examination venues across the country, in real-time. By layering a digital monitoring platform on the newly developed physical infrastructure, TCS iON aims to provide a superior experience to…

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17 Oct

After AI Minister, UAE Announces World’s First AI University

In a turn of events that could very well be the beginning of something new in the education sector, Abu Dhabi this week announced the establishment of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). This university is reportedly the first graduate-level, research-based AI university in the world. Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of…

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16 Oct

Awkward! New Survey Says Employees Trust AI More Than Their Managers

In what may inspire senior leaders to scamper to B-Schools for some leadership lessons, a new study has found out that a majority of employees have more trust in robots than their managers. According to a new research conducted by Oracle and Future Workplace, AI has changed the relationship between people and technology at work…

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16 Oct

Genpact Acquires US Digital Consultancy Rightpoint

Genpact this week announced a definitive agreement to acquire US-based Rightpoint, a noted digital consultancy with technology at its core. The deal is reportedly designed to bring experience and process innovation together to help clients drive end-to-end digital transformation and win in the growing experience economy. “To compete in a digital-first world, drive better outcomes,…

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16 Oct

PwC To Set Up New AI Lab In Kolkata, Plans To Hire 1,200 Techies

PwC India is setting up its first IoT Lab and the Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence in Kolkata and plans to hire 1,200 people from engineering and data analytics background in the next year. Other areas of hiring would be in Digital Experience led Transformations, Cloud and BlockChain. These facilities or labs as they are…

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15 Oct

Researchers Design New Super-Compressible Material Using AI

Designing future‐proof material goes beyond a quest for the best. The next generation of materials needs to be adaptive, multipurpose, and tunable. This is not possible by following the traditional experimentally guided trial‐and‐error process, as this limits the search for untapped regions of the solution space. This is where artificial intelligence has become a game-changer.…

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