Karshaka Amrita Dhara- an Efficient Irrigation Control System developed by Amrita Center for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks is dedicated to India’s Farmers.
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.
Dr. Balagopal Varma R., Professor & Head, Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Principal of Amrita School of Dentistry received the “Star Pedodontist” award at the 37th National Conference of Indian Society of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry held at Raipur from October 7-10, 2015.
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.
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.
Amrita Multimodal Applications and Computer Human Interaction (AMMACHI) Labs, established in 2009, is a multidisciplinary research center of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham with a focus in technological innovation for social impact in the fields of computer-human interaction, haptics, multimedia and virtual reality.
September 23rd & 24th 2015, marked the third annual International Conference on Sustainable Development held at Columbia University in New York City. The conference’s theme, Implementing the SDGs: Getting Started had riveting discussions concerning the United Nation’s latest endeavour to launch the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs).
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