NEP 2020 has helped in making Engineering courses inclusive and modern

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 completed three years of its inception on July 29 and has brought dramatic changes in the educational ecosystem, by bringing in multidisciplinarity to implementing multiple entry and exit options. Apart from policy changes in schools and colleges, teacher training has been emphasised to ensure the effective implementation of NEP 2020. Technical education will see a massive facelift with the introduction of a few inclusive initiatives giving a boost to regional language as the medium of learning.

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AICTE to organise KAVACH-2023 hackathon to address challenges in cybersecurity domain

In the Finale, participants will unveil their concepts, substantiating their technical viability and real-world application

With over 100 teams from higher educational institutions poised to engage in presenting their ideas and solutions in the cybersecurity domain, the stage is set for KAVACH 2023, a national hackathon organised jointly by the Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell, AICTE, Bureau of Police Research and Development, and the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (Ministry of Home Affairs) to kick-start its journey. The initiative aims to unearth innovative ideas and technological solutions to address the challenges confronting law enforcement agencies and ordinary citizens in the realm of cybersecurity. 

The hackathon will be launched across five strategic nodal centres: Bhopal's IES College of Technology, Bangalore's AMC Engineering College, Bhubaneswar's Centurion University of Technology and Management, New Panvel's Pillai College of Engineering, and Greater Noida's GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management.

The event will have an eclectic array of 20 problem statements, calling upon the students to compete for the top ranks by submitting their visionary solutions. Among the problem statements are a new-age women's safety app, an obscenity blocker solution, an advanced fake news detection system, a phishing detection solution, cutting-edge ANPR and FRS solutions, a dark web crawler, a spam alert system, a malware analysis tool, a CCTV analytics solution, a RAM dump collection tool, a citizen safety app for safeguarding against cybercrimes, an indigenous crypto currency investigation tool, to mention a few. 

In the finale, participants will unveil their concepts, substantiating their technical viability and real-world application. 

Balaji Srivastava, DG, BPR&D said, "Participants in this Hackathon are embarking on a journey of creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving. It is their chance to innovate, collaborate and impact digital security for a safer tomorrow."

AICTE chairman Prof TG Sitharam, while underscoring the significance of this event, said, "KAVACH-2023 challenges India's innovative minds to envision ideas and frameworks in the domain of cybersecurity, leveraging artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, automation, big data, and cloud computing."

Vice-chairman of AICTE Abhay Jere further explained, "This unique opportunity welcomes higher institutional students and startups from India to present their innovative ideas and concepts for various problem statements."

Source: Education Times dated 8th August 2023

URL: https://www.educationtimes.com/article/newsroom/99733346/aicte-to-organise-kavach-2023-hackathon-to-address-challenges-in-cybersecurity-domain

It’s not so much machines we should worry about

In the 1940s a journalist asked Claude Shannon, one of the founders of information theory, “can machines think?” Shannon said, “I compute so.” Both his distinction, between thinking and computing, and their deliberate conflation in his aphorism help us understand the current spectacle around ‘AI’. Governments worldwide have moved from a position of “we’re catching up” ignorance, to embarking on “regulating AI”, to a self-regulatory Bill of Rights.

Read the full article on Page No. 14 in the Print edition of The Times of India dated 8th August 2023.