National level webinar on Value based education

IIIT Sri city organized a National level webinar on Value based education and personality development. The art of living founder Sri Ravi Shankar who took part in the webinar. He noted that the knowledge on the right type of nutrition and psychology sh ... ould be included in curriculum. A Balakrishnan, president of the Vivekananda Kendra at Kanyakumari spoke "Education should aim for the manifestation of inner perfection in day to day life to enable an individual to contribute effectively to the society"

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Launch of new Curriculum under Outcome-Based Education

Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education launched the OBE-based BTech and MTech Programmes of IIIT Sri City. As part of his address, he highlighted the need to address the requirements of students, parents, government, industry, etc. He added" I appreciate the efforts of IIIT Sri City to offer BTech specializations and track courses to make the industry ready. With the capabilities that you have built, developing and implementing the OBE curriculum help other institutes so that India as a country is able to move forward in offering quality education at the international levels". Shri. M. Balasubramania ... m, Chairman, Board of Governors graced the occasion. He emphasized the need for effective implementation of the OBE curriculum in order to realize its full potential. Dr. G. Kannabiran Director, IIITS mentioned, in a major academic transformation, the institute has decided to implement Outcome-based Education (OBE) from academic year 2021-22 through a systematic approach. It is proposed to achieve effectiveness of the teaching-learning process by ensuring student-centeredness in all our activities. Therefore, the curriculum and its delivery shall eventually be helping the students to be able to get right jobs or take up higher studies.

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Workshop on Advances in Deep Learning and Applications (WADLA) [http://www.wadla.in/]

Breakthroughs in data science and computing power, especially the prevalence of graphical processing units (GPUs) and tensor processing units (TPUs) over the past two decades, have made deep learning (DL) one of the most powerful tools in the field of artificial intelligence. DL has been successfully and effectively applied in many cutting edge applications including Automation, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, Object Detection, Drug Discovery etc. Present day DL has amazed everyone with their human level accuracy in classification, generating life-like images and videos and even beating world-champions at their own games. As the quest continues, deep learning has emerged out to be the most sought after skill in today's industrial scenario, right from the Tech Giants to ... Startups. DL basically uses deep neural network architecture with multiple layers to represent data with increasing abstraction and can be applied to supervised, unsupervised, as well as reinforcement learning. he Workshop on Advances in Deep Learning and Applications (WADLA) was formally formalized in 2021 to give the participants hands-on experience, right from the foundations, from some of the leading experts in the fields. Based on the past experience and suggestions of the participants and expert speakers, this time we have officially created an organizing committee consisting of expert people from all over the world. This expert committee is continuously monitoring the activities of this workshop and has finalized the topics covered in the program schedule which reflects the recent trends in deep learning.

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Minister of State for Education Shri Sanjay Dhotre Addresses At The Convocation Of (IIIT) Sri City Chittoor

Minister of State for Education Shri Sanjay Dhotre virtually addressed the students at the convocation of Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Sri City Chittoor today. Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIIT Sri City Mr. Balasubramaniam was present on the occasion. During the convocation, a total of 261 students comprising 164 Computer Science and Engineering students and 97 Electronics and Communication Engineering students rece ... ived degrees. This includes 28 Honours students from both disciplines. Shri Dhotre said that National Education Policy 2020 aims at making India a global knowledge super power. It endeavours to develop scientific temper, rational and critical thinking in students, ensure students are endowed with 21st Century knowledge and skills, while displaying a strong character, filled with humanistic values, that flow from the ethos of India, i.e.Bharat.

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