The CoE would promote research by enabling cutting-edge research in AI and Machine Learning relevant to industry and academia, foster strong industry-academic synergy for AI adoption and execute the impactful project.
P B Siddhartha College of Arts and Science in Vijaywada has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Hyderabad-based IT firm Blackbuck Engineers Pvt. Ltd. to launch Alan Turing Center of Excellence (CoE) in Artificial Intelligence.
Speaking about the collaboration, college Principal M. Ramesh said it was the first non-engineering institute to launch the initiative. As part of the collaboration, experts from the IT firm will train the students and faculty of the college in emerging technologies like AI/ML, Data Science and Blockchain Technology etc.
CEO of Blackbuck Engineers Anuradha Thota said the partnership was to leverage benefits to the college. The CoE would promote research by enabling cutting-edge research in AI and Machine Learning relevant to industry and academia, foster strong industry-academic synergy for AI adoption and execute impactful projects with industry and government and state-of-the-art AI courses, training and workshops catering to students and outreach programmes for re-skilling.
Raj Kumar from the Blackbuck team, college Director Vemuri Babu Rao, Dean Rajesh Jampala and Placement Officer Sridhar Kavuri were also present. The Centre of Excellence will be working towards research in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning relevant to industry and academia.
Meanwhile, the Andhra Pradesh government has reopened schools as scheduled after the Sankranti vacation. According to the state education minister Audimulapu Suresh, the AP government has taken several precautionary measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus among students. "In the USA, schools are running even with up to 6-10 lakh daily Covid cases. Similarly, in European countries too schools are functioning with 3-6 lakh cases being reported in a single day,” he said as per a report.
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