MySangham, an online vocational education portal developed by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s research center AMMACHI Labs, was amongst the winners of Facebook’s Internet.org Innovation Challenge in India. The challenge selects top innovators and change-makers whodesign impactful apps or web-services relevant to women, students, farmers and migrant workers in India.
Frontiers in Education, sponsored by IEEE Education Society, is one of the oldest and most prestigious Education conferences focusing on educational innovations. For the third year in a row, a research paper from AmritaCREATE was presented here. Rema Menon presented the paper “New Methodology to Differentiate Instructional Strategies for ESL Learners in the Indian Context”. The paper was authored by Rema Menon and Prema Nedungadi, AmritaCREATE.
The Network Administration team of IT Services, Amritapuri campus, has successfully upgraded the existing switching infrastructure provided to the campus, to a more modern and reliable method which has many advantages and benefits associated with it. Earlier, the Core Switching Infrastructure existed in 1 Gigabit Ethernet with a stack of multiple switches of 128 Gbps switch fabric bandwidth. The main distribution switches were connected in a traditional method without redundancy.
For many villagers in India, collecting and carrying water is part of their daily routine. However, villagers often have to walk several kilometers to collect water necessary for themselves and their families, sometimes walking several times a day. Many villagers, especially women, collect and carry between 200 and 500 liters of water per day for their families and cattle.
Many villages in India do not have access to electricity. Villages that do receive power, do so intermittently and with frequent disruption, making the supply of electricity unreliable. Komalikudi, a tribal settlement in Kerala well-known for its abundant natural resources, is one such village.
On the International Day of the Girl Child, an international observance day declared by the United Nations (October 11 of every year), Amrita RITE is pleased to report a good gender ratio of 51% girls to 49% boys at our Inclusive Education Program at AmritaSeRVe Villages.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has been hosting the world’s prestigious and largest collegiate programming contest, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), for the past 11 years. This “Olympics of programming contest” attracts worldwide participation every year from students of computer science and engineering. Over these past eleven years, the participation has increased multiple times, reaching 1500+ teams this year. From 240+ institutions across the country, 4500+ talented brains will complete in this contest on Sunday, the 11th of October. Four to five algorithmic problems will be posted for the contest of 3 hours duration. The contest is hosted in CodeChef.com one of the best learning platforms for competitive programming aspirants. To a great extent, CodeChef has contributed in the growth of competitive programming culture in India.
In the International KAKENHI Workshop on Long-term Growth of Firms and Corporate Governance, organized by Chuo Univerisity and Musashi University in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)- Mumbai from September 2-3, 2015, Dr. Sangeetha Gunasekar, Assistant Professor, Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore along with Ms. K. G. Sofi Dinesh, Faculty Associate, Amrita School of Business, Amritapuri presented a paper titled ‘Impact of board independence on the performance of listed Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) in India’.
Dr. Roshy John, Head of TCS Robotics and Cognitive Systems Group, Kochi, Project Manager Rajaram and Reeja George, the Academic Relationship Manager for TCS Kerala visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham to interact with AMMACHI Labs’ MTech students and Amrita faculty.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham participated at the World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF) 2015 held at Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence, Italy from September 20-24, 2015.
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