Artificial Intelligence centre to come up at IISc
The Hindu
Kotak Mahindra Bank in partnership with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) will set up an Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Centre (Kotak-IISc AI-ML Centre) on the IISc campus in
Kotak Mahindra Bank in partnership with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) will set up an Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Centre (Kotak-IISc AI-ML Centre) on the IISc campus in Bengaluru.
Under its CSR project on Education & Livelihood, KMBL has partnered IISc to establish the Kotak-IISc AI-ML Centre (Centre). Spread across approximately 1,40,000 square feet at the IISc, Bengaluru, the centre would offer Bachelor’s, Master’s and short-term courses in areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, fintech, reinforcement learning, image processing, computer vision, natural language processing, speech understanding, robotics, computational finance and risk management, cyber security, fraud analytics, blockchain, biomedical engineering and technology and healthcare, said a statement from Kotak Mahindra Bank.
Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.