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  IIT Madras Launches Two Diplomas In Programming And Data Science For Students, Working Professionals& Job Seekers By  India Education Diary Bureau Admin   On  Oct 5, 2021   Share CHENNAI : Indian Institute of Technology Madras is launching two Diploma Programs in Programming and Data Science. These top-of-the-line diploma programs, carefully designed by leading experts in the field, are the only official diplomas offered by IIT Madras. The program structure enables learners of all backgrounds to build the necessary fundamentals, enhance their knowledge, and hone their skills through extensive hands-on training. Learners need not have an engineering or computer science background. The diplomas are open to students, working professionals, and job seekers who have completed at least two years of their undergraduate education in any discipline through any mode. The portal for the diploma entry was launched today (4th October 2021) by Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe, C...

Classroom Teaching: AICTE Directs Institutes To Install Hi-Tech Gadgets To Beat Covid-19 In its latest circular, the AICTE has asked its affiliated educational institutions to take the necessary steps for installation of air-sanitization devices based on Ultra - Violet C band irradiation in auditoriums, buildings, AC Buses etc. VIKASH SHARMA INDIA PUBLISHED: SATURDAY, 02 OCTOBER 2021 LAST UPDATED: 02 OCTOBER 2021, 02:05 PM IST Photo: For Representational Purposes Classroom Teaching: AICTE Directs Institutes To Install Hi-Tech Gadgets To Beat Covid-19 The All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) has issued a circular directing institutions and universities to take special measures for the installation of several devices to put a check on the spread of Covid-19 during resumption of physical mode of teaching for the current academic session. In its latest circular, the AICTE has asked its affiliated educational institutions to take the necessary steps for installation of air-...

AICTE wants colleges to install air purifiers Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Oct 6, 2021, 06.00 AM IST By Dhanalakshmi TL  With classes slowly shifting to offline mode, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has now asked colleges to install air-sanitisation devices based on ultra-violet C band irradiation. AICTE member secretary Professor Rajive Kumar said that during the pandemic, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have developed possible solutions and interventions required to contain the tremendous challenge faced by the country due to covid. “The aerosol, air-borne route of the virus is now considered as the most likely cause for spread of infection. This mode of virus dispersal has been confirmed by major agencies like WHO. As a possible mitigation measure, CSIR institutes have developed air-sanitisation based on ultra-violet C band irradiation. These devices, once extensively implemented in community spaces like schools and colleges, have pote...

Indian scientists working on 1st ever dengue DNA vaccine This is the second dengue vaccine candidate from India.(Reuters file photo. Representative image) Updated on Sep 28, 2021 04:25 AM IST By Anonna Dutt , New Delhi The world’s first DNA vaccine was approved for use in India recently. Developed by the Ahmedabad-based Zydus Cadila, ZyCoV-D is, as the name indicates, is a vaccine against Covid-19. Now, some researchers believe the technology -- considered superior because DNA vaccines are easier to make and store, and, most importantly store an enormous amount of information -- can be used to develop a vaccine for another tropical disease, dengue, a viral infection transmitted by mosquitoes. “We know that there are four serotypes of the virus, but what we found was that there were genetic variations within the serotypes -- any sequence with over 6% difference is considered to be a different genotype. So, the team created a consensus sequence that is the same across the genotypes as we...

  As crypto booms, exchanges need a variety of engineers TNN | Oct 6, 2021, 08.04 AM IST The world is still divided on whether cryptocurrencies will survive. But for now, there’s intense action in the field. Including in India. Market research firms have put Indians among the biggest users and holders of cryptocurrency. Several cryptocurrency exchanges – which allow you to trade in cryptocurrency, and even use them to purchase goods & services – have emerged in India, and most are doing phenomenal business. Coin-DCX became India’s first cryptocurrency unicorn in August when the exchange raised $90 million from investors. Coinswitch Kuber hit 10 million registered users in September, just 15 months from launch, making it perhaps the biggest exchange in India. Building these exchanges requires a lot of software and engineering talent. Staffing firm Xpheno estimates there are more than 10,000 active job openings currently in the cryptocurrency segment in India. Even global exchang...

  Lam’s India engineers build complex chip fab machines TNN | Oct 6, 2021, 07.59 AM IST Lam Research may not be as known in the semiconductor sector as those like Intel, AMD or Samsung. But the capital equipment that it provides to chip fabrication facilities enable the manufacture of some of the most advanced semiconductors. “We’re probably the world’s most underappreciated company responsible for critical output,” says Rangesh Raghavan, corporate VP and general manager at Lam Research India. Lam Research has a large presence in India, with over half of the R&D resources of the company based out of its offices here. So the work done out of India has a huge impact on the firm’s capabilities. The research done here is what allows the machines used to make the world’s chips run. Lam is also building a new state-of-the-art lab in Bengaluru which should be ready by the middle of next year and which will more than double its footprint. “On the software side, some of the engineering ...

Printed from Computer science, communications most lucrative TNN | Oct 6, 2021, 07.44 AM IST Prof Debabrata Das, director of IIIT-Bangalore, says the engineering fields of computer science and communications are certain to stay the most lucrative in the coming years because of the job opportunities in the fields. “Demand for computer science, data science and communication science has gone up, apart from interdisciplinary subjects such as robotics, mechatronics, and biomedical engineering,” he says. Mechatronics is the branch of engineering that focuses on the integration of electronic and electrical engineering systems, apart from robotics, computer science and telecommunications. Das’s own work has been in the field of computer networking, mainly on broadband wireless network, 5G and 6G, and medium access control protocol (MACP). MACP protocols enforce a methodology to allow multiple devices access to a shared media network. “If two of us communicate at the same time with the same wi...