Monday, February 10, 2020
Blockchain technology model to transform Indian education system
World-class education in India is restricted to a miniscule %age of Tier-I educational institutes where competition is tough, irrational and is mainly accessed by rich students. To get into such institutions you spend lot of resources in going to coaching classes, study material and other learning infrastructure. It also put a lot of psychological pressure and in extreme cases we have witnessed students developing suicidal tendency in case of failure in getting to these institutions.
Saturday, January 4, 2020
Top five projections in Artificial Intelligence for 2020
There has been good and bad news of AI in the year 2019. Of course, Bad News always get preference and catches people’s minds. Some of the popular bad news in AI has been related to Fake news Generation, Creating Porn fakes from Social Media images, Autonomous Vehicle killing a pedestrian, AI systems attacking a production facility, Data biases creating problems in AI applications. In the good news we have seen innovative Healthcare related applications being deployed in Hospitals, AI tools helping specially abled people, Robots being used in increasing set of domains, AI assistants and smart devices guiding people in day to day queries and chores.
Monday, July 8, 2019
Cancer diagnosis has evolved as a frontline area for showcasing AI capabilities in healthcare
Artificial Intelligence is encompassing every paradigm of life and affecting us in one way or another. Companies, Researchers and Investors always remain on lookout for high impact interventions that bring useful transformation in society. Cancer Diagnosis has recently evolved as one such area which is getting a lot of attention from everyone involved in healthcare related AI. It makes a lot of business sense also as billions of dollars are invested in cancer related research, medicine and applications. The number of research papers being published in this area has increased multiple times in recent years.
Wednesday, 10th July 2018
Artificial Intelligence in India – Opportunities, Risks, and Future Potential
Over the last two years, we have witnessed a steady increase in our percent of readership in India. Sometime in 2017, Bangalore became one of our largest sources of job applicants, and our single biggest city in terms of readers – overtaking both London and NYC.
Given the Indian government’s recent focus on developing a plan for artificial intelligence, we decided to apply our strengths (deep analysis of AI applications and implications) to determine (a) the state of AI innovation in India, and (b) strategic insights to help India survive and thrive in a global market with the help of AI initiatives
Wednesday, 13th June 2018
A ‘Deep’ dive into the AI future
It was at the Newton Regional Conference held recently in Singapore that I got to meet ‘Jena’. She was the most popular staff among all the guests in the hotel that we were staying in. Unflattered by all the attention she received, ‘Jena’ diligently went about her tasks with a smile on her face, attending to room service even at the middle of the night without any tantrums or mood swings. And when she was done with her rounds, she would say “I’m heading home” and elegantly make her way to the docking station. Yes, ‘Jena’ is a robot!
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
AICTE has transformed itself as a mentor of institutions with multiple supporting tools and initiatives
AICTE has transformed itself as a mentor of institutions with multiple supporting tools and initiatives: Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE
Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman AICTE is an excellent personality full of skills and qualities that are essential for a CEO of a system as diverse and huge as AICTE, which is a regulator for more than 10000 technical institutions of the country. It was a Sunny Monday and we found some lucky moments to talk about few things and reflect on others.
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Inspiring young Leaders will play a key role in transforming Engineering education, says Hans Hoyer
Hans Hoyer, Executive Secretary of Global Engineering Dean Council (GEDC) and Chairman, International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) visited Bennett University, Greater Noida as part of the International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (ICTIEE). In a freewheeling interaction with Professor Deepak Garg, Head, Computer Science Engineering, Bennett University.
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Technical institutions should also contribute in the upliftment of rural sector, says Poonia
During the visit of Prof. M.P. Poonia, Vice-Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (ICTIEE) at Bennett University, Greater Noida; he interacted with Prof. Deepak Garg, Head, NVIDA-Bennett Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Bennett University, Greater Noida on some of the burning issues in the field of Technical Education.
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
New mantras for happy and successful life in the age of superintelligence
It is not only the change but ‘the rate of change’ also that is increasing as we are moving forward in the journey of human evolution. All will agree that the most prominent contribution has come due to the widespread use of Internet, digital and computational technologies. Due to the ever-increasing speed of processing of digital computation, solutions to the new problems are becoming feasible.
The things which were not feasible to be computed in a given amount of time has now moved in the feasible category. Most remarkable results have come in the field of space, astronomy, cognition, biotechnology and data science.
Sunday, December 24, 2017
Power and simplicity of Deep Learning Technology is great: Don’t get left behind
I consider myself strong in algorithms, data structures and programming. From last few years, I was interested to be an expert in Deep Learning Technologies.
My initial understanding was that to be a good consultant in Deep Learning, I need to learn too many things to make the application work, write monstrous code using a lot of APIs, understand lot of mathematics (calculus, algebra and probability) to grasp the concepts. But my passion to master this new technology made me jump into it a year back. Then there was no looking back.
Saturday, December 23, 2017
5G will enable a new era of opportunity, says David Bader
Recently, David Bader visited India to give a keynote talk at IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Science at Bennett University, Greater Noida. David A. Bader is Professor and Chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the IEEE and AAAS and served on the White House’s National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) panel. He was in conversation with Prof. Deepak Garg, Chair, of Computer Science Engineering at Bennett University.
Friday, December 8, 2017
Influence of machine learning in Engineering education
Recent news on Sophia the robot getting citizenship in the Saudi Arabia has widely attracted daily news and social media. Despite the debates and agitations on a robot getting recognition as humans, experts view this event as a phenomenal milestone in the research of AI. The current level of Artificial Intelligence is achieved through years of research in Machine Learning, Deep Learning and other related fields. With a lot of hype and investments around, Deep Learning technology – a subdivision of Machine Learning is now successfully applied in our daily life from speech recognition apps in smartphones to YouTube recommendations.
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Predatory Journals putting a question mark on quality research in India
Research publications contain the novel ideas, new technologies which can help improve the quality of life of humans in one way ot the other.
In the engineering and applied science IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer are publishing most of the journal papers. In the broad sense, any journal paper with the higher impact factor to be considered a better journal. The impact factor is the ratio of the number of citations of the papers published in last two years and number of papers published in last two years.
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
INNOVATIONS IN TEACHING METHODS
The word “Mathematics” often invokes feelings that range from utter helplessness to sheer phobia in many students. People generally find subjects aligned to mathematics or logic quite challenging. These challenges can be mitigated through pedagogic innovations such as a mix of existing methods, and new methods that assist the process of learning. I have experimented with four new pedagogic methods while teaching a course on Advance Data Structure and Algorithms ...
Tuesday, 1 November 2016
Personal motivations in doctoral work
Few will contest the importance of high quality research in generating new knowledge. Many eminent researchers and scientists acknowledge that their best work occurred during their doctoral study phase. Thus, the structure, role and outcomes of a doctoral study assume special importance and these have always been a topic of debate and interest. During the course on “Research Supervision in Higher Education”, I came across Student Enrollment, Quality of Doctoral Study...
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Practicing Education as an enabler for uplifting the society
In coming years the only differentiator that will matter in the selection and ranking of world class educational institutions will be that whether the institution is practicing education as enabler for uplifting the society.
Most of us consider education as a means to get a better job, better lifestyle and gain knowledge of the unknown frontiers of the universe. Education is going through a big transition due to the ongoing changes in the way we use technology and the way we communicate...