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IBM Hosts IBM Day at IIT - Madras
IBM recently hosted IBM Day at The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) to celebrate new opportunities associated with emerging technologies, innovation, research and education. The objective of the event was to educate students on important industry topics such as high-performance computing, SSME (Service Science, Management and Engineering) and IBM India University Programs for faculty, researchers and students.
Key sessions at IBM Day were addressed by Dr C Mohan, IBM fellow and IBM India chief scientist; Dr Daniel Dias, director, India Research Laboratory; Manish Gupta, head, STG Lab Services with other representatives from IBM and IIT Madras. The special highlight of the day was a Cell Programming demonstration.
The objective was to educate students on high performance computing, SSME, and IBM India University Programs. Commenting on the event, Dr Amol Mahamuni, program manager, university relations, IBM India, said, "Participating in IBM Day at the IITs is an endeavour by IBM to engage with India's premier engineering colleges and universities to foster greater innovation and technology collaborations. Our objective is to not only uncover new sources of talent, but also to encourage students to take risks and think differently to generate disruptive ideas."
"At IBM, we believe that to succeed in the new global economy, organizations must breed a 'culture of innovation' that supports the cross-pollination of ideas from a wide array of inter-disciplinary disciplines," added Mahamuni.
Through its Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) Program, IBM offers PG students such as M.Tech, M.S. and Ph.D students from premier engineering institutes in India access to IBM products, technology and research areas along with the IBM resources.
The Day had a good flavor of various Research/Technical topics including Speech technology, Telecom Web, Information Integration, Social Networks, Language Research (English), High Performance Computing, Cell Architecture and SSME research.
The event was very well received by the students (B.Techs, M.Techs, PhDs), research scholars and the faculty members alike, with the delegates number in the tune of over 250.
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